| 2007 | Ian Smith, dies in Capetown, South Africa, at 88 |
| 1997 | Gary Burris, murderer (Kenneth Chambers), executed in Indiana |
| 1997 | Robert Palmer, rock critic, dies at 52 |
| 1996 | Bert Geoffrey Achong, electron microscopist, dies at 67 |
| 1995 | Ahmed Abel-Wadoud Karadawi, academic/activist, dies at 50 |
| 1995 | Sergei Grinkov, Russian ice skater, Olympic and World figure skating champion, dies of heart attack at 28 |
| 1994 | John Lucarotti, scriptwriter, dies at 68 |
| 1993 | Christopher Frank, French writer, dies at 51 |
| 1993 | Emile Ardolino, director (Dirty Dancing), dies at 50 of AIDs |
| 1993 | Heather Farr, golfer, dies of cancer at 28 |
| 1992 | John Foreman, producer (Prizzi's Honor), dies at 67 of heart attack |
| 1991 | Gina Petrushka, actress (Exorcist, Sybil), dies |
| 1989 | Lynn Bari, actress (Shock, Nocturne, 6 Gun Law), dies at 71 |
| 1985 | Bill Scott, cartoon voice (Mr Peabody, Bullwinkle), dies at 65 |
| 1984 | Alexander Moyzes, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1983 | Marcel Dalio, actor (Casablanca), dies at 83 |
| 1983 | Richard Loo, actor, (China Sky), dies of cardio-pulmonary arrest |
| 1977 | Maxie Wander, writer, dies |
| 1976 | Trofim Lysenko, Russian Celebrity |
| 1975 | Francisco Franco, y Bahamonde, Span dictator (1936-75), dies at 82 |
| 1973 | Allan Sherman, parodist (Camp Granada, Harvey and Sheila), dies at 48 |
| 1968 | Cathy Lewis, actress (Deidre-Hazel), dies of cancer at 50 |
| 1968 | Helen Gardner, silent film actress (Sandra), dies |
| 1965 | Gabriella VM Elisabeth, queen of the Belgians, dies at 89 |
| 1965 | Katharine Anthony, American Writer |
| 1964 | John Tasker Howard, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1962 | Jasper McLevy, socialist mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, dies |
| 1960 | Jacob Cohen, Hebrew poet and writer, dies |
| 1952 | Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher (La Critica), dies at 86 |
| 1950 | Francesco Cilea, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1947 | Wolfgang Borchert, German author (Draussen vor of the Tur), dies at 26 |
| 1945 | Francis William Aston, British Scientist |
| 1944 | Sekio Nishina, Japanese inventor (kaiten-suicide submarine), dies |
| 1939 | Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1936 | Jose A Primo de Rivera y Saenz de Heredia, Spanish Falange, executed |
| 1933 | Augustine Birrell, English Author |
| 1927 | Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1925 | Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain, dies at 80 |
| 1910 | Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (Anna Karenina), dies at 82 |
| 1900 | Peter S Koyer, Danish painter/sculptor/graphic artist, dies at 49 |
| 1899 | Carl A E Ahlqvist, A Oksanen, Finnish translator, dies at 63 |
| 1898 | John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway), dies |
| 1894 | Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer (Dmitri Donskoi), dies at 64 |
| 1887 | Louis Gallait, Belgian painter (Egmont and Receiver), dies at 77 |
| 1882 | Bela Albrecht Pal Keler, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1863 | James Bruce, Count of Elgin and Kincardine, governor Jamaica, dies at 52 |
| 1856 | Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 81 |
| 1851 | Wenzel Sedlak, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1827 | Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1774 | Abraham Tucker, British Philosopher |
| 1764 | Christian Goldbach, German mathematician, dies |
| 1758 | Johan Helmich Roman, Finnish composer/violist, dies at 64 |
| 1750 | Wilhelmus Schortinghuis, theologist (Christian religion), dies at 50 |
| 1741 | Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat/clergyman, dies |
| 1737 | Caroline of Ansbach, queen of Great Britain, dies |
| 1713 | Thomas Tompion, English clock maker (cylinder tunnel), dies |
| 1678 | Charles Dujardin, painter/etcher (Learned Dog), dies at about 56 |
| 1675 | Francisco de Moura y Cortereal, Span land guardian of Netherlands (1664-68) |
| 1669 | Arnold Geulincx, South Netherlands philosopher (Cholera), dies at 45 |
| 1527 | Wendelmoet "Weyntjen" Claesdochter, 1st Dutch woman burned as heretic |
| 1518 | Pierre de la Rue/Peter van Straten, Flemish composer, dies |
| 1480 | Eleonora van Austrian, translator, dies |
| 1347 | Stefano Colonna, Roman senator, dies in battle |
| 967 | Aboe al-Faradj al-Isfahani, Arabic author (Book of liederen), dies |
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