| 2009 | Norman Borlaug, humanitarian, agronomist, discoveries saved one billion lives worldwide, winner, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing contributions to world peace for methods to increase food supply, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, dies |
| 2005 | Serge Lang, Mathematician |
| 2003 | Johnny Cash, man-in-black, Boy Named Sue, dies at 71 |
| 2002 | Lloyd Biggle, "science fiction, mystery writer", dies at 79 |
| 2001 | Victor Wong, actor/newscaster, Big Trouble in Little China, dies at 74 |
| 1998 | John Holliman, CNN journalist, dies at 49 |
| 1997 | Stikkan Stig Anderson, music entrepreneur (Polar), dies at 66 |
| 1997 | Judith Merril, editor/writer, That Only a Mother, dies at 74 |
| 1996 | Ernesto Geisel, military president of Brazil 1974 - 1979, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Geoffrey Bryan Bentley, moral theologian, dies at 87 |
| 1996 | George Patrick Reid, schoolkeeper, dies at 59 |
| 1996 | James Gulliver, businessman, dies at 66 |
| 1996 | Richard Maling Barrer, chemist, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Geoffrey Stokes, rock and roll writer, dies at 55 |
| 1995 | Jeremy Brett, English actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 59 |
| 1995 | Jeremy William Huggins Brett (Moll Flanders), actor, dies at 59 |
| 1995 | John Stuart-Jervis, balloonist, dies |
| 1995 | Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales, bassist, dies at 59 |
| 1994 | Boris B Yegorov, Russian doctor/cosmonaut (Voskhod I), dies at 56 |
| 1994 | Douglas MacKenzie Davey, psychometrist, dies at 72 |
| 1994 | Major Bill Smith, record producer, dies at 72 |
| 1994 | Tom Ewell, S Yewell Tompkins, U.S. actor (7 Year Itch), dies at 85 |
| 1993 | Charles Lamont, actor and director (Abbott and Costello movies), dies at 95 |
| 1993 | Harold Innocent, actor (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), dies at 60 |
| 1993 | Herman Nieland, organist/pianist/composer, dies at 82 |
| 1993 | Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason), dies of liver cancer at 76 |
| 1992 | Anthony Perkins, actor (Psycho), dies from AIDs at 60 |
| 1992 | Ed Peck, actor (Zoot Suit, Bullitt), dies of heart attack at 75 |
| 1992 | Ruth Nelson, actress (Awakenings, 3 Women), dies at 87 |
| 1991 | Jacques Benoit, JJM Bayer, poet, dies |
| 1991 | Regis Toomey, actor (You're in the Army Now, Burke's Law), dies at 93 |
| 1990 | Athene Seyler, actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 101 |
| 1989 | Anton Lubowski, Namibian attorney/SWAPO, murdered at 37 |
| 1988 | Alan Bible, Senator-D-Nevada, 1954 - 1974, dies at 78 |
| 1988 | Lauris Morstad, NATO commander/CEO Corning Fiberglass, dies at 71 |
| 1987 | John Qualen, actor (Patch of Blue, Jungle Book), dies |
| 1986 | Frank Nelson, actor (Ralph-I Love Lucy, Jack Benny Show), dies at 75 |
| 1986 | Jacques-Henri Lartigue, French photographer, dies at 92 |
| 1982 | Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor and director (Paul Vlaanderen), dies at 89 |
| 1980 | Lillian Randolph, actress (Roots, Amos n Andy), dies at 65 |
| 1978 | Frank Ferguson, actor (Wagons West, Dynamite, My Gal Sal), dies at 69 |
| 1977 | Robert Lowell, U.S. poet/pacifist (Near the Ocean), dies at 60) |
| 1977 | Steven Biko, South African black student leader, dies in police custody |
| 1973 | Eduard Flipse, Dutch conductor/composer, dies at 77 |
| 1973 | Marjorie Post, U.S. philanthropic/multi-millionaire ($200m), dies at 86 |
| 1972 | William Boyd, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy), dies at 77 |
| 1971 | Lin Piau, Chinese minister of Defense, dies at 63 |
| 1963 | Mervyn A Ellison, British astronomer (spectrohelioscope), dies at 63 |
| 1955 | Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary (La Gazette), dies at 86 |
| 1953 | Lewis Stone, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies of heart attack at 73 |
| 1947 | Harry Rowe Shelley, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1936 | Hermann Hirt, German linguist (Indo-European Grammar), dies at 70 |
| 1934 | Catherine Kunstantino Breshkovsky, mother of Russian revolution, dies |
| 1927 | Walther Amelung, German archaeologist, dies at 61 |
| 1919 | Leonid N Andrejev, Russian journalist and writer (Seven Hangs), dies at 48 |
| 1919 | Leonid Andreyev, Russian Playwright |
| 1894 | Rafael Nunez, Colombia, 3 times president (188?..94), dies at 68 |
| 1879 | Peter Arnold Heise, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1878 | Friedrich August von Alberti, geologist (Triasic Age), dies at 83 |
| 1877 | Julius Reitz, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1876 | Henry A. Wise, American Statesman |
| 1875 | Chauncey Wright, American Philosopher |
| 1871 | Karl Collan, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1836 | Christian Dietrich Grabbe, writer, dramatist, anti-Semite, idolized by the Nazis, works include, 'Hannibal', 1835, dies at 34 |
| 1824 | Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer, dies at 62 |
| 1819 | Gebhard Leberecht Furst von Blucher von Wahlstatt, General, dies at 76 |
| 1815 | Jose Mauricio, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1813 | Edmund Randolph, American Lawyer |
| 1812 | Pyotr I Bagration, Georgian/Russian ruler/general, dies in battle |
| 1807 | Edward Miller, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1806 | Christian Gottfried Thomas, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1789 | Franz Xaver Richter, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1764 | Jean Philippe Rameau, French composer (Castor en Pollux), dies at 80 |
| 1739 | Reinhard Keiser, Germ conductor and composer (Markus-Passion), dies at 65 |
| 1733 | Francois Couperin "Le Grand", French composer, dies at 64 |
| 1732 | Eugene JP earl the Merode, Belgian marquis of Westerloo, dies at 58 |
| 1691 | Johan Georg III, monarch of Saxon (1680-91), dies at 44 |
| 1683 | Afonso VI, mentally ill king of Portugal (1656-67), dies at 40 |
| 1674 | Claes P "Nicolas" Tulip, mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 80 |
| 1661 | Jacobus de la Torra, RC apostole vicar of Holland, dies at about 53 |
| 1660 | Jacob Cats, Father Cats, pension advisor of Holland, dies at 82 |
| 1647 | Joos Banckert, Swiss Admiral (Spanish silver fleet), dies at 48 |
| 1642 | Cinq Mars, French plotter, executed |
| 1604 | Louis Gunther, earl of Nassau, dies in battle at about 29 |
| 1591 | Richard Grenville, Vice-Admiral (Roanoke) dies in battle at 49 |
| 1500 | Albrecht III van Saxon-Meisen, duke of Saxon, dies at 57 |
| 1362 | Innocent VI, Etienne Aubert, Pope (1352-62), dies |
| 1213 | Pedro II, el Catolico, king of Aragon, dies in battle |
| 1015 | Lambert I with the Beard, count of Leuven, dies in battle at about 65 |
| 1012 | Guido van Anderlecht, Flemish pilgrim/saint, dies |
| 352 | Maximinus van Trier, bishop of Trier/saint, dies |
