| 2003 | Joan Kroc, philanthropist/former baseball team owner, started Peace Institutes at several universities, dies at 75 |
| 2003 | Willie Shoemaker, jockey, dies at 72 |
| 2002 | Ray Conniff, arranger/bandleader, Lara's Theme, dies at 85 |
| 2001 | Lord Hailsham, British Politician |
| 1999 | Wilt Chamberlain, "Wilt ""The Stilt"" Chamberlain", basketball great/sometime actor, Record-smashing basketball player who scored over 70 points in several pro games, dies at 63 |
| 1997 | John Denver, country star (Country Boy), dies in plain crash at 53 |
| 1996 | David Gilroy Bevan, politician, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Pavel Alexandrovich Solovyov, aero-engine designer, dies at 79 |
| 1996 | Trevor Illtyd williams, scientific writer, dies at 75 |
| 1996 | Vernon Elliott, musician/composer, dies at 84 |
| 1995 | Eleanor Aller, cellist, dies at 78 |
| 1995 | Gary Bond, actor (Outback, Zulu, Anne of Thousand Days), dies at 55 |
| 1993 | Leon Ames, actor (Father of the Bride), dies at 91 of stroke |
| 1992 | Alexander Pola, Abraham Polak, actor and writer (Farce Major), dies |
| 1992 | John Hancock, actor (Catch the Heat), dies of a heart attack at 51 |
| 1992 | Ulysses Guimaraes, Brazilian MP (chairman), dies in accident |
| 1991 | Aline MacMahon, U.S. actress (Backdoor to Heaven), dies at 92 |
| 1991 | Regis Toomey, actor (Dive Bomber, Cry Danger, Magic Town), dies at 89 |
| 1991 | Sheila Florance, Australian actress (Cactus), dies of cancer at 75 |
| 1990 | Max Tailleur, adjunct prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist, dies |
| 1990 | Rifaat Maghub, president Egyptian MP, murdered |
| 1989 | Franco, Francis Luambo/"Makiadi", Zaire composer/music, dies at 51 |
| 1989 | Jay Ward, cartoonist (Rocky and his Friends), dies at 79 |
| 1988 | Ken Murray, actor (Bill and Coo, Crooner, Half-Marriage), dies at 85 |
| 1987 | Alfred M Landon, former Kansas Gov, dies at his Topeka home at 100 |
| 1987 | Philleo Nash, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (1961-67), dies at 77 |
| 1987 | Alf Landon, American Politician |
| 1985 | Johnny Olsen, TV announcer (Price is Right), dies at 75 |
| 1985 | Ricky Wilson, rock guitarist (B-52's), dies of AIDS at 32 |
| 1983 | Jiri Lederer, Czechoslovakia journalist/dissident, dies at 61 |
| 1982 | Chris[tiaan R] Reumer, Dutch opera singer, dies at 73 |
| 1979 | Celia Lovsky, actress (Airport, Harlow, T'Pau-Star Trek), dies at 82 |
| 1977 | Doris Davenport, actress (Behind the News, Westerner), dies at 81 |
| 1974 | Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1971 | Dean G Acheson, U.S. foreign minister (1949-53), dies at 78 |
| 1971 | Gene Vincent, rocker, dies of bleeding ulcers at 36 |
| 1971 | Dean Acheson, American Statesman |
| 1969 | Serge Poliakoff, Russian/French painter, dies |
| 1969 | Sonja Henie, figure skater, Gold Medals 1928, 1932, 1936 Olympics, dies at 57 |
| 1967 | Nat Pendleton, Olympic wrestler/actor (Reckless), dies at 72 |
| 1966 | Arthur Vincent Lourie, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1964 | J Howard Frazer, USTA president, dies in office |
| 1960 | Inejiro Asanuma, leader Japanese Socialist Party, murdered at 61 |
| 1959 | Arnoldt Bronnen, writer, dies at 63 |
| 1958 | Ed Hinton, actor (Henderson-I Lived 3 Lives), dies at 30 |
| 1958 | Gerard Hordijk, Dutch architect/painter, dies at 59 |
| 1951 | Simon Kimbangu/Kibangu, Congo prophet, dies in captivity at 62 |
| 1948 | Alfred Kerr, nickname, Culture Pope, writer, essayist, wrote, 'Die Harfe', dies at 80 |
| 1947 | Nelson Betancourt, cricket wicketkeeper (WI Test 1930), dies at 42 |
| 1946 | Joseph W. Stilwell, U.S. general (China), dies |
| 1940 | Tom Mix, U.S. actor (Texan, Hidden Gold), dies at 60 |
| 1929 | Max Ettlinger, German philosopher/theorist, dies at 52 |
| 1924 | Anatole France, writer, dies at 80 |
| 1924 | Monroe A Althouse, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1922 | Daisy M C Baers, Flemish philosophy/theory, dies at 33 |
| 1915 | Edith L Cavell, British nurse, executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II) |
| 1915 | Edith Cavell, American Public Servant |
| 1892 | Ernest Renan, French Philosopher |
| 1887 | Dinah Maria Mulock, English Novelist |
| 1870 | Robert E Lee, General of Confederate Army, dies at 63 |
| 1870 | Robert E. Lee, American Soldier |
| 1865 | William Vincent Wallace, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1864 | Roger Taney, 5th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1836-64), dies at 87 |
| 1860 | Henry G. W. Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, dies at 73 |
| 1859 | Robert Stephenson, English Celebrity |
| 1858 | Ando Hiroshige, Japanese painter, dies at 61 |
| 1844 | Claude Tillier, French journalist and writer (My Uncle Benjamin), dies |
| 1837 | Frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62 |
| 1829 | Jacobus Blue, Dutch regent/patriot, dies at about 73 |
| 1820 | Elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36 |
| 1817 | Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1797 | Pierre de Jelyotte, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1794 | James Lyon, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1791 | A L Karschin, writer, dies at 68 |
| 1730 | Frederik IV, king of Denmark/Norway (1699-1730), dies |
| 1694 | Matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies |
| 1692 | Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1685 | Geeraerdt Burns, theologist, poet and historian, dies at 59 |
| 1672 | Frederik of Nassau, count of Buren, slain in battle |
| 1654 | Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch court clerk of States-General, dies at 66 |
| 1654 | Rembrandt Carel Fabritius, painter, dies in an accident |
| 1646 | Francois De Bassompierre, marshal of France, dies |
| 1576 | Maximiliaan II, German king/Kaiser (1564-76), dies |
| 1343 | Reinald II, duke of Gelre, dies |
| 1320 | Michael IX Paleologi, emperor of Byzantine (1295-1320), dies |
| 1093 | Robrecht de Fries, earl of Flanders (1071-93), dies at about 62 |
| 642 | Johannes IV, Dalmatisch Pope (640-42), dies |
| 638 | Honorius I, dux plebis, Italian Pope, dies |
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