| 2007 | George E. Sangmeister, Representative-D-Illinois 1989 - 1995, died of leukemia at 76 |
| 2001 | Herblock, political cartoonist, The Washington Post, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Charles Wegg Solicitor-Prosser, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman, dies at 59 |
| 1995 | Louis Meyer, Indie 500 racer (3 wins), dies at 91 |
| 1994 | James Hill, director, dies at 75 |
| 1994 | Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Paul Swift, U.S. actor (Egg Man in Pink Flamingo), dies of AIDS at 60 |
| 1993 | Agnes de Mille, choreographer (Oklahoma!, Rodeo), dies at 88 |
| 1993 | Cyril Cusack, actor (Fahrenheit 451), dies of neuron disease at 82 |
| 1993 | Kenneth Nelson, US/English actor (Boys in the Band), dies at 63 |
| 1992 | Allan Bloom, author (Closing of the American Mind), dies at 62 |
| 1992 | Ed Blackwell, U.S. jazz drummer (Quartet), dies |
| 1991 | Leo Durocher, baseball coach/manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86 |
| 1990 | J Teengs Gerritsen, resistance fighter, dies |
| 1990 | John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer, dies at 84 |
| 1990 | Juan Jose Arevalo, president of Guatemala (1945-51), dies |
| 1988 | Billy Daniels, singer, dies of cancer at 73 |
| 1976 | Nikolai Lopatnikoff, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1969 | Wim van Nuland, priest and writer 'Doorstep', dies |
| 1967 | Norman Angell (Lane), English journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1933), dies |
| 1966 | Johnny Kidd, rocker (Johnny Kidd and Pirates), dies at 26 in a car crash |
| 1966 | Smiley Lewis, [Overton Amos Lemons], rocker, dies at 46 |
| 1964 | Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician, dies at 84 |
| 1963 | Grace Darmond, silent screen actress (Below the Surface), dies at 69 |
| 1963 | Gustaf Grundgens, actor, director and theatre director (M), dies at 63 |
| 1962 | Mauritius Dekker, [Boris Robazki], writer (Boots in Jail), dies at 66 |
| 1959 | Mario Lanza, opera singer, dies at 38 of a heart attack |
| 1959 | Prime Minister Kassem of Iraq, assassinated |
| 1951 | Anton F Philips, CEO (Philips), dies at 77 |
| 1939 | Harvey (William) Cushing, U.S. neurologist, dies at 70 |
| 1939 | Harvey Cushing, American Scientist |
| 1925 | Hubert Platt Main, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1925 | Christy Mathewson, American Athlete |
| 1924 | Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Christian Philosophy), dies at 71 |
| 1918 | C Hubert H Parry, English musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70 |
| 1915 | Samuel Prowse Warren, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1890 | John Hill Hewitt, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1887 | George James Webb, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1864 | Alexander Gardiner, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle |
| 1864 | John Gregg, U.S. judge/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 36 |
| 1849 | Edgar Allen Poe, poet (Raven), dies in Baltimore at 40 |
| 1849 | Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet |
| 1811 | August R van Hekeren van Suideras, Dutch orangist, dies at 68 |
| 1780 | Patrick Ferguson, English major in SC, dies in battle at 36 |
| 1777 | Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle |
| 1766 | Andre Cheron, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1681 | Nicolaas Heinsius, Dutch philological/diplomat, dies at 61 |
| 1660 | Paul Scarron, French, stagewriter (Le Roman Comique), dies at 50 |
| 1639 | John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam), dies at 68 |
| 1612 | Menso Alting, Dutch reformed vicar/theologist, dies at 70 |
| 1571 | Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in battle |
| 1488 | Andrea del Verrochio, sculptor/painter/goldsmith, dies at about 52 |
| 929 | Charles III, the Plain, King of France (893-929), dies |
| 336 | Marcus, bishop of Rome (336), dies |
| 290 | [Christian] Sergius, roman soldier/martyred saint, decapitated |
