| 2004 | Theo van Gogh, controversial Dutch director murdered by terrorists, Submission |
| 2004 | Theo van Gogh, director, Dutch filmmaker murdered by a terrorist, dies at 47 |
| 2003 | Frank McCloskey, Representative-D-Indiana 1983 - 1995, died of cancer |
| 2003 | Jimmy Quillen, born in Virginia, Representative-R-Tennessee 1963 - 1997 |
| 2002 | Charles Sheffield, science and science fiction writer, Starfire, dies at 67 |
| 2000 | Eva Morris, really old woman, Oldest person in 2000, dies at 114 |
| 2000 | Robert Cormier, writer, The Chocolate War, dies at 75 |
| 1997 | Roy McMillan, baseball player (Reds), dies of heart failure at 68 |
| 1997 | G. Harry Stine, writer, Also wrote as Lee Correy, dies at 69 |
| 1996 | Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Colombian politician, dies |
| 1996 | Christopher Prater, screen printer, dies at 72 |
| 1995 | Alun Edward Islwyn Pask, rugby International, dies at 58 |
| 1995 | Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Vice President of Columbia (1982-84), assassinated |
| 1995 | Florence Greenberg, record company founder, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, russion Orthodox Priest, dies at 68 |
| 1995 | Oliver Wendell Harrington, cartoonist, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Rosalind Cash, actress (General Hospital), dies of cancer at 56 |
| 1995 | Sal Gliatto, baseball player, dies at 93 |
| 1994 | David Feinberg, AIDS activist/author, dies at 37 |
| 1994 | Egbert George "Pete" Pitterson, trumpeter, dies at 73 |
| 1994 | Noah Beery, Jr., U.S. actor (Gung Ho!, Heaven With a Gun), dies at 81 |
| 1993 | P A Jacob Mees, Dutch banker (Mees and Hope), dies at about 86 |
| 1992 | Hal Roach, producer (Keystone Kops), dies of pneumonia at 100 |
| 1991 | Fran Stevens, singer, dies of cancer in Bronx New York at 72 |
| 1991 | Irwin Allen, dir (Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure), dies at 75 |
| 1986 | Paul Frees, cartoon voice (Boris Badenov), dies at 66 |
| 1984 | Margie V Barfield, U.S. murderer, 1st woman electricuted in 22 years |
| 1980 | Willie Sutton, U.S. bank robber, dies at 79 |
| 1971 | Martha Vickers, actress (Alimony), dies after long illness at 46 |
| 1970 | Johannes Urzidil, Austria/US writer (Goethe in Bohmen), dies at 74 |
| 1970 | Richard Cushing, U.S. cardinal to Boston, dies at 75 |
| 1970 | Richard Cardinal Cushing, American Clergyman |
| 1969 | Marion Lloyd Vince, fencer (National champ 1928, 31), dies at 63 |
| 1968 | Ernst Hess, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1966 | Mississippi John Hurt, rocker, dies at 73 |
| 1966 | Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34), dies at 89 |
| 1964 | Haakon Stoton, Dutch oboist, dies at 49 |
| 1963 | Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam (1955-63), murdered at 62 |
| 1962 | Felice Lattuada, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1961 | James Thurber, humorist (The Male Animal), dies at 66 |
| 1960 | Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek/US conductor/composer, dies at 64 |
| 1958 | Adam von Ahn Carse, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1956 | Jacob Weinberg, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1956 | Leo Baeck, President of World Union for Progressive Judaism, dies at 83 |
| 1952 | Maire O'Neill, actress (Juno and the Paycock, Glamorous Night), dies |
| 1950 | George Bernard Shaw, Irish author (Pygmalion), dies at 94 |
| 1937 | Maude Valerie White, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1935 | H B "Jock" Cameron, South Africa cricket captain (v England 1935, age 30), dies |
| 1931 | Arthur James Cook, union leader (coal miners), dies at 47 |
| 1925 | Antonius J Derkinderen, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 65 |
| 1920 | Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburgs coal basin), dies at 73 |
| 1916 | Carmen Sylva, Romanian Royalty |
| 1909 | Theodor W. Ahlwardt, German orientalist, dies at 81 |
| 1887 | Jenny Lind, Swedish Nightingale, soprano, dies at 67 |
| 1884 | Auguste Emmanuel Vaucorbeil, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1882 | Cenobio Paniagua y Vasques, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1875 | JWW Birch, 1st British resident of Perak Malakka, murdered |
| 1870 | William F Brantly, Confederate, murdered at about 40 |
| 1845 | Chretien Urhan, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1804 | Armand-Gaston Camus, French chairman of Council of 500, dies at 64 |
| 1781 | Jose F de Isla, Spanish Jesuit/author, dies at 78 |
| 1731 | Johann Matthias Leffloth, composer, dies at 26 |
| 1717 | Johann Jacob Walther, composer, dies |
| 1716 | Engelbrecht Kampfer, German/Netherlands VOC-surgeon, dies at 65 |
| 1697 | Constantine Huygens, Jr., Poet/painter/cartoonist, buried |
| 1635 | Aurelio Signoretti, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1610 | Richard Bancroft, archbishop of Canterbury (1604-10), dies at 66 |
| 1588 | Wilhelmus Damasi, theologist/1st bishop of Roermond, dies at 63 |
| 1483 | Henry Stafford, earl of Buckingham/constable of England, beheaded at 49 |
| 1171 | Baudouin IV, count of Henegouwen (1120-71), dies |
| 1171 | Dionysius bar Salibi, author (Diarbekir), dies |
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