| 2000 | Sir Malcolm Bradbury, writer/teacher, dies at 68 |
| 1999 | Elizabeth Gray Vining, American Writer |
| 1997 | Henry Charnock, oceanographer, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | George Ernest Leslie, trade union official, dies at 76 |
| 1995 | Giancarlo Baghetti, racing driver/journalist, dies at 60 |
| 1995 | Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker, dies at 75 |
| 1995 | Simon Bailey, Reverend Simon Bailey, priest, Anglican, Labor Party member, socialist historian associates include Dorothy Thompson, J.B. Priestly, E.P Thompson, died while distributing leaflets for the Labor Party |
| 1994 | Arthur Frank "Peter" Shore, egyptologist, dies at 70 |
| 1993 | Jerry Hunt, composer, used live electronics to create new works, employed ritualistic performance techniques, dies in Canton, Texas, of suicide |
| 1990 | David White, actor (Larry Tate-Bewitched), dies at 74 |
| 1988 | Angela Aames, actress (Lost Empire, Basic Training), dies |
| 1988 | John Carradine, actor (Ten Commandments), dies of kidney failure at 82 |
| 1988 | [John] Hein Donner, chess grand master, dies at 61 |
| 1985 | Fernand Braudel, French Historian |
| 1984 | Percy Norris, deputy high commissioner of India, shot dead |
| 1983 | Manuel Scorza, Peruvian writer, dies at about 55 |
| 1982 | Philipp Kutev, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1981 | Lotte Lenya, singer and actress (From Russia With Love), dies in New York at 83 |
| 1981 | Max [Machgielis] Euwe, chess champ (1935-37), dies |
| 1979 | Jerome Cavanagh, American Politician |
| 1978 | George Moscone, (SF Mayor), shot by Dan White |
| 1978 | Harvey Milk, (SF City Supervisor), shot by Dan White |
| 1975 | Ross McWhirter, Guinness Book of Records keeper, murdered |
| 1974 | Louis B Russell, Jr., longest living heart transplant, dies at 49 |
| 1972 | Mahalia Jackson, vocalist (Got Whole World in His Hands), dies at 61 |
| 1971 | Jakabs Medins, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1971 | Korneel Goossens, Flemish literary/art historian, dies at 70 |
| 1968 | Gino Roncaglia, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1968 | Hans Redlich, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1967 | Cameron Prud'Homme, actor (Rainmaker), dies after long illness at 75 |
| 1967 | Ettore Panizza, composer, dies at 92 |
| 1965 | Carl Parrish, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1965 | Harry Harvey Sr, actor (It's a Man's World), dies at 64 |
| 1960 | Dirk J de Geer, Dutch premier (1926-29, 39-40), dies at 89 |
| 1959 | Gerard Philipe, actor/dir (La Ronde, Gambler), dies of cancer at 36 |
| 1958 | Artur Rodzinski, Polish conductor/composer, dies at 66 |
| 1957 | Margot SE Scharten-Antink, author (Catherina/Sprotje), dies at 88 |
| 1955 | Arthur Oscar Honegger, Swiss composer (Cantate Noel), dies at 63 |
| 1955 | Luis de Freitas Branco, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1955 | William Nigh, director (Ape, Doomed to Die, Mr. Wong), dies at 74 |
| 1955 | Arthur Honegger, Swiss Composer |
| 1953 | Eugene O'Neill, playwright (Nobel 1936), dies in Boston at 65 |
| 1936 | Edward Bach, English Scientist |
| 1934 | "Baby Face" Nelson, Lester Gillis, gangster, shot by FBI at 26 |
| 1934 | Herman Hollis, FBI agent, killed by Baby Face Nelson |
| 1934 | Sam Cowley, FBI agent, killed by Baby Face Nelson |
| 1930 | J T Tyldesley, cricket (1661 runs in 31 Tests for England 1898-1909), dies |
| 1925 | Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor/painter, dies |
| 1916 | James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1915 | Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1899 | Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1895 | A Dumas D J, writer, dies at 71 |
| 1890 | Emmanuele Muzio, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1884 | Franziska "Fanny" Elssler, Austrian ballerina/choreography, dies at 74 |
| 1868 | Black Kettle, Motavato, Cheyenne chief, dies |
| 1862 | Alexander Early Stone, Confederate, dies in battle |
| 1836 | Carle [Antoine CH] Vernet, French painter/lithographer, dies |
| 1749 | Balthasar Schmid, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1749 | Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1687 | Renatus Rapinus, Rene Rapin, French poet (Jansenisme), dies |
| 1680 | Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (lantern), dies |
| 1673 | Anthonie Palamedesz, painter, dies at about 72 |
| 1632 | John Eliot, English parliament leader/author (In Jail), dies at 40 |
| 1474 | Guillaume Dufay, French/Flemish composer, dies at about 74 |
| 1382 | Philip Van Artevelde, Flemish commander-in-chief, dies in battle at 42 |
| 1026 | Adalbert II, bishop of Utrecht (1010-26), dies |
| 640 | Acharius, bishop of Noyon/saint, dies |
| 511 | Clovis, 1st King of France, dies at about 45 |
| 450 | Galla Placidia, daughter of Byzant emperor Constantius III, dies at 58 |
