| 2003 | Rand Brooks, actor/businessman, Gone With the Wind, dies at 84 |
| 2000 | Ginetta Sagan, freedom fighter, a founder of Amnesty International, dies at 75 |
| 1996 | Brother Adam Kehrle, benedictine monk/beekeeper, dies at 98 |
| 1996 | Charles Daniels, archaeologist, dies at 63 |
| 1996 | George Levy, antique dealer/heritage campaigner, dies at 69 |
| 1996 | Vagn Holmboe, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Elizabeth Brown, minister healer/writer, dies at 32 |
| 1995 | Ernest Charles Melvin Patrick Ekundio Marke, club Owner, dies at 93 |
| 1994 | Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, bishop, dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Pieter C "Piet" Author, sailor/corrector, dies at 71 |
| 1993 | Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/communist, dies at 80 |
| 1993 | Hew Lorimer, British sculptor, dies at 86 |
| 1993 | Jacqueline Wijchers, film publicist (Havenloods, Sextant), dies at 89 |
| 1992 | Morris Carnovsky, U.S. actor (Dead Reckoning), dies at 94 |
| 1991 | Elise Hoomans, actress/director (Medea/Virginia Woolf?, dies) |
| 1991 | Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl), dies at 30 |
| 1991 | Steve Kemp, British light enterpeneur, dies |
| 1989 | A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commissioner, dies of heart attack at 51 |
| 1989 | A. Bartlett Giamatti, American Educator |
| 1988 | Leonor Sullivan, Representative-D-Missouri 1955 - 1977, dies at 86 |
| 1986 | Murray Hamilton, actor (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 63 |
| 1984 | Howland Chamberlin, actor (Force of Evil, Pickup), dies at 73 |
| 1983 | Henry M. Jackson, Senator-D-Washington 1941 - 1983, dies at 71 of an aortic aneurysm |
| 1983 | Lennox Brown, cricket leg spinner (3 wickets at 63 for South Africa), dies |
| 1983 | Henry M. Jackson, American Politician |
| 1982 | Clifford M Curzon, England, pianist, dies at 75 |
| 1982 | Wladislaw Gomulka, Polish partisan/party leader, dies at 76 |
| 1981 | Albert Speer, German NSDAP-architect/minister of Army at 76 |
| 1981 | Ann Harding, actress (When Ladies Meet, Devotion), dies |
| 1981 | Bui Thanh Liem, Vietnam, cosmonaut, dies in Mig-21 crash at 32 |
| 1979 | Doris Kenyon, silent screen actress (Alexander Hamilton), dies at 81 |
| 1978 | Olga de Haas, Dutch ballerina, dies at 33 |
| 1977 | Ethel Waters, actress (Beulah)/singer (Stormy Weather), dies at 76 |
| 1972 | May Aufderheide, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1970 | Francois Mauriac, writer, dies |
| 1969 | Drew Pearson, newscaster (Drew Pearson), dies at 71 |
| 1969 | William Flanagan, composer, dies at 46 |
| 1968 | Granville English, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1967 | Ilja Ehrenburg, writer, dies at 76 |
| 1967 | Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet and writer (Counterattack), dies at 80 |
| 1964 | George Georgescu, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1963 | Guy Burgess, British spy for the U.S.S.R. |
| 1963 | Jean Canneel, Flemish sculptor, dies at 73 |
| 1961 | Eero Saarinen, Finnish/US architect (Dulles Airport), dies at 51 |
| 1961 | William S Foster, chairman (U.S. Communist Party, 1945-57), dies at 80 |
| 1959 | Jack Norworth, American Musician |
| 1957 | Helen Haye, actress (Girl in the Taxi, Spy in Black), dies at 83 |
| 1955 | Philip Loeb, actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 61 |
| 1951 | Wolfgang Schulze, Wols, German drawer/painter, dies at 38 |
| 1948 | Charles A. Beard, American Historian |
| 1945 | Jacobus W. G. Balfoort, Dutch actor (Heimwee, Head On), dies at 57 |
| 1941 | Benjamin Dwight, U.S. tennis championship umpire, dies |
| 1914 | Martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo |
| 1912 | Sam[uel E] van Beem, actor (Dollar Princess), dies at 62 |
| 1912 | Samuel Coleridge Taylor, African-British composer, dies at 37 |
| 1903 | Charles Renouvier, French philosopher (neo criticism), dies |
| 1896 | Johannes Habert, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1880 | Antoon Jurgens, margarine maker, dies at 75 |
| 1867 | Edward Hodges, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1862 | Isaac Ingalls Stevens, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 44 |
| 1862 | Oliver Tilden, of the Bronx, killed in Civil War in Virginia |
| 1862 | Philip "Phil" Kearny, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 48 |
| 1838 | William Clark, 2nd lt of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies at 68 |
| 1814 | Erik Eriksson Tulindberg, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1801 | Robert Bage, English writer (Hermsprong), dies |
| 1780 | Reynier de Klerk, Governor-General of Dutch-Indies (1777-1800), dies at 69 |
| 1777 | Johann Ernst Bach, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1731 | Pierre Danican Philidor, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1729 | Richard Steele, British Dramatist |
| 1715 | Louis XIV, the great, king of France (1643-1715), dies at 76 |
| 1680 | Johan Georg II, ruler of Saxon (1656-80), dies at 67 |
| 1671 | Hugues de Lionne marquis de Berny, French ambassador to Rome, dies |
| 1666 | French Neck, portrait painter (Women Portrait), dies at about 86 |
| 1648 | Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (Number of Mersenne), dies at 59 |
| 1557 | Jacques Cartier, French explorer, dies (birth date unknown) |
| 1406 | Johanna, duchess of Brabant/Limburg (Joyful Entry), dies at 84 |
| 1215 | Otto van Gelre, son of Otto I/earl-elect of Utrecht |
| 1159 | Adrian IV, Nicole Breakspear, only English pope (1154-59), dies |
| 1067 | Boudouin V, earl of Flanders/guardian of king of France, dies |
