| 2004 | Ed Kemmer, actor, Space Patrol, dies at 83 |
| 2004 | Iris Chang, Chinese Historian |
| 2003 | Art Carney, actor, Harry and Tonto, dies at 85 |
| 2002 | Merlin Santana, actor, Showtime, dies at 25 |
| 2001 | Dorothy Dunnett, Scottish Novelist |
| 1999 | Mabel King, actress, What's Happening!, dies at 66 |
| 1996 | Fred Lipmann, watchmaker, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Roger Makins, diplomat, dies at 92 |
| 1995 | Derick Frederick George Emmison, archivist/historian, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Thelma Hulbert, English house painter, dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Milton M Shorty Rajonsky Rogers, trumpeter, dies at 70 |
| 1994 | Priscilla Morrill, actress (Edie Grant-Mary Tyler Moore), dies at 67 |
| 1994 | Ralph Champion Shotter Michael, actor, dies at 87 |
| 1993 | Gerald Thomas, director (Carry on), dies at 72 |
| 1993 | Stanley Myers, English movie composer (Deer Hunter), dies at 63 |
| 1992 | Charles Fraser-Smith, English inventor (man who never was), dies |
| 1992 | William Hillcourt, author (Boy Scout Handbook), dies at 92 |
| 1991 | Guido Claus, Belgian actor (Sacrament), dies |
| 1991 | Yves Montand, actor (Idol, Grand Prix), dies of a heart attack at 70 |
| 1990 | Hugh MacLennan, Canadian Author |
| 1988 | Billy Curtis, 4'2" actor (Terror of Tiny Town), dies at 79 |
| 1988 | John Mitchell, former Atny Gen, dies of heart attack in Washington |
| 1988 | John N. Mitchell, American Politician |
| 1985 | Helen Rose, costume designer, dies at 81 |
| 1985 | Mary MacLaren, actress (Black Swan), dies at 85 of respiratory probs |
| 1980 | Carmel Myers, actress (Carmel Myers Show), dies at 79 |
| 1980 | Victor Sen Yung, actor (Hop Sing-Bonanza, Bachelor Family), dies at 65 |
| 1979 | Lewis Charles, actor (Feather and Father Gang), dies at 59 |
| 1978 | Joe Wong, actor (Ken Murray Show), dies at 75 |
| 1978 | Otto Siegl, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1977 | Gertrude Astor, actress (Ship of Wanted Men), dies on 90th birthday |
| 1976 | Billy Halop, actor (Bert Munson-All in the Family), dies at 56 |
| 1974 | Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austria, composer/musicologist, dies at 89 |
| 1971 | Maude Fealy, drama coach, dies at 90 |
| 1970 | William L. Dawson, Representative-D-Illinois 1943 - 1970, dies at 84 |
| 1970 | Charles De Gaulle, Leader |
| 1968 | Jan Johansson, composer, pianist, infused traditional European folks tunes with jazz, avant garde style, dies at 37 in a car crash in Jonkoping, Sweden |
| 1968 | Antonio Porchia, Italian Poet |
| 1967 | Charles Bickford, actor (Johnny Belinda, Virginian), dies at 78 |
| 1959 | Frederick Preston Search, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1955 | Tom Powers, actor (Station West, Destination Moon), dies at 65 |
| 1953 | Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud, founder of Saudi Arabia, dies at about 73 |
| 1953 | Dylan Thomas, author-poet (Adv in skin trade), dies in New York at 39 |
| 1953 | Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, Saudi Arabian Statesman |
| 1952 | Chaim Weizmann, bio-chemist/1st president Israel, dies at 77 |
| 1951 | Resurreccion Maria de Azkue, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1951 | Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian/US composer (Blossom Time), dies at 64 |
| 1948 | Edgar Kennedy, actor (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 58 |
| 1943 | Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist, dies at 67 |
| 1942 | Edna May Oliver, dies on 59th birthday |
| 1939 | Dirk Klop, Dutch intelligence lt, shot by German Abwehr |
| 1932 | Nadya Aliluieva, wife of Joseph Stalin, dies at 30 |
| 1929 | Nicolaas Theunissen, South Africa cricket break bowler (2nd Test 1889), dies |
| 1925 | Daniel Josephus Jitta, lawyer/Dutch state advisor, dies at 71 |
| 1918 | Guillaume Apollinaire, Kostrowitsky, French poet 'Alcools', dies at 38 |
| 1911 | Edmund Schuecker, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1906 | Elisabeth Saint Drieeenheid, French mystic (Souvenirs), dies at 26 |
| 1906 | Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor of Ukkel, dies at 64 |
| 1897 | Moritz Heuzenroeder, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1874 | Israel Bak, created 1st Hebrew printing press, dies |
| 1862 | John Bordenave Villepigue, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 32 |
| 1829 | Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1801 | Carl Philipp Stamitz, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1778 | Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher, dies at 58 |
| 1754 | Johann Christoph Fravenholtz, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1677 | Aert van der Neer, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 73 |
| 1662 | Cornelis van Aerssen, Dutch ruler of Sommelsdok, dies at about 62 |
| 1641 | Ferdinand, of Austria, cardinal of Spain, dies at 32 |
| 1623 | William Camden, English historian: Brittania/Annales, dies at 72 |
| 1620 | Louise de Coligny, 4th wife of Willem of Orange, dies at 65 |
| 1580 | Gaspar Schetz, South Netherlands, minster of chief treasurer, dies at 67 |
| 1068 | Agnes of Poitou, duchess of Aquitania/mother of German Empress, dies |
| 959 | Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Byzantine Emperor (913-59), dies |
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