| 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 | Jaco Pastorius, John Francis Anthony 'Jaco' Pastorius III, musician, electric bass player, jazz genre, style included intricate, higher register solos, voted 'Greatest Bass Player Who Has Ever Lived' by Bass Guitar magazine, 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 | Johann Peter Hebel, writer, teacher, most widely read German poet, author, wrote in Alemanic dialect, dies in Schwetzingen, Germany, at age 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 |
