| 1999 | Quentin Crisp, "writer, life-stylist", The Naked Civil Servant, dies at 89 |
| 1997 | Ismail Fahmi, external minister of Egypt in (1973-77), dies |
| 1996 | Bernard William George Rose, organist, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Edward George Edwards, chenist, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Virginia Downing, actress (Gig, Butterfield 8), dies at 92 |
| 1995 | Dorothy Jeakins, costume designer, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | George Ivan Smith, diplomat, dies at 80 |
| 1995 | Peter Grant, rock band manager, dies at 60 |
| 1995 | Smilin' Jim Eames, singer/songwriter, dies at 71 |
| 1994 | Manfred Longer, Austrian/Dutch gay disco owner, dies at 42 |
| 1993 | Bill Bixby, actor (My Favorite Martian), dies of prostate cancer at 59 |
| 1993 | Christopher Frank, director/actor (Annee Des Meduses), dies at 50 |
| 1993 | Emile Ardolino, director (Sister Act), dies of AIDS at 50 |
| 1993 | Jim McLaughlin, Buffalo radio newsman (WKBW), dies at 59 |
| 1993 | Bruno Rossi, Italian Scientist |
| 1992 | Kaysone Phomvihane, Prime Minister of Laos 1975 - 1991, dies |
| 1992 | Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flautist, dies |
| 1991 | Daniel Mann, U.S. director (Rose tattoo), dies of heart failure at 79 |
| 1991 | David "Sonny" Werblin, AFL owner for the New York Jets, dies at 81 |
| 1991 | Prior Jones, West Indian cricket pace bowler (9 Tests 1948-52), dies |
| 1991 | Sonny Werblin, New York sports impresario, dies at 81 |
| 1988 | Carl Hubbell, pitcher for the New York Giants-253 wins, 2.97 lifetime ERA, dies in an auto accident |
| 1987 | James E Folsom, (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59), dies at 79 |
| 1986 | Jerry Colonna, actor (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 82 |
| 1982 | Lee Patrick, actress (Henrietta-Topper, Maltese Falcon), dies at 75 |
| 1981 | Harry Von Zell, TV announcer (Burns and Allen), dies at 75 |
| 1980 | Jim Parks Sr, Kent cricket all-rounder (only Test for England), dies |
| 1976 | Niles Welch, actor (Cornered), dies at 88 |
| 1975 | G Gunnarsson, writer, dies at 86 |
| 1974 | Frank Martin, Swiss composer (In Terra Fax), dies at 84 |
| 1972 | Karel Haba, Czechoslovakian violinist and composer, dies at 74 |
| 1967 | Florence Reed, actress (Black Panther Club), dies after illness at 84 |
| 1963 | Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (Perfil del Aire), dies at 61 |
| 1963 | Pierre Blanchar, actor (Man From Nowhere), dies at 71 |
| 1963 | Robert Stroud, "bird man of Alcatraz", dies |
| 1959 | Max Baer, U.S., heavyweight boxing champ (1934), dies at 49 |
| 1958 | Mel Ott, New York Giant baseball star (1926-1947), dies at 49 |
| 1954 | Karol Rathaus, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1954 | Professor Werner Elert, German Lutheran theologist, dies at 69 |
| 1952 | Henriette Roland Holst-de Schalk, marxist author, dies at 82 |
| 1952 | William Green, union chairman AFL 1924 - 1952, dies at 79 |
| 1948 | Bokke RS Pollema journalist/author (Lock of hair and loen), dies at 65 |
| 1945 | Robert Benchley, U.S. humorist (My 10 years in a quandary), dies at 56 |
| 1945 | Ellen Glasgow, American Novelist |
| 1942 | James Barry M Hertzog, South African premier (1914-39), dies at 76 |
| 1941 | Juanita Spellini, first women executed in California |
| 1938 | Leopold Godowsky, pianist/composer, dies at 68 |
| 1932 | Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument Argentina), dies |
| 1928 | Hermann Sudermann, German author (Frau Sorge), dies |
| 1926 | Joseph McKenna, American Politician |
| 1924 | Florence Harding, American First Lady |
| 1922 | Ricardo Flores Magon, Mexican Journalist |
| 1920 | Caryl Florio, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1920 | William James Robjohn, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1916 | Franz Jozef I, King of Austria/Hungary, dies |
| 1916 | Franz Joseph, Austrian Statesman |
| 1907 | Gaetano Braga, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1907 | Harry Boyle, round-arm cricket bowler (12 of Australia's early Tests), dies |
| 1899 | Garret Augustus Hobart, 24th Vice President, dies |
| 1882 | Sergei G Netsjajev, Russian nihilist, dies at 35 |
| 1875 | Friedrich A Lange, philosopher/socialist (Neo-Kantianism), dies at 67 |
| 1870 | Karel J Erben, Czechoslovakian poet (Ruiker), dies at 69 |
| 1863 | Joseph Mayseder, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1837 | Thomas Babington, British Poet |
| 1830 | Karoly Kisfaludy, Hungarian literary (Irene, Mohacs), dies at 44 |
| 1817 | Richard B Garnett, killed during Pickett's Charge, Brigadier General |
| 1813 | William Russell, composer, dies at 36 |
| 1811 | Heinrich W von Kleist, German playwright, dies at 34 |
| 1728 | Fjodor M graaf Apraksin, Russian General-Admiral, dies at about 57 |
| 1710 | Barnardo Pasquini, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1695 | Henry Purcell, English composer (Indian Queen), dies at 36 |
| 1624 | Jakob Bohme, German philosophical mystic, dies (birth date unknown) |
| 1610 | Benedict van Canfield, William Fish, English missionary, dies |
| 1580 | Willem Van Hoorn, baron of Heze, governor of Brussels, executed |
| 1555 | Georg Agricola, Bauer, German mineralogist (zinc), dies at 61 |
| 1481 | Ikkyu Sojun, Zen head of Daitokuji temple, dies in Kyoto, Japan at 87 |
