| 2003 | Rod Roddy, announcer, The Price Is Right, dies at 67 |
| 2002 | Charles Orville Whitley, Representative-D-North Carolina 1977 - 1987 |
| 2000 | Larry Rhine, writer, All in the Family, dies at 90 |
| 1999 | Frank De Vol, composer, My Three Sons, dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Belinda Quirey, dance historian/teacher, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | James Aubrey Turner, scientist, dies at 57 |
| 1996 | John Gregory, dancer, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Leon Lewis, U.S. radio talk show host (WMCA, 1970-80), dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Mike Dutfield, documentary Prodcuer, dies at 48 |
| 1994 | Robert White, guitarist, dies at 57 |
| 1994 | Robert White, guitarist, African-American musician, performed guitar riff on The Temptations hit, My Girl, dies in Los Angeles, California |
| 1993 | Peter Quennell, English Writer |
| 1991 | Andrzei Panufkin, Polish/British conductor and composer (Sinfonia Sacra), dies |
| 1991 | Pyke F C Koch, realistic painter, dies |
| 1990 | Elliott Roosevelt, son of FDR, dies at 80 |
| 1990 | Ugo Tognazzi actor and director (La Cage Aux Folles), dies at 68 |
| 1990 | Xavier Cugart, bandlander, dies of heart failure at 90 |
| 1988 | Charles Hawtrey, English actor (Carry On), dies near London at 73 |
| 1988 | S B Fuller, founder (Fuller products), dies at 83 |
| 1987 | Jean Helion, artist/author (Museum of Living Art), dies at 83 |
| 1981 | John Warburton, actor (King Rat, Cavalcade), dies at 94 |
| 1980 | Steven Peregrine Took, rocker, dies at 31 |
| 1977 | James M Cain, U.S. writer (Postman Always Rings Twice), dies at 85 |
| 1975 | Rex Stout, U.S. detective writer (Nero Wolfe), dies at 88 |
| 1973 | Allan "Rocky" Lane, western actor (All's Fair), dies at 64 |
| 1972 | Lew Parker, actor (Lou Marie-That Girl), dies a day before turning 65 |
| 1969 | Jaime Pahissa, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1968 | Lise Meitner, Austria/Swedish physics (protactinium), dies at 89 |
| 1965 | French Luitjes, Dutch athlete, dies at 21 |
| 1964 | Sammee Tong, actor (Bachelor Father, Mickey), dies at 63 |
| 1964 | Willi Bredel, writer, dies at 63 |
| 1962 | Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate, dies at 58 |
| 1962 | Fatso Marco, comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56 |
| 1962 | Rudolph Anderson, U-2 pilot, shot down over Cuba |
| 1958 | Frederik Gerretson [Geerten Gossaert], historian/poet/politician, dies at 74 |
| 1958 | Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert, dies at 84 |
| 1955 | Clark Griffith, baseball player/manager (New York Yankees), dies at 85 |
| 1955 | Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1954 | Franco Alfano, Italian opera composer, Puccini's Turandot, dies at 78 |
| 1953 | Eduard Kunneke, German composer (Majority Sunderin), dies at 68 |
| 1953 | Zdzislaw Jachimecki, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1944 | Iman J Van de Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter, dies |
| 1943 | Bela Reinitz, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1940 | Fini Valdemar Henriques, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1938 | Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic, dies at 57 |
| 1933 | Julius Klengel, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1933 | Meir Shapira, rabbi/organizer (Daf Yomi), dies |
| 1925 | Wilhelm Gericke, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1919 | John Harry, cricket wicketkeeper (Australia one Test 1895, one catch), dies |
| 1919 | Theodoor H de Meester, premier (1905-08), dies |
| 1864 | Andreas Randel, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1848 | Alexander Egorovich Varlamov, composer, dies at 46 |
| 1833 | Ferdinand Franzl, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1822 | Christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1796 | Anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1781 | Herman-Franeois Delange, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1771 | Johann Gottlieb Graun, composer, dies |
| 1725 | Jacob Hop, politician/diplomat, dies at 71 |
| 1659 | Marmaduke Stevenson, Quaker in Boston, hanged |
| 1652 | Henry, count of Nassau-Siegen, colonel and Governor of Hulst, dies |
| 1651 | Jan III van Foreest, Dutch lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn, dies |
| 1580 | John Bonga, beggar, dies |
| 1553 | Michael Servetus, Spanish physician, burns at stake for heresy |
| 1542 | Abraham ben Avigdor, rabbi/author (commentary on Tur), dies |
| 1505 | Ivan III de Great, Russian tsar (1462-1505), dies |
| 1485 | Rudolph Agricola, Roelof Huysman, humanist/organist, dies |
| 1449 | Ulugh Beg, a U.S.S.R. astronomer, dies at 56 |
| 1439 | Albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia/Hungary/Germany, dies at 42 |
| 1331 | Aboe al-Fida, Aboelfeda, Arabic writer/sultan of Hama, dies |
| 939 | Aethelstan III, king of England, dies |
| 925 | Rhazes, Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi, Persian, dies |
