| 2004 | Pierre Berton, journalist/historian, Klondike Fever, dies at 84 |
| 2003 | Gertrude Ederle, swimming celebrity/teacher, first woman, and fifth person, to swim the English Channel, dies at 97 |
| 2003 | Abel Ehrlich, composer, won the Israel Prize for Music and the Prime Minister's Prize for Israeli Composers |
| 2000 | Chris Rebello, high school football coach/child actor, Jaws, dies at 37 |
| 1998 | Margaret Walker, American Poet |
| 1997 | Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian, dies at 37 |
| 1997 | Ron Gulliford, educationalist, dies at 76 |
| 1997 | Kathy Acker, writer, Bodies of Work: Essays, dies at 54 |
| 1996 | Dan Flavin, minimalist sculptor, dies at 63 |
| 1996 | Koji Kobayashi, industrialist, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Paul Derrick, co-operator/Christian socialist, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Tiny Tim, Herbert Khaury, entertainer 'Tip Toe', dies at 71 |
| 1995 | Hopper Levett, Kent cricket wicketkeeper (1930-47, Test 1934), dies |
| 1995 | June Rosemary Fisher, teacher/trade unionist, dies at 66 |
| 1995 | William Roerick, actor (Guiding Light), dies in car crash at 83 |
| 1994 | Connie Conrad Henry Kirnon Kay, jazz Drummer, dies at 67 |
| 1994 | Guy Debord, born in Paris, France, filmmaker, hypergraphist, theorist, founding member of Lettrist International, Situationist International, dies at 63 |
| 1994 | Irwin Kostal, U.S. arranger/conductor (Sound of Music), dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Lionel Stander, U.S. blacklisted actor (Hart to Hart), dies at 86 |
| 1993 | Bob Wolf, agent (New Kids on the Block, Larry Bird), dies |
| 1992 | Jorge Donn, dancer, dies after long illness at 45 |
| 1990 | Horst Bienek, German author, dies |
| 1990 | Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review), dies at 75 |
| 1989 | Alfred Herrhausen, German CEO (Deutsche Bank), murdered at 59 |
| 1987 | Arthur H Dean, lawyer/advisor to FDR, dies at 89 |
| 1987 | James Baldwin, writer (Go Tell it on the Mountain), dies at 63 |
| 1987 | Simon Carmiggelt, journalist/literary (Kronkel), dies at 74 |
| 1983 | George Headley, cricket (10 tons in 22 Tests, 1st black WI captain), dies |
| 1981 | Robert H Harris, actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 72 |
| 1979 | Joyce Grenfell (Adventure for Two), actress, dies at 69 |
| 1979 | Zeppo Marx, Herbert, U.S. comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 78 |
| 1976 | Fritz Rasp, actor (Diary of a Lost Girl), dies at 85 |
| 1973 | Bruce Yarnell, Los Angeles California, actor (Outlaws), dies at 35 |
| 1972 | Hans-Erich Apostel, Austrian composer (Kubiniana, Requiem), dies at 71 |
| 1972 | Neil H McElroy, soap manufacturer/minister of Defense (1957-59), dies |
| 1972 | Valentin Ruiz Azner, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1967 | Patrick Kavanagh, Irish screenwriterr (Great Hunger), dies |
| 1964 | Don Redman, orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64 |
| 1961 | Stanislaw Kazuro, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1955 | Josip Slavenski, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1954 | Wilhelm Furtwangler, German conductor/composer, dies at 68 |
| 1953 | Francis Picabia, French Artist |
| 1948 | Franco Vittadini, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1947 | Earnest Lubitsch, actor and director (Anna Boleyn, Ninotchka), dies |
| 1944 | Max Halbe, born in Guttland, now Kozliny, Germany, writer, dramatist, Naturalist movement literary style, works include 'Jugend', dies in Neuotting, Bavaria, at age 79 |
| 1940 | Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer, dies at 78 |
| 1939 | Bela Kun, Balazs Kolozsvary, Hungarian revolutionary, dies at 53 |
| 1938 | Corneliu Codreanu, Romania fascist/putschist (Iron Guard), dies |
| 1935 | Fernando A N Pessoa, Portuguese poet (Book of Disquiet), dies at 47 |
| 1935 | Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Author |
| 1931 | John Hyatt Brewer, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1931 | Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas, composer, dies at 46 |
| 1930 | Mother Jones, American Activist |
| 1909 | Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/translator, dies at 53 |
| 1904 | Aldine Sillman Kieffer, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1901 | Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica), dies at 86 |
| 1900 | Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46 |
| 1897 | Abraham C Wertheim, Dutch banker/MP (Lib), dies at 64 |
| 1894 | Joseph E. Brown, American Politician |
| 1893 | Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian, dies at 68 |
| 1864 | Hiram Bronson Granbury, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 33 |
| 1864 | Otto French Strahl, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 33 |
| 1864 | Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 33 |
| 1846 | Friedrich List, German Economist |
| 1841 | Charles Louis W J van Keverberg, Dutch government official, dies at 73 |
| 1830 | Pius VIII, Francesco S Castiglioni, Italian Pope 1829 - 1830, dies at 69 |
| 1824 | Johann Georg Christoph Schetky, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1813 | Friedrich August Baumbach, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1798 | Friedrich Fleischmann, composer, dies at 32 |
| 1792 | Ernst William Wolf, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1777 | Jean-Marie Leclair, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1764 | Dieudonne Raick, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1760 | Friederike C Neuber, German actress/author (Schaferfest), dies at 63 |
| 1718 | Charles XII, king of Sweden (1697-1718), killed in battle at 36 |
| 1703 | Nicolas de Grigny, composer, dies at 31 |
| 1700 | Artus II Quellinus [Quellien/"the Young], Flemish sculptor, dies at 75 |
| 1694 | Marcello Malpighi, father of microscopic anatomy, dies |
| 1679 | Pieter van Schooten, Dutch mathematician/fort architect, dies at 45 |
| 1678 | Andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71), dies at 67 |
| 1654 | John Selden, English Statesman |
| 1646 | John C Lichthart, Admiral (Cape Augustine), dies at about 45 |
| 1631 | Rabbi Samuel Eliezer ben Judah ha-levi Edels, dies |
| 1528 | Great Wierd, Dutch Gelderland army commander, beheaded |
| 1519 | Michael Wolgemut, German painter (Weltchronik), dies at about 85 |
| 1016 | Edmund II, Ironsides, King of Saxons (1016), dies at 27 |
