| 2004 | Arthur Hailey, writer, Airport, dies at 84 |
| 2004 | Larry Brown, writer, Big Bad Love, dies at 53 |
| 2003 | Warren Spahn, American Baseball pitcher, dies at home |
| 2002 | John Rawls, American Educator |
| 2001 | Rachel Gurney, actress, ", Upstairs, Downstairs, ", dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Edison Vasalievich Denisov, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1996 | Michael James O'Hehir, commentator/journalist, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Sorley MacLean Somhairle MacChaluim, poet, dies at 85 |
| 1995 | Jeffrey Lynn, actor (Tony Rome, Butterfield 8, Up Front), dies at 89 |
| 1995 | Stuart Henry, disc jockey, dies at 53 |
| 1995 | Woiciech Woytek Wiesidlowski Lowski, dancer, dies at 56 |
| 1994 | Ivo Perilli, Italian screenplay/director (Ragazzo), dies at 92 |
| 1994 | Jo Vis, Dutch resistance fighter (Yad Vashem), dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Tommy Boyce, songwriter (Boyce and Hart), dies at 55 |
| 1993 | Germaine Emilie Madame Gres Krebs, haute Couturist, dies at 89 |
| 1993 | Imad Aqal, Palestinian Hamas leader, dies at 24 |
| 1993 | Jan Schrauwen, Dutch sculptor, dies at 36 |
| 1993 | Wu Yi Shen, mayor of Shen Yang China, dies in helicopter |
| 1992 | Henri J de Koster, Dutch Minister of Defense (1971-73), dies at 78 |
| 1992 | Mary Smithuysen, Dutch dancer/actress (Bridge Too Far), dies |
| 1992 | Theo Edison, son of Thomas Edison, dies at 94 |
| 1991 | Anton Furst, production designer (Batman), dies at 47 |
| 1991 | Eric Carr, born Paul Charles Caravello, drummer, member of rock band Kiss, dies of heart cancer at age 41 in New York |
| 1991 | Freddie Mercury, British singer (Queen), dies of AIDS at 45 |
| 1990 | Bulent Arel, composer, electronic music, contemporary classical music, dies at 72 |
| 1990 | Nistani Keiji, philosopher, dies in Kyoto Japan |
| 1990 | Fred Shero, Canadian Athlete |
| 1989 | Guus Weitzel, Dutch radio host, dies at 85 |
| 1985 | Cees Buddingh', Dutch poet/writer/interpreter/translator, dies at 67 |
| 1980 | George Raft, actor (Scarface, Johnny Angel, Mr. Ace), dies at 85 |
| 1978 | Warren Weaver, American Scientist |
| 1977 | Richard Carlson, actor and director (Little Foxes, Hunted), dies at 65 |
| 1972 | Hall Overton, U.S. composer (Enchanted Pear Tree), dies at 52 |
| 1970 | Evgeny Karlovich Tikotsky, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1967 | Arnold J d'ailly, mayor of Amsterdam (1946-56), dies at 65 |
| 1964 | John Fabricius, playwright, dies at 55 |
| 1963 | Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy's assassinator, shot dead by Jack Ruby |
| 1962 | James J Kilroy, tank inspector (Kilroy was here), dies at 60 |
| 1961 | Ruth Chatterton, actress (Female, Dodsworth), dies after illness at 67 |
| 1960 | Salomon "Sam" de Wolff, zionist/socialist theorist, dies at 82 |
| 1959 | Lyman Bryson, educator (U.N. Casebook), dies at 71 |
| 1959 | Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainen writer (Commissioners), dies at 60 |
| 1958 | Edgar A Robert Cecil viscount of Chelwood, (Nobel 1937), dies at 94 |
| 1957 | Norma Talmadge, U.S. actress (Within the Law), dies |
| 1953 | George Alexander Russell, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1953 | Robert H Lightfoot, English theologist/exegetist, dies at 70 |
| 1948 | Raoul Armand Georg Koczalski, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1946 | Alfonso Broqua, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1944 | EMHCH Houtappel, resistance fighter: in Neuengamme, dies |
| 1944 | Vaclav Stepan, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1943 | Martin Raschke, German author/war correspondent, dies at 38 |
| 1943 | Reina Prince Geerligs, Leentjes Vandendriesch, anti-fascist, dies |
| 1929 | Georges Clemenceau, French journalist/premier (1917-20), dies at 88 |
| 1923 | Michel de Klerk, architect (Amsterdam School), dies at 39 |
| 1916 | John Francis Barnett, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1914 | Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/Flemish People Party, dies |
| 1903 | Charles Dupee Blake, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1899 | Abdullah ibn Mohammed al-Ta'a'ishi, mahdi of Sudan (1883-99), dies |
| 1885 | Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1875-85), dies at 27 |
| 1880 | Hanri Reber, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1863 | Claudius Charles Wilson, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 32 |
| 1848 | William Lamb 2nd viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister (1834..41), dies at 69 |
| 1848 | William Lamb Melbourne, British Politician |
| 1842 | Pehr Frigel, composer, dies at 92 |
| 1840 | Cornelis RT Krayenhoff, fortress architect/cartographer, dies at 82 |
| 1838 | Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1827 | Harman W. Muntinghe, lawyer/colonial director, dies at 54 |
| 1822 | Karl Jacob Wagner, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1722 | Johann Adam Reincken, German organist/composer, dies at 99 |
| 1674 | Franciscus van Enden, Flemish jesuit/free thinker, executed at 72 |
| 1650 | Manuel Cardoso, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1615 | Sethus Calvisius, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1572 | John Knox, Scottish preacher, dies at about 67 |
| 1571 | Jan Blahoslav, Czechoslovakian bishop, dies at 48 |
| 1555 | French Vervoort, Flemish mystic (Bruylocht Cleedt), dies at about 65 |
| 1192 | Albert I van Leuven/Luik, Belgian bishop of Luik/saint, dies at 27 |
| 1115 | Mathilde, markgravin of Toscane, dies |
BrainyHistory
