| 2004 | Max Faget, engineer, led the design of the Gemini space capsule, dies at 83 |
| 2003 | Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, author and feminist, 'In the Last Analysis' and 'Writing a Woman's Life', committed suicide |
| 2002 | Aileen Wuornos, American Criminal |
| 2002 | Charles Guggenheim, American Director |
| 2001 | Dagmar, blonde, Broadway Open House, dies at 79 |
| 2001 | Herbert Ross, director, The Turning Point, dies at 74 |
| 2000 | David Dukes, actor, Gods and Monsters, dies at 55 |
| 1999 | Morris West, Australian Writer |
| 1997 | Arthur Tracy, radio personality (Street Singer), dies at 98 |
| 1996 | Alan Charles Downes, cameraman, dies at 58 |
| 1996 | Harvey Vernon, actor (Jasper-Carter Country), dies at 69 |
| 1996 | Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Richard Clarkson, aerodynamicist, dies at 94 |
| 1995 | Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of Britain 1963 - 1964, dies |
| 1995 | John Alfred Scali, journalist/diplomat, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Kukrit Pramoj, Prime Minister of Thailand 1975 - 1976, dies at 84 |
| 1995 | Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM), dies |
| 1995 | Patric William Billy Walker, astrologer, dies at 64 |
| 1995 | Phillip Jack Oppenheimer, diamond trader, dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Andreas van Melsen, philosopher (Evolution and Wosbegeerte), dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Fred Lebow, U.S. founder of New York Marathon, dies of cancer |
| 1994 | James Hill, English director/screenwriter (Born Free), dies at 75 |
| 1994 | Joan Dickson, cellist, professor at Royal College of Music in London, dies at 72 |
| 1994 | Raich Carter, footballer, dies at 80 |
| 1993 | Geert de Vlaeminck, Belgian champion cyclist, dies at 26 |
| 1992 | Willy Brandt, German chancellor (1969-74), dies |
| 1991 | Roy Black, German singer and actor (Kinderarzt Dr. Froehlich), dies |
| 1991 | Thalmus Rasulala, actor (Blacula), dies of heart attack at 51 |
| 1990 | Richard Murdoch, actor (Lilli Marlene), dies of heart attack at 83 |
| 1988 | Edward Chodorov, playwright/director (Louis Pasteur), dies at 84 |
| 1988 | Felix Wankel, developer of Wankel rotary engine, dies |
| 1987 | Clare A Booth Luce, U.S. diplomat/journalist, dies at 84 |
| 1983 | Sun Suk Joon, South Korean vice premier, murdered |
| 1982 | Anna Freud, Austria/English psychoanalyst/daughter of Sigmund, dies at 86 |
| 1978 | Jacques Brel, Belgian chansonnier, buried on Atuama, dies at 49 |
| 1974 | Oskar Schindler, Businessman |
| 1972 | Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter, dies at 72 |
| 1972 | Miriam Hopkins, actress (Carrie, Barbary Coast), dies at 69 |
| 1970 | Jean Giono, writer, dies |
| 1968 | Pierre Mulele, Congolese rebel leader, executed |
| 1967 | Andre Maurois, Emile Herzog, French writer (Balzac), dies |
| 1967 | Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentinian-born guerrilla, executed in Bolivia |
| 1963 | Thurlow Weed Lieurance, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1962 | Lulu McConnell, comediene (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 80 |
| 1960 | Howard Glenn, New York Titan, dies of injuries sustain in this day's game |
| 1958 | Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli, Pope (1939-58), dies at 82 |
| 1955 | Alice Joyce, actress (Song O' My Heart), dies at 65 |
| 1954 | Robert H. Jackson, American Statesman |
| 1949 | Viktor Alexandrovich Uspensky, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1943 | Gerard W. Kerncamp, historian/editor-in-chief (Green Amsterdam), dies |
| 1943 | Jan Dieters, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed |
| 1943 | Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed |
| 1943 | Pieter Zeeman, naturalist (Nobel 1902), dies |
| 1937 | August de Boeck, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1937 | George AA Alting van Geusau, Dutch Minister of war (1918-20), dies at 73 |
| 1934 | J-Louis-F Barthou, French writer/premier/foreign minister, murdered |
| 1934 | King Alexander, of Yugoslavia, killed by Georgief (Croatian terrorist) |
| 1918 | Michail V Alekseyev, Russian general (WW I), murdered at 60 |
| 1917 | Hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17), dies at 63 |
| 1915 | Constant A M Cap, Flemish poet/etcher, dies at 73 |
| 1912 | Millie and Christine, Siamese twins, dies at 61 |
| 1907 | Romualdo Marenco, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1906 | Joseph F Glidden, inventor (barbed wire), dies |
| 1900 | Heinrich von Herzogenberg, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1897 | John Heemskerk Azn, Dutch Internal minister (1866..88), dies at 79 |
| 1891 | Johannes Tideman, theologist, dies at 83 |
| 1841 | Karl F Schinkel, German painter/writer (Neue Wache), dies at 60 |
| 1837 | Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies |
| 1831 | Joannis Capodistrias, President of Greece (1829-31), murdered |
| 1821 | Georg-Friederich Fuchs, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1806 | Benjamin Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74 |
| 1797 | Elia van Vilnius, Latvian rabbi, dies at 77 |
| 1797 | Elijah B Solomon Zalman, rabbi/Gaon of Vilna, dies |
| 1781 | Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1769 | Marianus Konigsperger, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1729 | Richard Blackmore, English Poet |
| 1646 | Baltasar Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip IV, dies |
| 1562 | Gabriel Fallopius, Modena Italy, anatomist, dies |
| 1436 | Jacoba van Bavarian, countess of Holland/Zealand, dies at 35 |
| 1423 | Frederik III of Blankenheim, bishop of Straatsburg/Utrecht, dies |
| 1390 | Johan I, king of Castilie (1379-90), dies |
| 1326 | Reinald I, earl of Gelre/monarch, went insane, dies |
| 1253 | Grosseteste, an English scholar, dies at 78 |
| 1047 | Clemens II, Suitger, Pope (1046-47), dies |
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