| 2004 | Gordon Cooper, astronaut/businessman, dies at 77 |
| 1996 | Martyn Harris, journalist, dies at 43 |
| 1996 | Silvio Piola, footballer, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Tim N Gidal Gidalewitsch, photojournalist, dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Peter Nicholson Gunn, writer, dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Bill Challis, arranger/Pianist, dies at 90 |
| 1994 | Daniel Wood Gatton, guitarist, dies at 49 |
| 1994 | Heinz Ruhmann, German actor/dir (Brave Soldier Schwejk), dies at 92 |
| 1993 | Fran Carlon, dies of cancer at 80 |
| 1992 | Itzhak Fuks, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands |
| 1992 | Laurie Anders, singer, dies of cancer |
| 1992 | Ohad Arnon, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands |
| 1991 | Leonard C Odell, wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83 |
| 1990 | Avis Bunnage, actor (Loneliness of Long Distance Runner), dies at 67 |
| 1990 | Jill Bennett, actress (Skull, Hawks), dies of undisclosed causes at 58 |
| 1989 | Graham Chapman, comedian (Monty Python), dies of cancer at 48 |
| 1982 | Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi Field Marshal/president/premier, dies |
| 1982 | Glenn H Gould, Canadian pianist, dies at 50 |
| 1979 | Christina Spierenburg, Dutch singer, dies at 56 |
| 1976 | Alexander Gray, singer (This is Music), dies at 74 |
| 1975 | Joan Whitney Payson, owner of New York Mets, dies at 72 |
| 1974 | Anne Sexton, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1967), dies at 45 |
| 1972 | Colin Gordon, actor (John-Baron), dies at 61 |
| 1972 | Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist, dies at 68 |
| 1971 | Edit Angold, actor (Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel), dies at 76 |
| 1971 | Norman Cota, American Soldier |
| 1970 | George Frederick McKay, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1970 | Janis Joplin, rock singer (Down on Me), dies of a drug overdose at 27 |
| 1968 | Francis Biddle, American Lawyer |
| 1966 | Sherman Billingsley, talk show host (Stork Club), dies at 66 |
| 1962 | John Lowry, Mount Vernon NY, New York City builder, dies at 79 |
| 1961 | Max Weber, Polish/Russian/US painter, dies |
| 1955 | Alexander Papagos, Greek Field Marshal, dies |
| 1949 | Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer, dies at 75 |
| 1947 | Max KEL Planck, German physicist (constantly of P, Nobel 1918), dies |
| 1946 | Gifford Pinchot, American Politician |
| 1944 | Alfred Emanuel Smith, American Politician |
| 1943 | Richard T Ely, U.S. economist (Ground under our feet), dies |
| 1929 | John Metzelaar, Dutch/US writer (Report on the Fishes), dies at 37 |
| 1912 | General Zeledon, Nicaraguan opponent of U.S. occupation, is executed |
| 1907 | Alfredo Kiel, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1904 | Frederic Auguste Bertholdi, French sculptor (Statue of Liberty), dies |
| 1903 | Otto Weininger, Austrian Philosopher |
| 1893 | Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude, MP (AR), dies at 88 |
| 1892 | Guillaume Van Kerckhoven, Belgian captain, dies at 39 |
| 1890 | Catherine Booth, American Activist |
| 1880 | William Lassell, English astronomer (1st moon of Neptune), dies |
| 1863 | Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam, dies at 69 |
| 1862 | William Duncan Smith, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 36 |
| 1859 | Karl Baedeker, German tour guide (Die Schweiz), dies at 57 |
| 1848 | Louis Massonneau, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1838 | Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1833 | Richard Heber, English Celebrity |
| 1830 | Hans DL earl Yorck von Wartenburg, Governor-General of E-Prussia, dies at 71 |
| 1806 | Samuel Horsley, English Clergyman |
| 1755 | Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer, dies |
| 1743 | John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/Field Marshal, dies at 64 |
| 1721 | Abraham Alewijn, poet/playwright (Beslikte Swaantje), dies at 36 |
| 1713 | Valentin Molitor, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1669 | Rembrandt H van Ron, painter/etcher (Steel Masters), dies |
| 1590 | Cujacius, Jacques Cujas, French lawyer, dies at about 68 |
| 1582 | Theresia van Avila, Spanish mystic writer, dies |
| 1582 | Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Saint |
| 1571 | Claude Togniel d'Espence, French theologist (Sorbonne), dies at 60 |
| 1564 | Pietro P Vergerio, Italian theologist/bishop of Croatia, dies |
| 1540 | Helius Eobanus Hessus, German humanist/poet (Silvae), dies |
| 1072 | Sancho II, king of Castilie/bro of Alfonso VI, murdered at about 35 |
