| 2004 | Philippe de Broca, director, King of Hearts, dies at 69 |
| 1999 | Ashley Montagu, anthropologist, The Natural Superiority of Women, dies at 94 |
| 1999 | Ashley Montague, English Scientist |
| 1997 | Francis Paudras, designer/jazz fan, dies at 62 |
| 1996 | Euphemia MacDonald May Moxon, dance producer, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Joan Hammond, singer, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Michael Bentine, British author/comedian (Reluctant Jester), dies at 74 |
| 1996 | Paul Rand, graphic designer, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher, dies at 106 |
| 1995 | David Briggs, record producer, dies at 51 |
| 1995 | Max Fernandez, businessman/politician, dies at 52 |
| 1995 | Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner, dies at 79 |
| 1995 | Terri Jewell, writer, dies at 40 |
| 1994 | Arturo Rivera Damas, archbishop of El Salvador (1980-94), dies at 71 |
| 1994 | David Bache, son of footballer Joe Bache, car designer, worked with Rover, dies at 69 |
| 1994 | Nimrod Workman, folksinger, dies at 99 |
| 1993 | Imad Aqal, Palestinian Izz-Danish al-Qassem-leader, shot to death |
| 1993 | Mart Kempers, sculptor, dies at 69 |
| 1992 | Stephen Burks, actor (Kiss of a Killer), dies at 36 |
| 1991 | Bob Johnson, U.S. hockey coach (Pittsburgh Penguins), dies at 60 |
| 1991 | Dehl Berti, actor (Bullies), dies of heart attack at 70 |
| 1991 | Francois Billetdoux, French author (Word Awake), dies in Philadelphia |
| 1990 | David White, actor (Bewitched), dies of heart attack at 74 |
| 1989 | Ahmed Abdallah, president of Comores, dies |
| 1987 | Emmanuel Bondeville, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1987 | Thomas G Lanphier, Jr., U.S. WW II pilot, dies at 71 |
| 1986 | Betico Croes, Arubian politician, dies in an accident at 48 |
| 1986 | Scatman Crothers, singer and actor (Shining, Chico and The Man), dies at 76 |
| 1985 | Ransom Sherman, comedian (Father of Bride), dies at 87 |
| 1982 | Dan Tobin, actor (I Married Joan, My Favorite Martian), dies at 73 |
| 1982 | Juhan Aavic, composer, dies at 98 |
| 1982 | Robert Coote, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe), dies at 73 |
| 1981 | Machgielis "Max" Euwe, world chess champion (1935-37), dies at 80 |
| 1981 | Max Euwe, Dutch |
| 1980 | Rachael Roberts, actress (This Sporting Life), dies at age 53 |
| 1974 | Cyril Connolly, English Journalist |
| 1973 | Albert DiSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed in prison |
| 1973 | John Rostill, born in Kings Norton, England, composer, bass guitarist, member, The Shadows, The Internst, rock and roll, pop genres, dies at 31 in Radlett, Hertfordshire |
| 1971 | Joe Adonis, U.S. crime-syndicate boss in New York and NJ, dies at 68 |
| 1970 | B O Davis Sr, 1st black general, dies at 93 in Chicago |
| 1968 | Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Junge frau 1914), dies at 81 |
| 1966 | Harold Burrage, U.S. singer/pianist (Got to Find a Way), dies at 35 |
| 1966 | Siegfried Kracauer, writer, dies at 77 |
| 1965 | Wild Bill Elliott, cowboy actor (49'ers), dies of cancer at 60 |
| 1963 | Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano, dies |
| 1962 | Albert P Sarraut, Indo-China premier (1933, 36), dies at 90 |
| 1961 | Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1959 | Albert William Ketelby, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1957 | Aleksei M Remizov, Russian author (Iveren), dies |
| 1957 | Billy Bevan, actor (White Sin), dies at 70 |
| 1956 | Tommy Dorsey, big bandleader, dies at 51 |
| 1950 | Hedwig Courts-Mahler, German author, dies at 83 |
| 1943 | Edward H "Butch" O'hare, U.S. pilot/lt-comdr, dies in battle |
| 1939 | James Naismith, Basketball inventor, dies |
| 1938 | Henry Schultz, U.S. farm commune, dies |
| 1933 | Edward Julius Biedermann, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1929 | Michele Esposito, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1928 | Reinhard Scheer, German Admiral (WW I), dies at 65 |
| 1927 | Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch performer (governess), assassinated at 47 |
| 1926 | John M Brown, U.S. weapons constructer, dies |
| 1925 | Johannes Haarklou, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1923 | Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer, dies at 60 |
| 1885 | Thomas Andrews, Irish physicist/chemist (ozone), dies at 71 |
| 1883 | Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/women's rights advocate, dies at 96 |
| 1882 | Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier of Prussia, dies |
| 1880 | Guilherme Antonio Cossoul, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1866 | Adrien Francois Servais, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1866 | Carl Jonas Love Almquist, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1857 | Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (That Freier), dies at 69 |
| 1855 | Adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion), dies at 56 |
| 1854 | Matthijs Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling), dies |
| 1822 | Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1821 | Friedrich Heine, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1810 | Nicolas Etienne Framery, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1809 | Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1778 | Jean-Noel Hamal, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1776 | Dov Baer of Mezhirech, hassidic rabbi, dies |
| 1688 | Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant Indiscreet), dies at 53 |
| 1661 | Don Luis Mendez de Haro, premier of Spain (1643-61), dies at about 63 |
| 1653 | Maximilian Teellinck, vicar, dies at about 51 |
| 1651 | Henry Ireton, English gen/parliament leader (Marston Moor), dies at 40 |
| 1504 | Isabella I, Catholic Queen of Castille and Aragon (1474-04), dies at 53 |
| 1267 | Gozzolini Silvester, Italian hermit/saint, dies |
| 1240 | Edmund Van Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury/saint, dies |
| 1126 | Al-Borsoki, emir of Aleppo-Mosoel, assassinated |
| 399 | Siricius, Italian Pope (384-99), dies |
