| 2005 | David Hackworth, American Soldier |
| 1997 | Alvy Moore, actor and producer, Mr. Kimball on Green Acres, dies at 75 |
| 1997 | Vijayananda Dahanayake, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka 1959 - 1960, dies |
| 1996 | Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist, dies at 87 |
| 1996 | Stanley William Reed, cineaste, dies at 85 |
| 1995 | Lewis T. Preston, banker, dies at 68 |
| 1995 | Louis Krasner, violinist, dies at 91 |
| 1995 | Lewis Thompson Preston, American Businessman |
| 1994 | Karl Francis Hettinger, onion Field survivor, dies at 59 |
| 1992 | Henri Guillemin, French historian, dies at 89 |
| 1992 | Ismael Galeano, "Commandant Franklyn" (Contra), dies |
| 1992 | Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 50 |
| 1991 | Dennis Crosby, son of Bing, commits suicide at 54 |
| 1990 | Don Appell, dies |
| 1987 | Cathryn Damon, actress (Mary Campbell-Soap), dies at 56 |
| 1987 | Dick Hillenius, Dutch biologist/writer, dies at 59 |
| 1987 | Paul Butterfield, singer/harmonica player, dies of drug abuse at 44 |
| 1984 | Diana Dors, actress (Berserk!), dies at 52 of cancer |
| 1983 | Nino Sanzogno, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1981 | Bobby Sands, Irish IRA-terrorist, dies after hunger strike |
| 1980 | Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80), dies at 87 |
| 1980 | Kay Hammond, actress (Blithe SPirit, 5 Golden Hours), dies |
| 1975 | Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz], comedian (3 Stooges), dies at 77 |
| 1974 | Israel Citkowitz, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1974 | John Wengraf, actor (Pride and Passion, 12 to the Moon), dies at 77 |
| 1973 | Jane Bowles, writer, playwright, dies at 56 |
| 1971 | Donald Dexter Van Slyke, U.S. chemist (Cyanosis), dies at 88 |
| 1971 | Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor, dies at 83 |
| 1971 | Louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids], Dutch actor (Bluejackets), dies at 87 |
| 1970 | 4 students, at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard |
| 1969 | F Osbert S Sitwell, English poet (Who Killed Cock Robin?), dies at 76 |
| 1967 | Bengt Axel von Torne, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1966 | Juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1965 | Norman Brokenshire, TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies at 66 |
| 1961 | Anita Stewart, dies of heart attack at 66 |
| 1955 | Georges Enescu, Romanian/French violist/composer (Oedipe), dies at 73 |
| 1955 | Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer, dies at 75 |
| 1953 | Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic, dies at 60 |
| 1953 | Thomas Tertius Noble, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1938 | Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 48 |
| 1935 | Lodewijk Scharpe, Flemish literature historian, dies at 65 |
| 1929 | Henry Morton Dunham, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1928 | Barry E Odell Pain, English writer (Punch), dies at 63 |
| 1893 | George Washington Hewitt, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1891 | Sherlock Holmes, "dies" at Reichenbach Falls |
| 1885 | Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic, monarch of Serbia (1842-58), dies at 78 |
| 1879 | William Froude, British civil eng/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies at 68 |
| 1860 | Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer, dies |
| 1855 | Camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66 |
| 1847 | Alexandre Vinet, Swiss Criitic |
| 1832 | Jan van Speyck, Dutch admiral, buried in New Church |
| 1824 | Joseph Joubert, French Writer |
| 1770 | Christian Gottfried Krause, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1752 | Pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 71 |
| 1737 | Eustace Budgell, English Writer |
| 1605 | Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82 |
| 1604 | Claudio Merulo, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1594 | Paul Buys, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at 62 |
