| 2000 | Carl T. Rowan, syndicated journalist, dies at 75 |
| 1998 | Mary Frann, actress, Newhart, dies at 55 |
| 1997 | Abe Gibron, head coach (Chicago Bears), dies at 72 |
| 1997 | Shirley Clarke, actress (Cool World), dies at 78 |
| 1997 | Murray Burnett, writer, Everybody Goes to Rick's - later filmed as Casablanca, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Denis Dowling, baritone, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Stuart Pigott, archaeologist, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Booker T Laury, blues pianist/vocalist, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Odut Joseph Olutola Oluola Oguntala, soho club owner, dies at 74 |
| 1994 | Alec Dickson, founder of VSO, dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Ali Kouider Benyahia, sheik Boualem, Alg Moslem leader, shot at 26 |
| 1994 | Cherif Gousmi, kalief Abu Abdallah Ahmed, Alger Moslem leader, shot |
| 1994 | Georgi, Czar Nicholas II's brother, buried |
| 1994 | John van Damme, businessman, hanged in Singapore at 59 |
| 1994 | Madeleine Renaud, French actress (Longest Day)/director, dies at 94 |
| 1994 | Robert Bloch, screenwriter (Psycho), dies of cancer at 77 |
| 1993 | William Cort, actor/producer (Ghost, Dear Heart), dies of cancer at 53 |
| 1992 | Bernice Gera, 1st female basball ump (1969 NY-Penn League) dies at 61 |
| 1992 | James A Van Fleet, U.S. general (D-Day, Battle of Bulge), dies at 100 |
| 1992 | Martin Arsenault, actor (Guilty by Suspicion), dies of an ulcer |
| 1992 | Paul E Garber, 1st curator (National Air and Space Museum), dies at 93 |
| 1992 | James Van Fleet, American Soldier |
| 1991 | Chuck Vincent, Adult film director, dies of heart attack at 51 |
| 1991 | Ernestine McClendon, director/actress (Homer and Eddie), dies |
| 1988 | Arwel Hughes, composer, choral and orchestral music conductor, composer, organist, studied with Ralph Vaughan Williams at Royal College of Music, known for large-scale oratorios Saint David and Pantycelyn, dies at 79 |
| 1987 | Bob Fosse, choreographer (All the Jazz), dies at 62 |
| 1987 | O B McClinton, U.S. country singer (Man needs a woman), dies at 47 |
| 1985 | Mickey Simpson, actor (Wagonmaster), dies of a heart attack at 72 |
| 1984 | Anatoly Grigor'yevich Novikov, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1982 | Jimmy Wakely, country western singer, dies of heart failure at 68 |
| 1981 | Chief Dan George, actor (Harry and Tonto, Little Big Man), dies at 82 |
| 1979 | Catherine Lacey, actress (October Man, Carnival), dies at 75 |
| 1978 | Jay Adler, actor (Macon County Line, Illegal, Big Combo), dies at 79 |
| 1978 | Lyman Bostock, outfielder (Angels), shot and killed at 27 |
| 1975 | Ian Hunter, actor and writer (Rockets Galore, Ziegfield Girl), dies at 75 |
| 1974 | Cliff Arquette, comedian (Charlie Weaver), dies at 68 |
| 1974 | Robbie Mcintosh, drummer (Average White Band), overdoses at 24 |
| 1973 | A S Neill, British headmaster, dies at at 89 |
| 1973 | Manuel Borguno, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1973 | Pablo Neruda, N R R Basoalto, poet (100 Love Sonnets), dies at 69 |
| 1972 | Carl Frank, actor (Uncle Gunnar-Mama), dies at 63 |
| 1971 | Billy Gilbert, actor (Paradise Alley, Safari, Rio), dies at 77 |
| 1961 | Billy House, actor (Imitation of Life, Bedlam, Egg and I), dies at 71 |
| 1961 | Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Stenkol), dies at 65 |
| 1960 | Kathlyn Williams, actress (Single Man), dies of heart attack at 72 |
| 1956 | Earl Godwin, newscaster (Meet the Veep), dies at 75 |
| 1947 | Nikola Petkov, leader of Bulgaria Boer party, hanged |
| 1944 | Colijn, Netherlands PM, buried |
| 1939 | Sigmund Freud, created psychoanalysis, dies at 83 |
| 1930 | Jonkvrouw Catharina AM de Savornin Lohman, author, dies at 62 |
| 1929 | Richard A Zsigmondy, Austria chemist (Nobel 1925), dies at 64 |
| 1906 | Jan van Rijswijck, Flemish journalist/mayor of Antwerp, dies |
| 1904 | Emile Galle, French glass/marble/ceramic artist dies at 56 |
| 1902 | John Wesley Powell, U.S. geologist (Grand Canyon), dies at 68 |
| 1896 | Ivar A Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet, dies at 83 |
| 1896 | Louis-Gilbert Duprez, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1889 | William W. Collins, English writer (Moonstone), dies |
| 1889 | Eliza Cook, English Poet |
| 1889 | Wilkie Collins, English Novelist |
| 1877 | Urbain JJ Leverrier, codiscoverer of Neptune, dies |
| 1871 | Alexander N Afanasjev, Russian story teller, dies at 45 |
| 1870 | Prosper Merimee, French playwright (Carmen), dies at 66 |
| 1847 | Henri MG earl the Merode, Belgian revolutionary (Souvenirs), dies at 65) |
| 1837 | Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1835 | Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (Norma), dies at 33 |
| 1797 | Johann Georg Roser, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1780 | John Andre, hanged as a British spy at 29 |
| 1778 | Balthazar Huydecoper, translator/historian, dies at 83 |
| 1738 | Hermannus Boerhaave, medical/botanist, dies at 69 |
| 1738 | Herman Boerhaave, Dutch Scientist |
| 1700 | Nicolaus Adam Strungk, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1694 | Francesco Passarini, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1624 | Willem Pietersz Buytewech, painter/etcher, dies at about 32 |
| 1571 | John Jewel, English Clergyman |
| 1541 | Philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist, dies at 47 |
| 965 | Aboe a-Taia-H al-Moetanabbi, Arabic royal poet (Diwan), murdered |
| 918 | Koenraad I, German duke/king (911-18), dies at 42 |
| 775 | Constantine V Copronymus, Emperor of Byzantium (720-75), dies |
