| 2004 | Janet Leigh, actress, Psycho, dies at 76 |
| 2003 | Florence Stanley, actress, Barney Miller, dies at 79 |
| 2003 | William Steig, cartoonist/writer, New Yorker, dies at 95 |
| 2002 | Bruce Paltrow, American Producer |
| 2000 | Benjamin Orr, singer/guitarist, Drive, dies at 53 |
| 1999 | Akio Morita, industrialist, CEO of SONY, dies at 78 |
| 1998 | Roddy McDowall, actor/photographer, Planet of the Apes, dies at 70 |
| 1997 | Alfred Leslie Rowse, historian, dies at 93 |
| 1996 | Denis Frank Owen, Natural historian, dies at 65 |
| 1996 | Eustace Wenworth Roskill, law lord, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Tony Parker, oral historian, dies at 73 |
| 1995 | Molly Harris, actress/writer (Immortal), dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Dennis Wolfberg, comedian (Quantum Leap), dies from cancer at 48 |
| 1994 | Dub Taylor, actor (Poor Pretty Eddie), dies of a heart attack at 87 |
| 1994 | Harriet Nelson, actress (Ozzie and Harriet), dies at 80 |
| 1994 | V, comedian/actor, dies at 48 |
| 1994 | Virginia Dale, U.S. actress/dancer (Holiday Inn), dies at about 77 |
| 1994 | Walter C "Dub" Taylor II, U.S. actor (You Can't Take it All), dies at 86 |
| 1993 | JH Scheps, Dutch MP (Social Democratic), dies at 93 |
| 1991 | Max Cantor, journalist, dies |
| 1990 | Stefano Casiraghi, Princess Caroline of Monaco husband, dies at 30 |
| 1989 | Joseph Wybran, Belgian physician/Jews foreman, murdered |
| 1988 | Franz Josef Strauss, West German Minister of defense 1956 - 1962, dies at 73 |
| 1988 | Generoso Pope, Jr., National Enquirer owner, dies at 61 |
| 1987 | Jean Anouilh, French playwright (Ball of the Voleurs), dies at 77 |
| 1987 | Hans Gal, pianist, composer, teacher, trained at New Vienna Conservatory, director, Mainz Conservatory |
| 1985 | Charles Collingwood, newscaster (Chronicles), dies at 68 |
| 1985 | Maurice Copeland, actor (Ralph-Those Young Charmings), dies at 74 |
| 1983 | John K M McCaffery, TV host (One Minute Please), dies at 69 |
| 1983 | Kurt Kusenberg, writer, dies at 79 |
| 1982 | Roger J J Claessen, Belgian soccer star, dies at 41 |
| 1982 | Vivien Merchant, actress (Accident, Offense), dies at 53 |
| 1981 | Walter Mehring, writer, dies at 85 |
| 1979 | Charles White, artist, dies at 61 in Los Angeles |
| 1979 | Claudia Jennings, playmate (Nov, 1969), dies in car crash at 29 |
| 1975 | Bauke Tuinstra, Fries notary/writer (Ealse and I), dies at 75 |
| 1975 | Guy Mollet, French premier (1956-57), dies at 69 |
| 1971 | Leah Baird, writer (Jungle Bride), dies of anemia at 88 |
| 1971 | Sean O. Riada, born in County Limerick, Ireland, bandleader, composer, influential in 1960's traditional Irish music renaissance, dies at 40 |
| 1967 | Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Last Night of Proms), dies at 72 |
| 1967 | Pinto Colvig, animation voice (Goofy, Pluto), dies at 75 |
| 1967 | Walter Muller von Kulm, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1967 | Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie, U.S. folk singer and guitarist, dies at 55 |
| 1965 | Zachary Scott, U.S. actor, (Southerner, Flame of Islands), dies at 51 |
| 1959 | William Bishop, actor (Steve-It's a Great Life), dies at 42 |
| 1957 | Lorinc Szabo, Hungarian poet (Tucsokzene), dies at 57 |
| 1954 | Herbert Prior, actor (Pollyanna), dies at 87 |
| 1953 | Arnold Bax, British composer, dies at 69 |
| 1953 | Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, British composer (Coronation March), dies at 69 |
| 1952 | Alfred Neumann, German writer, dies at 56 |
| 1941 | Wilhelm Kienzl, Austria composer (Kuhreigen), dies at 84 |
| 1931 | Carl August Nielsen, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1930 | Charles LP "Philip" Zilcken, painter/etcher/author (Bauer), dies at 73 |
| 1929 | Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (Nobel 1926), dies at 51 |
| 1929 | Jeanne Eagels, actress (The Letter), dies at 35 |
| 1919 | Daniel Brink Towner, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1912 | Guido Papini, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1907 | Alfred Reisenauer, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1903 | Benedetto Junck, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1896 | William Morris, writer, dies at 62 |
| 1890 | Andries Andre, actor (Trumpeter-Major), dies at 36 |
| 1889 | Karel Miry, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1884 | Hans Makart, Austrian painter (Geur), dies at 44 |
| 1881 | Orson Pratt, American Theologian |
| 1873 | Kintpuash, Captain Jack, fought Modoc indians, Oregon, dies |
| 1862 | Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 47 |
| 1853 | Andre Georges Louis Onslow, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1828 | Josephus Andreas Fodor, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1826 | Jens I Baggesen, Danish writer/linguist (Labyrinth), dies |
| 1820 | Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1795 | Tula, leader Curacaose slave uprising, executed |
| 1777 | Jeremias van Riemsdok, Governor-General of Dutch Indies, dies at 64 |
| 1750 | Georg Matthias Monn, composer, dies at 33 |
| 1703 | Pieter van Wooden, Amersfoorts rebel leader, beheaded |
| 1703 | Richard Saab, Amersfoorts rebel leader, beheaded |
| 1685 | Fidel Molitor, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1656 | Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony leader, dies (birth date unknown) |
| 1653 | Mark Zuesius Boxhorn, historian, dies at 41 |
| 1646 | Virgilio Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1568 | Elisabeth van Valois, French queen of Spain, dies at 23 |
| 1564 | Christophorus Fabritius, Christoffel Smit, calvinist vicar, burned |
| 1283 | Dafydd ap Gruffyd, last monarch of Gwynnedd (North-Wales), dies |
| 695 | "Black Ewald", helper of Willibrord, murdered |
| 695 | "White Ewald", helper of Willibrord, murdered |
