| 2003 | Dorothy Loudon, actress, Original Broadway production of Annie, dies at 70 |
| 2003 | Laurence Tisch, entrepreneur/philanthropist, president of Loews Theatres, dies at 80 |
| 1998 | Kwame Ture, activist, "born as Stokely Carmichael, he led a number of black organizations", dies at 57 |
| 1998 | Stokely Carmichael, American Activist |
| 1997 | Saul Chaplin, director (West Side Story), dies at 85 |
| 1997 | William Perrie, prison governor, dies at 79 |
| 1996 | Alger Hiss, former alleged spy/lawyer, dies at 92 |
| 1995 | Eve Perrick, journalist, dies at 78 |
| 1995 | Herbert Delauney Bill Hughes, educationist, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Kristian Lundin, record producer, dies at 22 |
| 1994 | Anthony Ward, writer, dies at 57 |
| 1994 | James Winston Watts, developer of the Frontal Lobotomy, dies at 90 |
| 1994 | Janet Ahlberg, illustrator, dies at 50 |
| 1994 | Volodymyr Ivashko, President of Ukraine (1990-91), dies |
| 1993 | Luciano Liggio, Italian mafia leader/painter, dies |
| 1993 | Maurice Bessy, French film historian (Cinemonde), dies at 82 |
| 1993 | Mouin Shabaita, Palestinian al-Fatah commandant, murdered |
| 1993 | Theo Huizenaar, Dutch boxing trainer (Bep van Klaveren), dies at 93 |
| 1990 | Bill E Herndon, actor (Rivals), dies at 54 |
| 1988 | Mona Washbourne, actress (Blue Bird, Games), dies at 84 |
| 1986 | Alexandre Tansman, Polish composer (Dyptique), dies at 89 |
| 1986 | John E. Grotberg, Representative-R-Illinois 1985 - 1986 |
| 1985 | Spencer W. Kimball, U.S. head of mormon church, dies at 90 |
| 1984 | Baby Fae, who received a baboon's heart, dies at 3 weeks |
| 1983 | John Le Mesurier, British actor (Jabberwocky, Dad's Army), dies at 71 |
| 1982 | Vinoba Bhave, Indian Educator |
| 1981 | Enid Markey, actress (Foolish Mothers, Civilization), dies at 85 |
| 1980 | Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 75 |
| 1978 | Margaret Mead, anthropologist (Thoughts and Female), dies in New York at 76 |
| 1976 | Jean Gabin, French actor (Quai des Brumes), dies at 72 |
| 1975 | Willem Scheps, Dutch journalist, dies at 77 |
| 1974 | James Morrison, actor (Don't, Black Beauty), dies on his 86th birthday |
| 1969 | Roy D'Arcy, actor (Lovers, Actress), dies at 75 |
| 1967 | Alice Lake, silent screen actress (Frisco Kid, Wicked), dies at 72 |
| 1967 | Michael James Adams, USAF pilot (X-15), dies in X-15 crash at 37 |
| 1963 | Fritz Reiner, Hungarian/U.S. conductor, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, dies at 74 |
| 1961 | Douglas Walton, actor (Bad Lands), dies of heart attack at 51 |
| 1961 | Elsie Ferguson, actress (Lie, Footlights, Scarlet Pages), dies at 76 |
| 1961 | Johanna Westerdok, 1st Dutch woman professor (Utrecht, 1917 - 1952), dies at 78 |
| 1958 | Tyrone Power, actor (Mark of Zorro), dies of a heart attack at 44 |
| 1955 | Lloyd Bacon, director (Fuller Brush Girl, 42nd Street), dies at 65 |
| 1954 | Lionel Barrymore, Blythe, actor (Dr. Kildare, Key Largo), dies at 76 |
| 1950 | Agnes Repplier, American essayist and writer, 'Books and Men' and 'In Pursuit of Laughter', dies |
| 1944 | Maarten Reuchlin, resistance fighter, executed |
| 1934 | Anton CR Dreesmann, German/Netherlands manufacturer (Devout and D), dies |
| 1932 | Charles W. Chesnutt, American Novelist |
| 1931 | Cornelis A J van Dishoeck, publisher, dies |
| 1919 | Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), dies |
| 1918 | Georges Antoine, composer, dies at 26 |
| 1917 | John W. Foster, American Soldier |
| 1917 | Oswald Chambers, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning, dies from a ruptured appendix |
| 1915 | Booker T. Washington, American Educator |
| 1910 | Wilhelm Raabe, Jakob Corvinus, German author, dies at 79 |
| 1908 | Cixi [the old Buddha], empress-widow of China, dies |
| 1908 | Tz'u-hsi (Cixi), empress of China, dies at 73 |
| 1907 | Horatio Richmond Palmer, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1897 | John Mercer Langston, U.S. black jurist, dies at 67 |
| 1863 | Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (childless), dies |
| 1848 | P Rossi, Italian, murdered |
| 1842 | Joseph Rastrelli, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1832 | Jean Baptiste Say, French economist, dies at 63 |
| 1831 | Vincenc Masek, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1815 | Johann Lukas Schubaur, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1812 | Eagle Fokke Simonsz, writer (Year 3000), dies at about 57 |
| 1788 | Peregrinus Pogl, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1787 | Christoph W. Ritter von Gluck, composer (Iphigenie Tauride), dies at 73 |
| 1691 | Albert Cuyp, landscape painter, buried at 71 |
| 1670 | Jan A Comenius, Komensky, Czechoslovakia/Netherlands educator/philosopher, dies |
| 1670 | John Comenius, Czechoslovakian Educator |
| 1658 | Jacobus Revius, Reefsen, theologist/writer/poet, dies at about 72 |
| 1634 | Johann Staden, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1630 | Johann Kepler, German astronomer, dies at 58 |
| 1630 | Johannes Kepler, German Scientist |
| 1629 | Bethlen Gabor, King of Hungary (1620-29), dies at 49 |
| 1280 | Albertus Magnus the Great, German leader/bishop Regensburg, dies at 87 |
| 1194 | Margaretha van Elzas, wife of count Boudouin V of Henegouwen, dies |
| 565 | Justitianus I, Petrus Sabbatius, Byzantine emperor (527-65), dies |
