| 2002 | Abe Lemons, American Coach |
| 2001 | Dr. Christiaan Barnard, surgeon, ", performed the first heart transplant, South Africa 1967, ", dies at 78 |
| 2001 | Troy Donahue, actor, A Summer Place, dies at 65 |
| 2000 | Curt Siodmak, screenplay writer, The Wolf Man, dies at 98 |
| 2000 | Elvera Davis, tap dancer, dies at 95 |
| 2000 | Jean Speegle Howard, actress, Cocoon, dies at 73 |
| 1998 | Allen Drury, author/journalist, Advise and Consent, dies at 80 |
| 1998 | Dr. Jonathan Mann, AIDS expert, dies at 51 |
| 1998 | Mary-Lou Clements-Mann, AIDS expert, dies at 51 |
| 1997 | Rudolf Bing, opera manager (New York Met Opera), dies at 95 |
| 1997 | Viktor Frankl, psychotherapist (Man's Search for Meaning), dies at 92 |
| 1997 | Viktor E. Frankl, Austrian Psychologist |
| 1996 | Cyril Reuben, violinist, dies at 69 |
| 1996 | Emily Kngwarreye, artist, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Kenneth M Stewart, euro MP for Merseyside West, dies at 71 |
| 1996 | Otto Luening, composer, dies at 96 |
| 1995 | Vaclav Neummann, conductor, dies at 74 |
| 1994 | Detlef Macha, East Germany cyclist (5x world champ), dies at 35 |
| 1994 | Harry Vincent Kemp, poet, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Mildred Mcafee Horton, U.S. 1st head mistress of WAVES, dies |
| 1994 | Richard M Major, U.S. anti-terror specialist (CIA Red Book), dies at 72 |
| 1994 | Roy Castle, singer, musician, jazz trumpet player, television celebrity, starred in BBC's 'The Roy Castle Show', dies at age 62 in Buckinghamshire, England |
| 1993 | Eric Berry, English/US actor (Pippin, 49th Parallel), dies at 80 |
| 1993 | John/Eoin Higgins, N Ire supreme court justice (1984-93), dies at 66 |
| 1992 | Barbara McClintock, U.S., geneticist (Nobel 1983), dies at 90 |
| 1992 | Piotr Jaroszewicz, premier of Poland (1970-80), dies |
| 1991 | Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican foreign minister (Nobel 1982), dies |
| 1991 | Concetto Lo Bello, Italian International soccer judge, dies |
| 1989 | A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commisioner, dies at 51 |
| 1985 | Abe Lenstra, Dutch soccer star, dies at 64 |
| 1982 | Jay Novello, actor (Harum Scarum, Rebel Breed), dies of cancer at 78 |
| 1982 | Tom Bakker, actor (Golden Voyage of Sinbad), dies of a drug OD at 42 |
| 1980 | William Douglas Denny, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1979 | Felix Aylmer, actor (Quartet, Hamlet, Dreaming Lips), dies at 90 |
| 1973 | John R R Tolkien, British story writer (Hobbitt), dies of ulcer at 81 |
| 1973 | J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist |
| 1970 | Allan Walker, actor and writer (Red Buttons Show), dies at 64 |
| 1970 | Cornelis L "Kees" van Baaren, Dutch composer (Hollow Men), dies at 63 |
| 1969 | Harry Williams Millard, producer, dies of cancer at 41 |
| 1968 | Ernest Claes, Belgium, author (The White), dies at 82 |
| 1965 | Johannes Bobrowski, writer, dies at 48 |
| 1964 | Francisco H Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese gen/president (1951-58), dies at 70 |
| 1964 | Morris Ankrum, actor (Kronos, Earth vs Flying Saucers), dies at 67 |
| 1961 | Greet Koeman, Dutch singer, dies at 54 |
| 1957 | William A Craigie, Scottish lexicographer, dies at 90 |
| 1955 | Rudolf Kattnigg, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1944 | George W. Norris, U.S. senator (lame duck-amendement), dies |
| 1937 | Esther de Farmer-of Rich, actress (Kniertje-On hope of blessing), dies |
| 1937 | Pierre de Coubertin, baron/revivor of Olympics, dies at 74 |
| 1934 | Ruggiero de Rudolpho "Russ" Columbo, U.S. singer/violist, dies at 26 |
| 1922 | Henry Lawson, Australian Writer |
| 1921 | Henry Austin Dobson, English Poet |
| 1915 | August Stramm, writer, dies at 41 |
| 1914 | Eugene Odene, French mayor of Senlis, executed |
| 1911 | Roger Q. Mills, American Politician |
| 1910 | Henri "le Douanier" Rousseau, French ambassador/painter, dies |
| 1910 | Henri Rousseau, French Artist |
| 1906 | Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian screenwriter (libretti opera Puccini), dies |
| 1905 | Walter Cecil Macfarren, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1898 | Hubert Howard, British journalist (Times), dies through friendly fire |
| 1891 | Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1877 | Alvin Adams, American Businessman |
| 1870 | Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1865 | William Rowan Hamilton, Irish Mathematician |
| 1862 | Thornton F Brodhead, U.S. lawyer/politician/Brigadier-General, dies at 40 |
| 1790 | Johann N von Hontheim, German religious historian/Bishop, dies |
| 1779 | Onno Zwier van Hairs, Fries poet (Agon), dies at 66 |
| 1715 | Constantin Christian Dedekind, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1698 | Justus Vingboons, Architect, buried |
| 1645 | lady Alice Lisle, English widow of John Lisle, beheaded |
| 1606 | Carel van Mander, Flemish painter/art historian, dies at 58 |
| 1566 | Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter, dies at 37 |
| 1547 | Hernan Cortes, Spanish general defeated Aztec Indians |
| 1418 | Jan III Chalon, prince of Orange/Governor of Burgundy, dies |
| 1384 | Louis I, duke of Anjou/king of Naples (Battle of Poitiers), dies |
| 421 | Flavius Constantine III, emperor of Westromeinse, dies at about 51 |
