| 2007 | Jean Balissat, composer, professor of composition and orchestration, University of Geneva, dies in Corcelles-le-Jorat, Switzerland |
| 2005 | Gordon Gould, American Physicist |
| 2003 | Sheb Wooley, singer/actor, ", One-eyed, One-horn Flying Purple People Eater, ", dies at 82 |
| 2002 | James Gregory, actor, Barney Miller, dies at 90 |
| 2002 | Tony Martinez, actor, The Real McCoys, dies at 82 |
| 1997 | Antony Kearey, television producer, dies at 77 |
| 1996 | Andrew MacElhone, bar owner, dies at 73 |
| 1996 | Gene Nelson, actor/dancer (SOB, Purple Hills, Starlift), dies at 76 |
| 1996 | McGeorge Bundy, U.S. national security advisor (1961-66), dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Michael Balfour, historian, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Pierre Olaf, cabaret artist/clown, dies at 67 |
| 1994 | Alain Bernardin, impressario of the Crazy Horse Saloon, dies at 78 |
| 1994 | Albert de Courtray, French archbishop of Lyon/cardinal, dies at 71 |
| 1994 | Bernie Lazaroff Leighton, pianist, dies at 73 |
| 1994 | Dolly Hare, German/British actress (Broken Blossom), dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Jack Dodson, actor (Howard Sprague-Andy Griffith Show), dies at 63 |
| 1993 | Johanna F Zandstra-Giezen, oldest person in Netherland, dies at 111 |
| 1993 | Willie Mosconi, world billiards champ, dies of heart attack at 80 |
| 1992 | Duke Robbins, entertainer, dies of pneumonia at 71 |
| 1992 | Lee Tully, entertainer, dies |
| 1992 | Millicent Fenwick, Representative-R-New Jersey 1975 - 1982, dies at 82 |
| 1991 | Carol White, actress (Prehistoric Women, Dulcima), dies at 47 |
| 1990 | Loretta Tupper, radio/TV entertainer, dies of cancer at 84 |
| 1990 | Steve Condos, tap dancer, dies of heart attack at 71 |
| 1982 | Rolfe Sedan, actor (Mr Beasley-Burns and Allen Show), dies at 86 |
| 1979 | Nur Mohammed Taraki, president of Afghanistan (1978-79), killed |
| 1977 | Marc Bolan, rock vocalist and guitarist (T Rex), dies in a car crash at 29 |
| 1977 | Maria Callas, American-born prima donna, dies in Paris at 53 |
| 1973 | Frederic Meyer, actor (Faraway Hill), dies at 63 |
| 1971 | Ferdinand LR Sassen, priest/philosopher (Descartes), dies at 77 |
| 1964 | Leo Weismantel, German writer (Das Totenliebespar), dies at 76 |
| 1962 | Saif al-Islam Achmad, monarch of Yemen, dies at about 71 |
| 1961 | Yme C Schuitmaker, potato farmer/dramatist, dies |
| 1957 | Ch'i Pai-shih, traditional Chinese painter, dies at 93 |
| 1955 | Leopold C M S Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), dies at 81 |
| 1953 | Colin G Fink, U.S. chemist (electro-chemistry), dies |
| 1951 | Bill Klem, American Athlete |
| 1950 | Pedro De Cordoba, actor (Club Havana, Swamp Fire), dies at 68 |
| 1948 | Ferdinand I MKLM, prince of Saxony-Coburg/tsar of Bulgaria, dies |
| 1946 | James Jeans, English physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 69 |
| 1945 | John "Pa" van de Steur, philanthropist (Java), dies at 80 |
| 1945 | John McCormack, Irish singer (Irish national anthem/folk songs), dies |
| 1936 | Irving Thalberg, U.S. producer (MGM), dies |
| 1936 | Karl Buresch, Austrian politician, dies |
| 1926 | Rudolf C Eucken, German philosopher (Nobel 1908), dies at 80 |
| 1925 | Leo Fall, Austria operetta composer (That Pink von Stambul), dies |
| 1925 | Leopold Fall, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1920 | Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet and writer (Polar History), dies at 32 |
| 1911 | Edward Whymper, English mountaineer (Ascent of Matterhorn), dies |
| 1896 | Carlos Gomez, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1845 | John Kinker, translator/philosopher/poet, dies at 81 |
| 1837 | Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61), dies |
| 1834 | Antoine-Vincent Arnault, French writer (Guillaume the Nassau), dies |
| 1824 | Louis XVIII SX, earl of Province/king of France (1814-24), dies |
| 1798 | Damasus Brosmann, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1736 | Daniel G Fahrenheit, Prussian/Netherlands physicist (thermometer), dies at 50 |
| 1696 | Lambert Pietkin, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1672 | Anne Bradstreet, American poet, dies (birth date unknown) |
| 1652 | Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer, dies at 61 |
| 1589 | Michael Bajus, Michel de Bay, Belgian theologist, dies at 76? |
| 1542 | Diego de Almagro, Spanish captain-general of Peru, beheaded |
| 1498 | Tomas de Torquemada, inquisitor who burned 10,000 people, dies |
| 1394 | Clement VII, Robert de Geneve, Pope (1378-94), dies |
| 1380 | Charles V, the Wise, King of France (1364-80), dies |
| 1087 | Victor III, Dauferio/Desiderius, Italian Pope (1086-87), dies |
| 655 | Martinus I, bannished Pope (649-53), dies |
| 96 | Titus Flavius Domitianus, emperor of Rome (81-96), murdered at 45 |
