| 2002 | Harry Hay, American Celebrity |
| 1999 | John Chafee, senator, Rhode Island senator, dies at 77 |
| 1998 | Dr. Mary Calderone, doctor/writer, Talking With Your Child About Sex, dies at 94 |
| 1997 | Don Messick, cartoon voice (Astro-Jetsons, Bamm Bamm), dies at 62 |
| 1996 | Arthur Axmann, head of Hitler Youths in (1940-45), dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Bruce Matthews, newspaper executive, dies at 71 |
| 1996 | Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, diplomat, dies at 96 |
| 1996 | Roderick Barclay, diplomat, dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Emile Jonassaint, president of Haiti (1994), dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Ronald Selby Wright, minister, dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Alexandr Nikolaievich Shelepin, dir of KGB (1958-61), dies |
| 1994 | Gamini Dissanayake, Sri Lankain presidential candidate, murdered |
| 1994 | Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), dies of stroke at 54 |
| 1993 | Ben Scholtens, historian (Gaama Duumi), murdered at 39 |
| 1993 | Desmond Nuttall, English theorist, dies at 49 |
| 1993 | Tonino Nardi, Italian cinematographer (Porte Manifest), dies at 54 |
| 1992 | Alexander V Van de Wall Bake, staff leader/Governor KMA Breda, dies |
| 1992 | Laurie Colwin, novelist (Happy All the Time), dies at 48 |
| 1991 | Gene Roddenberry, creator (Star Trek), dies of cardiac arrest at 70 |
| 1991 | Leon Clements, journalist (Interlijnen), dies at 43 |
| 1987 | Constantin Alajalov, Russian artist, dies at 86 |
| 1984 | Edith Massey, actress (Polyester, Pink Flamingos), dies at 66 |
| 1984 | Walter Woolf King, actor/TV host (Lights Cameras Action), dies at 85 |
| 1983 | Jessica Savitch, news anchor (NBC-TV), dies at 35 |
| 1982 | James Philbrook, actor (Islanders, Investigators), dies at 58 |
| 1981 | Deborah Baltzell, actress (Karen-I'm a Big Girl Now), dies at 25 |
| 1980 | Leonid Georiyevich Ivanov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 33), dies at 30 |
| 1976 | Richard Sturzenegger, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1975 | Ismail Erez, Turkish ambassador, killed by car bomb in Paris |
| 1974 | David Oistrach, Russian violinist, dies at 65 |
| 1973 | Allan "Rocky" Lane, actor (voice of Mr. Ed, Red Ryder), dies at 72 |
| 1972 | Jackie Robinson, 1st black baseball player, Brooklyn Dodgers, dies at 53 |
| 1971 | Carl Ruggles, U.S. composer (Evocations), dies at 95 |
| 1971 | Chuck Hughes, Detroit Lion collapses during game and later, dies |
| 1971 | Fernand Quinet, Belgian composer and conductor (Guerre), dies at 73 |
| 1970 | Richard Hofstadter, U.S. historian, dies at 54 |
| 1969 | Otto Jochum, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1967 | Lyle Latell, actor (Not of the Earth, Sky Dragon), dies at 63 |
| 1963 | Beverly Wills, actress (Beverly-I Married Joan), dies at 29 |
| 1961 | Milan Stoyadinovich, fascist Yugoslavia Prime Minister 1935 - 1939, dies at 73 |
| 1958 | Esther Delterne, Flemish actress/revue-artists, dies at 81 |
| 1958 | Martin Fallas Shaw, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1958 | Theodore Krieger, German author (Forgotten Village), dies at 61 |
| 1958 | George Edward Moore, English Philosopher |
| 1957 | Christian Dior, French designer (New Look), dies at 52 in Italy |
| 1953 | Ernest Irving, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1952 | Frederick Jacobi, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1949 | Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1948 | Franz Lehar, Austrian/Hungarian composer (Wiener Frauen), dies at 78 |
| 1945 | Robert Ley, German nazi, commits suicide |
| 1945 | Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Minister of Defense/Prime Minister 1942 - 1945, executed at 58 |
| 1944 | Lauri S A Haarla, Finnish writer (Juudas, Sukeltaja), dies at 54 |
| 1941 | Sandor Remenyik, Vegvari, Hungarian poet (Campfire), dies at 51 |
| 1940 | Victor Hollaender, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1938 | Ernst Barlach, writer, dies at 68 |
| 1935 | Henri Pirenne, historian (Lesson villes ouch moyen-age), dies at 73 |
| 1930 | Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor and director (Dr. Faustus), dies at 26 |
| 1929 | Peter J Blok, Dutch historian, dies at 74 |
| 1925 | Jindrich S Baar, Czechoslovakian pastor/writer (Lusy), dies at 56 |
| 1922 | George Cadbury, American Businessman |
| 1918 | Alexander Charles Lecocq, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1912 | Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Zeesterre), dies at 83 |
| 1909 | Henry Charles Lea, American Historian |
| 1902 | Vladislav Ivanovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1901 | Paul Henrion, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1898 | Pierre C Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (Pantheon), dies at 73 |
| 1897 | Francis Turner Palgrave, poet/editor (Golden Treasury), dies at 73 |
| 1878 | Paul Cullen, Irish Clergyman |
| 1864 | James Jay Archer, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 46 |
| 1860 | Elie Decazes, French Bourbon Restoration politician, dies at 80 |
| 1852 | Daniel Webster, lawyer/speaker/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 70 |
| 1799 | Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer, dies at 59 |
| 1789 | Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1789 | Lucretia W van Winter-van Merken, Dutch poet, dies at 68 |
| 1785 | Jean-Jacques Robson, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1679 | Barent Avercamp, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 66 |
| 1667 | Gabriel Metsu, Dutch painter, buried |
| 1655 | Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, dies at 63 |
| 1649 | Ferdinand van Boisschot, South Netherlands diplomat, dies at about 89 |
| 1601 | Tycho Brahe, astronomer, dies in Prague at 54 |
| 1579 | Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria, dies at 51 |
| 1537 | Jane Seymour, 3rd wife of Henry VIII, dies |
| 1521 | Robert Fayrfax, composer, dies at 57 |
| 996 | Hugo Capet, king of France (987-96), dies at 58 |
