| 2007 | Norman Mailer, dies in New York, at 84 |
| 2007 | Augustus F. Hawkins, Representative-D-California 1963 - 1975 and 1975 - 1991 |
| 2003 | Irv Kupcinet, columnist, Chicago Sun-Times, dies at 91 |
| 2001 | Ken Kesey, author, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, dies at 66 |
| 1998 | Mary Millar, actress, Keeping Up Appearances, dies at 62 |
| 1997 | William Alland, actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Hugo Buchthal, art historian, dies at 87 |
| 1996 | Marjorie Proops, problem page editor, dies at 85 |
| 1995 | Boty Goodwin, artist, dies at 29 |
| 1995 | Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, writer/environmentalist, dies at 54 |
| 1995 | Margaret Annie Nan Macdonald, broadcaster, dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Carmen McRae [Clark], U.S. jazz singer/pianist, dies at about 73 |
| 1994 | Louis Nizer, lawyer, dies at 92 |
| 1993 | Wensley Pithey, actor (Oh What a Lovely War), dies at 79 |
| 1992 | Antoine C J Rottier, Dutch CEO (DSM), dies |
| 1992 | Chuck Connors, U.S. NBA/baseballer/actor (Boston Celtics), dies at 71 |
| 1991 | Alessandro Lessona, Minister of Italian Colonies 1931 - 1938, dies |
| 1991 | Franco Malfatti, president of Commission of Europe (1970-1972), dies |
| 1991 | Tutte Lemkow, dancer/dir (Captain Paradise, I am a Camera), dies at 73 |
| 1990 | Lisa Kirk, U.S. Broadway-singer, dies |
| 1990 | Ronnie Dyson, U.S. singer (Salvation-I Don't Wanna Cry), dies at 40 |
| 1984 | Sudie Bond, actress (Tomorrow), dies at 56 of a respiratory ailment |
| 1982 | Elio Petri, Italian director (Workers Class), dies at 53 |
| 1982 | Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, Soviet 1st sect, dies of a heart attack at 77 |
| 1981 | Abel Gance, french movie director (J'accuse), dies at 92 |
| 1979 | Friedrich Thorberg, writer, dies at 71 |
| 1978 | Linda Scott, actress (Escape from Hell Island), dies at 28 |
| 1978 | Theo Lingen, actor (Grosse Gluck), dies at 75 |
| 1973 | Stringbean, country singer/comedian/banjoist (Hee Haw), dies at 58 |
| 1971 | Walter Van Tilburg Clark, U.S. author (Ox-Bow Incident), dies at 62 |
| 1970 | Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79 |
| 1968 | Gerald Mohr, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54 |
| 1963 | Otto Flake, writer, dies |
| 1960 | Isadore Freed, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1959 | Lupino Lane, actress (Deputy Drummer), dies at 67 |
| 1954 | Hussein Fatemi, Iran Foreign minister, executed |
| 1948 | Julius Curtius, German foreign minister (1929- ), dies at 71 |
| 1940 | Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British premier (1937-40), dies at 71 |
| 1938 | Kemal Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal, general/president Turkey, dies at 57 |
| 1937 | Nikolai Batalov, actor (Mother), dies at 37 |
| 1909 | Ludvig Schytte, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1891 | JN Arthur Rimbaud, poet/arms merchant (Saison en Enfer), dies at 37 |
| 1891 | Arthur Rimbaud, French Poet |
| 1889 | Edwin Hatch, English Theologian |
| 1865 | Henry Wards, Confederate prison supt, executed for excessive cruelty |
| 1821 | Andreas J Romberg, German violinist and composer (Der Rabe), dies at 54 |
| 1779 | Joseph Hewes, U.S. merchant and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 49 |
| 1690 | Gedeon Tallemant van de Reaux, French author (Historiettes), dies at 71 |
| 1673 | Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki, king of Poland (16..-73), dies |
| 1670 | Geory Horn, Hornius, theologist/historian, dies at about 50 |
| 1665 | Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer, dies at 36 |
| 1549 | Paul III, Alessandro Farnese, Italian Pope (1534-49), dies at 81 |
| 1549 | Pope Paul III, Italian Clergyman |
| 1444 | Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk, king of Poland/Hungary, dies in battle at 20 |
| 1299 | Jan I, count of Holland/Zeeland (1295-99), dies at 15 |
| 1285 | Pedro III, king of Aragon, dies |
| 1241 | Celestine IV, Goffredo Castiglioni, Pope (1241, 16 days), dies |
| 461 | Leo I the Great, Italian Pope (440-61), dies |
