| 2008 | John Michael Hayes, dies in New Hampshire, of natural causes, at 89 |
| 2004 | Terry Melcher, record producer, Kokomo, dies at 62 |
| 1999 | Alexander Liberman, American Designer |
| 1998 | Alan J. Pakula, "director, producer", All the President's Men, dies at 70 |
| 1998 | Tetsuya Ted Fujita, scientist, rated the strength of tornados, dies at 78 |
| 1997 | Christina Corrigan, obese girl (680 lbs), dies at 13 |
| 1997 | Durlyn Eddmonds, murderer, executed at 45 |
| 1997 | Frank Joseph Kofsky, teacher/writer, dies at 62 |
| 1997 | Walter Stewart, murderer, executed at 42 |
| 1996 | Denis Jenkinson, journalist, dies at 74 |
| 1996 | Edward Kassner, music publisher, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Ian Powell Bancroft, civil servant, dies at 73 |
| 1996 | Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist/diplomat, dies at 90 |
| 1995 | Gwen Swire, socila worker, dies at 61 |
| 1995 | Martha Hill, modern dancer/teacher, dies at 94 |
| 1995 | Shirley Bergeron, singer and guitarist, dies at 62 |
| 1994 | Cab Calloway, singer (Minnie the Moocha), dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Cabell "Cab" Calloway, musician, dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Dedrick Gobert, U.S. actor (Boyz 'n the Hood), shot to death at 22 |
| 1994 | Julian Gustave Symons, writer, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Julian Symons, Br detective writer (Death's Darkest Face), dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Li Yuan Artist-chia, dies at 65 |
| 1993 | Dorothy Revier, actress (Sally on the Subway), dies at 89 |
| 1992 | Bobby Russell, song writer (Honey, Little Green Apples), dies at 52 |
| 1992 | Diane Varsi, actress (Allison-Peyton Place, Bloody Mama), dies at 54 |
| 1992 | Dorothy Walker Bush, mother of President George Bush, dies at 91 |
| 1991 | Reggie Nalder, actor (Mark of Devil), dies of bone cancer at 80 |
| 1988 | Christine Onassis, heiress, dies of heart failure at 37 |
| 1985 | Stepin Fetchit, [Lincoln Penny], 1st black star, dies of pneumonia 83 |
| 1984 | George Aiken, Governor of Vermont 1937 - 1941, Senator-R-Vermont, 1941 - 1975, dies at 92 |
| 1983 | Peter Coffield, Ill, actor (Kevin-W E B), dies at 37 |
| 1982 | Erving Goffman, U.S., sociologist (Asylums), dies at 60 |
| 1981 | Griffiths Mxenge, South Afr's anti-apartheid advocate, murdered |
| 1971 | Bill Stern, sportscaster (Saturday Night Fights), dies at 64 |
| 1963 | Carmen Amaya, Spanish flamenco dancer, dies at about 50 |
| 1960 | Phyllis Haver, actress (Don Juan), commits suicide at 61 |
| 1959 | Edward C Tolman, U.S. psychologist (behaviorism), dies |
| 1959 | Gerard J Arbous, actor/publicist (Bohemian Amsterdam), dies at 83 |
| 1956 | Francis L Sullivan, actor (Joan of Arc, Winslow Boy), dies at 53 |
| 1954 | F Henri Berr, French occurence philosopher (L'hymne la vie), dies |
| 1950 | Thomas Wood, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1949 | James Ensor, Flemish painter/etcher (Oestereetster), dies at 89 |
| 1943 | Andre Antoine, French stage manager (Theatre Antoine), dies at 85 |
| 1942 | Edouard Combe, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1936 | Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchists army leader, dies in battle |
| 1933 | Enrique Jose Varona, Cuban sociologist/vice-president, dies at 84 |
| 1932 | Marie MJ Poupelet, French sculptor/poster artist, dies |
| 1931 | Frederic Cliffe, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1931 | Xu Zhimo, Roman Poet |
| 1929 | Arthur H Mann, English composer (Church of England Hymnal), dies |
| 1928 | Achille Simonetti, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1924 | Lee Stack, British sirdar in Egypt, governer-general of Sudan, murdered |
| 1923 | French Netscher, author/journalist (In 3rd Chamber), dies at 59 |
| 1915 | Joe Hill, Labor leader/songwriter, executed for murder |
| 1915 | Solomon Schechter, theologist, dies at about 64 |
| 1911 | Ramon Caceres, President (Dominican Republic), murdered |
| 1908 | Albert Dietrich, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1899 | [Maria] Catharina Beersmans, Belgian actress (Medea), dies at 55 |
| 1887 | Emma Lazarus, U.S. poet ("Give us your tired and poor"), dies in New York at 38 |
| 1880 | Bernard de Hair, vicar/poet/church historian, dies at 74 |
| 1854 | Alberich Zwyssig, composer, dies at 46 |
| 1828 | Franz P Schubert, Austria composer (That Schone Mullerin), dies at 31 |
| 1828 | Franz Schubert, Austrian Composer |
| 1825 | Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek, composer, dies at 34 |
| 1804 | Pietro Alessandro Guglieli, Italian opera composer, dies at 75 |
| 1798 | Theobald W. Tone, Irish nationalist, dies |
| 1795 | Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1785 | Bernard de Bury, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1719 | Jean Deutz, minster of Heemskerk/merchant/Amsterdam regent, dies at 64 |
| 1703 | Man in the Iron Mask, prisoner in Bastille prison in Paris, dies |
| 1692 | Georg F von Waldeck, German commander-in-chief (Colors), dies |
| 1665 | Nicholas Poussin, French painter, dies |
| 1630 | Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (Opella Nova), dies at 44 |
| 1495 | Alfonso II, king of Naples (1494-95), dies |
| 1472 | Joannes/Basilius Bessarion, archbishop of Nicaea, dies |
| 1389 | Dimitri Ivanovitch "Donskoi", monarch of Vladimir-Soezdal, dies at 39 |
| 1316 | Jan I, king of France (Nov 15-19 1316), dies |
| 1272 | David of Augsburg, Franciscan minister/author, dies |
| 498 | Anastasius II, Pope (496-9)8 (Dante Inferno XI, 8-9), dies |