| 2010 | Dennis Hopper, actor, True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider, dies in Venice, California, of prostate cancer, at age 74 |
| 2004 | Archibald Cox, Watergate prosecutor, fired by Nixon during the Watergate hearings, dies at 92 |
| 2004 | Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, formerly world's oldest person in 2004, dies at 114 |
| 2004 | Sam Dash, lawyer, Senate counsel during Watergate, dies at 79 |
| 2004 | Samuel Dash, American Lawyer |
| 1998 | Barry Goldwater, born in Phoenix, Arizona, Senator-R-Arizona 1953 - 1965, 1969 - 1987, Republican Presidential candidate 1964, dies at 89 from a stroke |
| 1997 | Jeff Buckley, musician, singer, guitarist, alternative rock, folk music genres, performed with Gods and Monsters, dies of an accidental drowning at age 30 |
| 1997 | John Sengstacke, publisher (Defender), dies at 84 |
| 1997 | George Fenneman, announcer, 'You Bet Your Life', dies at 77 |
| 1996 | James George "Jimmy" Rowles, jazz pianist, dies at 77 |
| 1996 | Jeremy Sinden, actor (Chariots of Fire, Ascendancy, Harem), dies at 45 |
| 1996 | Tamara Toumanova, dancer, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Margaret Chase Smith, 1st woman Representative and Senator R-Maine, dies at 97 |
| 1994 | Erich Honecker, president of East Germany (1971-89), dies in Chile at 81 |
| 1994 | Harry Levin, literary Scholar, dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Jose Bohr, actor (El Traidor, Sueno de Amor), dies at 92 |
| 1994 | Joseph Janni, producer, dies at 78 |
| 1994 | Oliver "Bops Junior" Jackson, drummer, dies at 61 |
| 1993 | Billy Conn, boxer (fought Joe Louis 1951), dies of pneumonia at 75 |
| 1993 | Tiny Hofman, Amsterdam activist (Nieuwmarkt), dies at 68 |
| 1992 | Bill Beyers, actor (Wally-Capitol), dies of AIDS at 37 |
| 1992 | Karl Carstens, president of RFA (1979-84), dies |
| 1992 | Peter John "Ollie" Halsall, guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 43 |
| 1992 | Pippa Steele, actress (Vampire Lovers), dies of cancer at 44 |
| 1991 | Coral Browne, Australian actor (Ruling Class), dies of cancer at 77 |
| 1987 | Alain Vincx, Belgian stuntman, dies in an accident at 40 |
| 1985 | 39, die at Heysel Stadium in Liverpool in a riot prior to soccor match |
| 1985 | Madge West, actress (Grandma-McLean Stevenson Show), dies at 93 |
| 1982 | Romy Schneider, actress (Cardinal), dies of cardiac arrest at 43 |
| 1979 | Mary Pickford, actress (Coquette, Suds, Secrets), dies at 86 |
| 1978 | Bob Crane, actor (Donna Reed Show, Hogan-Hogan's Heroes), dies at 49 |
| 1977 | Goddard Lieberson, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1973 | Eric Applewhite, entertainer, dies |
| 1971 | Max Trapp, composer, teacher, Berlin's Stadtischen Konservatorium, member, National Socialist movement, dies at 83 |
| 1970 | John Gunther, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68 |
| 1967 | Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1961 | Uuno Kalervo Klami, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1958 | Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spanish poet (Nobel 1956), dies at 76 |
| 1957 | George Bacovia [Vasiliu], Romanian poet/composer (Plumb), dies at 75 |
| 1956 | Albert H Edelkoort, theologist (Christusverwachting), dies at 65 |
| 1956 | Hermann Abendroth, German conductor (Gewandhausorkest), dies at 73 |
| 1955 | Daniel G van Beuningen, art collector, dies at 78 |
| 1951 | Dimitrios Levidis, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1951 | Fanny Brice, Zeigfield Girl (Baby Snooks Show), dies at 59 |
| 1951 | Josef Bohuslav Foerster, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1951 | Robert Kahn, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1948 | May Whitty, actress (Gaslight, Mrs. Miniver, Suspicion), dies at 82 |
| 1943 | Hermann Hans Wetzler, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1942 | John Barrymore, U.S. actor (Beloved Rogue, Dinner at 8), dies at 60 |
| 1935 | Josef Suk, Czechoslovakian violinist and composer, dies at 61 |
| 1934 | Eugenie Besserer, actress (Anna Christie, Madame X), dies at 65 |
| 1934 | Heihatjiro Tojo, Japanese Admiral (Russian-Japanese War), dies |
| 1924 | Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid/London), dies |
| 1923 | Adolf Oberlander, German painter, dies |
| 1922 | Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor and director, dies at 39 |
| 1916 | James J. Hill, American Businessman |
| 1911 | William Schwenck Gilbert, English writer (Gilbert and Sullivan), dies at 74 |
| 1911 | William Gilbert, British Composer |
| 1910 | Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Russian composer (Islamej), dies at 73 |
| 1905 | Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1899 | Frantz Jehin-Prume, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1892 | Baha'u'llah [Mirza HA Noeri], Persian founder (Baha'i), dies at 74 |
| 1885 | Alfred von Meissner, Austria physician/writer (Ziska), dies at 63 |
| 1883 | Albrecht of Prussia, mistress of John van Rossum, dies at 73 |
| 1883 | WFLC Marianne, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies |
| 1877 | John Lothrop Motley, (History of United Netherlands), dies at 63 |
| 1869 | Philippe Vandermaelen, Flemish cartographer/publisher, dies at 73 |
| 1862 | Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1833 | William Marshall, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1829 | Humphry Davy, scientist/inventor (Miner's safety lamp), dies at 84 |
| 1816 | Madame L'Ouverture, widow of Haiti's leader Toussaint L'O, dies |
| 1815 | Cornelis de Gijselaar, politician/patriot, dies at 64 |
| 1814 | Josephine, empress of France (1804-14), dies |
| 1788 | Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver, dies at 61 |
| 1750 | Giuseppe Porsile, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1691 | Cornelis Tromp, admiral-general/son of Maarten T, dies at 61 |
| 1680 | Abraham Megerle, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1660 | Gyorgy Rakoczi II, prince of Transsylvania, dies in battle |
| 1660 | Peter Scriverius, lawyer/historian, dies at 44 |
| 1629 | Arnold Baert, Flemish lawyer/member of Great Council, dies at about 74 |
| 1593 | John Penry, English congressionalist, executed |
| 1546 | Cardinal Beaton, English archbishop of St. Andrews, murdered |
| 1544 | Jacobus Latomus [Jasques Masson], Belgian inquisitor, dies at about 68 |
| 1500 | Bartholomeu Diaz de Narvaez (Novaez), Portuguese sea explorer, drowns |
| 1453 | Constantine XI Dragases, last Byzantine Emperor, dies at 49 |
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