| 1997 | George Petrie, actor (Honeymooners), dies on 85th birthday |
| 1997 | Georges Marchais, Sec General of French Communist Party (1972-94), dies |
| 1997 | Russ "Mad Monk" Meyer, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies), dies at 74 |
| 1996 | George Byatt, playwright, dies at 73 |
| 1996 | Jack Popplewell, composer/playwright, dies at 87 |
| 1996 | John Reginald Bevins, politician, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Gwyn A Williams, historian/socialist, dies at 70 |
| 1995 | Jack Finney, author (Body Snatchers), dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Chester Dino Powers Valenti, singer/Songwriter, dies at 57 |
| 1994 | Dan Smith, harmonica/gospel singer, dies at 83 |
| 1994 | David Rayner, cyclist, dies |
| 1994 | Doris Speed, actress (Annie-Coronation Street), dies at 95 |
| 1994 | Harvey Watkins, gospel Singer, dies at 64 |
| 1994 | John Boylan, U.S. actor (Twin Peaks, Sleepless in Seattle), dies at 82 |
| 1993 | Evelyn Venable, model (Columbia Pictures logo), dies of cancer at 80 |
| 1993 | Lucia Popp, Czechoslovakia/Austria soprano (Vienna Opera), dies at 54 |
| 1991 | Ralph Marrero, actor (Babe, Johnny Suede), dies in car accident at 33 |
| 1988 | Lotte Stam-Beese, German/Netherlands architect, dies at about 85 |
| 1986 | Siobhan McKenna, actress (Dr. Zhivago, Hungry Hill), dies at 63 |
| 1985 | John Sparkman, Senator-D-Alabama 1946 - 1979, dies at 85 |
| 1982 | Arthur Askey, British comedian, dies at 82 |
| 1981 | Enid Markey, actress (Aunt Violet-Bringing Up Buddy), dies at 85 |
| 1981 | Morgan Conway, actor (Dick Tracy Detective), dies |
| 1981 | William Holden, actor (Network, Wild Bunch, Breezy), dies at 63 |
| 1980 | Imogen Hassall, Countess of Cleavage (Carry on Lovng), suicide at 37 |
| 1978 | Claude Dauphin, French actor (Les Miserables, Mado), dies at 75 |
| 1978 | Cornelis P "Cor" Bruon, Dutch novelist (Sil), dies at 95 |
| 1976 | Franz MT de Liage Bohl, German/Dutch assyriologist, dies at 94 |
| 1975 | Ernst van Raalte, lawyer/minister-president, dies at 83 |
| 1974 | Walther Meissner, German physicist (Meissner Effect), dies at 91 |
| 1973 | Alan Watts, writer, speaker, and philosopher, 'The Spirit of Zen' and 'The Art of Contemplation', died of heart failure at the age of 58 |
| 1972 | Andrey Filippovich Pashchenko, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1971 | Charlie Dell, comedian, dies at 90 |
| 1971 | Edward Sedgwick, director, dies of barbiturate overdose at 28 |
| 1968 | Greet Hofmans, faith healer of Dutch queen Juliana, dies at 74 |
| 1965 | Alexander King, author (Jack Paar Show), dies at 66 |
| 1964 | Albert Hay Malotte, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1964 | John Emery, actor (Ship Ahoy, Kronos, Mademoiselle Fifi), dies at 59 |
| 1964 | Piet Moeskops, Dutch world champion cyclist (1921-24, 26), dies at 71 |
| 1961 | Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House for 17 years, dies at 79 |
| 1961 | Samuel Rayburn, Representative-D-Texas, speaker of the House, 1940 - 1957, died of pancreatic cancer at age 79 |
| 1960 | Clark Gable, actor (Gone With the Wind), dies at 59 |
| 1958 | Johan W F Werumeus Buning, poet, dies |
| 1958 | Warner Fabian, [S Adams], U.S. author (Great American Fraud), dies at 87 |
| 1957 | Cora Witherspoon, actress (Quality Street, Bank Dick), dies at 67 |
| 1955 | Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish premier (1944-47), dies at 88 |
| 1945 | Kaarlo Sarkia, Finnish poet (Kohtalon Vaaka), dies at 43 |
| 1943 | Marcel Verhamme, Belgian resistance fighter, executed |
| 1935 | Kurt Schindler, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1934 | Carl P G von Linde, German physicist (Linde-procede), dies at 92 |
| 1934 | Joachim Ringelantz, writer, dies |
| 1932 | Carry van Bruggen, [de Haan], Dutch author (Eva), dies at 51 |
| 1924 | Alexander Andreyevich Archangel'sky, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1924 | Edward Everett Rice, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1919 | Sofert H Koorders, botanist (Java), dies at 55 |
| 1909 | Francis Thome, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1893 | George Alexander Osborne, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1890 | Johann A H Scheler, Belgian man of letters/librarian, dies at 71 |
| 1885 | Louis Riel, French rebel who fought against Canada, executed at 41 |
| 1835 | Louis Angely, German comedic poet (Paris in Pommern), dies at 48 |
| 1831 | Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist (Campaign 1813), dies at 51 |
| 1808 | Mustapha IV, sultan of Turkey (1807-08), dies at 29 |
| 1797 | Frederik Willem II, king of Prussia (1786-97), dies at 53 |
| 1775 | Marian Paradeiser, composer, dies at 28 |
| 1766 | Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter, dies at 81 |
| 1724 | Jack Sheppard, English robber, hanged |
| 1706 | Cornelis Evertsen, mutineer/ltalian-admiral of Zeeland, dies at 64 |
| 1706 | Godfried Schalcken, painter/etcher/engraver, dies |
| 1668 | Antoon Anselmo, South Netherlands lawyer, dies at about 79 |
| 1667 | Nathaniel Schnittelbach, composer, dies at 34 |
| 1632 | Gustavus II Adolphus, king of Sweden, dies in battle at 37 |
| 1603 | Pierre Charron, French philosopher/theologian, dies |
| 1548 | Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer, dies at 44 |
| 1512 | Gerbrand Mockema, Fries rebel, beheaded |
| 1512 | Jemme Herjuwsma, Fries rebel, beheaded |
| 1271 | Henry III, king of England (1216-71, Provisions of Oxford), dies |
