| 2008 | William Odom, dies in Vermont, of a heart attack, at 75 |
| 2003 | "DeVon ""Robot Man"" Smith", world champion hitchhiker, dies at 76 |
| 2002 | John B. Keane, Irish Playwright |
| 2000 | "Gordon ""Tex"" Beneke", band leader/saxophonist, led the Glenn Miller Orchestra after Miller's death, dies at 86 |
| 2000 | Mary Jenkins Langston, cook, cooked peanut butter and banana sandwiches for Elvis, dies at 77 |
| 1996 | Bob Stroup, trombonist, dies at 57 |
| 1996 | John Kahn, bassist, dies at 47 |
| 1996 | Leon-Etienne Duval, archbishop/cardinal, dies at 92 |
| 1995 | Bobby Stokes, athlete, English footballer, scored the winning goal in 1976, Southampton F.C. vs. Manchester United, FA Cup Final, in the 83rd-minute, considered biggest upset in FA Cup Final history, dies at 44 |
| 1995 | Philip Owen A Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator, dies at 72 |
| 1995 | Ted Drake, soccer star, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, British national park warden, dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Baron Marcel Bich, inventor (Bic Pen), dies at 79 |
| 1994 | Ezra Taft Benson, 13th head of Mormon Church, dies at 94 |
| 1994 | Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar, dies at 58 |
| 1994 | Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (La vida breve), dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Marcel Bich, Italian/French baron/pen manufacturer (Bic), dies at 79 |
| 1993 | Herman S Blount, Sun Ra, U.S. jazz pianist (Solar Arkestra), dies at 79 |
| 1993 | Sun Ra, blues pianist/orchestra leader, dies of strokes at 79 |
| 1992 | Daniel Addes, actor (Victor-Sunst Grill), dies at 59 |
| 1992 | Karl Carstens, president West Germany 1979 - 1984, dies at 77 |
| 1992 | Leen 't Hart, organist/composer, dies at 72 |
| 1991 | Manolo Gomez Bur, Spanish comedian dies at 74 |
| 1989 | Zinka Milanov, Met Opera Diva, dies of a stroke at 83 |
| 1989 | Claude Pepper, Representative-D-Florida 1963 - 1989, Senator-D-Florida 1936 - 1951 |
| 1988 | Ella Raines, actress (Uncle Harry, Runaround, Impact), dies at 66 |
| 1987 | Frank Carlson, Governor of Kansas 1947 - 1950, Representative and Senator-R-Kansas, dies at 94 |
| 1987 | Turk Murphy, jazz trombonist, dies at 71 |
| 1986 | Hank Mobley, U.S. jazz saxophonist, dies at 55 |
| 1983 | Alfred M Gruenther, U.S. general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84 |
| 1981 | Ziaur Rahmen, President of Bangladesh, is assassinated |
| 1981 | Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi Politician |
| 1980 | Carl Radle, bassist (Derek and Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment |
| 1980 | Timmy Caldwell, rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies |
| 1979 | Jack Raine, actor (Quartet), dies at 82 |
| 1977 | Claire Goll, journalist, writer, poet, wrote 'Poemes d'amour', 'Poemes de la jalousie', dies at 86 in Paris, France |
| 1977 | Paul Desmond, U.S. jazz saxophonist, dies at 52 |
| 1975 | Michel Simon, actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us), dies at 80 |
| 1973 | Hal Hastings, orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66 |
| 1972 | Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer, dies at 104 |
| 1971 | Audie Murphy, WW II hero/actor (Sierra), killed in plane crash at 46 |
| 1971 | Marcel Dupre, French composer, dies at 85 |
| 1971 | Rodd Redwing, actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies at 66 |
| 1969 | Gaston Brenta, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1969 | John Cipollini, guitarist, dies of ephysema at 45 |
| 1967 | Claude Rains, actor (Invisible Man), dies at 77 |
| 1966 | Waino V Aaltonen, Finnish sculptor, dies at 72 |
| 1964 | Leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66 |
| 1961 | Rafael L Trujillo Molina, dictator Dom Rep (1930-61), murdered at 69 |
| 1960 | Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr. Zhivago), dies at 70 |
| 1959 | Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1957 | Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies |
| 1954 | Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67 |
| 1953 | George Barnes, cinematographer, dies at 60 |
| 1951 | Hermann Broch, writer, dies at 64 |
| 1947 | Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1945 | Irma Laplasse, Flemish farmer/nazi collaborator, executed |
| 1944 | Jessie Ralph, actress (Good Earth, San Francisco), dies at 79 |
| 1940 | Y de Smit-Rog, eldest Dutchman, dies at 104 |
| 1938 | Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at 49 |
| 1935 | Lothar Windsperger, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1923 | Camille Chevillard, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1922 | David Mendes Chumaceiro, Curaeaos poet (Adelfas), dies at 45 |
| 1919 | Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies |
| 1918 | Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies |
| 1918 | Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, pseudonym, Volgin, writer, author, organized Russia's first political demonstration, dies in Geneva, Switzerland, at age 60 |
| 1912 | Wilbur Wright, U.S. aviation pioneer, dies |
| 1906 | William Yeates Hurlstone, composer, dies at 30 |
| 1870 | Gustave Vogt, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1865 | William Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 27 |
| 1864 | James Barbour Terrill, U.S. attorney/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 26 |
| 1840 | Dominique J de Eerens, Governor-General of Dutch-Indies, dies at 59 |
| 1833 | Josef Slavik, composer, dies at 27 |
| 1809 | Johan B Scheffer, portrait painter, dies at about 43 |
| 1797 | Carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1791 | Ildephons Haas, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1778 | Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet, French writer (Candide), dies at 42 |
| 1746 | Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1744 | Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56 |
| 1718 | Arnold J van Keppel, earl of Albemarle/general, dies at about 48 |
| 1718 | Bernard Nieuwentyt, physician/theologist, dies at 63 |
| 1640 | Andre Duchesne, French historian/genealogy, dies |
| 1640 | Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter, dies at 62 |
| 1593 | Christopher Marlowe, British dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great), murdered |
| 1574 | Charles IX, King of France (1560-74), dies |
| 1434 | Prokopius, Bohemia, leader of taboriets, dies in battle |
| 1431 | Joan of Arc, burned as a witch by English at Rouen at 19 |
| 1416 | Jerome of Prague, burned as a heretic by Church |
| 1252 | Ferdinand III the holy, King of Castilie/Leon, dies |
| 1035 | Boudouin IV, count of Flanders (988-1035), dies |
| 727 | Hubertus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht/saint, dies at about 72 |
