| 2005 | Joe Grant, American Artist |
| 2004 | Virginia Capers, actress, Raisin, dies at 78 |
| 2002 | Pim Fortuyn, Dutch Politician |
| 1996 | Frank Hercules, writer, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Geoffrey Dawes, physiologist, dies at 78 |
| 1996 | Geoffrey Hodges, bomb disposal expert, dies at 87 |
| 1996 | Joseph Stone, lawyer, dies at 79 |
| 1996 | Leon Joseph Suenens, cardinal, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Michael Gerzon, mathematician, dies at 50 |
| 1995 | Dona Maria Pia de Braganca, pretender to Port throne, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Leanoard "Red" Truss, R&B singer, dies at 47 |
| 1995 | Nicholas Palmer, TV writer/producer, dies at 57 |
| 1994 | Fred Sadoff, actor (Quiet American), dies of AIDS at 67 |
| 1994 | Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler, blues singer and guitarist, dies at 59 |
| 1994 | Montague Modlyn, broadcaster, dies at 72 |
| 1994 | Moses Rosen, Romania's chief rabbi, dies at 81 |
| 1993 | Ann Todd, actress (Things to Come, Danny Boy), dies of stroke at 84 |
| 1993 | Minnie Gentry, actress (Def by Temptation), dies in New York at 77 |
| 1992 | Jilly Rizzo, restauranteur/friend of Frank Sinatra, dies in car at 75 |
| 1992 | Marlene Dietrich, Maria Losch, actress (Angel), dies in Paris at 90 |
| 1991 | Anthony van Kampen, writer (Ketelbinkie, Geschonden Eldorado), dies |
| 1991 | Thomas A Carlin, dies at 62 |
| 1991 | Wilfrid Hyde-White, Brits actor (Peyton Place/140+ films), dies at 87 |
| 1990 | Charles Farrell, actor (Vern-My Little Margie), dies at 89 |
| 1990 | Irmtraud Morgner, writer, freelance author, used magical realism to address the role of gender in East German society, dies of cancer in Berlin, East Germany |
| 1989 | Guy Williams, actor (Zorro, Lost in Space) |
| 1987 | William J Casey, director of CIA (1981-87), dies at 73 |
| 1984 | William Allen Egan, American Politician |
| 1982 | Sam Baker, dies |
| 1978 | Ethelda Bleibtrey, U.S. swimmer, 3 Gold Medals 1920 Olympics, dies at 76 |
| 1978 | Ko van Dijk, Jr., Dutch actor (Zaak M P), dies at 61 |
| 1976 | Karel M J F Cruysberghs, Flemish author (On the Pulpit), dies at 85 |
| 1975 | Jozsef Mindszenty, Joseph Prehm, Hungarian cardinal, dies at 83 |
| 1973 | Ernest MacMillan, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1971 | Helene Weigel, Austrian/German actress (Metropolis), dies at 70 |
| 1964 | Harold Morris, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1963 | Monty Wooley, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 74 |
| 1961 | Lucian Blaga, philosopher/poet (Transcendental censor), dies at 65 |
| 1960 | Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (Blume von Hawaii), dies at 67 |
| 1954 | B. C. Forbes, Bertie Charles Forbes, founder Forbes magazine, financial journalist, books include, 'Forbes Epigrams', '101 Unusual Experiences', dies |
| 1952 | Alberto Savinio, Italian composer (Capitano Ulisse), dies at 60 |
| 1952 | Maria Montessori, Italian physician/educationist, dies at 81 |
| 1950 | Agnes Smedley, writer, dies |
| 1949 | P-M-B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian philosopher (Nobel 1911), dies at 86 |
| 1948 | 43 communist rebels, executed in Athens |
| 1936 | Hans Jelmoli, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1924 | Carel S Adama van Scheltema, poet and writer (socialism), dies at 47 |
| 1919 | Frank Lyman Baum, author (Wizard of Oz), dies at 62 |
| 1916 | Dirk Bos, Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53 |
| 1916 | Earl Ross Drake, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1910 | Edward VII, King of England (1901-10), dies at 68 |
| 1908 | Jean Reville, French vicar (Le Prophetisme Hebreu), dies at 53 |
| 1904 | Franz von Lenbach, German painter, dies at 67 |
| 1902 | Bret Harte, American Author |
| 1892 | Ernest Guiraud, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1890 | Hubert Leonard, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1884 | Judah Philip Benjamin, American Politician |
| 1882 | Frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin |
| 1882 | Thomas Henry Burke, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin |
| 1864 | Henry Livermore Abbott, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle |
| 1864 | Micah Jenkins, Confederate Brigadier-General (friendly fire), dies at 28 |
| 1862 | Henry David Thoreau, U.S. writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44 |
| 1859 | Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies |
| 1856 | William Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies |
| 1852 | Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1841 | John Thomson, composer, dies at 35 |
| 1836 | Christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1814 | George Joseph Vogler, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1794 | Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1776 | James Kent, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1739 | Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed), dies at 63 |
| 1727 | Catharina I, Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42 |
| 1678 | Joseph de La Barre, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1667 | Johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer, dies at 50 |
| 1666 | Paul Siefert, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1642 | Frans Francken, the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday |
| 1638 | Cornelius Jansen, theologian (Jansenism), dies |
| 1540 | Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48 |
| 1527 | Karel van Bourbon, military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37 |
| 1475 | Dieric Bouts, Dutch painter, dies at about 64 |
| 1124 | Balak, Emir of Aleppo, murdered |
| 1085 | King Alfonso VI, of Leon conquered Toledo, dies |
| 988 | Dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland |
| 523 | Thrasamunde, king of Vandalen |
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