| 2003 | Kellie Waymire, actress, Six Feet Under, dies at 35 |
| 1999 | Donald Mills, singing brother, The Mills Brothers, dies at 84 |
| 1997 | William John Elwyn Davies, painter, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Kenneth Watkins, woodland conservationist, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | William Ballard Doggett, jazz musician, dies at 80 |
| 1995 | Ralph Hunsecker Blane, songwriter, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Robert Stephens, actor (Chaplin, QB VII, Cleopatra), dies at 64 |
| 1994 | Frank Singleton, librarian, dies at 67 |
| 1994 | Joseph H Hazen, U.S. producer/Vice President (Warner Bros), dies at 96 |
| 1994 | Lewis Bingham Keeble, town Planner, dies at 79 |
| 1993 | Jose Toirkens, journalist (Slogan, NRC), dies at 48 |
| 1992 | Alan Balsam, U.S. movie editor (Divine Madness), dies |
| 1992 | Bobby Mcclure, U.S. singer (Don't mess up a good thing), dies at 50) |
| 1992 | Gregory Markopoulos, German/U.S. director (Iliac Passion, Bliss), dies |
| 1992 | Lucrecia Perez, Dominicans in Spain (Racist Murder), dies at 33 |
| 1992 | Maurice Ohana, pianist/composer, dies |
| 1991 | Ad Kosto, Dutch state secretary (PvdA), assassinated by bomb |
| 1991 | Cyril Poitier, actor (Uptown Saturday Night), dies of cancer at 80 |
| 1991 | Hanson Baldwin, U.S. military historian, dies at 88 |
| 1990 | Charlie Carpenter, dies at 77 |
| 1988 | Antal Dorati, Hungarian/US conductor/composer, dies at 82 |
| 1986 | Rolando Olalia, Philippines worker's union leader, murdered |
| 1986 | Rudolf Schock, German opera/operetta singer, dies at 71 |
| 1984 | Dorothy Arnold, actress (House of Fear, Phantom Creeps), dies at 66 |
| 1984 | ML de Braauw, esquire/DS'70-minister of Wetenschapsbeleid, dies at 59 |
| 1983 | "Alvin" Junior Samples, country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 56 |
| 1982 | Babette Deutsch, U.S. poet (Honey out of the Rock), dies at 87 |
| 1982 | Chesney Allen, actress (Okay for Sound, Frozen Limits), dies at 88 |
| 1982 | Dorothy [Little-]Round, England, tennis star (Never on Sunday), dies |
| 1979 | Rebecca Clarke, composer, dies at 93 |
| 1974 | Karen Silkwood, killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances |
| 1974 | Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor and director (Boccacio 70), dies |
| 1973 | Bruno Maderna, Italian composer and conductor (Satyricon), dies at 53 |
| 1973 | Elsa Schiaparelli, French fashion designer, dies at 77 |
| 1973 | Lila Lee, actress (Blood and Sand), dies of stroke at 68 |
| 1967 | Pierre Moulaert, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1961 | Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker, Jr., Dutch actor (Unknown Woman), dies at 63 |
| 1961 | Wally Brown, actor (Jed Fame-Cimarron City), dies at 57 |
| 1958 | Bart A van der Leck, Dutch painter (Style), dies at 81 |
| 1957 | Antonin Zapotocky, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 72 |
| 1954 | Fay Baker, actress (Sorority Girl), dies at 60 |
| 1951 | Hertha Kraftner, writer, dies at 23 |
| 1951 | Hugo Leichtentritt, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1951 | Nikolai Karlovich Metner, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1950 | Gosta Forsell, Swedish radiologist, dies at 74 |
| 1944 | Paul Graener, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1944 | Wang Tjing-Wei, premier China (1932-35), dies |
| 1942 | Daniel J Callaghan, U.S. spy (at Guadalcanal), dies |
| 1942 | Douglas H Fox, U.S. captain of destroyer Barton, dies in battle |
| 1942 | Norman Scott, U.S. Admiral (at Guadalcanal), dies |
| 1939 | George Nicholls, Jr., actor (Finishing School), dies at 42 |
| 1928 | Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski, Polish/German orientalist, dies at 60 |
| 1918 | Marten Baersma, [MH Bottema], Fries author, dies at 28 |
| 1917 | Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (Le suicide), dies |
| 1916 | Frederik Septimus Kelly, composer, dies at 35 |
| 1909 | Aeneas Mackay, Dutch Internal minister (ARP)/Colonization, dies at 70 |
| 1907 | Francis Thompson, English Poet |
| 1903 | Wilhelm von Polenz, German author (Country of Zukunft), dies |
| 1896 | Antonio Pena y Goni, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1893 | Antoine T d'abbadie, French explorer: Ethiopia, dies at 78 |
| 1877 | Pietro Coppola, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1868 | Gioachino (Antonio) Rossini, composer (Barber of Seville), dies at 76 |
| 1863 | Carnot Posey, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 50 |
| 1862 | Ludwig Uhland, writer, dies at 75 |
| 1849 | William Etty, English painter (nudist), dies at 62 |
| 1829 | Sam Patch, loses his live in a 125' dive into Genesse Falls |
| 1779 | Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker, dies at 61 |
| 1771 | Conrad E Ackermann, German actor/theater director, dies at 61 |
| 1770 | George Grenville, British premier (1763-65)/Stamp Act, dies at 58 |
| 1706 | Godfried Schalcken, painter/etcher/engraver, dies |
| 1689 | Philipp von Zesen, German poet (Bescheibung of Amsterdam), dies at 70 |
| 1687 | Nell [Eleanor] Gwyn, mistress of Charles II of England, dies at 37 |
| 1624 | Thomas Erpenius, [van Erp], orientalist/arab (Arab grammatica), dies |
| 1620 | Louise de Coligny, French 4th wife of Willem of Orange, dies at 65 |
| 1460 | Henry the Navigator, prince of Portugal, dies at 66 |
| 1359 | Ivan II, great ruler of Moscow and Vladimir, dies |
| 1319 | Erik VI Menved, king of Denmark (1286-1319), dies |
| 1288 | Beatrice van Kortrok/Brabant, Belgian wife of king Henry, dies at 63 |
| 1093 | Edward Macduncan, Scottish crown prince/son of Malcolm II, dies in battle |
| 1093 | Malcolm III MacDuncan, king of Scotland, dies in battle |
| 1004 | Abbo van Fleury, [Floriacensis], French abbott/saint, dies |
| 867 | Nicholas I, (the Great), pope (858-67), dies at 67 |
