| 2007 | Henry Hyde, Representative-R-Illinois 1975 - 2007, died from complications from surgery |
| 2001 | George Harrison, musician, The Beatles, dies at 58 |
| 1999 | Gene Rayburn, game show host, Match Game, dies at 81 |
| 1997 | Coleman Young, 1st black mayor of a major city (Detroit) |
| 1995 | Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Ighodaro, doctor/social reformer, dies at 79 |
| 1994 | Muhammad Ali Araki, ayatollah of Iran, dies |
| 1994 | Ronald "Buster" Edwards, robber, dies at 63 |
| 1994 | Sviatoslav S Stravinsky, French/U.S. composer/son of Igor Stravinsky, dies at 84 |
| 1993 | JRD Tata, Indies industrialist (Air-India), dies at 89 |
| 1992 | Cary Scott Lowenstein, dancer/singer, dies of AIDS at 30 |
| 1992 | Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy), dies at 78 |
| 1992 | Robert F Simon, U.S. actor (Operation Petticoat, M*A*S*H), dies at 83 |
| 1992 | Robert Shayne, U.S. actor (Tora! Tora! Tora!), dies of cancer at 92 |
| 1991 | Frank Yerby, U.S. writer (Health Card, The Dahomean), dies at 75 |
| 1991 | Ralph Bellamy, actor (Rosemary's Baby, His Girl Friday), dies at 87 |
| 1989 | Ann Burton, Anna Rafalowicz, singer, dies at 56 |
| 1989 | George Oswald Browning "Gubby" Allen, cricketer, dies |
| 1987 | Howard Pyle, (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55), dies at 81 |
| 1987 | Irene Handl, actress (Riding High, Morgan), dies at 85 |
| 1986 | Cary Grant, actor, 'Charade', 'Awful Truth', dies in Davenport, Iowa at 82 |
| 1986 | Herb Vigran, actor (Vampire, Mark of Vampire), dies |
| 1985 | Rik Jacobs, Flemish stage manager, dies at 71 |
| 1981 | Natalie Wood, actress (West Side Story), drowns at 43 (suicide) |
| 1980 | Dorothy Day, author (Stump the Authors), dies at 83 |
| 1978 | Alan Richardson, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1977 | George Hamilton Combs, TV host (Through the Curtain), dies at 78 |
| 1976 | Godfrey Cambridge, actor (Watermelon Man), dies at 43 |
| 1976 | Judith Lowry, actress (Effect of Gamma Rays ...), dies at 86 |
| 1974 | Haroldson L Hunt, U.S. multi-millionaire, dies at 85 |
| 1974 | Ouida Bergere, scriptwriter, dies at 88 |
| 1971 | Heinz Tiessen, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1970 | Robert Ruthenfranz, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1967 | Theo Marcuse, actor (Mara of Wilderness), dies in auto accident at 47 |
| 1964 | Anne de Vries, Dutch teacher/author (Bartje), dies at 60 |
| 1963 | Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban composer (Malaguena), dies at 67 |
| 1962 | Rav Aaron Kotler, Orthodox Talmudic scholar, dies in Lakewood NJ |
| 1959 | Fritz Brun, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1959 | Hans Henny Jahnn, writer, dies at 64 |
| 1957 | Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austria/US composer (Kathrin), dies at 60 |
| 1954 | Enrico Fermi, Italian/US nuclear physicist, dies |
| 1954 | George Edward Robey, English comic/actor (Henry IV), dies at 85 |
| 1952 | Rosa Lewis, English chef/owner (Cavendish Hotel London), dies |
| 1952 | Vladimir N Ipatiev, Russian/U.S. chemist, dies at 85 |
| 1939 | Philipp Scheidemann, German MP (SPD)/mayor of Kassel, dies at 74 |
| 1925 | Karl Flodin, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1924 | Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer, 'Madama Butterfly', dies in Brussels at 65 |
| 1921 | Ivan Caryll, composer (Pink Lady), dies at 60 |
| 1921 | George Stephen, Canadian Businessman |
| 1918 | Harald Kidde, Danish writer (Helten), dies at 40 |
| 1895 | Eduard count von Taaffe, Austria premier (1868..93), dies at 62 |
| 1875 | Thomas Hewitt Key, English Writer |
| 1872 | Cornelius Kreighoff, Canadian, dies |
| 1872 | Giovanni Tadolini, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1872 | Horace Greeley, U.S. founder/publisher (New York Tribune), dies at 61 |
| 1865 | Herman van Sonsbeeck, Dutch lawyer/statesman, dies at 69 |
| 1864 | One-Eye, Cheyenne-chief, dies |
| 1843 | Marco Santucci, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1825 | William Hull, American Soldier |
| 1813 | Giambattista Bodoni, Italian stamp cutter/publisher (bodoni), dies at 73 |
| 1780 | Maria Theresia Hapsburg, Queen of Austria, dies at 63 |
| 1775 | Lorenzo Somis, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1682 | Rupert, prince of Palts/Admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician, dies at 62 |
| 1643 | Claudio Giovanni Monteverdi, Italian composer (L'arianna), dies at 76 |
| 1643 | William Cartwright, English Dramatist |
| 1632 | Frederick V, king of Bohemia (White Mountain), dies at 36 |
| 1530 | Lord Chancellor, (1514-29), dies at about 56 |
| 1530 | Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal/adviser to England's King Henry VIII, dies |
| 1378 | Charles IV, Roman-German King/German emperor (University of Prague), dies |
| 1314 | Philippe IV, the Handsome, King of France (1285-1314), dies |
| 1268 | Clement IV, Guido Fulcodi, Pope (1265-68), dies |
| 917 | Radboud, bishop of Utrecht/Deventer (900-17)/saint, dies |
| 561 | Chlotarius I, king of the France (558-61), dies at about 61 |
