| 2000 | Richard Farnsworth, actor/stunt man, The Straight Story, dies at 80 |
| 2000 | William P. Bundy, American Historian |
| 1997 | Johnny Vander Meer, pitched consecutive no-hitters, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Martyn Taylor, teacher/campaigner, dies at 57 |
| 1996 | Ted Bessell, director/actor (That Girl), dies of an aneurism at 61 |
| 1995 | Hugh Charles, songwriter/impressario, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Oswald Moxley Gibbs, diplomat, dies at 67 |
| 1995 | Walter "Crash" Morgan, drummer, dies at 35 |
| 1993 | Agnes de Mille, U.S. dancer and choreographer (Oklahoma!), dies at 88 |
| 1992 | Denholm Elliott, English actor (Raiders of Lost Ark), dies at 70 |
| 1991 | Lincoln Demyan, dies at 66 |
| 1989 | Bette [Ruth E] Davis, actress (All About Eve, White Mama), dies at 81 |
| 1989 | Bette Davis, American Actress |
| 1984 | George S Simpson, U.S. paleontologist, dies at 82 |
| 1984 | George Gaylord Simpson, American Scientist |
| 1983 | Terence Cooke, cardinal and archbishop of New York, dies at 62 |
| 1981 | [Mohammed] Anwar al-Sadat, President Egypt (1970-81), assassinated at 62 |
| 1981 | Anwar Sadat, Egyptian Statesman |
| 1980 | Hattie Jacques, actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 56 |
| 1980 | Ray Walker, actor (Baby Take a Bow), dies |
| 1979 | Elizabeth Bishop, poet (North and South, Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68 |
| 1975 | Henry Calvin, actor (Sergeant Garcia-Zorro), dies at 57 |
| 1974 | Luther H. Hodges, American Politician |
| 1973 | Arnold Maria Walter, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1973 | Dennis Price, actor (VIPs, Pulp, Canterbury Tales), dies at 58 |
| 1973 | Sidney Blackmer, actor (Love Crazy), dies of cancer at 58 |
| 1970 | Julian Przybos, Polish poet (Poki my Zyjemy), dies at 69 |
| 1969 | Walter Hagen, PGA golfer (U.S. Open 1914, 19), dies at 76 |
| 1966 | Sydney Chatton, dies of heart attack at 48 |
| 1965 | Georges Vandertongerloo, Flemish sculptor/painter, dies at 78 |
| 1964 | Richard Scheibe, German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz), dies at 85 |
| 1960 | Douglas Spencer, actor (The Thing), dies at 50 |
| 1956 | Walter Herlihy, announcer (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 42 |
| 1956 | Charles E. Merrill, American Businessman |
| 1954 | Hakon Borresen, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1953 | Porter Hall, actor (Half-Breed, Double Indenity), dies at 64 |
| 1951 | Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated |
| 1949 | Robert Lynd [YY], Irish writer/critic (News Chronicle), dies at 70 |
| 1947 | Leevi Antti Madetoya, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1943 | Robert Cooper, father of Card pitcher Mort and catcher Walker, dies |
| 1942 | Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian (Vorwarts), dies |
| 1940 | Ferdinando Liuzzi, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1935 | Frederic Hymen Cowen, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1935 | Gyula Gombos von Jakfa, general/dictator of Hungary (1932-35), dies |
| 1933 | Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1926 | Charles Van de Banks, Flemish writer/poet (Red Horse), dies |
| 1924 | Jacques Oppenheim, lawyer, dies at 75 |
| 1920 | Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer and conductor (Artemis), dies at 56 |
| 1919 | Ricardo Palma, Peruvian writer/poet: Armonias/Rodil, dies at 86 |
| 1912 | August Beernaert, Belgian premier (1884-94, Nobel 1909), dies at 83 |
| 1909 | Dudley Buck, U.S. organist/composer, dies at 70 |
| 1905 | Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer, dies |
| 1892 | Alfred Tennyson, writer, dies at 83 |
| 1892 | Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet |
| 1891 | Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party leader, dies at 45 |
| 1891 | Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish Politician |
| 1880 | Benjamin Pierce, U.S. mathematician/astronomer, dies |
| 1874 | Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1868 | Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1861 | Elias Canneman, liberal minister of Finance (1813-14), dies at 84 |
| 1860 | Stephen Elvey, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1855 | August L Crelle, inventor/mathematician (Rechentafeln), dies at 75 |
| 1853 | Simon Greenleaf, American Judge |
| 1849 | Louis count of Barrthyanyi, premier of Hungary, dies at 43 |
| 1837 | Jean-Franeois Le Sueur, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1819 | Charles Emanuel II, King of Sardinia (1796-1802)/Jesuit, dies |
| 1786 | Antonio Maria Gasparo Giaccino Sacchini, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1762 | Francesco Onofrio Manfredini, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1651 | Heinrich Albert, German composer (Arien oder Melodien), dies at 47 |
| 1644 | Isabella van Bourbon, French princess of Henri IV, dies |
| 1641 | Matthijs H Quast, fleet guardian (Gold Islands), dies in battle |
| 1585 | Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor, dies |
| 1214 | Alfonso VIII de Edele, king of Castilie, dies |
| 1072 | Sancho II, king of Castilie (1065-72), murdered |
| 1014 | Samuel, ruler of Bulgaria, dies |
| 877 | Charles II the Kale, King of France/Roman emperor (875-77), dies at 54 |
| 404 | Eudoxia Aelia, empress of Austria, dies |
