| 2008 | Martin Peake, 2nd Viscount Ingleby, businessman, nobleman, son of Osbert Peake, paralyzed from polio, contributed to the 1970 Disabled Persons Act, dies |
| 2003 | "Elizabeth ""Ma Pampo"" Israel", old woman, ", may have been world's oldest but ""undocumented"" person, ", dies at 128, disputed |
| 2002 | S. William Green, Representative-R-New York 1978 - 1983 and 1983 - 1993, died of liver cancer |
| 1998 | Cleveland Amory, writer, The Compleat Cat, dies at 81 |
| 1998 | Frankie Yankovic, polka king, dies at 83 |
| 1997 | Harold Robbins, salacious novelist, dies at 81 |
| 1997 | Harold Robbins, novelist, The Carpetbaggers, dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Laura La Plante, screen actress (Show Boat, Scandal), dies at 91 |
| 1996 | William John Raff Hooper, cartoonist, dies at 80 |
| 1995 | Edith Pargeter, author (Brother Cadfael), dies of a stroke at 82 |
| 1995 | Helen Vlachos, journalist, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Ellis Peters, British Author |
| 1994 | Gioconda de Vito, violinist, dies at 87 |
| 1993 | Guy Malary, Haitian lawyer/minister of Justice, murdered at 50 |
| 1993 | Mustafa Abada, Algerian TV director, murdered |
| 1993 | Walter Brown Newman, U.S. screenwriter (Cat Ballou), dies at 77 |
| 1992 | John Hancock, actor (LA Law, Love and War), dies of heart attack at 51 |
| 1990 | Leonard Bernstein, composer, dies of heart attack at 72 |
| 1989 | Michael Carmine, actor (Batteries Not Included), dies at 30 |
| 1988 | Mary Morris, actress (Agitator, Double Door), dies |
| 1987 | Rodolfo Halffter, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1986 | [Francis XA] Keenan Wynn, U.S. actor (Dr. Strangelove), dies at 70 |
| 1983 | Paul Fix, actor (Rifleman), dies at 82 of kidney failure |
| 1981 | Ingemar Liljefors, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1977 | Bing Crosby, singer and actor (Going My Way), dies of a heart attack at 74 |
| 1976 | Edith Evans, actress (Tom Jones, Scrooge, Chalk Garden), dies at 88 |
| 1972 | Joseph Kaminski, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1967 | Marcel Ayme, French writer (Lesson contes du chat perche), dies at 65 |
| 1966 | Arcady Dubensky, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1965 | Randall Jarrell, American Poet |
| 1960 | Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist (crystal), dies |
| 1959 | Errol Flynn, U.S. actor (Captain Blood), dies of heart attack at 50 |
| 1958 | Jean Poveigh, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1958 | Douglas Mawson, Antarctic explorer, geologist, member, Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, among first to reach South Magnetic Pole, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage, in Brighton, South Australia, at age 76 |
| 1957 | Carl Natanael Berg, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1944 | Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (WW II-Africa), suicide at 52 |
| 1930 | Sam[uel] van Houten, lib minister (Child labor laws), dies |
| 1923 | George Elbridge Whiting, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1923 | Marcellus Emants, writer/poet (Refrained from Confession), dies |
| 1919 | Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrial/son of Werner, dies |
| 1909 | Johann Gottfred Matthison-Hansen, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1906 | Paul Cezanne, French painter/water colors painter, dies at 67 |
| 1906 | Richard Tangye, British Businessman |
| 1900 | Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter/etcher, dies |
| 1900 | Sandor Erkel, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1893 | Conradus Leemans, Dutch archaeologist, dies at 84 |
| 1885 | Josh Billings, American Comedian |
| 1885 | Thomas Davidson, Scottish Scientist |
| 1880 | Victorio, Apache chief/murderer, killed by Mexican army |
| 1879 | F Kurnberger, writer, dies at 58 |
| 1877 | Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1872 | Albrecht FH, prince of Prussia, dies at 63 |
| 1857 | Ignacy Marceli Komorowski, composer, dies at 33 |
| 1847 | William Michael Rooke, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1817 | John Philpot Curran, Irish Public Servant |
| 1790 | William Hooper, U.S. attorney and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 48 |
| 1775 | Johann Jacob Rowalt, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1771 | Franz Xaver Brixi, composer, dies at 39 |
| 1746 | Francois Fagel, lawyer/statesman, dies at 86 |
| 1719 | Arnold Houbraken, painter/writer, dies at 59 |
| 1669 | Antonio Cesti, composer, dies at 46 |
| 1660 | Francesco Albana, Italian painter (Hemelopneming of Maria), dies at 72 |
| 1619 | Samuel Daniel, English Poet |
| 1570 | Floris van Montmorency, baron of Montigny, dies at 43 |
| 1536 | Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet/diplomat, dies in battle |
| 1092 | Aboe Ali Hasan ibn Nizam al-Moelk, writer (Sijasetname), assassinated |
| 1066 | Harold II, King of England (1066), dies |
| 530 | Dioscurus, anti-Pope (530), dies |
