| 2007 | Robert Goulet, dies in Los Angeles, California, awaiting a lung transplant for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, at 73 |
| 2007 | Peter Hoagland, Representative-D-Nebraska 1989 - 1995, died at age 65 |
| 2006 | Clifford Geertz, American Scientist |
| 2005 | Al Lopez, American Coach |
| 2002 | Jam Master Jay, American Musician |
| 2000 | Steve Allen, writer/TV host, early Tonight Show host, dies at 80 |
| 1997 | Sam Fuller, director/writer (Big Red One), dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Alexander d'Arbeloff, entrepreneur, dies at 101 |
| 1996 | Rohan Butler, historian, dies at 79 |
| 1995 | Brian Easdale, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Terry Southern, writer, dies at 71 |
| 1994 | Nyanaponika, Siegmund Feniger, German scholar/author, dies at 93 |
| 1993 | Hernan Heleno Castro, El Salvadorian guerilla leader, murdered |
| 1991 | Johan Mekkink, painter, dies |
| 1991 | Ken Hardin, producer, dies at 62 |
| 1991 | William Shea, (Shea Stadium namesake), dies at 84 |
| 1990 | Craig Russell, female impersonator, dies of an AIDS-stroke at 42 |
| 1990 | Henry Lauter, actor (Tarzan's Fight), dies |
| 1988 | John Houseman, actor (Paper Chase), dies at 86 |
| 1988 | Sugar Geise, actress (Rhythm Parade), dies after brief illness at 71 |
| 1986 | Andrzej Markowski, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1985 | Kirby Grant, actor/singer (Sky King), dies in an auto accident at 74 |
| 1984 | June Duprez, actress (Calcutta, Tiger Fang), dies at 66 |
| 1984 | Mario Gallo, actor (Delvecchio), dies at 61 |
| 1981 | Georges Brassens, French screenwriter, dies |
| 1973 | Ernst-Lothar von Knorr, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1972 | Alan Roth, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 68 |
| 1971 | Osvald Chlubna, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1968 | Conrad Richter, U.S. writer (Light in the Forest), dies at 78 |
| 1968 | Pert Kelton, actress (Cavalcade of Stars), dies at 61 |
| 1968 | Rose Wilder Lane, American Journalist |
| 1967 | Charles Trowbridge, actor (Mummy's Hand), dies at 85 |
| 1961 | Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president Italy, dies |
| 1960 | Alfred Hill, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1959 | Blonde Dolly, Sybille A J Niemans, society prostitute, dies at 33 |
| 1958 | Rose Macaulay, writer, dies at 77 |
| 1956 | Pio Baroja, Spanish writer (Caeser or Nothing), dies at 84 |
| 1953 | Emmerich Kalman, Hungarian composer (Die Zirkusprinzessin), dies at 71 |
| 1944 | Paul Emile Ladmirault, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1932 | Paul S Methuen, English baron/Field Marshal/Governor of Natal, dies at 87 |
| 1928 | Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1925 | Max Linder, French actor/comic/director (Max toreador), dies at 41 |
| 1923 | Andrew Bonar Law, English Prime Minister (C), dies at 64 |
| 1919 | Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American Writer |
| 1916 | Silas Gamaliel Pratt, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1914 | Ernst Stadler, writer, dies at 31 |
| 1912 | Jan Karol Gali, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1912 | Preston Lockwood, British actor and writer, dies |
| 1910 | J Henri Dunant, Swiss writer/founder (Red Cross, YMCA), dies |
| 1903 | Ozaki Koyo (Amorous Confessions of 2 Nuns), dies |
| 1901 | U Benson, British Lt-colonel (Magers' fountain), killed in battle |
| 1898 | Jakov P Polonski, Russian poet (Stichotvorenija), dies at 78 |
| 1896 | Charles Tupper, Prime Minister of Canada (C), dies |
| 1893 | John Abbott, Prime Minister of Canada (C) 1891 - 1892, dies at 72 |
| 1885 | Gustav Adolf Merkel, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1883 | Johann Vesque von Puttlingen, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1862 | Ormsby Mcknight Mitchel, U.S. astronomer/Union-general-major, dies at 53 |
| 1853 | Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (Potifar, Giacobbe), dies at 66 |
| 1842 | Allan Cunningham, Scottish Poet |
| 1833 | Pieter G Witsen Geysbeek, historian/literary, dies at 58 |
| 1816 | Frederik I WK, 1st king of Wurttemberg (1806-16), dies |
| 1787 | Ferdinando Galiani, Italian economist/philosopher/diplomat, dies at 58 |
| 1785 | Gustaf P Creutz, Swedish diplomat/poet (Daphne), dies at 54 |
| 1757 | Osman III, sultan of Turkey (1754-57), dies |
| 1711 | Willem Brakel, Fries theologist (Reasonable Religion), dies at 76 |
| 1690 | Hieronymus van Beverningk, Duitch general, dies at 76 |
| 1676 | Ahmed Koprulu, Turkish great vizer (siege of Candia, Kreta), dies |
| 1667 | Johann Jakob Wolleb, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1661 | Alexander Adriaenssen, Flemish painter, dies at 74 |
| 1632 | Henri de Montmorency, French duke/plotter, beheaded |
| 1626 | Willebord van Roijen, dutch mathematician, dies at 35 |
| 1626 | Willebrord Snellius, astronomer/mathematician, dies at about 46 |
| 1611 | Karl IX, King of Sweden (1604-11), dies |
| 1583 | Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect/painter/archaeologist, dies at 83 |
| 1459 | Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, chancellor of Florence, dies |