| 2007 | Al Oerter, dies in Florida, of heart failure, at 71 |
| 2004 | Richard Avedon, photographer, dies at 80 |
| 2002 | Walter Annenberg, publisher/philanthropist/ambassador, started TV GUide, dies at 94 |
| 1997 | Gul Mohammed, world's shortest man (22.1"/56.16 cm), dies at 36 |
| 1996 | Joonas Kokkonen, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1996 | Patrick McGeown, politician, dies at 40 |
| 1995 | Aditya Biria, industrialist, dies at 50 |
| 1995 | Margaret Gorman Cahill, 1st Miss America (1921), dies at 90 |
| 1995 | Rene Mable Neighbour Cloke, illustrator, dies at 90 |
| 1995 | Russ Karel, director, dies at 45 |
| 1994 | Brad O'Hare, dies of complications due to AIDS at 43 |
| 1994 | Carlos Lleras Restrepo, president of Colombia (1966-70), dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Karoli Ruth Needles, painter, dies at 54 |
| 1994 | Scott Dunbar, bluse vocalist/guitarist, dies at 90 |
| 1993 | Janine Darcey, French actress (Priez pour nous), dies at 75 |
| 1993 | Joseph Warren, actor (Gift of Love, Urban Warriors), dies at 77 |
| 1992 | Bruce Vorhauer, inventor (Today contraceptive sponge), suicide at 50 |
| 1992 | Harry Milton Ray, singer and actor (Avanti!), dies of stroke at 45 |
| 1991 | Jan van Tongeren, painter, dies |
| 1990 | Christine Forrest, actress (Martin), dies |
| 1990 | Curtis E LeMay, USAF General/Vice Presidential candidate, dies at 83 |
| 1985 | Charlotte White, U.S. author (New Yorker, Charlotte's Web), dies at 86 |
| 1985 | E. B. White, American Comedian |
| 1984 | Hansje Toussaint, [Hermina A Schenk], singer/cabaretiere, dies at 69 |
| 1984 | Walter Alston, Baseball manager (Los Angeles Dodgers), dies at 72 |
| 1980 | George Meany, union President (AFL-CIO), dies at 86 |
| 1979 | Roy Harris, U.S. composer, dies at 81 |
| 1975 | Al Jackson, rock drummer (Booker T and The MG's), dies at 39 |
| 1973 | Joe Devlin, actor (Sam-Dick Tracy), dies at 74 |
| 1972 | Kurt Hiller, writer, dies at 87 |
| 1972 | Louis Leakey, English anthropologist, dies at 68 |
| 1970 | Hans Poser, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1970 | Petar Konjovic, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1968 | Marcel Duchamp, French painter (Descending an Escalator), dies |
| 1966 | Albert P A A Besnard, poet/journalist (Doom and Thirst), dies |
| 1965 | Edward E "Doc" Smith, U.S., sci-fi writer (Subspace encounter), dies |
| 1965 | Gareth Hughes, actor (Midnight Girl), dies at 71 |
| 1964 | Ernst Toch, composer (Melodie Lehre), dies at 76 |
| 1961 | Donald Cook, actor (Too Young To Go Steady), dies at 60 |
| 1956 | Stan Ockers, Belgian world champ cyclist (1955), dies at 36 |
| 1945 | Walter B Cannon, U.S. physiologist (Traumatic Shock), dies at 73 |
| 1943 | Antoine T Broekman, resistance fighter, executed at 32 |
| 1943 | Anton JT Koreman, resistance fighter, executed at 27 |
| 1943 | Antoon Pleyte, resistance fighter, executed at 26 |
| 1943 | Dionysius Remiens, resistance fighter, executed at 24 |
| 1943 | Earnest Klijzing, resistance fighter, executed |
| 1943 | Gideon Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 22 |
| 1943 | Hans Katan, resistance fighter, executed at 24 |
| 1943 | Henri H Geul, resistance fighter, executed at 27 |
| 1943 | Johan Kalshoven, resistance fighter, executed at 20 |
| 1943 | Johan Roemer, resistance fighter, executed at 22 |
| 1943 | Johan van Mierlo, resistance fighter, executed at 35 |
| 1943 | John Charles Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 23 |
| 1943 | Leo Frijda, resistance fighter, executed at 20 |
| 1943 | Louis Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 21 |
| 1943 | Maarten van/of Gilse, resistance fighter, executed at 27 |
| 1943 | Olaf T Thomsen, resistance fighter, executed at 23 |
| 1943 | Peter "Pam" Pooters, resistance fighter, executed at 32 |
| 1943 | Sape Kuiper, resistance fighter, executed at 19 |
| 1943 | Victor van Swieten, resistance fighter, executed at 36 |
| 1943 | Walter Brandligt, literature/resistance fighter, executed at 42 |
| 1930 | Ricardo Drigo, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1929 | Antoine Bourdelle, French Sculptor |
| 1927 | Wilhelm Harteveld, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1911 | Pjotr A Stolypin, premier of Russia (1906-11), dies |
| 1911 | Wilhelm Dilthey, Germ philosopher (Das Leben Schleiermans), dies at 77 |
| 1904 | William GGVV Harcourt, historian/English Secretary of State, dies at 76 |
| 1901 | Abdoer-Rahman, emir of Afghanistan, dies |
| 1881 | Frantisek Matej Hilmar, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1876 | Henri-Jerome Bertini, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1868 | Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thai (1851-68), dies at 63 |
| 1864 | John Dunovant, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle |
| 1814 | Jakob I van Przysucha, Polish hassidic leader, dies |
| 1807 | John Muhlenberg, Lutheran pastor, dies on his 61st birthday |
| 1795 | Robert Bakewell, English cattle breeder, dies at about 70 |
| 1770 | Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1768 | Robert Simson, Scotland mathematician, dies at 80 |
| 1708 | John Blow, composer (Venus and Adonis), dies at 59 |
| 1704 | Cornelis Dusart, painter/engraver, dies at 44 |
| 1684 | Pierre Corneille, French lawyer/dramatist (El Cid, Polyeucte), dies at 42 |
| 1633 | Filaret, [Fjodor N Romanov], patriarch of Moscow, dies |
| 1602 | Hernando de Cabezon, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1578 | Don Juan d'Austria, Spanish land guardian of Netherlands, dies at 31 |
| 1574 | Maarten van Heemskerck, painter (Christ), dies |
| 1404 | Boniface IX, [Pietro Tomacelli], Pope (1389-1404), dies |
| 976 | Al-Hakam II, Moors kalief of Cordoba, dies |
| 552 | Teja, king of Ostrogoten, dies in battle |
| 540 | Vedastus St. Vaast, 1st bishop of Atrecht/saint, dies |
| 290 | [Christian] Bacchus, roman soldier/martyred saint, killed |
