| 2005 | Wellington Mara, American Businessman |
| 2002 | Richard Harris, actor, Camelot, dies at 72 |
| 2002 | Paul Wellstone, Senator-D-Minnesota 1991 - 2002, died in a plane crash in Minnesota at age 58 |
| 2001 | Elizabeth Jennings, English Poet |
| 2001 | Marvin Harris, American Scientist |
| 1999 | Payne Stewart, colorful golfer, won U.S. Open twice, dies at 42 |
| 1998 | Dick Higgins, composer, coined term 'intermedia', founder, Something Else Press, dies of a heart attack in Quebec, Canada |
| 1996 | Eugene Polyakov, dancer, dies at 95 |
| 1995 | Bobby Riggs, tennis star, dies of prostate cancer at 77 |
| 1995 | David Healy, actor (Supergirl, Doomsday Gun, Patton), dies at 64 |
| 1995 | Kenneth Kweku Sinaman Dadzie, diplomat, dies at 65 |
| 1995 | Robert Grieve, civil Servant, dies at 84 |
| 1995 | Robert Lorimer Riggs, tennis Player, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Viveca Lindfors, actress (Stargate, Luba, Misplaced), dies at 74 |
| 1994 | Anthony David Machell Cox, medievalist, dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Mildred Natwick, U.S. actress (Barefoot in Park), dies at 89 |
| 1993 | Francisco Velis, El Salvador guerilla leader (FMLN), murdered |
| 1993 | Mary C Lawton, jurist (CIA's Agency Seal Medallion), dies at 58 |
| 1993 | Philip P Cohen, Doctor (Nobel), dies at 85 |
| 1993 | Vincent Price, actor (Raven, Fly), dies of lung cancer at 82 |
| 1993 | Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 54 |
| 1992 | Adelino Da Palma Carlos, Prime Minister of Portugal 1974, dies |
| 1992 | Roger Miller, country singer (King of the Road), dies at 56 |
| 1991 | Bill Graham, rock concert promoter (Filmore, Dylan), dies at 60 |
| 1991 | Khigh Dhiegh, actor (Forbidden Nights), dies of heat failure at 75 |
| 1989 | Gerard Walschap, Flemish writer, dies |
| 1989 | Mary McCarthy, author (Group), dies, at 77 |
| 1988 | Bill Cody, actor (Blazing Justice, Ghost City), dies at 75 |
| 1987 | Cecil Brown, news correspondent (CBS), dies at 80 |
| 1986 | Forrest Tucker, actor (O'Rourke-F Troop, Dusty Trail), dies at 67 |
| 1985 | Elsa Moranet, writer, dies at 67 |
| 1985 | Morton Downey, singer (Star of the Family), dies at 83 |
| 1984 | Pascale Ogier, actress (Ghost Dance), dies of heart attack at 24 |
| 1983 | Hermann Ambrosius, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1981 | Ariel Durant, U.S. author (Story of Civilization), dies at 83 |
| 1976 | Raymond Queneau, M Presle, French writer (Last Days), dies at 73 |
| 1975 | Frank Puglia actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book), dies at 83 |
| 1973 | Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian marathoner (Olympic-gold 1960, 64), dies at 46 |
| 1973 | G Paul H Schuitema, graphically designer/photographer, dies |
| 1972 | Norman Norell [Levinson], U.S. fashion designer, dies at 72 |
| 1971 | Albertus W. "Albert" van Dalsum, actor and director (King Lear), dies at 82 |
| 1969 | Rudolf Forster, actor (Threepenny Opera, Tonio Kroeger), dies at 84 |
| 1968 | Jean Schlumberger, French writer (Passions), dies |
| 1964 | Belle Montrose, actress (Mrs Harrison-Hathaways), dies at 78 |
| 1963 | Abu-Bakr Khairat, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1961 | Peter Jensen, co-inventer (loud speaker), dies at 75 |
| 1960 | Jose Padilla, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1959 | Bob Murphy, TV host (RFD America), dies at 42 |
| 1957 | Henry C van de Velde, Flemish painter/architect, dies at 94 |
| 1957 | Lord Dunsany, Edward J M D Plunkett, author (Jorkens), dies at 79 |
| 1957 | Maria "Mary" Beekman, actress (Modern Landhaaien), dies at 73 |
| 1957 | Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, U.S. gangster (Murder Inc), dies at 55 |
| 1956 | Risto Ryti, Finnish minister/premier/president, dies at 67 |
| 1954 | Marika Stiernstedt, Swedish author (Froken Liwin), dies at 78 |
| 1952 | Sergei Bortkiewicz, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1944 | Fake Krist, nazi collaborator, killed |
| 1943 | H van Zanten, guerrilla leader on North Sumatra, executed |
| 1941 | Robert Delaunay, French painter, dies at 56 |
| 1939 | Cornelis JK van Aalst, president Dutch Business Society, dies at 73 |
| 1936 | Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author and poet, dies at 76 |
| 1933 | Lillian Hall-Davies actress (Farmer's Wife, Ring), dies at 36 |
| 1926 | Frederick, Jr. Zech, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1921 | Bat Masterson, American Explorer |
| 1920 | Alexander, king of Greece (1917-20), dies after ape bite at 27 |
| 1907 | Edmund Hart Turpin, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1906 | Albert Reville, French theologist (Jesus of Nazareth), dies at 79 |
| 1904 | Teresa Milanollo, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1902 | Frank Norris, writer, dies at 32 |
| 1902 | [B] Frank[lin] Norris, U.S. writer (Pit), dies at 32 |
| 1895 | Charles Halle, British pianist, dies |
| 1892 | Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1892), dies at 60 |
| 1878 | Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1876 | Ida von Duringsfeld, German writer (Schelde bis zur Mas), dies at 60 |
| 1861 | Friedrich C von Savigny, German lawyer, dies at 82 |
| 1855 | Willem F earl van Bylandt, military, dies at 84 |
| 1845 | Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French Vice-Admiral, dies at 81 |
| 1833 | Abbas Mirza, Persian governor/heir to the throne, dies at 44 |
| 1806 | Henry Knox, American Soldier |
| 1760 | George II (August), king of Great Britain (1727-60), dies at 76 |
| 1676 | Justus G Schottel [Schottelius], German linguistic/poet, dies at 64 |
| 1647 | Evangelista Torricelli, Italian Scientist |
| 1604 | Claude de la Tremoille, French duke of Thouars/huguenot, dies |
| 1510 | Il Giorgione, Giorgio del Castelfranco, Italian painter, dies at 32 |
| 1495 | John II, the Perfect/Consummate, King of Portugal (1481-95), dies |
| 1415 | Anton van Bourgondie, French son of Philip the Stout/duke, dies at 31 |
| 1415 | Eduard, duke of York, dies at 45 |
| 1415 | Philip of Nevers, French earl, dies in battle |
| 1415 | Robert of Bar, French knight, dies in battle |
| 1400 | Geofrey Chaucer, author (Canterbury Tales), dies in London |
| 1400 | Geoffrey Chaucer, English Poet |
| 1154 | Stefanus van Blois, king of England (1135-54), dies |
| 1047 | Magnus I Godhi, king of Norway/Denmark (1035-47), dies |
| 625 | Boniface V, Italian Pope (619-25), dies |
| 304 | Marcellinus, bishop of Rome, dies |
