| 2004 | Robert Quine, guitarist, guitar soloist, worked with Matthew Sweet, Marianne Faithfull, style combines jazz, rock, blues, dies |
| 2001 | Arlene Francis, actress, What's My Line?, dies at 93 |
| 2000 | Johnnie Taylor, singer, Who's Makin' Love?, dies at 62 |
| 2000 | "Tito ""The Mambo King"" Puente", bandleader/percussionist, dies at 76 |
| 2000 | John Coolidge, American Celebrity |
| 1997 | Rosie Will Monroe, WW II icon, Rosie the Riveter, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Colin Morris, playwright/documentary filmmaker, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Elsbeary Hobbs, singer, dies at 59 |
| 1996 | Neela Sanjiva Reddy, president of India (1977-82), dies |
| 1996 | Paul Peter Piech, artist, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Peter Gordon Dorrell, archaeologist/photographer, dies at 68 |
| 1996 | Timothy Francis Leary, Harvard professor and LSD guru, dues of cancer at 75 |
| 1996 | Timothy Leary, American Educator |
| 1995 | Tim Mara, owner (New York Giants), dies at 59 |
| 1995 | Stanley Elkin, American Author |
| 1994 | Emmanuel "Manny" Klein, trumpeter, dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Herva Nelli, soprano, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Sidney Gilliat, British screenwriter/director, dies at 86 |
| 1993 | John Granger, actor (Advise and Consent), dies at 69 |
| 1992 | Lutz Stavenhagen, top aid to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, dies at 52 |
| 1992 | Eugene A. Chappie, Representative-R-California 1981 -1986 |
| 1991 | Angus Wilson, Johnstone-W, British writer (Wrong Set), dies |
| 1991 | H N "Swanie" Swanson, literary agent, dies at 91 of a stroke |
| 1989 | C L R James, cricket writer (distinguished Trinidadian), dies |
| 1989 | Charles A Hufnagel, doc (artificial heart valve pioneer), dies at 72 |
| 1989 | Terry Drinkwater, CBS news correspondent, dies at 53 of cancer |
| 1987 | Dorothy Patrick, actress (Torch Song, New Orleans, High Wall), dies |
| 1986 | Dora Russell, English Celebrity |
| 1986 | James Rainwater, American Scientist |
| 1982 | Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight boxing champ/actor, dies at 86 |
| 1976 | Jacques Monod, French biochemist, dies |
| 1976 | Martha Mitchell wife of former Attorney General John Mitchell, dies in New York at 57 |
| 1976 | Jacques Lucien Monod, French Scientist |
| 1974 | Adelle Davis, U.S. nutrionalist (Let's stay healthy), dies at 70 |
| 1973 | Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist, dies at 89 |
| 1971 | Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator, dies at 75 |
| 1971 | Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S. theologist, dies at 78 |
| 1967 | Billy Strayhorn, American Composer |
| 1963 | Carel C van Essen, archaeologist (Art of Ancient Rome), dies at 63 |
| 1962 | Adolf Eichmann, war criminal, hanged at Ramie Prison in Israel at 56 |
| 1962 | Eduardo Toldra, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1962 | Nazi Adolf Eichmann hanged in Israel for crimes against Jews in WW II |
| 1962 | Henry F. Ashurst, Senator-D-Arizona 1912 - 1941, died of a stroke at age 87 |
| 1961 | ? Trujillo, Dominican Republic president, assassinated at 69 |
| 1960 | Willem Elsschot, Alfons de Ridder, Flemish writer (Kas), dies at 78 |
| 1955 | "Wild Bill" Vukovich, killed in Indy 500 |
| 1955 | Raoul Gunsbourg, composer, dies at 95 |
| 1952 | Walter Schellenberg, German lawyer/headed spy (Venlo), dies |
| 1948 | Jose Vianna da Motta, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1947 | Adrienne Ames, actress (Black Sheep, 24 Hours), dies at 39 |
| 1947 | Henri G Casadesus, French altviolist/composer (viola d'amour), dies at 66 |
| 1942 | Reinhard Heydrich, German protector of Bohemia and Moravia, assassinated |
| 1928 | Ludwig Enneccerus, German leader, dies at 85 |
| 1928 | Manuel de Oliveira Lima, Brazilian historian, dies at 60 |
| 1916 | Horace Hood, British spy (Battle of Jutland), dies in battle |
| 1910 | Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies at 89 |
| 1906 | Hermann Schell, German theologist (Gott und Geist), dies at 56 |
| 1906 | King Alfonso XIII, assassinated in Madrid |
| 1906 | Victoria von Battenberg, assassinated in Madrid |
| 1900 | James Loudon, Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies (1871-75), dies at 75 |
| 1900 | John Power, Irish baronet/whiskey manufacturer, dies in battle |
| 1875 | Eliphas Levi, French Author |
| 1862 | Robert Hatton, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 34 |
| 1854 | Vatroslav Lisinski, composer, dies at 34 |
| 1850 | Giuseppe Giusti, Italian Poet |
| 1849 | Leonard PJ du Bus de Gisignies, Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies, dies at 69 |
| 1837 | Joseph Grimaldi, greatest clown (king of pantomime), dies at 57 |
| 1832 | Evariste Galois, French revolutionary/mathematician, dies at 20 |
| 1809 | Ferdinand von Schill, Prussian officer/rebel, dies in battle at 33 |
| 1809 | Franz Josef Haydn, Austrian composer (Jahreszeiten), dies at 77 |
| 1806 | Michael FB baron von Melas, Austrian general, dies at 77 |
| 1740 | Frederick-William I, King of Prussia (1713-1740), dies at 51 |
| 1696 | Heinrich Schwemmer, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1665 | Pieter J Saenredam, Dutch architectural painter, dies at 67 |
| 1620 | Willem Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies at 59 |
| 1594 | Tintoretto, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at 75 |
| 1567 | Pereguin de la Grange, French minister/martyr of Reform, dies |
| 1551 | Aristotele "Basiano" da Sangallo, Italian set designer, dies |
| 1504 | Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz, dies |
| 1198 | Moses ben Solomon Ha-Cohen, rabbi of Mainz, dies |
| 1091 | Hendrik van Verdun, bishop of Luik (1075-91), dies |
