| 2000 | Anthony Dwain Lee, actor, dies at 39 |
| 1997 | Toni Carabillo, writer (Feminist Chronicles), dies of lymphoma at 71 |
| 1996 | Jack Tinker, drama critic, dies at 58 |
| 1996 | Morey Amsterdam, comedian (Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 87 |
| 1996 | William Downie Forrest, journalist, dies at 94 |
| 1995 | Allan Leslie Merson, historian, dies at 79 |
| 1995 | Katsumasu Roy Sakioka, propery owner, dies at 96 |
| 1994 | Sjlomo Goren, Polish/Israeli supreme rabbi, dies |
| 1993 | Carmino Baelen, Belgian sleder, dies at 22 |
| 1993 | Doris Duke, heiress (American Tobacco Co), dies at 80 |
| 1992 | Joan Maloney Rio, dancer, dies of cancer at 57 |
| 1991 | Dudley McConnell, headed NASA's Earth Science Division, dies |
| 1991 | G L Vitto entertainer, dies at 69 |
| 1991 | John Korbal, film historian (Marlene Dietrich), dies at 51 |
| 1991 | Lydia Hodson Copeland, America's, Jr. Miss (1972), dies at 37 |
| 1991 | Sylvia Fine Kaye, U.S. lyricist/composer, dies at 78 |
| 1987 | Andre Masson, France, surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91 |
| 1987 | Woody Herman, U.S. jazz clarinetist/composer, dies at 74 |
| 1986 | Margaretha "Marga" Klompe, Dutch 1st female minister (CRM), dies at 74 |
| 1986 | John Braine, British Novelist |
| 1980 | Leon Janney, actor (Jim Matthews-Another World, Hawk), dies at 63 |
| 1971 | Yves de La Casiniere, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1970 | Baby Huey, [James Ramey], vocalist (Baby Huey and Babysitters), dies |
| 1970 | Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco, composer, dies at 99 |
| 1969 | Constance Dowling, actress (Blind Spot), dies of cardiac arrest at 49 |
| 1968 | Henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85 |
| 1965 | Ben Barka, Moroccan opposition leader, kidnapped and murdered in Paris |
| 1964 | Reginald Horace Blyth, Zen teacher/scholar, dies in Japan at 66 |
| 1963 | Mart Saar, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1962 | Pierre Froidebise, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1959 | Egon Kornauth, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1957 | Anthony J Morabito, co-owner of San Francisco '49ers, dies while watching a game |
| 1940 | Andrea d' Angeli, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1939 | Alice Brady, actress (My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee), dies at 46 |
| 1936 | E G Winkler, writer, dies |
| 1929 | Furst Bernhard von Bulow, Prime Minister Prussia 1900 - 1909, dies at 80 |
| 1929 | Hermann Ungar, writer, dies at 36 |
| 1927 | Eaton Faning, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1922 | Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer/poet (Flemish Motion), dies |
| 1914 | Richard Heuberger, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1912 | Edgar Tinel, Flemish composer (Le chant Gregorien), dies at 58 |
| 1905 | Alphonse Allais, French humorist and writer (Le chat noir), dies |
| 1899 | C Grant B Allen, Canada, British writer (Woman Who Did), dies |
| 1897 | Hercules Robinson, South Africa Commissioner (1880-89,1895-97), dies at 72 |
| 1877 | Johann Herbeck, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1875 | William Howard Glover, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1854 | James P Carrell, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1852 | Gerhard M Roentgen, founder Fijenoord dockyard, dies at 57 |
| 1841 | Sandor Kisfaludy, Hungarian literary (A Boldog Szerelem), dies at 69 |
| 1818 | Abigail Adams, 2nd first lady (1797-1801), dies at 73 |
| 1779 | Raphael Weiss, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1768 | Michel Blavet, French court flautist/composer, dies at 68 |
| 1755 | Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1754 | Friedrich von Hagedorn, poet (Fabeln und Erzahlungen), dies at 46 |
| 1740 | Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40), dies at 47 |
| 1704 | John Locke, English philosopher (2 treatises of government), dies at 72 |
| 1703 | John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer (wig of W), dies |
| 1637 | Foppe van Aitzema, diplomat, dies at about 57 |
| 1627 | Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India, dies |
| 1589 | Jean-Antoine de Baif, French poet (Carminum Liber I), dies at 57 |
| 1520 | Great Worm, [Worm Gerlefs Donia], Fries boer/rebel leader, dies |
| 1138 | Boleslaw III Kryzwousty, [scheefmond], duke of Poland, dies |
| 900 | Alfred the Great, English monarch, dies |
