| 2003 | Jonathan Brandis, actor, Seaquest, dies at 27 |
| 2003 | Penny Singleton, actress/labor activist, Blondie, dies at 95 |
| 2001 | Albert Hague, composer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, dies at 81 |
| 2001 | Carrie Donovan, editor/Old Navy icon, Vogue, dies at 73 |
| 2001 | Tony Miles, chess player, chess Grandmaster, won matches with World Chess Champions Boris Spassky, Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, achieved peak rating of 2635, January 1, 1996 dies |
| 1997 | William Matthews, poet, dies at 55 |
| 1997 | James Laughlin, American Poet |
| 1996 | Don Kenyon, cricketer, dies at 72 |
| 1996 | Gwen Catley, soprano, dies at 90 |
| 1996 | John Qace Hardbattle, political activist, dies at 51 |
| 1995 | Curley Fox, fiddler, dies at 85 |
| 1995 | Jack Mann, pilot/hostage, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Marion Pitt, social worker/writer, dies at 56 |
| 1994 | Charles "Honi" Coles, dancer (1983 Tony award), dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Katherine Elliots, doctor, dies at 75 |
| 1994 | Michael John Innes Mackintosh Stewart Innes, writer, dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Wilma Glodean Rudolph, U.S. sprinter, 3 Gold Medals 1960 Olympics, dies at 54 |
| 1993 | Anna Stein, actress (Wedding Night), dies of heart attack at 88 |
| 1993 | Bill Dickey, HOF baseball catcher (New York Yankees, 1928-46), dies at 86 |
| 1993 | Harry Haldeman, Nixon's cabinet member (1968-73), dies |
| 1992 | Charles "Honi" Coles, tap dancer, dies of cancer at 81 |
| 1992 | David Oliver, actor (Perry Hutchins-Another World), dies of AIDS at 30 |
| 1991 | Christopher Hayes, dies of heart attack |
| 1991 | Diane Brewster, actress (Courage of Black Beauty), dies at 60 |
| 1991 | Howard Brunner, dies of AIDS at 51 |
| 1991 | Paul E "Cardinal" Leger, cardinal and archbishop of Montreal, dies at 87 |
| 1990 | Dave Willock, actor (Queen of Outer Space), dies at 81 |
| 1990 | Eve Arden, actress (Our Miss Brooks), dies at 82 |
| 1990 | Nico Haak, Dutch singer (Foxy Foxtrot), dies |
| 1990 | Rifaat El-Maghub, Egyptian MP leader, murdered |
| 1990 | Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet, dies at 81 |
| 1989 | Dolores Ibarruri, Pasionaria, Basque/Spanish communist, dies at 93 |
| 1987 | Roger Lewis, aviation executive (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75 |
| 1980 | Alexander "Alex" Nicholas Voormolen, Dutch composer, dies at 85 |
| 1980 | Andrei Amalrik, Russian writer/dissident, dies at 42 |
| 1980 | Haya van Someren-Downer, Dutch MP, dies at 54 |
| 1979 | Dimitri Tiompkin, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1978 | Howard Swanson, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1976 | Walter Hamor Piston, U.S. composer, dies at 82 |
| 1976 | Walter Piston, American Composer |
| 1975 | Anthony Ross, TV host (Telltale Clue), dies at 69 |
| 1974 | Charles Quinlivan, actor (7 Guns to Mesa), dies at 50 |
| 1972 | Rudolf Friml, Czechoslovakian/U.S. composer (Bohemian suite), dies at 92 |
| 1969 | Louis van Tulder, tenor (Kantoorkruk to high C), dies at 77 |
| 1967 | Herman Uyttersprot, Flemish literature historian, dies at 58 |
| 1966 | Quincy Porter, U.S. composer, dies at 69 |
| 1962 | Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1962 | Sid Tomack, actor (Gillis-Life of Riley, My Friend Irma), dies at 55 |
| 1957 | Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Roman Law), dies at 78 |
| 1956 | Gerhard Alexander, actor (One Zomerzotheid), dies at 49 |
| 1949 | Hendrik A de Fish, Henri Pauwels, Flemish philological, dies at 64 |
| 1948 | Umberto Giordano, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1947 | Emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82 |
| 1947 | Baroness Orczy, British Novelist |
| 1944 | Edgar Stillman Kelley, U.S. composer (Gulliver), dies at 87 |
| 1944 | George D Birkhoff, U.S. mathematician (Aesthetic measure), dies at 60 |
| 1944 | Roy Agnew, born in Sydney, Australia, composer, pianist, considered best composer of early 20th century Australia, dies at 51 |
| 1941 | Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, New York gangster/police informer, killed |
| 1940 | Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer, dies at 34 |
| 1937 | Harry Smith, England cricket wicket-keeper (v WI 1928), dies |
| 1926 | Joseph Gurney Cannon, American Politician |
| 1925 | Roman Statkowski, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1921 | Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter/sculptor, dies at 63 |
| 1916 | Percival Lowell, American Scientist |
| 1912 | Jose Canalejas bon Mendez, premier of Spain (1910-12), murdered at 58 |
| 1912 | John P. Jones, American Politician |
| 1900 | Henry Villard, American Journalist |
| 1896 | Spyridon Xyndas, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1893 | Alexander Freiherr von Bach, premier of Austria (1852-59), dies at 80 |
| 1869 | Gheorghe Asachi, author/humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia), dies |
| 1865 | Elizabeth Gaskell, British Novelist |
| 1852 | Georg Hellmesberger, composer, dies at 22 |
| 1823 | Emmanuel Aloys Forster, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1802 | Charles van Poucke, Flemish sculptor, dies at 62 |
| 1793 | Jean-Sylvain, French historian (Napoleon), executed at 53 |
| 1793 | Lord George Gordon, British Politician |
| 1754 | Jacob de Wit, Amsterdam painter/decorater, dies at 58 |
| 1739 | Ludwig Ernst, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1722 | Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter/engraver/architect, dies at 63 |
| 1671 | Christianus Schotanus Sterringa, Fries theologist, dies at 68 |
| 1671 | Thomas, 3rd baron Fairfax of Cameron, English general, dies at 59 |
| 1606 | Matthaus Ludecus, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1600 | Andreas of Austrian, Land Guardian of Netherlands (1598-1600), dies at 42 |
| 1595 | John Hawkins, English navigator/treasurer of the Navy, dies at 63 |
| 1567 | Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, marshal of France, dies at 74 |
| 1558 | Shalom Shakna ben Joseph, Rabbi (founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva), dies |
| 1555 | Stephen Gardiner, English bishop of Winchester, dies at about 65 |
| 1202 | Knut VI, king of the Denen/Turn (1182-1202), dies at about 39 |
| 1035 | Canute "The Great", King of the Danes (1016-1035), dies at 41 |
| 1035 | Knut II, the Great, Viking king of England/Den/Nor (1014-35), dies at 39 |
| 607 | Boniface III, Italian Pope (607), dies |
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