| 2003 | Michael Kamen, composer, Brazil, dies at 55 |
| 2002 | James Coburn, actor, Affliction, dies at 74 |
| 1999 | Paul Bowles, writer, The Sheltering Sky, dies at 88 |
| 1996 | David Herbert, publisher, dies at 69 |
| 1996 | John Vassall, spy/civil servant, dies at 72 |
| 1995 | Miron Grindea, literary editor, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Ted Sannella, square dance caller, dies of cancer |
| 1994 | Cab[ell] Calloway, U.S. band leader/actor (Missourians), dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Chris Joyce, photographer, dies at 51 |
| 1994 | Michael [George] Somes, English dancer (Royal Ballet), dies at 77 |
| 1993 | Fritz Feld, actor (Errand Boy, Promises Promises), dies at 93 |
| 1992 | Dorothy Kirsten, U.S. soprano, dies from stroke at 82 |
| 1992 | Herman Musaph, psychiatrist/sexologist/co-founder (NVSH), dies |
| 1991 | Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslovakia (1975-89), dies at 78 |
| 1990 | Peter Schilperoort, saxophonist/clarinetist, dies |
| 1989 | Henry de Vries, painter and poet (Toovertuin), dies |
| 1987 | Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (5x Tour de France), dies at 53 |
| 1982 | Donald Dillaway, actor (Min and Bill, Platinum Blonde), dies at 78 |
| 1982 | H Kipphardt, writer, dies at 60 |
| 1978 | Jim Jones, U.S. pastor, leader of Jonestown Cult, commits suicide |
| 1978 | Leo J. Ryan, (Rep-Cal) and 4 killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Peoples Temple, followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 members |
| 1977 | Victor Francen, actor (J'Acusse, San Antonio), dies at 89 |
| 1976 | Man Ray, U.S. artist (dada), dies at 86 |
| 1973 | Alois Haba, Czechoslovakian (opera)composer (Neuland), dies at 80 |
| 1972 | Danny Whitten, rocker, dies of a drug overdose |
| 1972 | Segundo Luis Moreno Andrade, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1971 | Junior Parker, rocker, dies during brain operation at 44 |
| 1970 | Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires), dies at 56 |
| 1969 | Joseph P. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy/RFK/TMK father, dies in Hyannis Port Massachusetts, at 81 |
| 1969 | Leon Jongen, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1968 | Walter Wanger, U.S. producer (Cleopatria), dies at 74 |
| 1966 | Jean Peugeot, French auto manufacturer, dies |
| 1965 | Henry A Wallace, Vice President (1941-45)/founder (Progressive Party), dies at 77 |
| 1962 | Luc Haesaerts, Flemish art critic (Flandre), dies at 63 |
| 1962 | Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), dies at 77 |
| 1952 | Paul Eluard, French communist/poet, dies at 56 |
| 1951 | John H Van Maarseveen, Dutch minister of Justice, dies at 57 |
| 1951 | Vaclav Kalik, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1951 | William Henry Bennett Vodery, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1950 | Gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60 |
| 1946 | Donald Meek, Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), dies at 86 |
| 1941 | Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77 |
| 1929 | Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78 |
| 1922 | Marcel Proust, French author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51 |
| 1919 | Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies |
| 1918 | Jon Trausti, [Gudmundur Magnusson], Iceland author (Godir), dies |
| 1917 | Henry Spiekman, social-democratic politician, dies at 43 |
| 1911 | Alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies |
| 1904 | Justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/author/head of Red Guard, dies |
| 1889 | William Allingham, Irish poet (Day and Night Songs), dies at 68 |
| 1887 | Eduard Marxsen, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1887 | Gustav T Fechner, German psychologist/physicist, dies at 86 |
| 1887 | Heinrich Panofka, German violist/composer, dies at 80 |
| 1886 | Chester A. Arthur, 21st President (1881-85), dies in New York at 56 |
| 1883 | Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies |
| 1852 | Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1851 | Ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover (1837-51), dies at 80 |
| 1841 | Georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1827 | Wilhelm Hauff, writer, dies at 24 |
| 1822 | Anton Teyber, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1822 | George Knowil Jackson, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1796 | Catharina II, "The Great", tsarina of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67 |
| 1771 | Giuseppe de Majo, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1678 | Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36 |
| 1664 | Miklos Zrinyi, Hungarian general/poet, killed by wild boar at 44 |
| 1630 | Esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter, buried |
| 1603 | Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Juliana, dies at 61 |
| 1170 | Albrecht I "Bear", 1st margrave of Brandenburg (1150-70), dies at 70 |
| 942 | Odo van Cluny, 2nd abbott of Cluny (924-42), dies |
