| 2000 | Vincent Canby, critic, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Bernard Frank, oriental scholar/writer, dies at 69 |
| 1995 | Arthur Carleton Hetherington, public servant, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Phil Sidey, broadcaster, dies at 69 |
| 1994 | Hannes Wustinger, Austrian race car driver, dies at 29 |
| 1994 | Jean Daste, French actor (Zero de Conduite, L'Atalante), dies at 90 |
| 1994 | Karl Edward Wagner, writer, dies at 48 |
| 1994 | Sarah Kofman, philosopher, dies at 60 |
| 1994 | Wilhelmus HL "Willem" Tollenaar, actor and director (Elkerlyc), dies at 82 |
| 1993 | Ken E. Jones, musician ,New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, dies of AIDS at 34 |
| 1992 | Dorothy Helen Baker, mother of Diane Baker, dies at 78 |
| 1991 | Hotze de Roos, carpenter/kid book writer (Chameleon series), dies |
| 1990 | Delphine Seyrig, dies of lung disease at 58 |
| 1990 | Leonard Bernstein, composer (West Side Story), dies at 72 |
| 1987 | Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso, dies |
| 1985 | Meret Oppenheim, writer, dies at 72 |
| 1983 | Pat O'Brien, actor (Some like it hot), dies of heart attack at 83 |
| 1982 | Elsie Randolph, actress (That'll Make You Whistle), dies |
| 1981 | Frank DeKova, actor (Chief Wild Eagle-F Troop), dies |
| 1981 | Justin Jud Strunk, Jr., comedian (Laugh In), dies at 48 |
| 1977 | Ralph Truman, actor (Henry V, Treasure Island), dies at 77 |
| 1976 | Carlo Gambino, U.S. gangster, dies at 74 |
| 1969 | Rod[erique] La Rocque, U.S. western actor (Mystery Woman), dies |
| 1969 | Shermake, president of (Somalia), murdered |
| 1968 | Bea Benaderet, New York City, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction), dies at 62 |
| 1968 | Franz Reizenstein, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1965 | Carl Hoff, orchestra leader (Music Hall), dies at 60 |
| 1964 | Cole Porter, composer (Still of the Night), dies at 73 |
| 1963 | Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss/French writer (Ecoute Israel), dies |
| 1960 | Clara Kimball Young, actress (Return of Chandu), dies of stroke at 70 |
| 1960 | Henny Porten, silent screen actress (Mother Love), dies at 70 |
| 1960 | Maude Eburne, actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman), dies at 84 |
| 1958 | John C Poortenaar, painter/etcher/cartoonist, dies at 72 |
| 1958 | John Hamilton, actor (Perry White-Superman), dies at 61 |
| 1955 | Fumio Hayasaka, composer, dies at 41 |
| 1949 | Laszlo Rajk, Hungarian Secretary of State/Foreign minister, hanged |
| 1946 | Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison |
| 1945 | Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62 |
| 1944 | Philip Mechanicus, journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau |
| 1942 | Dirk Bannink, nurse/local counciller Deventer, executed |
| 1937 | James Marcus, actor (Clockwork Orange), dies at 60 |
| 1934 | Raymond Poincare, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74 |
| 1917 | Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy, executed by firing squad in Paris |
| 1915 | Paul Scheerbart, [Bruno Kufer], German writer (Tarub), dies at 52 |
| 1914 | Aleksander Rozycki, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1910 | Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, HW boxing champ, shot and killed |
| 1900 | Zdenek Fibich, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1883 | Francesco Schira, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1819 | F Louise W, daughter of viceroy Willem V, dies at 48 |
| 1817 | Tadeusz AB Kosciusko, Polish Lieutenant-General/freedom fighter, dies |
| 1690 | Juan de Valdes Leal, Spanish painter/sculptor, dies at 68 |
| 1682 | John Ferrabosco, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1605 | Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din, Mogol keizer of India (1556-1605), dies at 63 |
| 1595 | Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch E indies poet, dies at 48 |
| 1539 | Reynier Brunt, procureur-general of Court of Holland, dies |
| 1524 | Joachim Patinir, Flemish landscape painter, dies at about 45 |
| 1512 | Antoon Keldermans, Flem builder (Middelburg town hall), dies at 72 |
| 1389 | Urbanus VI, [Bartolomeo Prignano], Italian pope (1378-89), dies |
| 1271 | Hostiensis, [Henricus the Segusia], cardinal/bishop of Ostia, dies |
| 1268 | Dirk II, mister of Valkenburg, dies |
| 1080 | Rudolf von Schwaben, German anti-King, dies |
| 892 | Al-Mutamid, kalief of Abbasiden, dies |
