| 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 | Lloyd Turner, journalist, dies at 57 |
| 1996 | Oscar Michael Moore, journalist, dies at 36 |
| 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 | Grabbe, writer, 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 |
