| 2004 | Yasser Arafat, PLO leader/former terrorist, dies at 64 |
| 1999 | Mary Kay Bergman, cartoon voice, South Park, dies at 38 |
| 1996 | Helen Rosenthal, Teacher/health administrator, dies at 47 |
| 1995 | Charles Scribner, Jr., publisher, dies at 74 |
| 1995 | Cornelie Coposu, politician, dies at 79 |
| 1995 | Kenneth Goldstein, folklorist/enthomusicologist, dies at 68 |
| 1994 | Elizabeth Lefanu Maconchy, English composer (My Dark Heart), dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Ernest Clark, actor (Pope Must Die, Gandhi), dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Frances Tustin, child Psychologist, dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Pedro Zamora, aIDS Activist, dies at 22 |
| 1993 | Erskine Hawkins, U.S. trumpeter/composer (After Hours), dies at 79 |
| 1993 | Harry R "Rob" Haldeman, White House chief of staff (Nixon), dies at 67 |
| 1992 | Aleksandr Yakovlevich Petrushenko, cosmonaut, dies at 50 |
| 1992 | Giulio C Argan, Italian art critic/mayor of Rome, dies |
| 1987 | L. T. Coggeshall, medical scientist and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1956 - 1958, dies at 86 |
| 1987 | Nico Slothouwer, poet (Liefdesstratenplan), commits suicide at 30 |
| 1986 | Roger C Carmel, actor (Mudd-Star Trek, Mothers-in-Law), dies at 54 |
| 1984 | Martin Luther King Sr, U.S. vicar/father of MLK, Jr., dies at 84 |
| 1976 | Alexander Calder, U.S. sculptor, dies at 78 |
| 1975 | Marty May, (Fireball Fun For All), dies at 79 |
| 1974 | Alfonso Leng, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1974 | Jane Ace, comedian (Easy Aces), dies at 74 |
| 1973 | Stringbean, David Akeman, banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw), dies at 58 |
| 1972 | Berry Oakley, U.S. rock bassist (Allman Bro), dies in car crash at 24 |
| 1971 | A. P. Herbert, British novelist, humorist, playwright and activist at age 81 |
| 1969 | Frank Newburg, actor (Homemaker), dies at 83 |
| 1968 | Jeanne Demessieux, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1967 | Harry Seymour, composer/actor (Tenderfoot), dies of heart attack at 76 |
| 1967 | Jordan Whitfield, actor (Swamp Fox), dies of heart attack at 50 |
| 1965 | Gaston Glass, actor (Opening Your Eyes), dies after long illness at 65 |
| 1964 | Edward Steuermann, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1964 | H[enry] Beam Piper, U.S., sci-fi author (4 Day Planet), dies at 60 |
| 1962 | Joseph Allen, Jr., actor (All Women Have Secrets), dies at 44 |
| 1962 | Rene Coty, President of France, dies at 80 |
| 1958 | Andre Bazin, French Critic |
| 1956 | Victor Young, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56 |
| 1955 | John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1913-18), dies at 87 |
| 1954 | John Rosamund Johnson, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1947 | Martin Dibelius, German theologist (That Drawer Jahwes), dies at 64 |
| 1945 | Jerome Kern, U.S. composer (Sally, Leave it to Jane), dies at 60 |
| 1942 | Anton H Blaauw, botanist (Perception of the Lichtes), dies at 60 |
| 1942 | Hector Abbas, actor and director (Rosa Lynd Company), dies at 58 |
| 1936 | Edward German, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1929 | Mieczyslaw Soltys, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1918 | Victor Adler, Austrian neurologist/foreign minister, dies |
| 1917 | Liliuokalani, last queen of Hawaii (1891-93), dies from a stroke at 79 |
| 1912 | Joseph Wieniawski, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1912 | Jose Canalejas Y Mendez, premier Spain, murdered |
| 1907 | Henry Gadsby, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1901 | Antonio Zamara, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1895 | Julius Tausch, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1886 | Paul Bert, French Scientist |
| 1880 | Lucretia Mott, U.S. quaker (1st Woman's Rights Convention), dies |
| 1861 | Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61), dies at 24 |
| 1855 | Soren A Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher/theologist, dies at 42 |
| 1841 | Catherine McAuley, founder, the Sisters of Mercy, established 12 foundations in Ireland, 2 in England, inherited fortune from father, used money to care for, educate, homeless women and children, dies at her House of Mercy |
| 1831 | Nat Turner, former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged in VA |
| 1810 | Johann Zoffany, British? painter, dies at 77 |
| 1810 | Johann/John Zoffany, German painter (Tribuna degl' Uffizi), dies at 77 |
| 1772 | John Mauritius Quinkhard, portrait painter, dies at 84 |
| 1755 | Johan van de Bergh, Leids regent, dies at 91 |
| 1641 | Ferdinand van Austrian, cardinal of Spain, dies |
| 1638 | Cornelis Cornelisz, "of Haarlem", painter, dies at about 76 |
| 1528 | Lucas van Prague, Czechoslovakian leader of Bohemian Brothers, dies at about 68 |
| 1331 | Stefanus VIII Uros III Decanski, king of Serbia (1322-31), dies |
| 1154 | Sancho I, king of Portugal, dies |
| 1150 | Hartbert, bishop of Utrecht (1140-50), dies |
| 826 | Theodorus Studites, Byzantine theologist/poet/saint, dies |
| 511 | Clovis, king of Salische France/founder of Merovingische, dies at 45 |
| 397 | Martinus, (St. Maarten), Roman bishop of Tours, dies at about 81 |
| 307 | Flavius Valerius Severus, compassionate emperor of Rome (306-07), dies |
