| 2004 | Anthony Hecht, American Poet |
| 1996 | Alfred William Bill Bedford, test Pilot, dies at 75 |
| 1996 | Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant, dies at 68 |
| 1995 | Bernadette Hingley, priest, dies at 47 |
| 1995 | Christopher Stone, actor (Dave-Dallas, Interns), dies at 53 |
| 1995 | Jack Rose, screenwriter, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Raymond Rasberry, pianist/singer, dies at 65 |
| 1994 | Burt Lancaster, actor (Elmer Gantry), dies of heart attack at 80 |
| 1994 | Charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/Choreographer, dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Eberhard Feik, German actor (Tatort), dies at 50 |
| 1994 | Ivan Svitak, philosopher, dies at 69 |
| 1994 | Sergei F Bondartsjoek, actor and director (Waterloo), dies at 74 |
| 1993 | James Leo Herlihy, novelist (Midnight Cowboy), dies at 66 |
| 1993 | Maurice Dolbier, U.S. actor and writer (Nowhere near Everest), dies at 81 |
| 1992 | Orton Chirwa, Malawi's lawyer/Justice minister, dies in captivity |
| 1990 | Joel McCrea, actor (Ramrod), dies of pulmonary complications at 84 |
| 1989 | Anthony Quayle, actor (Moses, Operation Crossbow), dies at 76 |
| 1986 | Samora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in air crash at 53 |
| 1984 | Paul Dirac, British Physicist |
| 1983 | Merle Travis, country singer, dies at 75 |
| 1977 | Cassie Gaines, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 28 |
| 1977 | Ronnie Van Zant, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 29 |
| 1977 | Steve Gaines, rock guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in air crash |
| 1972 | Harlow Shapley, astronomer (Sun's position in galaxy), dies at 86 |
| 1970 | Patrick Wymark, actor (Skull, Tomb of Ligeia), dies at 44 |
| 1968 | Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher, dies at 84 |
| 1964 | Herbert Hoover, 31st president of U.S. (1929-33), dies in New York at 90 |
| 1964 | Miles WL Killearn of Killearn, baron/diplomat (Egypt), dies at 84 |
| 1959 | Werner Krauss, actor (Joyless Street), dies at 75 |
| 1955 | Eino Roiha, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1954 | Willie Shaw, race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 39, 40), dies at 51 |
| 1952 | Basil Radford, actor (Whisky Galore, Dead of Night), dies at 55 |
| 1950 | Henry Lewsis Stimson, U.S. minister of War/Governor-General, dies |
| 1950 | Henry L. Stimson, American Statesman |
| 1944 | Gabriel Groulez, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1942 | May Robson, actress (Star is Born, Reckless), dies at 84 |
| 1936 | Anne Sullivan, American Educator |
| 1931 | Emanuel Moor, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1929 | Rudolf Kittel, German theologist, dies at 76 |
| 1927 | Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1926 | Eugene V. Debs, American Politician |
| 1920 | Max Bruch, German composer (Kol Nidre), dies at 82 |
| 1913 | Leander Schlegel, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1906 | William "Buck" Ewing, hall of fame catcher (New York Giants), dies at 67 |
| 1904 | Henry Hiles, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1900 | Charles Dudley Warner, U.S. writer (As We Go), dies at 70 |
| 1899 | Robert H "Bobby" Gunning, British colonel (60th Rifles), dies in battle |
| 1882 | Olegario Victor Andrade, Argentina poet (El arpa perdida), dies at 41 |
| 1876 | Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at 68 |
| 1871 | Charles Babbage, English mathematician (calculator), dies at 78 |
| 1870 | Michael William Balfe, composer (Bohemian Girl), dies at 62 |
| 1864 | Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Confederate General-major, dies at 27 |
| 1842 | Grace Darling, English Celebrity |
| 1819 | Lambert-Franeois Godecharle, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1794 | James Adam, System architect (essays on agriculture), dies at about 64 |
| 1765 | William August duke of Cumberland, English supreme commander, dies at 44 |
| 1740 | Karl VI, German emperor (1711-40), dies |
| 1676 | Christopher Gibbons, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1525 | Joannes Custos, S Netherlands humanist, dies at about 50 |
| 1438 | Jacopo di Piero della Quercia, Italian sculptor, dies at about 64 |
| 1274 | Engelbert II of Falkenburg, archbishop of Cologne, dies |
| 1268 | Conrad Hohenstaufen, Conrad van Zwaben, son of Conrad IV, dies |
| 1268 | Konradijn Hohenstaufen, son of Koenraad IV, beheaded in Naples |
| 1187 | Urbanus III, Umberto Crivelli, Italian Pope (1185-87), dies |
| 1139 | Henry X the Trotse, duke of Bayern (1126-38), dies |
| 460 | Eudocia Aelia Athenais, empress Oostromeinse Rich/poet, dies |
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