| 2002 | Robert Forward, writer, Dragon's Egg, dies at 70 |
| 1998 | Florence Griffith Joyner, Olympic runner, dies at 38 |
| 1996 | John Stachniewski, scholar/teacher, dies at 42 |
| 1996 | Julius Silverman, politician, dies at 90 |
| 1996 | Sabine Zlatin, nurse, dies at 89 |
| 1995 | Irven Spence, animator, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Peter Shankland, film maker/writer, dies at 94 |
| 1995 | Vernell Townsend, blues/gospel singer, dies at 64 |
| 1995 | William Murray, teacher/educationalist, dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Arthur Krim, U.S. director (United Artists, Orion Pictures), dies |
| 1994 | Oswald "Ossie" Stevens Nock, railway Writer, dies at 69 |
| 1993 | Fernand Ledoux, Belgian/French actor (L'Homme de Londres), dies at 96 |
| 1993 | Kamaran Abdalla, Iraq/English/Netherlands actor (Best Thing in Life), dies at 34 |
| 1992 | Billy Williams, actor (Adv of Kit Carson), dies at 76 of brain tumor |
| 1992 | Hans Rosenberg, astronomer/alderman of Utrecht, dies |
| 1991 | Angelo "Little Moe" Rossitto, dwarf actor (Carousel), dies at 83 |
| 1991 | Angelo Rossitto, dwarf known as "Little Moe"/actor (Dark), dies at 83 |
| 1991 | JA Mommersteeg, Dutch state sect of Defense (KVP), dies |
| 1989 | F Fischer, German war criminal (4, Two of Breda), dies |
| 1988 | Christine Norden, actress (Little Shop of Horroers, Night Beat), dies |
| 1988 | Henry Koster, director, dies |
| 1988 | Robert Gwathmey, artist, dies at 85 |
| 1987 | Ruth Attaway, actress (Porgy and Bess, Conrack, Being There), dies |
| 1986 | Pierre Wigny, Belgian minister of Foreign affairs (1958-61), dies at 81 |
| 1981 | Nigel Patrick, actor and director (Sapphire, Prize of Gold), dies at 68 |
| 1981 | Tony Aubin, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1980 | Ernest White, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1979 | John McQuade, actor (Charlie Wild Private Detective), dies at 73 |
| 1976 | Orlando Letelier, minister Chile, dies |
| 1974 | Jacqueline Susann, author (Valley of the Dolls), dies of cancer at 53 |
| 1974 | Walter Brennan, actor (Real McCoys), dies at 80 |
| 1973 | Diana Sands, actress (Landlord, Raisin in the Sun), dies at 39 |
| 1973 | William CF Plomer, South Africa libretto writer (Curlew River), dies at 69 |
| 1972 | Henry M de Montherlant, French author (Port Royal), dies at 76 |
| 1970 | Gijsbert Friedhoff, architect (Wibautstrat tax office), dies |
| 1966 | Paul Reynaud, premier France (1940), dies |
| 1964 | Jim Koethe, Dallas Times Herald reporter, killed by karate chop |
| 1961 | Earle Dickson, inventor (band-aid), dies at 68 |
| 1961 | Maurice Delage, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1959 | Abraham Flexner, American Educator |
| 1957 | Haakon VII (CF Charles WA), Danish king of Norway (1905-57), dies |
| 1956 | Anastasio Somoza, Nicaraguan dictator, assassinated by Roliberto Lopez |
| 1956 | Robert Mills Delaney, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1953 | Roger Quilter, British composer, dies at 75 |
| 1952 | Cor Ruys, actor (Princess Stage), dies at 62 |
| 1947 | Harry Carey Sr, actor and director (Red River, Sundown), dies at 69 |
| 1946 | Leo Bittermieux, Flemish missionary (Congo), dies at 66 |
| 1945 | Robert Benchley, American Comedian |
| 1939 | Armand Calinescu, premier of Romania, murdered |
| 1937 | Henri [Lucien] Capitant, French lawyer, dies at 72 |
| 1936 | Frank Hornby, English Inventor |
| 1915 | Anthony Comstock, anti-vice crusader, dies at 71 in New York City |
| 1911 | Arab Pasha, "al-Misri" [Pasha Ahmad Arab], Egyptian minister, dies |
| 1908 | Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (Spanish Dancer), dies |
| 1905 | Rudolf Baumbach, writer of German student drinking songs, dies at 64 |
| 1904 | Chief Joseph, U.S. indian chief (Nez Perces), dies |
| 1883 | Johannes van Vloten, Dutch man of letters/theologist, dies at 65 |
| 1874 | JBAL Leonce Elie the Beaumont, French geologist, dies at 75 |
| 1860 | Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher |
| 1839 | Jacob Gottfried Weber, German composer, dies at 60 |
| 1836 | John Stafford Smith, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1832 | Walter Scott, Scottish attorney/poet/writer (Ivanhoe), dies |
| 1820 | Joseph R. Drake, U.S. poet (American Flag), dies at 25) |
| 1812 | Emmanuel Johann Joseph Schikaneder, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1809 | Alexander Reinagle, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1798 | George Read, U.S. judge/signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 65 |
| 1705 | Willem Hadriaan of Nassau, corrupt mister of Odijck, dies |
| 1629 | John Pieterszoon Coen, merchant/Governor-General of East-Indies, dies at 42 |
| 1590 | Ascanio Trombeti, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1586 | Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, viceroy of Naples (1571-75), dies at 69 |
| 1576 | Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, dies at 74 |
| 1558 | Charles V, King of Spain (Carlos I)/Holy Roman Emperor, dies at 58 |
| 1520 | Selam I Jawuz, the Barse, poet/cruel sultan of Turkey, dies |
| 1519 | Hans Backofen/Backoffen, German sculptor, dies at about 49 |
| 1481 | Bartholomeus Platinum, Italian humanist/pontifical librarian, dies |
| 1440 | Frederik I van Hohenzollern, ruler Brandenburg (1417-40), dies at 68 |
| 1433 | Zweder van Kuilenberg, bishop of Utrecht |
| 1327 | Edward II, king of England (1307-1327), assassinated at 43 |
| 687 | Conon, Sicilian Pope (686-87), dies |
