| 2003 | Ron Burton, American Athlete |
| 2001 | Dorothy McGuire, actress, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, dies at 83 |
| 1998 | George Wallace, politician, infamous Alabama governor, dies at 79 |
| 1996 | Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl, historian, dies at 68 |
| 1996 | Cesar Mendoza, general of Military junta of Chile (1973-85), dies |
| 1996 | Jane Baxter, actress (We Live Again, Blossom Time), dies at 87 |
| 1996 | Silas Roy Crain, singer/songwriter, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Tupac Shakur, rap star/actor (Juice, Bullet), killed in drive by at 25 |
| 1995 | Francesco Messina, sculptor, dies at 94 |
| 1995 | Harold Sheperdson, soccer Trainer, dies at 76 |
| 1995 | Walter Goetz, illustrator cartoonist/painter, dies at 83 |
| 1994 | John William Stevens, jazz drummer, dies at 54 |
| 1994 | Kaleria Fadicheva, ballerina, dies at 58 |
| 1994 | Pieter Zaanen, architect (Musical Trade scholarship, Amsterdam), dies |
| 1992 | Lou Jacobs, U.S. clown (1966 U.S. postage stamp), dies at 89 |
| 1991 | Ferry Barendse, trumpeter/composer/arranger (Ramblers), dies |
| 1991 | Joe Pasternak, producer (Spinout, Big City), dies of Parkinson's at 73 |
| 1990 | Samuel S. Stratton, Representative-D-New York 1959 - 1989, died at age 73 |
| 1989 | Geza Frid, Hungarian/Dutch pianist/composer, dies |
| 1989 | Yamada Koun, Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies at 82 |
| 1987 | Mervyn Leroy, actor/screenwriter/director (Quo Vadis), dies at 86 |
| 1985 | Dane Rudhyar, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1982 | Grace, Princess of Monaco, dies at 52 in a car crash |
| 1982 | Philip Ober, actor (General Stone-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 80 |
| 1981 | William Loeb, publisher of Manchester Union Leader, New Hampshire, dies at 75 |
| 1977 | Leopold Stokowski, symphonic conductors, dies in England, at 95 |
| 1973 | Betty Field, actress (Kings Row), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 60 |
| 1971 | Nelly A "Nell" Knoop, Dutch actress (Silent Waters), dies at 72 |
| 1971 | Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow |
| 1971 | Lin Biao, Chinese Politician |
| 1969 | Charles Foulkes, Canada gen/honorary citizen of Wageningen, dies at 66 |
| 1967 | Russell L Rogers, USAF/astronaut (X-20), dies in explosion at 38 |
| 1960 | Leo Weiner, Hungarian composer (Toldi), dies at 75 |
| 1959 | Gilbert Adrian, costume designer, dies of heart attack at 56 |
| 1953 | Lewis Stone, actor (Just This Once, Key to the City), dies at 73 |
| 1950 | Sara Allgood, Irish actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase), dies at 56 |
| 1948 | Paul Wegener, German actor and director (Golem, Svengali), dies at 73 |
| 1938 | Samuel Alexander, English philosopher (Space, time and deity), dies at 79 |
| 1932 | Julius Rontgen, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1932 | Paul Gorguloff, murderer of French President Doumer, beheaded |
| 1928 | Italo Svevo, Ettore Schmitz, Italian writer (Una Vita), dies at 66 |
| 1924 | Pekka Hannikainen, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1921 | Italo Svevo, writer, dies at 59 |
| 1921 | Ludwig-Alexander von Battenberg [Mountbatten], Admiral (WW I), dies at 67 |
| 1913 | Alfred Gaul, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1906 | Georg Jacobi, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1894 | Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (Espana, L'etoile), dies at 53 |
| 1881 | Ambrose Everett Burnside, U.S. Union general, dies at 57 |
| 1872 | Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man what he eats), dies at 68 |
| 1859 | Cornelis J van Axes, lawyer, dies at 71 |
| 1813 | Louis-Alexandre Crette, Belgian porselein painter, dies at about 55 |
| 1806 | Charles James Fox, English Politician |
| 1803 | John Barry, 1st American commodore, dies |
| 1759 | James Wolfe, British general (Plains of Abraham), dies in battle at 32 |
| 1657 | Jacob van Campen, painter/architect (Amsterdam Townhall), dies at 62 |
| 1650 | Ferdinand, of Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik/archbishop, dies at 72 |
| 1598 | Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98), dies at 71 |
| 1596 | Pieter D Keyzer/Keyser, astronomer/navigator (Java) |
| 1592 | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, French philosopher (L'Amitie), dies at 59 |
| 1592 | Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher |
| 1321 | Dante Alighieri, author (Divine Comedy), dies |
| 867 | Nicholas I, the Great, Italian Pope (858-67), dies |
| 81 | Titus Flavius Vespasianus, emperor of Rome (69-81), dies at about 42 |
