| 2007 | Joey Bishop, dies in Newport Beach, California, at 89 |
| 2007 | Robert A. Young, Representative-D-Missouri 1977 - 1987, died from liver disease |
| 2000 | Frederick Clarke, writer/publisher, Cinefantastique, dies at 51 |
| 2000 | Mel Carnahan, American Politician |
| 1998 | Joan Hickson, actress, Miss Marple for the BBC, dies at 92 |
| 1997 | Paul Edwin Zimmer, sci-fi writer, dies of heart attack at 54 |
| 1996 | Berthold Goldschmidt, composer and conductor, dies at 93 |
| 1995 | Peter Hinchcliff, historian, dies at 66 |
| 1994 | Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby League Player, dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Bernard Caulfield, judge, dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Dmitri Cholodov, Russian journalist, murdered at 27 |
| 1994 | Joan Barbara Grigor, artist, dies at 50 |
| 1994 | Rik van Bentum, painter/art director of Paradiso, dies at 57 |
| 1993 | Frank J Del Giudice, U.S. industrial designer (Boeing 747), dies at 77 |
| 1993 | Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologist/antifascist, dies at 84 |
| 1993 | Wim van Dooren, theologist/humanist/philosopher, dies |
| 1992 | Ton Hasebos, cameraman/TV director (Gnome Hasebos), dies |
| 1991 | J[ames] G Devlin, actor (No Surrender), dies at 84 |
| 1991 | Piet van Est, The Vuurbal, bicylist (7x Tour de France), dies |
| 1991 | Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer, dies of liver disease at 72 |
| 1990 | Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64 |
| 1984 | Alberta Hunter, U.S. blues singer/composer, dies at 89 |
| 1983 | Raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist, dies at 78 |
| 1982 | Peterus van Doorne, Dutch industrialist, dies at 47 |
| 1981 | David Guion, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1979 | John Stuart, actor (Number 17), dies at 81 |
| 1979 | Karel Reiner, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1979 | S J Perelman, U.S. humorist (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 75 |
| 1978 | Jean Amery, Johannes Mayer, Austr writer (Mind's Limits), dies at 65 |
| 1977 | Robert C "Cal" Hubbard, U.S. baseball player/umpire, dies at 77 |
| 1975 | Vittorio Gui, Italian composer (Batture d'aspetto), dies at 90 |
| 1974 | Rene A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillean poet, dies at 57 |
| 1973 | Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet (Gott von Manhattan), dies at 47 |
| 1967 | Henry Pu Yi, last emperor of China, dies at 61 |
| 1966 | Soledad Jiminez, Spanish actor (Phantom ofthe Range), dies at 91 |
| 1966 | Wieland Wagner, German opera director, dies |
| 1963 | Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (Prime Numbers), dies at 97 |
| 1957 | John HA Eman, founder of Aruban Peoples Party, dies at 70 |
| 1944 | Pavel Haas, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1941 | John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies |
| 1940 | Florence Scovel Shinn, artist, book illustrator, metaphysical writer, wrote, 'The Game of Life and how to Play it", 1925, writings follow thought principles of Emma Curtis Hopkins, Myrtle Fillmore, Phineas Quimby, Charles Fillmore, dies |
| 1933 | Emily Murphy, Canadian Activist |
| 1921 | Katherine Griffith, actress (Pollyanna), dies at 45 |
| 1920 | Gerard Leman, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War, dies |
| 1917 | Maria J "Marie" Bakker, actress/wife of Maarten Stranger, dies at 59 |
| 1910 | Julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91 |
| 1910 | William V Moody, U.S. poet (Sabine Woman, Great Divide), dies |
| 1909 | Nicola Spinelli, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1904 | Nikolai Amani, composer, dies at 32 |
| 1897 | Isidor Dannstrom, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1890 | Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1887 | Gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63 |
| 1849 | Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39 |
| 1837 | Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58 |
| 1825 | Peter Winter, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1806 | Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies |
| 1763 | Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76 |
| 1740 | Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40), dies at 47 |
| 1705 | Ninon de L'Enclos, French Author |
| 1702 | Walraad the Old, count/soverign of Nassau-Usingen, dies |
| 1638 | Gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish painter, buried at about 63 |
| 1586 | Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32 |
| 1552 | Andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53 |
| 1312 | Jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg), dies |
| 532 | Boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies |
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