| 2008 | Paul Newman, dies of lung cancer, at 83 |
| 2000 | Richard Mulligan, actor, Empty Nest, dies at 67 |
| 1998 | Betty Carter, American Musician |
| 1996 | Nicu Ceausescu, son of Romanian President, Nicolae Ceasescu, drinker, gambler, playboy, imprisoned for misusing government funds, dies at 45 in Vienna, Austria |
| 1996 | Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist, dies at 75 |
| 1996 | George Henderson, priest/politician, dies at 74 |
| 1996 | Mark Frankel, actor (Leon the Pig Farmer), dies on motorcycle at 34 |
| 1995 | Lynette Roberts, poet, studied at London's Central School for Arts and Crafts, dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Jessie Kesson, author, novelist, radio producer, and playwright, dies at 77 |
| 1994 | Maurice Ashley, historian, dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Miguel Angel Martinez Soto, mariachi, dies at 22 |
| 1993 | James Boyden, British Labour MP (1959-79), dies at 82 |
| 1992 | Ralph Manheim, translator (Mein Kampf), dies at 85 |
| 1991 | Miles Davis, American Musician |
| 1990 | Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82 |
| 1989 | Pavlos Bakoyannis, Greek parliament leader, murdered in Rome |
| 1984 | Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet), dies of strokes at 87 |
| 1983 | Tino Rossi, French singer, dies |
| 1979 | Arthur Hunnicutt, actor (Big Sky, Apache Uprising), dies at 68 |
| 1979 | John Cromwell, actor and director (Of Human Bondage), dies at 91 |
| 1979 | Seymour Shifrin, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1975 | Jacob Paludan, Danish pharmacist/writer (Sloret Sandhed), dies at 79 |
| 1973 | Anna Magnani, Italians actress (Roma, Citt Aperta), dies at 64 |
| 1973 | Anton Schnack, German writer/poet, dies at 81 |
| 1972 | Charles J Correll, actor/voice (Calvin and the Colonel), dies at 82 |
| 1971 | Muriel Kirkland, actress (Nana, Fast Workers), dies of emphysema at 68 |
| 1966 | Helen Kane, actress (Heads Up, Pointed Heels), dies of cancer at 62 |
| 1964 | Calvin Thomas, actor (Judge Hunter-One Man's Family), dies at 79 |
| 1964 | Ida Moore, actress (Mr Music, Johnny Belinda), dies at 82 |
| 1961 | Eily Malyon, actress (Jane Eyre, I Married a Witch), dies at 81 |
| 1961 | Juanita Hansen, actress (Fast Company), dies of heart ailment at 67 |
| 1961 | Charles Erwin Wilson, American Businessman |
| 1959 | Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1956 - 1959, assassinated at 60 |
| 1958 | Carl Brisson, actor (Ship Cafe, Ring, Song of Soho), dies at 64 |
| 1956 | Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un Destin, Martin Luther), dies at 78 |
| 1952 | George Santayana, U.S. philosopher/poet (Last Puritan), dies at 88 |
| 1947 | Hugh Lofting, writer (Gub Gub Book), dies at 61 |
| 1946 | William Strunk, Jr., American Writer |
| 1945 | Bela V J Bartok, Hungarian pianist/composer dies at 64 |
| 1945 | R Beer-Hofmann, writer, dies at 78 |
| 1944 | Ernst Isler, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1940 | Walter Benjamin, writer, dies at 48 |
| 1940 | W. H. Davies, Wales, poet, writer, related to actor, Sir Henry Irving, cared for by paternal grandparents, wrote, 'The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp', dies |
| 1937 | Bessie Smith, singer, dies of injuries sustained in car crash at 43 |
| 1936 | Harriet Monroe, U.S. poet (Poet's Life), dies at 75 |
| 1935 | Andy Adams, U.S. writer (Cattle fire), dies at 76 |
| 1917 | Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina), dies |
| 1904 | Lafcadio Hearn, author (Soul of the Great Ball), dies at 54 |
| 1871 | Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1866 | Carl Almqvist, Swedish author (Amorina), dies at 72 |
| 1863 | Frederick William Faber, theologian, wrote 'Faith of Our Fathers', 'My God, how wonderful thou art', 'Oh, gift of gifts', founded religious community in Cotton Hall, Birmingham, dies |
| 1820 | Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85 |
| 1808 | Pavel Vranicky, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1788 | Francois Bainville, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1657 | Hadji Chalfa/Katib Tsjelebi, Turkish geographer, dies at 48 |
| 1626 | Lancelot Andrewes, English theologist/bishop of Winchester, dies at 71 |
| 1614 | Felice Anerio, Italian composer (pontifical royal chapel), dies |
| 1371 | Vlkasin, Hungarian general/co-king of Serbia, dies |
| 1345 | Willem IV, earl of Henegouwen/Holland/Zealand, dies at about 27 |
| 1342 | John I, ruler of Poland, dies |
| 1023 | Godfried I, duke of Netherlands-Lutherans, dies |
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