| 2004 | Howard Keel, "actor, singer", Kiss Me Kate, dies at 85 |
| 2004 | Gibson Kente, wrote about life in South African black townships, known as Father of Black Theater in South Africa, dies |
| 2002 | Peg Phillips, actress/theater company founder, Northern Exposure, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Brian Keith-Lucas, political scientist, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Claude Ake, political scientist, dies at 57 |
| 1996 | Michael Fenton Haddon, mining engineer, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Jerry Daniels, singer and guitarist, dies at 79 |
| 1995 | John Patrick, screenwriter, dies at 90 |
| 1995 | Melvin "Slappy" White, comedian, dies of heart attack at 74 |
| 1994 | Michael O'Donoghue, comedian (SNL), dies at about 54 |
| 1994 | Milton "Shorty" Rogers [Rajonsky], U.S. jazz trumpeter, dies at 70 |
| 1993 | Adelaide Hall, U.S. jazz singer (Cotton Club), dies at 92 |
| 1993 | Charles Aidman, actor (Kotch, Zoot Suit), dies of cancer at 68 |
| 1992 | Alexander Dubcek, premier Czechoslovakia (1968-69), dies at 70 |
| 1992 | Jack Kelly, U.S. actor (Maverick, Vega$), dies following a stroke at 65 |
| 1991 | Gene Tierney, U.S. actress (Laura/Heaven can wait), dies at 70 |
| 1990 | Josephine Wilson, actress (We Dive at Dawn), dies at 86 |
| 1990 | Lawrence Durrell, Indian/English author (Mount Olive), dies at 78 |
| 1984 | George Matthews, actor (Chick-Glynis), dies at 73 of heart disease |
| 1983 | David Alexandrovich Toradze, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1983 | Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (Le Marin du Bolivar), dies at 91 |
| 1981 | Will Durant, U.S. author (story of civilization), dies at 96 |
| 1980 | Steve McQueen, actor (Tom Horn, Bullitt), dies at 50 |
| 1979 | Amedeo Nazzari, actor (Lure of Sila, Night of Cabiria), dies at 71 |
| 1979 | Paolo Carlini, Italian actor (It Started in Naples), dies at 53 |
| 1978 | Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champ (1926-28), dies at 80 |
| 1978 | Janet Flanner, writer, dies at 86 |
| 1974 | Rodolfo Acosta, actor (Passion, Littlest Outlaw), dies at 54 |
| 1972 | Tod Andrews, actor (From Hell it Came, Outrage), dies at 51 |
| 1968 | Willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies |
| 1967 | John Nance Garner, (Vice President-D, 1933-41), dies at 98 |
| 1967 | Juan Tomas Perez, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1965 | Friedrich Wildgans, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1962 | Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945), dies at 78 in New York City |
| 1961 | Antonius F "Anton" Coolen, author (Peelwerkers), dies at 64 |
| 1960 | Alvin Carter, vocalist (Carter Family), dies at 69 |
| 1959 | Victor McLaglen, actor (Gunga Din), dies of heart attack at 72 |
| 1956 | Una Mae Carlisle, U.S. pianist/singer, dies at 40 |
| 1944 | Richard Sorge and Ozaki, spies, hanged in Tokyo |
| 1943 | Dwight Frye, actor (Vampire Bat, Dracula), dies at 44 |
| 1941 | Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Das Gewitter), dies at 46 |
| 1938 | Earnest von Rath, German antifascist/diplomat, murdered |
| 1935 | Lidj Jasu, emperor of Ethiopia, dies at 39 |
| 1924 | Hans Thoma, painter, style reminiscent of the Pre-Raphaelites, works include 'Eve in Paradise', at the Frankfurt Museum, dies in Karlsruhe, Germany, at the age of 85 |
| 1919 | Hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56 |
| 1913 | Alfred R Wallace, British zoologist (Is Mars habitable?), dies |
| 1913 | Alfred Russel Wallace, British Scientist |
| 1910 | Leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War and Peace), dies at 82 |
| 1901 | Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader and viceroy of Tsheli, dies |
| 1893 | Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionaries in India, dies at 37 |
| 1880 | Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1876 | Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (Michigan), dies at 65 |
| 1859 | Carl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1857 | Charles Heinrich Christoph Zeuner, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1838 | Anne Grant, Scottish Poet |
| 1837 | Elijah P Lovejoy, publisher, murdered by pro-slavery mob at 34 |
| 1827 | Bartolomeo Campagnoli, Italian violinist, composer and conductor, dies at 76 |
| 1817 | Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1802 | Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1796 | Catharina II, "the Great", tsarina of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67 |
| 1723 | Godfrey Kneller, English painter (74-77), dies |
| 1708 | Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist, dies at 76 |
| 1678 | Erasmus Quellinus II [Quellien], Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 70 |
| 1639 | William Cobbold, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1633 | Cornelis Drebbel, physicist/chemist/inventor (submarine), dies |
| 1608 | Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen/cavalry commander, dies in battle |
| 1600 | Baki, Turkish royal poet (Davan, Ghazalijjat), dies at about 74 |
| 1573 | Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies |
| 1560 | Peter S Lotichius, Peter Lotz, German poet (Opera omnia), dies |
| 1225 | Engelbert I, the Saint, archbishop of Cologne, murdered at 40 |
| 739 | Willibrord, Clemens, 1st bishop of Utrecht/saint 695-739, dies at 81 |
