| 2005 | Robert Badham, Representative-R-California 1977 - 1989 |
| 2003 | Elliott Smith, singer/songwriter, Miss Misery, dies at 34 |
| 2003 | Fred Berry, comic, Whats Happening, dies at 52 |
| 1997 | Dolph Camilli, Brooklyn Dodger/MVP (1941), dies at 90 |
| 1996 | Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist, dies at 71 |
| 1996 | Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | George Houston, land economist, dies at 74 |
| 1996 | Georgios Zoitakis, leader of Greece (1967-72), dies |
| 1996 | Robert O'Neill Crossman, politician, dies at 49 |
| 1996 | Wang Li, politician, dies at 78 |
| 1995 | Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer, dies at 58 |
| 1995 | Maxene Andrews, vocalist (Andrews Sister), dies of heart attack at 79 |
| 1995 | Shannon Hoon, vocalist (Blind Melon), dies of drug overdose at 28 |
| 1994 | Edward Moss Hutchinson, educationalist, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Jerome Bert Weisner, military Scientist/Disarmer, dies at 79 |
| 1993 | Assad Saftawi, Palestinian co-founder of al-Fatah, murdered at 58 |
| 1993 | Irving Torgoff, U.S. baseball player (Detroit Tigers), dies at 75 |
| 1993 | Melchior Ndadaye, banker/1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murder at 40 |
| 1993 | Sam Zolotow, U.S. theater critic (New York Times), dies at 94 |
| 1993 | Scott Heiser, U.S. photographer (Interview), dies at 44 |
| 1992 | Jackson Weaver, voice of Smokey the Bear, dies of diabetes |
| 1992 | Jim Garrison, Louisiana DA (investigate John F. Kennedy assassination), dies at 70 |
| 1992 | Shirley Booth, actress (Hazel), dies at 94 |
| 1987 | Ying-Chin Ho, Taiwan government official, dies at 88 |
| 1984 | Dalibor Cyril Vackar, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1984 | Francois Truffaut, dir (Fahrenheit 451), dies of brain cancer at 52 |
| 1984 | Indira Gandhi, India PM, killed by her bodyguards |
| 1983 | Theodorus H J Zwartkruis, Bishop (Haarlem), dies |
| 1978 | Anastas I Mikojan, Russian politician, dies at 83 |
| 1977 | Ronnie Van Zant, singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd Band), killed in plane crash |
| 1977 | Stevie Gaines, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd Band), killed in plane crash |
| 1973 | Arabi El Goni, Vice President/Chad parliament, murdered |
| 1971 | Etienne Gailly, Belgian marathoner (Olympic-bronze-48), dies at 48 |
| 1971 | Raymond Hatton, actor (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 84 |
| 1970 | John T Scopes, U.S. teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), dies at 70 |
| 1969 | Jack Kerouac, U.S. writer (Doctor Sax, On the Road), dies at 47 |
| 1967 | Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astrophysicist, dies at 94 |
| 1966 | Gertrude Hoffman, actress (Mrs Odetts-My Little Margie), dies at 95 |
| 1965 | Bill Black, musician, rocker, bassist for Elvis Pressley, dies at 39 |
| 1965 | Marie McDonald, singer and actress (Promises Promises), dies of OD at 42 |
| 1963 | George B Cressey, U.S. geographer (Crossroads), dies at 66 |
| 1961 | Nils J E Ferlin, Swedish songwriter (Goggles), dies |
| 1943 | Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II), dies |
| 1937 | Betty Carver, wife of Bernard Montgomery, buried |
| 1931 | A Schnitzler, writer, dies at 69 |
| 1931 | Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian Playwright |
| 1924 | Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1919 | Sven August Korling, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1916 | Karl von Sturgkh, premier Austria, assassinated |
| 1906 | [Georgette A] Helena Amelung, actress (Small Lord), dies at 55 |
| 1905 | Jose Teodor Vilar, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1897 | Paul Kuczynski, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1886 | Jose Hernandez, Argentine poet (La vuelta the Martin Fierro), dies |
| 1872 | Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 78 |
| 1863 | Lambertus GC Ledeboer, Dutch old-reformed vicar, dies at 55 |
| 1861 | Edward Dickinson Baker, U.S. attorney/senator, dies in battle at 50 |
| 1861 | John Breckinridge Grayson, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies |
| 1856 | Henry FC Tollens, merchant/poet (Vienna Nearlands blood), dies at 76 |
| 1831 | Nat Turner, and 19 associates, hanged at 31 |
| 1810 | Franz Teyber, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1805 | Horatio Nelson, dies in Battle of Trafalgar |
| 1805 | Johann Baptist Lasser, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1798 | Johann Christoph Schmugel, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1793 | Johann Ernst Hartmann, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1773 | Johann Conrad Schlaun, German barok architect, dies at 78 |
| 1765 | Giovanni Paolo Pannini/Panini, Italian painter/architect, dies at 73 |
| 1708 | Christian Weise, German writer (That Bose Catherine), dies |
| 1687 | Edmund Waller, English poet/plotter (Waller's plot), dies |
| 1662 | Henry Lawes, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1650 | Pedro de Espinosa, Spanish poet and writer, dies |
| 1637 | Laurens Reael, vice-governor of Ambon/poet/admiral, dies at 54 |
| 1629 | Tumengung Buraksa, Matarams/Javanese general, dies in battle |
| 1627 | Frederik de Houtman, navigator/governor of Ambon, dies at about 56 |
| 1561 | Johannes Vasaeus, Flemish humanist/historian, dies at about 49 |
| 1558 | Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian physician (Poetice), dies at 74 |
| 1556 | Pietro Aretino, Italian author, poet and playwright, said to have died from laughing |
| 1439 | Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist/leader, dies at 53 |
| 1422 | Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422), dies at 54 |
