| 1999 | Lester Bowie, American Musician |
| 1996 | Edward Albert Radice, economist, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Peter Fowler, physicist, dies at 73 |
| 1995 | Country Dan Dick Montana McLain, singer, dies at 40 |
| 1995 | Neil Blaney, politician, dies at 73 |
| 1994 | Garson Romalis, abortion doctor, killed (no arrests) |
| 1994 | Marianne Straub, weaver, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Michael O'Donoghue, comedy writer (SNL), dies at 54 |
| 1992 | Alexander Dubcek, President of Czechoslovakia (1968-69), dies |
| 1992 | Hans Zullig, Swiss/German dancer (Green Table), dies |
| 1992 | Kees [Cornelis] Broekman, speed skater 1952 Olympics silver, dies |
| 1992 | Keith "Red" Mitchell, US/Swedish jazz bassist, dies |
| 1991 | Christine Felsmann, dies |
| 1991 | Frances Faye, singer and actress (Pretty Baby), dies after strokes |
| 1991 | John Kirckpatrick, U.S. musicologist (Charles Ives Archives), dies |
| 1991 | Patrick Hamilton, author (Gaslight, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 45 |
| 1990 | Anya Seton, U.S. author, dies |
| 1990 | Grampy Davis, dies of heart attack at 87 |
| 1989 | Andre Kloos, Dut trade union leader (NVV)/chairman (VARA), dies at 67 |
| 1986 | Beatrice Kay, singer and actress (Sister Sue-Calvin and the Col), dies at 78 |
| 1984 | Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1983 | Robert Agnew, director, dies at 84 of kidney failure |
| 1979 | Sydney Tafler, actor (Too Many Crooks), dies at 63 |
| 1978 | Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84 |
| 1974 | Ivory Joe Hunter, rocker, dies at 60 |
| 1970 | Napoleon Hill, American Writer |
| 1970 | Napolean Hill, American Author |
| 1969 | Kam Tong, actor (Have Gun Will Travel, Mr. Garlund), dies at 62 |
| 1968 | Wendell Corey, actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl), dies at 54 |
| 1966 | Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist, dies at 75 |
| 1965 | Dorothy Kilgallen, columnist (What's My Line?), dies at 52 |
| 1963 | Simon Jurovsky, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1953 | Iwan Bunin, writer, dies at 83 |
| 1953 | John van Melle, South African writer (Bart Nel), dies at 66 |
| 1944 | Walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies |
| 1941 | Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Elite Circle), dies at 83 |
| 1940 | Alfonso Hernandez Cata, Cuban author (El parage), dies |
| 1937 | James Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister (Lab, 1924, 29-35), dies at 71 |
| 1935 | Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche, German author, dies at 89 |
| 1933 | Mohammed Nadir Shah, king of Afghanistan, assassin by Abdul Khallig |
| 1928 | Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor and director (Streets of sin), dies at 45 |
| 1924 | Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1920 | Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier (AR 1908-12), dies at 83 |
| 1920 | Salomon Anski, Russian/Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57 |
| 1909 | Charles Bordes, composer, dies at 46 |
| 1909 | Eduard de Hartog, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1908 | Victorien Sardou, French opera author (Madame Sans-Gene), dies at 77 |
| 1890 | Cesar-Auguste Franck, Belgian organist/composer, dies at 67 |
| 1886 | Frederick J "Fred" Archer, English jockey, commits suicide at 29 |
| 1885 | Johannes Kneppelhout, Klikspaan, Dutch humorist/author, dies at 71 |
| 1880 | Jacob Edvard Gille, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1873 | Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Span poet/comic playwright, dies at 76 |
| 1833 | Maximilian Stadler, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1817 | Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter of Napoleon, dies at 63 |
| 1816 | Gouverneur Morris, American Statesman |
| 1811 | Charles F Bentinck, Dutch minister of Colonies, dies at 47 |
| 1805 | Francois-Thomas de Baculard d'Arnaud, French writer, dies at 87 |
| 1757 | Pierre Prowo, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1694 | Ulrik Huber, Frisian lawyer/law historian/polemist, dies at 58 |
| 1674 | John Milton, English poet (Paradise Lost), dies at 65 |
| 1658 | Pieter Florisz, Dutch admiral, dies in battle at about 50 |
| 1658 | Witte de With, Dutch Vice-Admiral, dies in battle at 59 |
| 1638 | Johann H Alsted, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 50 |
| 1595 | Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist, dies at 69 |
| 1590 | Joost Jansz Bilhamer, master builder/cartographer, dies at about 49 |
| 1578 | Johann Walter, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1517 | Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, cardinal/Chancellor of Castilia, dies |
| 1494 | Melozzo da Forli, Italian painter, dies at about 56 |
| 1308 | Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher (coined the word dunce), dies at 42 |
| 1228 | Dirk I, ruler of Heinsberg/Valkenburg, dies |
| 1226 | Louis VIII, the Lion, King of France (1223-26), dies at 39 |
| 618 | Deusdedit/Adeodatus I, Italian Pope (615-18), dies |
| 397 | Martin of Tours, St. Martin, bishop of Tours, dies |
