| 2004 | Christopher Reeve, director/actor/advocate, Superman, dies at 52 |
| 2002 | Teresa Graves, actress, Laugh-in, dies at 51 |
| 2000 | Bruce Vento, Representative-D-Minnesota 1977 - 2000, dies at age 60 |
| 2000 | Bruce Palmer, Jr., American Soldier |
| 1998 | Clark Clifford, lawyer/DC insider, dies at 91 |
| 1997 | Brian Connolly, lead singer (Sweet), dies of heart failure at 52 |
| 1996 | Dick Pickering, trade unionist, dies at 54 |
| 1996 | Hugh Stirling Mackenzie, submariner, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | John Hillaby, writer/traveller, dies at 79 |
| 1996 | Peter Aldersley, actor/disc jockey, dies at 72 |
| 1996 | Siddig El Nigoumi, ceramicist, dies at 65 |
| 1996 | David Viscott, American Psychologist |
| 1995 | Edward Gill, baseball player, dies at 100 |
| 1995 | Jimmy Nash, record company owner, dies at 47 |
| 1995 | John Rodolph, wheelchair-race world record holder, hit by truck at 31 |
| 1995 | Michelle Francis Bird, campaigner, dies at 30 |
| 1995 | Paolo Gucci, entrepreneur/accessories designer, dies at 64 |
| 1994 | Anna Hauptmann, wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno, dies at 95 |
| 1994 | Danny Gatton, U.S. guitarist, commits suicide at 48 |
| 1994 | Nikolai Karetnikov, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1994 | Richard John Copeland Atkinson, archaeologist, dies at 74 |
| 1993 | Catherine Collard, French pianist (Debussy, Haydn), dies at 46 |
| 1993 | Djillali Belkhenchir, Algerian doctor, murdered at 52 |
| 1992 | James Seay, actor (Amazing Colossal Man), dies at 78 |
| 1991 | Redd Foxx, comedian (Sanford and Sons), dies of heart attack at 68 |
| 1991 | Stephen J Falat, dies after long illness at 34 |
| 1990 | Carlos Thompson, actor (Mistress of the World), dies at 67 |
| 1990 | Dick Jorgensen, NFL referee, dies at 56 |
| 1990 | Michael A Salcido, dies at 39 |
| 1985 | Orson Welles, actor/dir (Citizen Kane), dies of heart attack at 70 |
| 1985 | Yul Brynner, Taidje Khan, actor (King and I), dies of cancer at 65 |
| 1983 | Ralph [David] Richardson, English actor (Richard III), dies at 80 |
| 1980 | Bill Thomas, actor (Buckwheat), dies |
| 1980 | William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascal), dies at 49 |
| 1979 | Paul Paray, French composer, dies at 93 |
| 1978 | Gesina Van de Molen, Dutch lawyer, dies at 86 |
| 1978 | Gesina Van der Molen, Dutch WWII resistance fighter/lawyer, dies at 86 |
| 1976 | Connee Boswell, singer (Pete Kelly's Blue), dies at 68 |
| 1975 | Lillian Walker, dies at 88 |
| 1974 | Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer, dies at 73 |
| 1973 | Albe, Renaut A Joostens, Flemish writer (Paradise Bird), dies at 71 |
| 1973 | Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist and philosopher dies |
| 1970 | Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime (1956-68), dies at 60 |
| 1970 | Edouard Daladier, premier of France (1933..40), dies at 86 |
| 1968 | Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress (Abandoned Child), dies at 71 |
| 1965 | Georgy Mikhaylovich Rimsky-Korsakov, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1964 | Eddie Cantor, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater), dies at 72 |
| 1964 | Frantisek Picha, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1964 | Konrad Bayer, writer, dies |
| 1964 | Russ Case, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show), dies at 52 |
| 1959 | Friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, dies |
| 1942 | Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet and writer (Schlemihle), dies at 68 |
| 1935 | Arthur Henderson, British Labour minister (Nobel 1934), dies at 72 |
| 1935 | Huey Long, American Politician |
| 1931 | Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente), dies at 84 |
| 1920 | Hudson Stuck, English Explorer |
| 1914 | Gijsbert van Tienhoven, mayor (Amsterdam)/foreign minister, dies at 73 |
| 1914 | Karol I, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, King of Romania (1881-1914), dies |
| 1910 | Willem Maris, painter (Hague School), dies at 66 |
| 1889 | Adolph von Henselt, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1886 | David L Yule, 1st Jewish U.S. senator, dies |
| 1875 | Aleksei K Tolstoi, Kozjma Prutkov, Russian poet and writer, dies at 58 |
| 1872 | William H. Seward, American Statesman |
| 1867 | Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1864 | David Bullock Harris, U.S. Confederate colonel, dies of yellow fever |
| 1858 | Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German author, poet and diplomat, dies at 73 |
| 1856 | Michal Wielhorski, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1843 | Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1836 | Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1827 | Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet, dies at 49 |
| 1797 | Carter Braxton, U.S. boer/signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 61 |
| 1791 | C F D Schubart, writer, dies |
| 1789 | Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer, dies at 34 |
| 1745 | Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer/organist, dies at 52 |
| 1727 | Alphonse d' Eve, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1720 | Antoine Coyzevox, French sculptor (Nazarin, Le Notre), dies at 80 |
| 1691 | Isaac de Benserade, French Poet |
| 1676 | Sebastian Knupfer, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1674 | Thomas Traherne, British Clergyman |
| 1659 | Able J Tasmania, navigator/discovered (Tasmania, New Zealand), dies at about 56 |
| 1651 | Philippus Rovenius, Rouveen, apostole, dies at 77 |
| 1616 | Maria van Nassau, countess of Buren, dies at 60 |
| 680 | Hussein, grandson of prophet Mohammed, beheaded |
| 413 | Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57 |
| 19 | Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant of Rijnleger, dies at 33 |
