| 2006 | Jeff Cooper, American Celebrity |
| 2006 | John M. Ford, American Writer |
| 2005 | M. Scott Peck, American Psychologist |
| 2004 | Marvin Davis, American Businessman |
| 2003 | George Plimpton, writer/adventurer/actor, The Paris Review, dies at 76 |
| 2003 | Robert Palmer, resistable performer, Addicted to Love, dies at 54 |
| 2001 | Lani O'Grady, actress, Eight Is Enough, dies at 46 |
| 1999 | Marion Zimmer Bradley, writer, Darkover series, dies at 69 |
| 1997 | Sayed Mutawli ad Imam scholar/broadcaster-Darsh, dies at 66 |
| 1996 | Betty Phyllis Gathergood, curator, dies at 80 |
| 1995 | Bessie Annie Elizabeth Delany, dentist writer, dies at 104 |
| 1995 | Dave Bowen, born in Maesteg, Glamorgan, Wales, Welsh football player, manager, captain, led country to win 1958 World Cup finals, dies at 67 |
| 1995 | Dorothy Dickson, actress/dancer (Paying the Piper), dies at 102 |
| 1994 | John Richard Ravensdale, historian, dies at 73 |
| 1994 | Kitty Masters, actress, dies at 92 |
| 1994 | Ludwig Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, Germ prince of Prussia, dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Mark Alexander Abrams, market Researcher, dies at 88 |
| 1991 | Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief of Lyon, dies of cancer at 77 |
| 1991 | Max Koot, royal photographer, dies |
| 1988 | Billy Carter, President Carter's brother Billy, dies of cancer at 51 |
| 1987 | Emlyn Williams, actor and director (I Accuse, Ivanhoe, Scarf), dies at 81 |
| 1987 | Mary Astor, actress (Cynthia, Meet Me in St. Louis, Fiesta), dies at 81 |
| 1986 | Ben Sajet, physician/politician, dies at 99 |
| 1985 | Albert Moeschinger, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1984 | Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet, Mrs. Miniver), dies at 87 |
| 1983 | Leopold III, king of Belgium (1934-51), dies |
| 1980 | John Bonham, English pop drummer (Led Zeppelin), overdoses at 32 |
| 1980 | Lewis Milestone, Russian Director |
| 1978 | Claire Adams, actress (Legally Dead, End of the Road), dies at 80 |
| 1977 | Sidney van den Bergh, Dutch businessman/politician, dies at 78 |
| 1975 | Bob Considine, newscaster (Tonight! America After Dark), dies at 68 |
| 1974 | Coco the Clown, Nikolai Poliakov, dies |
| 1974 | William Sloane, publisher/writer ("Edge of Running Water"), dies |
| 1971 | TC Jones, female impersonator, dies of cancer at 50 |
| 1971 | Hugo Black, American Judge |
| 1970 | Efim Golishev, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1970 | Erich M Remarque, German writer (Im West Nichts Neues), dies at 72 |
| 1970 | Erich Maria Remarque, German Writer |
| 1961 | Frank Fay, actor (God's Gift to Women), dies in Santa Monica CA |
| 1960 | Emily Post, etiquette expert, dies at 86 |
| 1959 | Ennio Porrino, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1959 | Helen Broderick, comedienne/actress (Swing Time, Top Hat), dies |
| 1959 | S W R D Bandaranaike, Ceylon's PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk |
| 1958 | John B Watson, U.S. psychologist/behaviorist, dies |
| 1954 | Eugenio d' Ors y Rovira, Spanish essayist/philosopher, dies at 71 |
| 1953 | Dimitur Poljanov, Popov, Bulgaria poet (Iron Verses), dies |
| 1946 | Heinrich George, German actor (Jud Suss), commits suicide at 52 |
| 1945 | Bela Bartok, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1945 | Charles A Ellwood, U.S. sociologist/psychologist, dies at 72 |
| 1944 | Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer (Irrfahrten), dies at 68 |
| 1944 | Leo Justinus Kauffmann, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1933 | Paul Ehrenfest, Austria/Netherlands physicist, dies at 53 |
| 1929 | Miller Huggins, manager (New York Yankees), dies from blood poisoning at 49 |
| 1920 | William F Sudds, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1918 | John Ireland, Irish/U.S. archbishop of St. Paul, dies at 80 |
| 1916 | Julius Fucik, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1914 | A Lichtenstein, writer, dies at 25 |
| 1914 | Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter, dies at 76 |
| 1908 | John Churton Collins, English Critic |
| 1876 | A Glabbrenner, writer, dies at 66 |
| 1871 | Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller, dies |
| 1860 | Carl Friedrich Zollner, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1849 | Johann Baptist Strauss, elder, composer (Radetzky-Marsch), dies at 45 |
| 1840 | Jacques-Etienne-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, Duc de Tarente, soldier |
| 1813 | Braz Francisco de Lima, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1808 | Richard Porson, scholar, dies |
| 1777 | Johann Heinrich Lambert, mathematician, dies at 49 |
| 1733 | Georg Motz, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1727 | Jacques Abbadie, French theologist, dies at about 73 |
| 1716 | Johann Christoph Pez, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1680 | Samuel Butler, poet/satirist, dies |
| 1630 | Ambrogio Spinola, Spanish marquis of Balbases, dies at about 61 |
| 1619 | Francesco Soto de Langa, composer, dies |
| 1534 | Clement VII, Giulio de' Medici, Italian Pope (1523-34), dies at 56 |
| 1525 | Johannes Pistorius, Bakker, RC pastor/church reformer, burned at 26 |
| 1506 | Felipe I, the handsome, King of Castilie (Spain) (1504-06), dies |
| 1501 | Dzore Drzic, Croatish poet, dies |
| 1396 | Jean de Vienne, French admiral/crusader, dies in battle |
| 1396 | Odard de Chasseron, French knight/crusader, dies in battle |
| 1396 | Philip of Bar, French knight/crusader, dies in battle |
| 1392 | Sergius van Radonesj, Russian saint, dies at 78 |
| 1066 | Harald III Hardrada, king of Norway (1047-66), dies in battle at 51 |
| 813 | al-Amin, Arabic kalief of Islam (809-813), murdered |
