| 2004 | Russ Meyer, maker of busty movies, Vixen, dies at 82 |
| 2002 | Bob Hayes, American Athlete |
| 2000 | Bea Marcus, pitchwoman, famous for saying I've fallen and I can't get up!, dies at 88 |
| 1997 | Harry Brian Boyne, journalist, dies at 87 |
| 1997 | Jimmy Witherspoon, singer, dies at 65 |
| 1996 | Spiro Theodore Agnew, U.S. Vice President (1969-73), dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic, dies at 73 |
| 1995 | Doreen Cannon, teacher of acting (London), dies at 64 |
| 1995 | Lesley Sunderland, decorative artist, dies at 47 |
| 1994 | Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer, dies at 44 |
| 1994 | Vitas Gerulaitis, tennis star (Davis Cup 1979), dies at 40 |
| 1986 | Corita Kent, artist, educator, mediums include silkscreen, serigraphy, producing fine art with messages of love and peace, famous work includes the 1985 Love Samp and Rainbow Swash, dies of cancer |
| 1980 | K A Porter, writer, dies at 90 |
| 1979 | Gene Kelly, sportscaster (Sportsreel), dies at 60 |
| 1975 | Pamela Brown, actress (Cleopatra, Beckett, Night Digger), dies at 58 |
| 1974 | Edna Best, actress (Key, Calendar, Escape), dies at 74 |
| 1973 | Nora Nicholson, actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow), dies at 80 |
| 1973 | Theo Lefevre, premier Belgium, dies |
| 1970 | Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist (Purple Hayes), dies of an overdose at 27 |
| 1969 | Rudolph Wagner-Regeny, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1968 | Franchot Tone, actor (Advise and Consent, Dark Waters), dies at 63 |
| 1968 | Francis McDonald, actor (Will-Adv of Champion), dies at 77 |
| 1968 | Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 65 |
| 1966 | Fernand Lamy, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1964 | Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (Playboy of Western World), dies at 84 |
| 1964 | Clive Bell, English Critic |
| 1962 | Therese Neumann, German stigma, dies at 64 |
| 1961 | Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations Secretary General, dies in an air crash over Congo at 56 |
| 1952 | Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Dreamy), dies |
| 1952 | Maria Matos, Portuguese actress (Menina da Radio), dies at 61 |
| 1951 | John Douglas Cockcroft, physicist, dies |
| 1949 | Frank Morgan, actor (Annie Get Your Gun, Wizard of Oz), dies at 59 |
| 1949 | Theodor Zockler, German theologist (Jodenzending), dies at 82 |
| 1944 | Anthony Stefanich, British boxer/captain, killed in Arnhem |
| 1944 | Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch premier (1933-39), dies at 75 |
| 1944 | Hubert Ahaus, chaplin (Godsrijk), dies at 67 |
| 1944 | Paul Grabner, German SS-captain, dies in battle in Arnhem |
| 1944 | Peter Waddy, British major 1st Para Brigade, dies in battle in Arnhem |
| 1944 | Robert Cole, U.S. Lt-colonel, dies in battle at Best |
| 1934 | Marie Shotwell, actress (Sally of the Sawdust), dies at 54 |
| 1929 | Hermann Gradener, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1924 | Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism), dies |
| 1924 | F. H. Bradley, British Philosopher |
| 1918 | Ernest Bristow Farrar, composer, dies at 33 |
| 1911 | Pjotr A Stolypin, premier Russia (1906-11), murdered at 49 |
| 1905 | George MacDonald, sci-fi author (Princess and Curdie), dies at 80 |
| 1904 | Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto, dies |
| 1903 | Isidor Vorobchievici, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1903 | Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1903 | Alexander Bain, Scottish Philosopher |
| 1896 | Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau, physicist, dies |
| 1894 | Rafael Nunez, president (Colombia)/writer (La fonolgia Moderna), dies |
| 1890 | Dion Boucicault, Irish/US actor and playwright (Octoroon), dies at 67 |
| 1879 | Daniel Drew, American Businessman |
| 1872 | Charles XV Louis E, king of Sweden/Norway (1859-72), dies |
| 1860 | Casimiro de Abreu, Brazilians poet (Primaveras), dies |
| 1860 | Joseph Locke, railway engineer, dies |
| 1857 | Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1831 | Peter Hansel, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1830 | William Hazlitt, critic/essayist, dies |
| 1827 | Robert Pollok, poet, dies |
| 1819 | John Langdon, American Politician |
| 1818 | Olaf Swaertz, botanist, dies |
| 1797 | Louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general, dies |
| 1792 | Gottlieb August Spangenberg, founder (Moravian Church in Amer), dies |
| 1783 | Leonhard Euler, mathematician, dies |
| 1775 | Andrew Foulis, bookseller/printer, dies |
| 1759 | James Wolfe and the French commander Louis Montcalm, killed |
| 1735 | Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator), dies at 51 |
| 1721 | Matthew Prior, poet/diplomat, dies |
| 1684 | Jan A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes, poet (Ystroom), dies at 37 |
| 1426 | Hubert [Huybrecht] van Eyck, painter, dies |
| 1261 | Koenraad van Hochstaden, archbishop of Cologne, dies |
| 1180 | Louis VII, King of France, dies |
| 1137 | Erik II Eimune, Onvergetelijke, king of Denmark (1134-37), murdered |
| 993 | Arnulf vanf Gent, Westfries earl (988-93), dies in battle |
| 96 | Domitian, Roman emperor, dies |
| 31 | Sejanus, Roman head of praetorisch guard, executed |
