| 2004 | Vaughn Meader, comic/musician, The First Family, dies at 62 |
| 2003 | Franco Corelli, opera singer, dies at 81 |
| 2003 | Hal Clement, science fiction writer/educator, Mission of Gravity, dies at 81 |
| 1996 | James Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66 |
| 1996 | Patricia Ticia Anne Ingrams, broadcaster, dies at 50 |
| 1996 | Patrick Johnson, physicist, dies at 92 |
| 1994 | Andrew Miller-Jones TV pioneer, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Evelyn Anderson, dancer, dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Pearl Primus, dancer, dies at 44 |
| 1993 | Raymond Lockhart, TV director (Huntley Brinkley Report), dies at 65 |
| 1992 | Adrienne Canivez, wife of Victor of Vriesland, dies |
| 1992 | Kenneth MacMillan, British choreographer (Manon, Judas Tree), dies |
| 1991 | Donald Churchill, playwright, dies of heart attack at 60 |
| 1991 | Harry Thomas, founder (Flower Festival, Dutch Homofielen Party), dies |
| 1991 | Maria Monica, silent film actress, dies |
| 1991 | Mario Scelba, Prime Minister of Italy 1954 - 1955, dies |
| 1990 | William French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer |
| 1987 | Kamal El Mallakh, dies at 57 |
| 1987 | Woody Herman, bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds), dies at 74 |
| 1986 | Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer, dies at 68 |
| 1985 | John Lodge, actor (Sensation, In Like Flint)/(gov-R-CT), dies at 82 |
| 1981 | William O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85 |
| 1975 | John Scott Trotter, orchestra leader (George Gobel Show), dies at 67 |
| 1974 | Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82 |
| 1973 | Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1971 | Duane Allman, rock guitarist, dies in a motorcycle accident at 24 |
| 1968 | Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1966 | [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor (Manner Kater), dies at 83 |
| 1965 | Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris |
| 1963 | Adolphe Menjou, actor (Front Page, Star is Born), dies at 73 |
| 1962 | Dewi Angrenie, [Martha AP Giese], Flemish/Dutch actress, dies at 85 |
| 1962 | Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1957 | Louis B Mayer, MGM producer, dies at 71 |
| 1951 | De Raymond, French High Director of Cambodia, murdered |
| 1951 | Robert G Aitken, U.S. astronomer (New General Catalogue), dies at 86 |
| 1950 | Gustav V, king of Sweden, dies at 92 |
| 1947 | Frances Cleveland Preston, former 1st lady (1885-89 93-97), dies at 83 |
| 1947 | Theodore Samuel Holland, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1946 | John S Curry, U.S. painter (Baptism in Kansas), dies |
| 1943 | Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered at 55 |
| 1939 | Albrecht MAPJ, duke of Wurttemberg/general (WW II), dies at 73 |
| 1934 | Gustavo Emilio Campa, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1933 | Paul, [Prudent] Painleve, French mathematician/minister/premier, dies |
| 1932 | Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (B-Reflex), dies |
| 1931 | Luciano Gallet, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1927 | Leonard Nelson, Germany philosopher (Nelson-Friessche Schule), dies at 45 |
| 1922 | George August Lumbye, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1920 | Johann Ernst Perabo, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1919 | Soen Shaku, Zen abbot of Engakuji monastery in Kamakura, dies at 60 |
| 1911 | Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC |
| 1901 | Leon Czolcosz, assassin of President McKinley, is electrocuted |
| 1892 | William M Harnett, U.S. painter (Old Cupboard Door), dies |
| 1885 | George B McClellan, Union army general, dies at 58 |
| 1885 | James Hannington, English missionary, murdered in Uganda |
| 1883 | Friedrich Robert Volkmann, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1882 | Martin Gustav Nottebohm, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1876 | Jacques Gregoir, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1873 | Ernest Feydeau, French author, dies at 52 |
| 1873 | Johan N M J, king of Saxon (1854-73), dies |
| 1873 | Leonardus Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship, dies at 78 |
| 1856 | Carel SW van Hogendorp, colonial director, dies at 68 |
| 1853 | Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1853 | William Richard Bexfield, composer, dies at 29 |
| 1846 | Jean Louis van Aelbroeck, Flemish agronoom, dies at 90 |
| 1829 | Maria A [Nannerl] Mozart, Austrian pianist, dies |
| 1822 | Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War, dies at 61 |
| 1802 | Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, composer, dies at 95 |
| 1790 | Pieter van/of Bleiswijk, pension advisor 1771-87, dies at about 66 |
| 1783 | Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, philosopher/mathematician, die at 66 |
| 1618 | Walter Raleigh, English scholar, poet and historian, beheaded for treason |
| 1590 | Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert, theologist/philosopher, dies at about 68 |
| 1321 | Stefanus VI Uros II Milutin, king of Serbia (1282-1321), dies |
| 490 | Petrus Mongus, patriarch of Alexandria, dies |
