| 2003 | Garrett Hardin, American Environmentalist |
| 2002 | LaWanda Page, actress, Sanford and Son, dies at 81 |
| 2000 | Beah Richards, actress, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, dies at 74 |
| 1999 | Harry Crane, writer, The Honeymooners, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Clive Beadon, airman, dies at 77 |
| 1996 | Joe Elsby Martin, boxing coach, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Juliet Prowse, actress/dancer (Mona McCluskey), dies at 59 |
| 1995 | Eiji Okada, actor (Traffic Jam, Yakuza, Ugly American), dies at 75 |
| 1994 | David van Cup, sculptor/painter, dies at 57 |
| 1992 | David Jones, actor, commits suicide (had terminal cancer) at 76 |
| 1992 | Ted Weiss, (Rep-NY, 1977-92), dies at 64 |
| 1992 | Theodore S. Weiss, Representative-D-New York 1977 - 1992 |
| 1991 | Julie Bovasso, actress (Saturday Night Fever), dies at 61 of cancer |
| 1990 | Wime de Craene, Flemish chansonnier/composer, dies |
| 1988 | Louis Quinn, actor (Unholy Rollers), dies at 73 of cancer |
| 1985 | John Holt, Australian Statesman |
| 1984 | Janet Gaynor, actress (Sunrise), dies at 77 from a traffic accident |
| 1982 | Bashir Gemayel, falangist Lebanon's president-elect, killed by a bomb |
| 1982 | Grace Kelly, princess of Monaco, dies in a car crash at 52 |
| 1982 | John C Gardner, U.S., writer (Life and Times of Chaucer High), dies at 49 |
| 1981 | Yasuji Kiyose, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1981 | [Walter] Furry Lewis, father of blues, dies at 88 of a heart attack |
| 1979 | Raymond Loucheur, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1974 | Barbara Jo Allen, actress (Girl Rush, Melody Ranch), dies at 66 |
| 1974 | Pieter Y Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer, dies at 95 |
| 1974 | Vera Vague, Barbara Jo Allen, actress 'Follow the Leader', dies at 70 |
| 1974 | Warren Hull, actor (Strike it Rich, Who in the World), dies at 71 |
| 1972 | Kornelis Posthumus, chemist, dies at 70 |
| 1970 | Rudolph Carnap, German philosopher/mathematician, dies at 79 |
| 1969 | James Anderson, actor (Connection, Five), dies at 48 |
| 1967 | Mohammed Abdul Hakim Amer, Egyptian vice-PM, commits suicide at 47 |
| 1966 | Gertrude Berg, actress (Molly Goldberg-Goldbergs), dies at 66 |
| 1966 | Nikolai Cherkasov, actor (Ivan the Terrible), dies at 63 |
| 1964 | Mary Howe, composer, pianist, studied with Nadia Boulanger, famous works include 'Chain Gang Song', 'Sand, Stars, Rock', dies at 82 |
| 1962 | Marcel Delannoy, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1959 | Wayne Morris, actor (Kid Galahad), dies of heart attack at 45 |
| 1955 | F C Weiskopf, writer, dies |
| 1937 | Tomas G. Masaryk, philosopher/president of Czechoslovakian 1918 - 1935, dies at 87 |
| 1936 | Ossip Gabrilovich, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1932 | Jean Emile Paul Cras, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1927 | Isadora Duncan, dies as her scarf became entangled in her car's wheel |
| 1926 | Johan LE Dreyer, Danish astronomer (Catalog of Nebulae), dies at 74 |
| 1916 | Josiah Royce, U.S. philosopher (Conception of Immortality), dies |
| 1911 | Piotr Stolypin, Russia's PM, assassinated by Mordka Bogrov |
| 1905 | Pietro/Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, 1st French Congo Governor (1890-98), die |
| 1902 | Reinhold Finsterbusch, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1901 | President William McKinley, dies in Buffalo, of gunshot wounds inflicted |
| 1899 | Henry Bliss, 1st auto death (New York City) |
| 1898 | Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper), dies |
| 1895 | Alfred J Verwee, Flemish painter, dies at 57 |
| 1887 | Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher and writer (Auch einer), dies |
| 1886 | Hubert Reis, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1872 | Yury Nikolayevich Golitsin, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1862 | Jesse Lee Reno, Union general-major (Reno Nevada), dies at 39 |
| 1862 | Samuel Garland, Jr., U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle |
| 1861 | Fortunato Santini, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1852 | Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington, dies at 83 |
| 1852 | James F Cooper, writer, dies at 62 |
| 1844 | Oliver Holden, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1836 | Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice President, dies |
| 1836 | Vincenzo Lavigna, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1819 | Erik Acharius, Swedish botanist, dies |
| 1788 | John Penn, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 47 |
| 1788 | Theodore-Jean Tarade, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1763 | Johann Philipp Sack, composer, dies at 40 |
| 1759 | Louis Joseph Montcalm, French general (Plains of Abraham), dies at 47 |
| 1750 | Carl T Pachelbel, U.S. organist/composer |
| 1743 | Johann Michael Muller, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1712 | Jean [Giovanni] D Cassini, Italian/French astronomer, dies |
| 1693 | Aert Jansz van Nes, Young boer Jaep, lt-admiral, dies at 67 |
| 1646 | Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of Essex, dies |
| 1646 | Thomas H earl of Arundel, English art collector (Marbles), dies |
| 1645 | Heinrich Steuccius, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1637 | Pierre Vernier [Peter Werner], French mathematician, dies |
| 1538 | Henry of Nassau-Dillenburg and Dietz, viceroy of Holland, dies |
| 1523 | Adrian VI, Adriaan F Bieyens, only Dutch Pope (1522-23), dies at 64 |
| 1321 | Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divine Commedy), dies at 56 |
| 1146 | Imad ad-Din Zengi, Governor of Basra, murdered |
| 891 | Stephen V, VI, Italian Pope (885-91), dies |
| 407 | Johannes Chrysostomus, patriarch, dies |
| 258 | Thascius C Cyprian, Saint/Bishop of Carthage, dies at 58 |
