| 2002 | Mickey Newbury, singer, member, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, wrote songs for Acuff-Rose Music, dies |
| 1998 | Tom Bradley, mayor, first black mayor of LA, dies at 80 |
| 1997 | Milner Connorton Gray, designer, dies at 97 |
| 1997 | Robert Arthur Thornbury Campbell, journalist/musician, dies at 55 |
| 1997 | Roy Lichtenstein, pop artist, dies of pneumonia at 73 |
| 1996 | Endo Shusaku, Japanese writer (Sea and Poison/Silence), dies at 73 |
| 1996 | Ethel Jane Cain, original U.K. Speaking Clock voice, dies at 87 |
| 1996 | Leslie Crowther, entertainer, dies at 63>> |
| 1995 | Francis Frederick Johnson, architect, dies at 84 |
| 1995 | George Chesterman Phillips, naval Officer, dies at 90 |
| 1995 | Karl Anton Martin Gerhard Gerd Bucerius, publisher, dies at 89 |
| 1995 | Seger Pillot Ellis, pianist/vocalist, dies at 91 |
| 1995 | Susan Maureen Fleetwood, actress (Krays, Clash of Titans), dies at 51 |
| 1994 | Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer, murdered at 26 |
| 1994 | Don Watson, race car driver, dies in an accident at 46 |
| 1994 | John Heddle Nash, singer, dies at 68 |
| 1994 | Mehmet Topac, Turkish minister of Justice, murdered |
| 1993 | Ghuslam Wyne, premier of Lahore Pakistan, murdered at 60 |
| 1993 | Gordon Douglas, director (Call Me Mr. Tibbs, Our Gang), dies at 85 |
| 1992 | Paul Jabara, singer and actor (Last Dance), dies of AIDS at 44 |
| 1991 | Gijsbert Perlee, Amsterdam's organ builder/grinder (Arabian), dies |
| 1991 | Sam Ntuli, South African ANC-writer, murdered |
| 1991 | Zapata Jaw, Nelson Renfrum, Surinamese musician, dies |
| 1989 | A A Busch, Jr., brewer/baseball owner for the St. Louis Cardinals, dies at 90 |
| 1988 | Charles Addams, cartoonist (Addams Family), dies of heart attack at 76 |
| 1987 | Henry Ford II, president Ford Motor Co, dies at 70 |
| 1986 | Betty Kean, actress (Amy Tucker-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69 |
| 1984 | Marnix Gijsen, Jan-Al Goris, writer (Lament for Agnes), dies at 85 |
| 1981 | Bill Shankly, Scottish Athlete |
| 1978 | John Paul I, Pope for 34 days, dies at 65 |
| 1977 | Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin, Russian composer, dies at 78 |
| 1975 | Casey Stengel, New York Yankee manager 1949 - 1960, dies in Glendale at 85 |
| 1974 | John Smallenbroek, Dutch Internal minister, dies at 72 |
| 1973 | W H Auden, Vienna poet, dies |
| 1973 | W. H. Auden, English Poet |
| 1970 | Edward Everett Horton, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show), dies at 84 |
| 1967 | Carson McCullers, U.S. author (Heart is a Lonely Hunter), dies at 50 |
| 1967 | Ludwig Donath, actor (Torn Curtain, Sirocco), dies of leukemia at 67 |
| 1966 | Maurits H E Uyldert, Dutch poet and writer (Motion), dies at 75 |
| 1964 | Robert Burton, actor (Dr. Gordon-Kings Row), dies at 69 |
| 1962 | Patrick Corry, developed self-rotating rock drill, dies in the Bronx |
| 1961 | Reinhard Herbig, German archaeologist, dies at 63 |
| 1959 | Bruce Bairnsfather, cartoonist, dies |
| 1959 | Harold Huber, actor (I Cover Times Square), dies at 49 |
| 1958 | Aare Merikanto, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1951 | Bradley Barker, dies |
| 1950 | Balthazar H Verhagen, Netherlands/South African dramatist/writer, dies |
| 1941 | Friedrich Angel, German mathematician (group theory), dies at 79 |
| 1939 | Dickstein, mathematician, dies |
| 1937 | Ray Ewry, jumper, 10 Gold Medals 1900, 1904, 1906, 1908 Olympics, dies at 63 |
| 1935 | Winifred Holtby, English Novelist |
| 1933 | Margaret Talmadge, dies |
| 1929 | Giitji Tanaka, Japanese baron/general/premier (1927-29), dies at 66 |
| 1928 | Arnold Kent, dies |
| 1928 | Lido Manetti, dies |
| 1928 | Steinitz, mathematician, dies |
| 1927 | Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist (Nobel-1924), dies at 67 |
| 1925 | E Runar Schildt, Finnish writer (Galgmannen), dies at 36 |
| 1925 | Leon Virginia Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920), dies at 74 |
| 1918 | Eduard earl van Keyserling, German writer (Fruhlingsopfer), dies at 63 |
| 1915 | Luther Orlando Emerson, composer, dies at 95 |
| 1915 | Rudi Stephan, composer, dies at 28 |
| 1914 | Jean Bouin, French marathoner, Silver Medal 1912 Olympics, dies in battle |
| 1913 | Rudolph C K Diesel, German constructer (Diesel Motor), dies at 55 |
| 1910 | Winslow Homer, painter (Prout's Neck), dies |
| 1908 | Joaquim M Machado de Assis, Brazil writer (Dom Casmurro), dies at 69 |
| 1904 | Niels Ryberg Finnen, Danish physician (Nobel 1903), dies |
| 1902 | Iosif Ivanovici, composer, dies |
| 1902 | Emile Zola, writer, dies at 62 |
| 1895 | Louis Pasteur, scientist (Pasteurization) dies |
| 1890 | Alphonse Karr, French Critic |
| 1864 | Hiram Burnham, U.S. Union-colonel (Chancellorsville), dies in battle |
| 1862 | William "Bull" Nelson, Union general-major, murdered at 38 |
| 1833 | Ferdinand VII MF, king of Spain, dies |
| 1800 | Michael Dennis, jesuit/author, dies at 71 |
| 1800 | William Billings, U.S. composer (Rose of Sharon), dies at 53 |
| 1619 | John Lippershey, inventor of telescope, buried |
| 1598 | Floris I van Pallandt, earl of Culemborg, dies at about 61 |
| 1575 | Charles de Boisot, water beggar, dies in battle at about 45 |
| 1560 | Gustaaf I, king of Sweden (1523-60), dies |
| 1530 | Andrea del Sato, d'Agnolo di Franceszo, Italian painter, dies at 44 |
| 855 | Lotharius I, Romanian-French emperor (signed Treaty of Verdun), dies |
