| 2009 | Chuck Daly, basketball coach, head coach, successful 14-year NBA career included leading Detroit Pistons to two NBA Championships, led Dream Team to win gold at 1992 Summer Olympics, dies at 78 in Jupiter, Florida |
| 2004 | Alan King, comic/producer, Friar's Club roasters, dies at 76 |
| 2004 | Brenda Fassie, South African Musician |
| 2003 | Jack Gelber, American Playwright |
| 2003 | Russell B. Long, Senator-D-Louisiana, 1948 - 1987, died from heart failure |
| 2002 | Dan Devine, American Coach |
| 1998 | Alice Faye, actress/singer, Alexander's Ragtime Band, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi, dies at 68 |
| 1995 | Charles Montgomery Monteith, publisher, dies at 74 |
| 1995 | Marshall Royal, jazz Sax/Clarinet, dies at 82 |
| 1993 | Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at 61 |
| 1993 | Mary Duncan Sanford, dies at 98 |
| 1993 | Penelope Gilliatt [Conner], British author |
| 1992 | Mike Tyrell [Red Baron], British air acrobat, dies in an accident |
| 1991 | James L Reinsch, media-advisor (Roosevelt/Churchill/Kennedy), dies |
| 1991 | Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman III, Whats Up Nurse), dies at 72 |
| 1991 | Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies |
| 1990 | Luigi Nono, Italian composer (Intolleranza), dies at 66 |
| 1990 | Pauline Frederick, 1st women to moderate President debate, dies at 84 |
| 1989 | Keith Whitley, country singer (Don't Close Your Eyes), dies at 33 |
| 1989 | Paul J Steenbergen, actor (Ciske de Rat), dies at 82 |
| 1987 | Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, President of Nigeria (1979-83), dies at 78 |
| 1986 | Dirk de Vroome, Red Giant, Limbourg activist, dies at 60 |
| 1986 | Herschel Bernardi, actor (Lt Jacoby-Peter Gunn, Arnie), dies at 62 |
| 1986 | Tenzing Norgay, Tibetan climber (Mount Everest 1953), dies at 71 |
| 1985 | Edmond O'Brien, actor (Moon Pilot, Wild Bunch), dies at 69 |
| 1982 | Ab [Albert] Visser, poet and writer (Kain sloeg Abel), dies |
| 1981 | Nelson Algren, U.S. writer (Man with the Golden Arm), dies at 72 |
| 1979 | Cyrus S Eaton, Canada/US multi-millionaire, dies at 95 |
| 1977 | James Jones, U.S. writer (Bad Blood, From Here to Eternity), dies at 55 |
| 1977 | Walter Kraft, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1976 | Raymond Chevreuille, Belgian composer, dies at 74 |
| 1976 | Valentino Bucchi, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1975 | Philip Dorn, dies at 73 |
| 1974 | Lyubomir Pipkov, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1970 | Percy Brier, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1970 | Walter P Reuther, U.S. worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies |
| 1968 | Finlay Currie, dies at 90 |
| 1968 | Harold Gray, U.S. comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74 |
| 1968 | Marion Lorne, actress (Aunt Clara-Bewitched), dies at 81 |
| 1968 | Phil Arnold, actor (Skidoo, Errand Boy, Damn Yankees), dies at 58 |
| 1967 | Elmar Berkovich, Dutch industrial designer (Eindhoven theater), dies |
| 1967 | Philippa Duke Schuyler, composer, dies at 35 |
| 1966 | Alfred Mendelsohn, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1966 | Wilhelmus M Bekkers, bishop of Dukeenbosch, dies |
| 1965 | Leopold Figl, premier Austria, dies at 62 |
| 1958 | Bill Goodwin, TV announcer (Burns and Allen), dies at 47 |
| 1957 | Ezio F Pinza, Italian bass (Scale of Milan, New York Met Opera), dies |
| 1957 | Heinrich Campendonk, German painter/wood carver/glasier, dies at 67 |
| 1952 | Canada Lee, black actor (Lost Boundaries), dies in New York City at 45 |
| 1951 | Marie Ault, dies at 80 |
| 1949 | Louis II, Prince of Monaco, dies |
| 1944 | Ethel Mary Smyth, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1937 | Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer, dies in crash at 43 |
| 1931 | A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson, U.S. physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at 78 |
| 1928 | Constantin Dimitrescu, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1926 | Joseph Mallaby Dent, publisher, dies |
| 1905 | Ernst Pauer, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1903 | Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies |
| 1903 | Paul Gauguin, French Artist |
| 1884 | Hermanus W. Witteveen, theologist, dies at 69 |
| 1880 | Johann Hermann Berens, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1864 | "Uncle" John Sedgwick, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 50 |
| 1864 | Thomas Donnely Doubleday, U.S. Union Col, dies in an accident |
| 1853 | Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1850 | Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, chemist/physicist, dies |
| 1822 | Charles Duquesnoy, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1805 | Friedrich Schiller, writer, dies at 45 |
| 1805 | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet/playwright, dies at 45 |
| 1799 | Claude-Benigne Balbastre, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1791 | Francis Hopkinson, U.S. writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53 |
| 1785 | Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1770 | Charles Avison, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1760 | Nikolaus Ludwig und Pottendorf, Austrian composer, dies at 59 |
| 1745 | Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1707 | Dietrich Buxtehude, German organist/composer, dies at about 69 |
| 1688 | Frederick William, Great Elector of Brandenburg, dies at 68 |
| 1667 | Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers, French Queen of Poland (1645-48) |
| 1657 | William Bradford, Governor (Plymouth Colony, Mass), dies |
| 1590 | Karel "Cardinal" van Bourbon, archbishop of Rouen, dies at 66 |
| 1474 | Peter van Hagenbach, Elzasser knight/land guardian, beheaded |
| 1460 | Jean Lavite, Atrechts painter, dies |
| 1443 | Niccolo d'Albergati, Italian cardinal, dies |
| 1280 | Magnus VI Lagaboeter, King of Norway (1263-80), dies at 42 |
| 1079 | Stanislaus, Polish bishop of Cracow, murdered |
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