| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1996 | Christopher Acland, musician, dies at 30 |
| 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 |
| 1921 | Katherine Griffith, actress (Pollyanna), dies at 45 |
| 1920 | Gerard Leman, Belgian general, 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 |
