| 2008 | Studs Terkel, dies in Chicago, at 96 |
| 2003 | Kamato Hongo, old man, world's oldest well-documented man for almost four years, dies at 116 |
| 2000 | "Ring Lardner, Jr", writer, M*A*S*H screenwriter, dies at 85 |
| 1999 | Greg Moore, promising Canadian racecar driver, competed in Indy Lights, CART World Series, fatally injured in violent car crash on the 10th lap of the CART season finale |
| 1998 | Bernard J. Dwyer, Representative-D-New Jersey 1981 - 1993, died of a heart attack |
| 1997 | Wilfrid Ewart Oulton, airman, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Andrew Hutchings, teachers' leader, dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Granville James Leveson Gower, land owner, dies at 77 |
| 1996 | John Gorman, printer/socialist historian, dies at 66 |
| 1996 | Peter Muir Doig, politician, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Marcel Carne, French Director |
| 1996 | Alexander Harman, judge, United States Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia 1969 - 1979, dies |
| 1995 | Alan Dudley Bush, composer pianist/teacher, dies at 94 |
| 1995 | Derek Anthony Enright, politician, dies at 60 |
| 1995 | Henry A Walter Richard Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland, dies at 42 |
| 1995 | Lavad "Dr. Hepcat" Durst, vocal/piano, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Leonard Ernest John Chant, social Worker, dies at 57 |
| 1995 | Lloyd Lambert, bassist, dies at 67 |
| 1995 | Louis Levy, Jr., music publisher, dies at 84 |
| 1995 | Rosalind Cash, actress (Emma-Go Tell It on the Mountain), dies at 56 |
| 1995 | Wallace Edward Rowling, Prime Minister of New Zealand 1974 - 1975, dies at 68 |
| 1994 | John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian, dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Jole Silvani, Niobe Quaiatti, Italian actress (La citta' Delle), dies |
| 1994 | Lester Sill, pioneer music publisher/record producer, dies at 76 |
| 1994 | William John Readings, literary theorist, dies at 34 |
| 1993 | Adriaan Venema, Dutch journalist/art dealer, commits suicide at 52 |
| 1993 | Edwin A Walker, U.S. Major-General, dies of lung cancer at 84 |
| 1993 | Federico Fellini, director (La Dolce Vita), dies of stroke at 73 |
| 1993 | River Phoenix, actor (Stand By Me), dies of drug overdose at 23 |
| 1991 | Bert Bertram, actor (How to Steal a Million), dies of cancer at 97 |
| 1991 | James Marshall, U.S. children's book writer/illustrator, dies at 50 |
| 1991 | Johan Schmitz, actor (Gysbregt van Aemstel/Soldat van Orange), dies |
| 1991 | Joseph Papp, Broadway producer (Chorus Line), dies of cancer at 70 |
| 1990 | Graig Russel, Canadian travel expert/transvestite, dies |
| 1990 | Hugh McPhillips, dies at 70 |
| 1989 | Conrad Beck, composer, studied with Jacques Ibert, head of Radio Basel music department for 30 years, dies at 88 |
| 1988 | John Houseman, actor (Paper Chase, Fog), dies of spinal cancer at 86 |
| 1987 | Joseph Campbell, mythologist (Mythic Image), dies at 83 |
| 1986 | Robert S Mulliken, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1966), dies at 90 |
| 1984 | Eduardo De Filippo, director (7 Deadly Sins, Shoot Loud), dies at 84 |
| 1984 | Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated by 2 of her bodyguards at age 66 |
| 1983 | George S Halas, NFL coach (Chicago Bears), dies at 88 |
| 1983 | George Halas, American Coach |
| 1982 | Waverley Lewis Root, American Journalist |
| 1977 | Joan Tetzel, actress (Hell Below Zero), dies at 56 |
| 1976 | Linda Watkins, actress (From Hell it Came, Harpy), dies at 68 |
| 1975 | Joseph Calleia, actor (Jungle Book, Gilda), dies at 78 |
| 1971 | Gerhard von Rad, German old testament expert, dies at 70 |
| 1970 | Pal Szabo, Hungarians farmer/writer (Isten Malmai), dies |
| 1969 | Hugo Pfister, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1968 | Ramon Novarro, Jose RG Samaniegos, actor (Ben Hur), dies at 69 |
| 1967 | Jan Mens, Dutch writer (Honor to God Alone), dies at 70 |
| 1965 | Rita Johnson, actress (All Mine to Give), dies at 53 |
| 1964 | Theodore C Freeman, astronaut, dies at 34 in a T-38 jet air crash |
| 1963 | Henry Daniell, actor (Camille, Body Snatchers), dies at 69 |
| 1960 | H L Davis, U.S. writer (Honey in the Horn, Pulitzer prize), dies at 64 |
| 1956 | Pietro Badoglio, Premier of Italy (1943-44), dies at 85 |
| 1950 | Carel T Scharten, Dutch poet and writer (Lost Paradise), dies at 72 |
| 1950 | Jozef C Bittremieux, Flemish theologist, dies at 72 |
| 1949 | Edward R Stettinius, U.S. foreign minister (1944-45)/diplomat, dies |
| 1948 | Cissy van Marxfield, Setske Beek-de Han, writer, dies |
| 1945 | Henry Ainley, actor (As You Like It), dies at 66 |
| 1943 | Max Reinhardt, Austrian stage manager (Turandot), dies |
| 1941 | Herwarth Walden, writer, dies at 63 |
| 1939 | Otto Rank, Rosenfeld, Austria psychoanalyst (Trauma of Geburt), dies |
| 1926 | Harry Houdini, Erich Weisz, U.S. magician, dies in Detroit |
| 1925 | Max Linder, actor (Man in the Silk Hat), dies at 41 |
| 1918 | Egon Schiele, Austria painter/graphic artist, dies at 28 |
| 1918 | Stephen Tisza, Hungarian Prime Minister, assassinated by soldiers |
| 1904 | Dan Leno, English Comedian |
| 1902 | Cornelie Huygens, Dutch feminist/writer, dies |
| 1902 | Jean-Baptist Colyns, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1895 | Franz Hedrich, Austria writer, dies at about 62 |
| 1887 | George Alexander Macfarren, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1879 | Big Snake, brother of Ponca chief Standing Bear, dies |
| 1870 | Mihaly Mosonyi, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1865 | William Parson, 3rd Earl of Rosse and maker of large telescopes, dies |
| 1863 | Louis Ludwig Blenker, German/US Brigadier-General (Union), dies at 51 |
| 1860 | Johan Nathan, murderer, hanged |
| 1860 | Thomas Cochrane, English Politician |
| 1851 | Peter II Petrovic Njegos, bishop of Montenegro (1830-51), dies at 37 |
| 1815 | Daniel Belknap, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1806 | Sophie Mereau, writer, dies at 36 |
| 1793 | Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader, guillotined at 40 |
| 1768 | Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian opera composer, dies at 78 |
| 1765 | Duke of Cumberland, English politician/uncle of George III, dies |
| 1744 | Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1723 | Cosimo III de' Medici, monarch of Florence (1670-1723), dies at 81 |
| 1664 | Willem Frederik of Nassau-Dietz, viceroy of Friesland, dies at 51 |
| 1661 | Mehmed Koprulu, Albanian great vizier of Turkey, dies |
| 1654 | Francisco Correa de Arauxo, composer, dies |
| 1641 | Cornelis C Jol, Houtebeen, Admiral (South-America), dies at about 41 |
| 1634 | Erasmus Widmann, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1556 | John Sleidanus, German humanist/historian (Commentary), dies at 50 |
| 1448 | Johannes VIII Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantine, dies |
