| 2007 | Alan Coren, English writer, satirist, and humorist, worked with the BBC, died of necrotising fasciitis |
| 2002 | Kam Fong, actor, Hawaii Five-O, dies at 84 |
| 2000 | Gwen Verdon, actress/dancer, Damn Yankees, dies at 75 |
| 2000 | Julie London, singer/actress, Emergency!, dies at 74 |
| 1997 | Bill Rotsler, cartoonist/writer, dies of cancer at 62 |
| 1997 | Nancy Dickerson, 1st female news correspondent (CBS), dies at 70 |
| 1997 | Roberto C Goizueta, CEO (Coca-Cola), dies of lung cancer at 65 |
| 1997 | Roberto Goizueta, Cuban Businessman |
| 1996 | Guiseppe Panini, industrialist, dies at 71 |
| 1996 | Hugh Willatt, solicitor/public servant, dies at 91 |
| 1995 | Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, lawyer, dies at 67 |
| 1995 | Bryan Johnson, singer/actor, dies at 69 |
| 1995 | John Gardener, boatbuilder/writer, dies at 90 |
| 1995 | Thomas Lyttle, paramilitary, dies at 56 |
| 1994 | Lee Allen, saxophonist, dies at 68 |
| 1994 | Richard A Garland, artist photographer, dies at 60 |
| 1994 | WIlliam Faure, producer, dies at 45 |
| 1994 | Cab Calloway, American Musician |
| 1993 | Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered at 63 |
| 1993 | Lois Kibbee, actress (Edge of Night), dies of brain tumor at 71 |
| 1993 | Smail Yefsah, Algerian TV journalist, murdered at 31 |
| 1988 | Dimitri Frenkel Frank, writer and director (Hadimassa), dies at 60 |
| 1987 | Theodore Brameld, author (Use of Explosive Ideas), dies at 83 |
| 1985 | Benjamin Moloisi, South African poet/Anc'er, hanged at 30 |
| 1984 | Florence Rinard, TV panelist (20 Questions), dies at 82 |
| 1984 | Jon-Erik Hexum, actor (Bear), dies by a gun loaded with blanks at 26 |
| 1983 | 19/10? Albert "Carel" Willink, painter: magic(al)-realism, dies at 83 |
| 1982 | Bess Truman, 1st lady (1945-53), dies in Independence, Mo at 97 |
| 1982 | Maurice Gilliams, Flemish literary (Sources of Insomnia), dies at 82 |
| 1982 | Pierre Mendes-France, premier France (1954-55), dies |
| 1978 | Jacques Mornard, Ramon Mercader, murderer of Trotsky, dies at 64 |
| 1975 | Al Lettieri, actor (Beautiful but Deadly, Don is Dead), dies at 47 |
| 1973 | Crane Wilbur, dir/writer (Bat, Canon City, Yellow Cargo), dies at 86 |
| 1973 | Frank Knight, TV announcer (Chronoscope), dies at 79 |
| 1973 | Walt Kelly, U.S. comic strip artist (Pogo), dies at 60 |
| 1973 | Margaret Anderson, American Editor |
| 1973 | Leo Strauss, German Philosopher |
| 1968 | Lee Tracy, actor (Doctor X, Bombshell, Best Man), dies of cancer at 70 |
| 1966 | Bill Nestell, U.S. actor (Dangerous Venture), dies of heart attack at 73 |
| 1965 | Frank Hutchens, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1965 | Henry Travers, actor (Bells of St. Mary, High Sierra), dies at 91 |
| 1963 | Claudio Carneyro, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1955 | Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, dies at 72 |
| 1953 | Douwe Kalma, Fries literature/christian-socialist, dies at 57 |
| 1953 | Federico Gerdes, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1948 | [Heinrich A H] Walther von Brauchitsch, German Field Marshal, dies |
| 1943 | Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's Youth), dies at 55 |
| 1943 | Benedictus H Dancer, botanist, dies at 52 |
| 1941 | Dirk Fock, governor-general van/of Netherlands-Indies 1921-6, dies at 83 |
| 1940 | Suze Groeneweg, 1st woman in Dutch 2nd Chamber (1918-37), dies at 65 |
| 1939 | Charles M. Schwab, American Businessman |
| 1938 | Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist, dies |
| 1931 | Thomas Edison, |
| 1931 | Thomas A. Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, New Jersey, at 84 |
| 1911 | Alfred Binet, French Psychologist |
| 1910 | Thaddaus Robl, German bicyclist (world record), dies |
| 1909 | Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (La rivolta ideal), dies |
| 1898 | Jakov P Polonski, Russian poet (Stichotvorenija), dies at 78 |
| 1893 | Charles F Gounod, French composer (La reine the Saba), dies at 75 |
| 1893 | Lucy [Blackwell-]Stone, U.S. abolitionist/feminist, dies |
| 1893 | Charles Gounod, French Composer |
| 1876 | Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe), dies at 85 |
| 1865 | Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80 |
| 1864 | David Bell Birney, U.S. lawyer/Union general-major, dies at 39 |
| 1864 | Jacques Francois Gallay, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1862 | James Creighton, dies of rupture bladder from hitting home run on Oct 14th |
| 1839 | French Jozef Kinsoen, Flemish portrait painter, dies at 68 |
| 1832 | Othon Joseph Vandenbroek, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1830 | Peter I Petrovic Njegos, bishop (Montenegro), dies |
| 1817 | Etienne-Nicolas Mehul, opera composer (Chant du depart), dies at 54 |
| 1788 | Jean-Guillain Cardon, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1771 | Robert Praelisauer, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1767 | Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1708 | Henry Van Nassau, stable master/Field Marshal, dies at 67 |
| 1678 | Cornelis Galle II, Flemish engraver/illustrator, dies at 63 |
| 1678 | Jacob Jordaens, Flemish barok painter, dies at 85 |
| 1676 | Nathaniel Bacon, rallied against Virginian government, killed at 29 |
| 1669 | Abraham Willaerts, painter (Brazilie), dies |
| 1634 | Pierre De La Barre, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1589 | Adolf van Nieuwenaar and Meurs, viceroy of Utrecht, dies in battle |
| 1562 | Petrus van Alcantara, Spanish Franciscan saint, dies |
| 1558 | Maria, queen of Hungary/guardian of Netherlands (1531-55), dies at 53 |
| 1545 | John Taverner, English composer (Western Wynde), dies at about 55 |
| 1526 | Lucas Vazquez de Ayllo, Spanish colonialist (settles SC), dies |
| 1503 | Pius III, Francesco Todeschini, Pope (9/22-10/18/1503), dies |
| 1459 | Jan of Heinsberg, bishop of Luik (1419-56), dies |
| 1340 | Henry Henricus of Friemar, Augustine philosopher, dies |
| 1216 | John, king of England (1199-1216, Magna Charta), dies |
| 707 | John VII, Greek Pope (705-07), dies |
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