| 2001 | Edward Boland, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1953 - 1989, died at the age of 90 from natural causes |
| 1999 | Daisy Bates, civil rights leader, dies at 84 |
| 1997 | George Chambers, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago 1981 - 1986, dies |
| 1997 | H Richard Hornberger, surgeon (inspired M*A*S*H), dies at 73 |
| 1997 | Wally Bruner, journalist (ABC, What's My Line), dies at 66 |
| 1996 | Robert Rapoport, social anthropologist, dies at 72 |
| 1995 | Gilles Deleuze, philosopher, dies at 70 |
| 1995 | Jerome Berger, lawyer/Film producer, dies at 64 |
| 1995 | Marti Lynne Stringer Caine, singer/comedienne, dies at 50 |
| 1995 | Paul Eddington, actor (Jim Hacker), dies at 68 |
| 1995 | Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, assassinated at 73 |
| 1995 | Morrie Schwartz, American Educator |
| 1994 | Alexander Hardie Williamson, artist, dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitarist, dies at 46 |
| 1994 | Jan Wegter, actor (Pastorale 1943), dies at 64 |
| 1994 | Sam Francis, U.S. painter (Basel Mural), dies at about 71 |
| 1994 | Samuel Lewis Francis, painter, dies at 71 |
| 1993 | Basuki Abdullah, Indonesian painter, murdered at 78 |
| 1993 | Cliff Young, pitcher (Cleveland Indians), dies in car accident at 29 |
| 1993 | Cornelis T "Cor" van de Molen, Dutch journalist (Beehive), dies at 62 |
| 1993 | Ely A Landau, producer (Long Day's Journey), dies of stroke at 73 |
| 1993 | Jose L Guarner, Spanish movie reviewer, dies at 56 |
| 1992 | Regina Carrol, actress (Jessi's Girl), dies of cancer at 49 |
| 1987 | Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression scenes in New York City), dies at 87 |
| 1984 | Merie Earle, actress (Maude-Waltons), dies of uremic poisoning at 95 |
| 1982 | Dominique Dunne, actress (Poltergeist), murdered by boyfriend at 23 |
| 1975 | Sheila Ryan, actress(Song of Texas, Great Guns), dies at 54 |
| 1974 | Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter/son of Charley Toorop, dies at 62 |
| 1973 | Karl H Waggerl, Austria author (Green Friends), dies at 75 |
| 1973 | Marc Allegret, French director (Lady Chatterley), dies at 72 |
| 1969 | Carlos Marighela, Brazilian guerilla, dies in battle |
| 1969 | Ferenc Szabo, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1968 | Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78 |
| 1967 | June Thorburn, actress (Tom Thumb), dies in plane crash at 36 |
| 1965 | Krsto Odak, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1957 | Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1956 | Art[hur] Tatum, U.S. jazz pianist/composer, dies at 46 |
| 1955 | Cy Young, pitcher, 511 wins, 1890 - 1911 |
| 1954 | Stig H Dagerman, Swedish author (Burned Child), dies at 31 |
| 1953 | Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1942 | Marcel Barger, Streliskie, cabaret performer, killed in Auschwitz |
| 1940 | Manuel Azana y Diez, Spanish Prime Minister 1932 - 1934, President 1936 - 1939, dies at 60 |
| 1939 | Charles Arnold Tournemire, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1937 | Rogelio del Villar, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1935 | Miklos Radnai, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1932 | Belle Bennett, actress (Iron Mask), dies at 41 |
| 1931 | Charles Buddy Bolden, U.S. jazz musician, dies |
| 1928 | Arnold Rothstein, A R, U.S. businessman/gambler, shot to death at 46 |
| 1927 | Ole Olsen, composer, organist, teacher, wrote opera 'Stig Hvide', wrote Symphony in G major, dies at 77 in Oslo, Norway |
| 1924 | Gabriel Urbain Faure, French composer (Requiem), dies at 79 |
| 1921 | Takasji Hara, premier of Japan, murdered |
| 1918 | Wilfred Owens, anti-war poet (Anthem for doomed youth), dies at 25 |
| 1914 | Georg Trakl, writer, dies at 27 |
| 1908 | Tomas Estrada Palma, 1st president Cuba (1902-06), dies |
| 1898 | Jerome Hopkins, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1894 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton, English Artist |
| 1893 | Cornelis E van Koetsveld, Dutch vicar/literature, dies at 86 |
| 1890 | Jacob PP baron van Zuylen, Dutch foreign minister (1852-3), dies at 74 |
| 1890 | Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer, dies at 46 |
| 1853 | Alexander Stadtfeld, composer, dies at 27 |
| 1847 | Jacob L Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Germ pianist/composer, dies at 38 |
| 1837 | Jean-Louis M Alibert, French dermatologist, dies at 69 |
| 1830 | Frederic LG de Merode, Belgian revolutionary, dies in battle at 37 |
| 1768 | Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist/philosopher/astronomer, dies at 57 |
| 1708 | Henriette Catharina van Nassau, daughter of F Henry, dies at 71 |
| 1702 | John Benbow, English Vice-Admiral (Santa Marta), dies |
| 1702 | Thomas Eisenhut, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1674 | Kano Tanjoe, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits), dies at 72 |
| 1541 | Wolfgang Capito, Kopfel, German church reformer, dies at 63 |
| 1203 | Dirk VII, Count of Holland (1190-1203), dies |
| 644 | Omar I, Arabic 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered |
