| 2004 | Fred Ebb, lyricist, Caberet, dies at 71 |
| 2003 | Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, Swedish foreign minister, dies in Stockholm, Sweden, at age 46, murdered by a knife attack while shopping |
| 2003 | John Ritter, actor/comic, Three's Company, dies at 56 |
| 2002 | Johnny Unitas, quarterback, dies at 69 |
| 2002 | Kim Hunter, actress, movie version of A Streetcar Named Desire, |
| 2001 | Alice Trillin, writer, Dear Bruno, dies at 63 |
| 2001 | Barbara Olson, "political commentator, writer", Politically Incorrect, dies at 45 - a 9/11 terrorist murder |
| 2001 | Berry Berenson, photographer/actress, dies at 53 - a 9/11 terrorist murder |
| 2001 | David Angell, producer, Frasier, dies at 55 - a 9/11 terrorist murder |
| 2000 | Herbert H. Bateman, Representative-R-Virginia 1982 - 2000, died of natural causes |
| 1996 | Guido Aristarco, film critic, dies at 77 |
| 1996 | JoAnne Dru, actress (Sylvia, Drango), dies of lymphedema at 73 |
| 1996 | Peter Phillips, printer, dies at 61 |
| 1995 | Charles William Hutton, architect, dies at 90 |
| 1995 | Jerome Theisen, benedioctine, dies at 64 |
| 1995 | Keith Odor, racing Driver, dies at 33 |
| 1994 | Frederick Rand Weissman, philanthropist, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Jessica Tandy, actress (Driving Miss Daisy), dies of cancer at 85 |
| 1994 | Sara Taylor, mother of Elizabeth, dies at 62 |
| 1994 | William Obanheim, actor (Officer Obie-Alice's Restaurant), dies at 69 |
| 1993 | Antoine Izmery, Haitian businessman/advisor to President Aristide, murdered |
| 1993 | Erich Leinsdorf, Austria/US conductor/author (Cadenza), dies at 81 |
| 1992 | Erik Terpstra, director (Versier de leegte, De ander, Daniel), dies |
| 1992 | Frank Singuineau, actor (Firepower, Pressure, Mummy), dies |
| 1992 | Paul Storken, Dutch priest (Away Backing), dies |
| 1990 | Ben Frank, actor (Don't Answer the Phone), dies of heart attack at 56 |
| 1988 | George Alpert, railroad executive, dies at 90 |
| 1988 | Luis W. Alvarez, physicist (Nobel-1968), dies at 77 |
| 1988 | Peter Tosh, reggae singer shot dead at 43 in Jamacia |
| 1987 | Lorne Greene, actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica), dies at 72 |
| 1985 | William Alwyn, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1984 | Hilding Hallnas, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1982 | Albert Soboult, French historian, dies at 68 |
| 1981 | Frank McHugh, actor (Dawn Patrol, Going My Way), dies at 83 |
| 1980 | Jose Antonio Calcano, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1977 | Don Blackman, actor (Old Man and Sea, Desert Legion), dies at 65 |
| 1977 | Leonard Carey, actor (Laughter), dies at 90 |
| 1976 | Jan Kunc, composer, writer, pedagogue, composed chamber music, piano, solo vocal, dies at 93 in Brno, Czech Republic |
| 1973 | Salvador Allende Gossens, president Chile (1970-73), dies at 65 |
| 1971 | Nikita Khrushchev, dies of a heart attack at 77 |
| 1971 | Percy Helton, actor (Homer-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 77 |
| 1970 | Chester Morris, actor (Diagnosis: Unknown), dies at 69 |
| 1966 | Charlie Cantor, actor (Artie-Ray Bolger Show), dies at 68 |
| 1959 | Paul Douglas, actor (Adventure Theater), dies at 52 |
| 1958 | Robert Lach, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1958 | Robert W. Service, Scottish Poet |
| 1957 | Petar Stojanovic, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1954 | Licinio Refice, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1950 | John C Smuts, co-found British RAF/South African Prime Minister 1919 - 1948, dies at 80 |
| 1949 | Henri Rabaud, French composer and conductor (L'ete), dies at 75 |
| 1948 | Mohammed Ali Jinnah, 1st governor of Pakistan (1947-48), dies at 71 |
| 1948 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistani Politician |
| 1946 | Arthur van Schendel, writer (Holland Drama), dies at 72) |
| 1924 | Mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1922 | Louis Coerne, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1917 | Georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot, dies at 22 |
| 1898 | Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1896 | Anton Joseph Bruckner, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1892 | Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1891 | Antera Tarquinis de Quental, Portuguese poet/revolutionary, dies at 49 |
| 1888 | Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74), dies at 77 |
| 1870 | Eugenio Lucas y Padilla, Spanish poet, dies at about 46 |
| 1858 | Alexander L'vovich Gurilyov, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1848 | Henri-Philippe Gerard, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1798 | Ulrich Braker, writer, dies at 62 |
| 1789 | Luca Sorkocevic, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1733 | Francois Couperin, French composer (Le Grand), dies at 64 |
| 1721 | Rudolph J Camerarius, German physician (sexuality plans), dies |
| 1712 | Giovanni D Cassini, French astronomer, dies |
| 1709 | Hamilton, Scottish general (Malplaquet), dies in battle |
| 1709 | Oxenstiern, German general (Malplaquet), dies in battle |
| 1709 | Spaar, German general (Malplaquet), dies in battle |
| 1646 | Johann Stobaeus, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1630 | John de White, calvinist/banker to Prague, commits suicide |
| 1606 | Carel van Mander, Flemish painter/art historian, dies at 58 |
| 1599 | Cornelis de Houtman, navigator (1st Dutch trip to Java), murder at 35 |
| 1297 | Hugh de Cressingham, English treasurer, dies in battle |
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