| 2003 | Martha Scott, actress, Our Town, dies at 86 |
| 2003 | Ilya Prigogine, Belgian Physicist |
| 2002 | Jean Berger, composer, pianist, professor, studied at Heidelberg, Vienna universities, dies at 91 |
| 2002 | Mildred Wirt Benson, journalist/writer, wrote many early Nancy Drew books, dies at 96 |
| 2001 | Joe Moakley, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1973 - 2001, died of Myelodysplastic syndrome |
| 1998 | Phil Hartman, comic, Saturday Night Live, dies at 49 |
| 1996 | John "Jack" Layden, local politician, dies at 70 |
| 1996 | Sidney Greenbaum, grammarian, dies at 66 |
| 1995 | Daniela Rocca, actress (Battle of Austerlitz), dies at 57 |
| 1995 | Henning Kronstam, ballet dancer, performed over 120 roles with Royal Danish Ballet for over 20 years, dies at 60 of a pulmonary embolism |
| 1995 | Jean Elizabeth Leuckert Muir, designer dressmaker, dies at 66 |
| 1995 | Jean Muir, (Dress Queen), British model, dies at 66 |
| 1994 | Julius Boros, pro golfer (U.S. Open 1952), dies of heart attack at 74 |
| 1994 | Rita Gillespie, tV Director, dies at 65 |
| 1993 | Billy Conn, boxer/actor (Pittsburgh Kid), dies at 75 |
| 1991 | Brigitte B Fischer, writer, dies |
| 1991 | Ethel Lois Payne, journalist (Chicago Defender), dies at 79 |
| 1990 | Giorgio Manganelli, writer, dies at 67 |
| 1990 | Hussein Bin Onn, 1st minister of Malasia (1976-81), dies |
| 1990 | Joseph Hardy, actor and director (Tree Grows in Brooklyn), dies at 71 |
| 1987 | Charles Ludlam, actor (Big Easy), dies at 44 |
| 1986 | Lurene Tuttle, actress (Father of Bride, Julia), dies at 79 |
| 1984 | Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise), dies at 58 |
| 1981 | Mary Lou Williams, black musician, dies at 71 in Durham NC |
| 1981 | Stefan Wyszynski, Polish Cardinal, dies |
| 1977 | Jiri Reinberger, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1975 | Eric Emerson, entertainer, dies |
| 1975 | Roy Roberts, actor (Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show), dies at 75 |
| 1973 | Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Germ composer and conductor (Hassan), dies at 73 |
| 1973 | Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/U.S. art critic sculptor, dies at 81 |
| 1972 | Edward VIII, King of Great Britian/Northern Ireland/emperor (India 1936), dies at 77 |
| 1972 | King Edward VIII, English Royalty |
| 1971 | Audie Murphy, actor (Whispering Smiths), dies at 46 |
| 1969 | Rhys Williams, actor 'Nightmare', 'Okinawa', 'Corn is Green', dies at 71 |
| 1964 | John Finley Williamson, conductor (Westminster Choir), dies at 76 |
| 1963 | Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1958 | Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1954 | Achille Longo, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1946 | Carter Glass, American Politician |
| 1944 | Katri Vala, Finnish poet, dies at 42 |
| 1942 | Jean F van Royen, German secretary PTT (camp Amersfoort), dies |
| 1940 | Adriaan J Enschede, dir (Dutch printers Joh Enschede), dies at 50 |
| 1940 | Randle Ayrton, actor (Manx Man), dies at 70 |
| 1940 | Theodor Streicher, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1940 | Walter Connolly, actor (It Happened One Night, Good Earth), dies at 53 |
| 1937 | Alfred Adler, Austria psychiatrist (Individual Psychology), dies at 67 |
| 1927 | Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Belgian Kempen), dies |
| 1922 | Carl Tieke, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1921 | Geo Mestdagh, Belgian aviation pioneer, dies |
| 1914 | Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1913 | Lord Avebury, John Lubbock, British banker/politician, dies |
| 1913 | John Lubbock, British Statesman |
| 1911 | Stephanus J du Toit, So Afr theologist/journalist (Afr Bond), dies |
| 1898 | Edward Bellamy, U.S. author (Looking Backward), dies |
| 1890 | Viktor Ernst Nessler, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1889 | Willem M d'Ablaing, lawyer, dies at 37 |
| 1883 | August Freyer, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1864 | Henry H Giesy, U.S. Union-Brigadier-General, dies in battle |
| 1863 | Edmund Kirby, Jr., Union Brigadier-General, dies of injuries at 23 |
| 1862 | Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40 [5/16] |
| 1849 | Anne Bronte, novelist, dies |
| 1843 | Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), dies at 84 |
| 1838 | Thomas Busby, composer, dies |
| 1836 | Anton Reicha, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1833 | Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1808 | Richard Hurd, English Writer |
| 1805 | Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer/cellist (Minuet), dies at 62 |
| 1791 | Joseph Schmitt, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1787 | Johann Georg Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, dies at 67 |
| 1747 | Luc de Clapiers, born in Aix-en-Provence, France, writer, essayist, moralist, considered a modern Stoic, believed mankind is noble, employed epigrammic language to express observations of human conduct and motives, dies in Paris |
| 1685 | Pieter de la Court, economist/historian, dies at about 67 |
| 1650 | Gilles Hayne, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1534 | Dirk Martens, Flemish printer/humanist, dies at about 83 |
| 1521 | Willem van Croij, duke of Soria, dies at about 62 |
| 1357 | Afonso IV, King of Portugal (1325-57), dies at 66 |
| 1317 | Guy van Avesnes/Henegouwen, bishop of Utrecht, dies at about 63 |
| 1259 | Christoffel I, King of Denmark, dies |
| 1089 | Lanfrance, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies |
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