| 2003 | Donald O'Connor, actor/dancer, Singing in the Rain, dies at 78 |
| 2000 | Frank Wills, often unemployed security guard, he the Democratic National Committee office in the Watergate Building had been burgled in June 1972, dies at 52 |
| 2000 | Keith Roberts, writer, Pavane, dies at 65 |
| 1996 | Mohammed Najibullah, politician, dies at 55 |
| 1996 | Najibullah, President of Afghanistan Democratic Party 1986 - 1990, executed |
| 1995 | Alison "Night Bird" Steele, DJ (WNEW-FM, WXRK-FM), dies of cancer |
| 1995 | Christopher Shaw, composer pianist/critic, dies at 71 |
| 1994 | Gerald Bledsoe, DJ (Soul Alive, WWRL), dies of heart attack at 51 |
| 1994 | Guiseppe Martelli, physicist, dies at 71 |
| 1994 | Ruth Niehaus, dies |
| 1993 | Andrei Solovyiov, Russian photographer, dies in battle at 38 |
| 1993 | James H Doolittle, U.S. air force general (Tokyo 1942), dies at 96 |
| 1993 | Jimmy Doolittle, American Aviator |
| 1992 | Keith Prentice, U.S. actor (Boys in the Band), dies |
| 1992 | Keith Prentice, U.S. actor (Boys in the Band), dies of cancer at 52 |
| 1992 | Ray Gill, actor (Prelude to a Kiss), dies of AIDS at 42 |
| 1992 | Wim Van Exter, founder Unity Profession Central (1944), dies |
| 1991 | Huib Orizand, Dutch actor (Paul Vlanderen), dies |
| 1991 | Jan Hart, director (Friends of Curacao), dies |
| 1991 | Oona Chaplin, daughter of Eugene O'Neill/wife of Charles, dies at 66 |
| 1988 | William V Shannon, U.S. ambassador to Ireland (1977-81), dies at 61 |
| 1986 | Cliff Burton, rock bassist (Metallica), dies in bus crash at 24 |
| 1985 | Lloyd Nolan, actor (Dr. Chegley-Julia), dies of lung cancer at 83 |
| 1984 | John Facenda, sportscaster (NFL Action), dies at 72 |
| 1983 | Tino Rossi, singer and actor (Destins, Belle Menuniere), dies at 76 |
| 1982 | Saad Sayd, Abu Walid, Palestinian commandant in Lebanon, dies |
| 1981 | Coenraad van Emde Boas, Dutch sexologist, dies at 77 |
| 1981 | Robert Montgomery, actor/dir (Robert Montgomery Presents), dies at 77 |
| 1979 | Gracie Fields, actress (Queen of Hearts), dies at 81 |
| 1979 | Jimmy McCullough, musician (Wings), dies of a drug overdose |
| 1975 | Mark Frechette, actor (Zabriskie Point, Uomini Contro), dies at 27 |
| 1972 | Rory Storm, lead singer (Rory Storm and Hurricane), commits suicide |
| 1969 | Violet Farebrother, actress (Downhill, Easy Virtue), dies at 81 |
| 1967 | Felix F Yussupov, Russian monarch, dies at 80 |
| 1965 | Clara Bow, U.S. actress, (Down to the Sea in Ships, Wings), dies at 60 |
| 1965 | Harry Reser, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 69 |
| 1962 | Francisco Brochado da Rocha, Prime Minister of Brazil 1962, dies at 52 |
| 1961 | Hilda Doolittle, U.S. poet (Bid Me to Live), dies at 75 |
| 1961 | Peter Dawson, Australian Musician |
| 1960 | Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist/daughter of Emmeline, dies at 78 |
| 1956 | Gerald Raphael Finzi, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1956 | Milburn Apt, in X-2 rocket plane reaches 3370 kph, but, dies in crash |
| 1956 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias, javelin, 2 Gold Medals 1932 Olympics, Silver Medal 1932 Olympics, dies at 45 |
| 1955 | Henri Liebrecht, Belgian stagewriter/journalist, dies at 71 |
| 1953 | Jules-Marie Canneel, Flemish painter/caricaturist, dies at 72 |
| 1948 | Frank Cellier, actor (Spider, Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade), dies at 64 |
| 1944 | Aimee Semple McPherson, Canada/U.S. evangelist/faith healer, dies at 53 |
| 1944 | Aristide Maillol, French sculptor/graphic artist, dies in car crash at 82 |
| 1943 | Waclaw Gieburowski, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1942 | Douglas Munro, only U.S. Coast Guard with WW II-Med of Honor, dies |
| 1940 | Walter Benjamin, German/French literature critic/writer, dies at 48 |
| 1935 | Alan Gray, composer, organist, known for descants, hymn tunes, works include, 'Common Praise', dies at 79 |
| 1932 | John Sharp Williams, American Politician |
| 1921 | Engelbert Humperdinck, Germany opera composer (Schneewittchen), dies at 67 |
| 1919 | Adelina [Adela JM] Patti, Italian soprano (Lucio), dies at 76 |
| 1917 | Edgar Degas, painter, Paris |
| 1916 | Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian writer (Les Heures du Soir), dies at 61 |
| 1915 | Conrad T van Deventer, Dutch jurist/MP (liberal), dies at 57 |
| 1915 | Kaspar C E Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austrian sculptor, dies at 84 |
| 1915 | Remy de Gourmont, French critic/writer (Physique L'Amour), dies at 57 |
| 1891 | I Gontscharow, writer, dies |
| 1875 | Edouard Corbiere, French captain/writer (Le Negrier), dies at 82 |
| 1870 | Henry TP Comstock, Canadian silver prospector, dies at 50 |
| 1868 | Alexander Walewski, French earl/duke/diplomat/Foreign minister, dies |
| 1865 | William Duane, American Lawyer |
| 1844 | Charles Nodier, French writer (History du chien the Brisquet), dies |
| 1831 | Henry van Wine, archivist/founder General Rijksarchief, dies at 91 |
| 1831 | Joannis Capodistrias, Greek governor of Troezen, murdered at 55 |
| 1821 | Luis (Philippus) Brion, Curaeaos admiral/supreme commander, dies at 39 |
| 1808 | Gaetano B Vestris, ballerina, dies at 79 |
| 1784 | Boniface Stoecki, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1700 | Innocent XII, Antonio Pignatelli, Pope (1691-1700), dies at 85 |
| 1674 | Robert Arnauld d'andilly, French literary/financier/translator, dies |
| 1674 | Thomas Traherne, English poet/mystic (Roman Forgeries), dies |
| 1660 | St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Cong founder, dies |
| 1651 | Maximilian I, duke/ruler of Bayern (Codex Maximilianus), dies at 78 |
| 1641 | Francois van d'aerssen, mister of Sommelsdijk/diplomat, dies at 69 |
| 1617 | Johan Earnest count of Nassau-Siegen, dies |
| 1612 | Piotr Skarga, Polish theology/Prime Minister (Sanctity of Life), dies at 76 |
| 1590 | Urban VII, Giambattista Castagna, Italian Pope (1590), dies |
| 1566 | Marcus A Vida, Marcus Hieronymus, Italian humanist/poet/bishop, dies |
| 1404 | William of Wykeham, chancellor/Bishop of Winchester, dies |
| 1259 | Ezzeline III da Romano, gentleman of Verona/"cruel monster", dies |
