| 2007 | Marcel Marceau, dies at 84, at his home in Cahours, France |
| 2003 | Gordon Jump, actor, WKRP, dies at 71 |
| 2002 | Joseph Nathan Kane, trivia expert, Famous First Facts, dies at 103 |
| 2002 | Jan de Hartog, Dutch Writer |
| 2001 | Isaac Stern, violinist, dies at 81 |
| 1999 | George C. Scott, actor, Patton, dies at 71 |
| 1997 | Bryan Woods, soldier/clerk, dies at 76 |
| 1997 | Eric William Hunter Christie, barrister, dies at 77 |
| 1997 | George Bryan Ingham, artist, dies at 61 |
| 1997 | Ruth Picardie, journalist, dies at 33 |
| 1997 | Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese WW II fighter (surrendered in 1972), dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Dorothy Lamour, actress (Road to Bali, Road to Rio), dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Ludmilla Chiraeff, ballet dancer, dies at 72 |
| 1996 | Mohammed Ben Amhed Abdelghani, Prime Minister of Algeria 1979 - 1984, dies |
| 1995 | Albert Goodwin, historian, dies at 89 |
| 1995 | Arthur Benfield, formed head of Cheshire CID, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician/composer, dies at 62 |
| 1994 | Forest Cowles Bud Forrest Sagendorf, cartoonist, dies at 79 |
| 1994 | John Edward Teddy Buckner, trumpeter, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Leonard Geoffrey Feather, jazz critic/musician, dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Mattie Moss Clark, gospel Singer, dies at 69 |
| 1993 | Margaret MacDonald, maid to Queen Elizabeth, dies at 89 |
| 1991 | Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname religious leader, dies |
| 1991 | Reynold Abel Dorris, (Broken Cord), dies at 23 in car crash |
| 1989 | Irving Berlin, composer (God Bless America), dies at 101 |
| 1989 | Jan Teulings, Dutch actor and director (Dorp aan de Rivier), dies |
| 1987 | Christopher Stryker, entertainer, dies at 27 |
| 1987 | Dan Rowan, actor (Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in), dies at 65 |
| 1987 | John F "Jaco" Pastorius, rock guitarist (Weather Report), dies at 35 |
| 1987 | Louis Philip Kentner, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1985 | Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), dies at 73 |
| 1981 | Harry Warren, American Composer |
| 1978 | Lina Carstens, actress (Homeland, Broken Jug), dies at 85 |
| 1975 | Franz Salmhofer, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1975 | Patricia Doyle, actress (Wuthering Heights), dies at 60 |
| 1972 | Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary, dies at 53 |
| 1971 | Joseph Ford McGuinn, director, dies of heart attack at 67 |
| 1971 | Yvonne St. Clair, dancer, dies at 57 |
| 1969 | Adolfo Lopez Mateos, president of Mexico, dies at 59 |
| 1961 | Marion Davies, actress (Not So Dumb, 5 and 10), dies of cancer at 64 |
| 1960 | Melanie Klein, Austria/British psycho analyst, dies at 78 |
| 1959 | Benjamin Peret, French writer/poet (Le grand jeu), dies at 60 |
| 1959 | Jane Winton, actress (Hell's Angel, Patsy, Don Juan), dies at 53 |
| 1959 | Josef Matthais Hauer, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1956 | Frederick Soddy, English Scientist |
| 1952 | Cor Ruys, actor (Princess Stage), dies at 62 |
| 1949 | Sam Wood, U.S. communist fighter/director (Night at Opera), dies at 66 |
| 1944 | "Cab" Calloway, British scout, dies in battle of Oosterbeek |
| 1935 | Karl Schroder, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1927 | Giannotto Bastianelli, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1923 | Marquess of Ripon, game hunter, dies, after shooting 52nd grouse |
| 1914 | Alain-Fournier, French writer (Grand Meaulnes), dies in battle at 27 |
| 1905 | Galli-Marie, French mezzo-soprano, dies at 64 |
| 1890 | Johanna D Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author, dies at 79 |
| 1865 | Heinrich Christian Pander, Russian zoologist, dies at 71 |
| 1828 | Shaka, South African Zulu king, dies |
| 1826 | J P Hebel, writer, dies at 66 |
| 1814 | A. W. Iffland, writer, dies |
| 1796 | George Wilhelm Gruber, composer, dies on 67th birthday |
| 1796 | Joseph Lederer, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1776 | Nathan Hale, U.S. captain/patriot/spy, hanged by British at 21 |
| 1774 | Clement XIV, [Giovanni Ganganelli], Pope (1769-74), dies |
| 1737 | Francesco Mancini, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1737 | Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1712 | Jose Solana, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1702 | Hoessein Koprulu, Turkish great vizer (peace of Karlowitz), dies |
| 1658 | Georg Philipp Harsdorfer, poet (Poetischer Trichter), dies at 50 |
| 1607 | Alessandro Agnolo Allori, Italian painter/carpet designer, dies at 72 |
| 1566 | John Agricola, [Schneider], German theologist/prime minister, dies |
| 1539 | Guru Nanak, Pakistani Philosopher |
| 1531 | Louise Van Savoye, French regent of king Francois I, dies at 55 |
| 1520 | Selim I, captured Baghdad/Sultan of Turkey (1512-20), dies at 53 |
| 1408 | Johannes VII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (1376-77, 90/1404-8), dies |
| 1392 | Aleid van Poelgeest, lover of earl Albrecht of Bavaria, murdered at 22 |
| 1392 | Willem Cuser, earl Albrecht of Beierens, murdered |
| 1286 | Mugaku Sogen, Zen Rinzai line founder of Engakuji temple, dies at 60 |
| 1253 | Dogen Kigen, 1st Zen patriarch of Japanese Soto line, dies at 53 |
| 1253 | Dogen Zenji, Japanese Philosopher |
| 1197 | Petrus Cantor, French theologist (Verbum Abbreviatum), dies |
