| 2008 | Eddy Arnold, dies in Tennessee, at 89 |
| 2005 | Lloyd Cutler, American Lawyer |
| 2005 | Lloyd Norton Cutler, American Lawyer |
| 1999 | Dana Plato, child star, Different Strokes, dies at 34 |
| 1999 | Dirk Bogarde, actor/writer, A Tale of Two Cities, dies at 78 |
| 1997 | Kai-Uwe Von Hassel, German President of Bundestag (CDU 1969-72), dies |
| 1996 | Jane Cowan, cello teacher, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Luis Miguel Domiguin, bullfighter, dies at 69 |
| 1996 | Serge Chermayeff, architect/designer, dies at 95 |
| 1995 | Carroll Best, bluegrass banjo, dies at 63 |
| 1995 | Jerry Zipkin, socialite, dies at 80 |
| 1995 | Prem Bhatia, journalist, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Teresa Teng, singer, dies at 41 |
| 1994 | Cobina W. "Coby" Molenaar, peace activist, dies at 88 |
| 1994 | George Peppard, actor (Breakfast at Tiffanys, A-Team), dies at 65 |
| 1994 | Rupert Haselden, journalist/screenwriter, dies at 36 |
| 1994 | Steven Keats, actor (Death Wish), dies of apparent suicide at 48 |
| 1993 | Kees Deenik, singer/conductor |
| 1992 | Addeke H Boerma, dir-general (FAO), dies at 80 |
| 1992 | Brian Moore, writer (Catholics), dies of heart failure at 59 |
| 1992 | Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, author (Fear on Java), dies |
| 1992 | Richard Derr, actor (When Worlds Collide), dies at 74 of cancer |
| 1991 | Jean Langlais, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1991 | Lloyd Ford, stuntman, dies at 79 |
| 1991 | Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse), dies at 72 |
| 1990 | Tomas O'Fiach, Tomas Seamus Fee, Irish cardinal-archbishop, dies |
| 1988 | Robert A Heinlein, sci-fi writer (Friday), dies of heart failure at 80 |
| 1988 | Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer |
| 1987 | Pam Ewing, (Victoria Principal) character on Dallas, is killed off |
| 1985 | Dolph Sweet, actor (Gil McGowan-Another World), dies at 74 |
| 1985 | Edmond O'Brien, actor (Sam Benedict), dies of Alzheimer's at 69 |
| 1985 | Karl Marx, German composer and conductor, dies at 87 |
| 1985 | Theodore Sturgeon, American Writer |
| 1982 | Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian auto racer, dies in an accident |
| 1982 | Neil Bogart, American Businessman |
| 1981 | Daniel Gilles, Belgian writer, dies at 64 |
| 1981 | Margaret Lindsay, actress (G Men, Lady Killer, Jezebel), dies |
| 1981 | Maurice Fernandes, cricket captain (WI in 1st Test win, 1930 vs. Eng), dies |
| 1979 | Talcott Parsons, U.S. sociologist, dies at 76 |
| 1976 | Alan Baxter, dies at 67 |
| 1976 | Ulrike Meinhof, lead Germany Red Army Faction, dies |
| 1975 | Avery Brundage, CEO (International Olympic Committee, 1952-72), dies at 87 |
| 1974 | Graham Bond, rocker, dies jumping under a train |
| 1973 | Ralph Miller, last 19th century baseball player, dies |
| 1967 | Barbara Payton, actress (Dallas, Trapped, Bad Blonde), dies at 39 |
| 1967 | Elmer Rice, New York playwright/director/novelist, dies at 74 |
| 1967 | Laverne Andrews, singer (Andrews Sisters), dies at 51 |
| 1961 | James Fairfax, actor (Gale Storm Show), dies at 63 |
| 1960 | Hugo Alfven, Swedish composer (Midsommarvaka), dies at 88 |
| 1959 | Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/pianist, suicide at 55 |
| 1958 | Nasni Matni, Lebanese journalist, murdered |
| 1957 | Johannes C B "Jan" Sluyters, Dutch painter, dies at 75 |
| 1951 | Margaret Lindsay, actress (Take a Guess), dies at 40 |
| 1950 | Franklin Dyall, dies at 76 |
| 1948 | Alfred Holy, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1943 | Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed |
| 1941 | Heinrich Zollner, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1936 | Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (Underworld of Abendlandes), dies |
| 1932 | Albert Thomas, French socialist politician |
| 1930 | Lvar Henning Mankell, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1924 | Lev N Lunts, Russian writer (Outside the Law), dies at 23 |
| 1915 | Henry McNeal Turner, 1 U.S. black army chaplain, dies at 82 |
| 1909 | Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat, dies |
| 1908 | Ludovic Halevy, French Author |
| 1904 | Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer (horse trot), dies |
| 1903 | Eugene-Henri-Paul Gauguin, French painter (Tahiti), dies |
| 1894 | Klara Fey, German orchestra leaser (Die Kleinen Betrachtungen), dies at 79 |
| 1891 | Helena Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, with William Quan Judge, Henry Steel Olcott, believed all inner religious teachings are true, dies, date of death celebrated by Theosophists, who call it, Whilte Lotus Day |
| 1887 | Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar |
| 1885 | Pavel Krizkovsky, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1880 | Gustave Flaubert, French writer (Salammbo), dies |
| 1876 | Truganini, last originating Tasmanian, dies |
| 1873 | John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66 |
| 1864 | James Samuel Wadsworth, general-major (Union), dies in battle at 56 |
| 1861 | Laselo Teleki, Hungarian earl/revolutionary, commits suicide |
| 1853 | Joannes P. Roothaan, 1st Dutch Lieutenant Colonel - General of Jesuits, dies at 67 |
| 1846 | Giacomo Cordella, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1844 | Charles XIV Johan, Jean B Bernadotte, King of Sweden/Norway, dies |
| 1829 | Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1818 | Franz Ignaz Kaa, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1809 | Augustin Pajou, French sculptor (Bachante), dies at 78 |
| 1794 | Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, chemist (identified oxygen), guillotined |
| 1794 | Antoine Lavoisier, French Scientist |
| 1785 | Pietro Longhi, painter, dies |
| 1773 | Ali Bey, Egyptian Mameluk head, dies |
| 1725 | John Lovewell, U.S. indian fighter, dies in battle |
| 1684 | Henri Dumont, composer, dies |
| 1577 | Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, lawyer/President (Raad van State), dies |
| 1319 | Haakon V, King of Norway (1299-1319), dies |
| 685 | Benedict II, Italian Pope (683-85), dies |
| 535 | John, Mercurius, Italian Pope (533-35), dies |
