| 2002 | W. Clement Stone, American Businessman |
| 2001 | Pauline Kael, critic, The New Yorker, dies at 82 |
| 2001 | Thuy Trang, actress, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, dies at 27 |
| 1996 | John Cheek, Falkland Islands advocate, dies at 56 |
| 1996 | Julian Amery, politician, dies at 77 |
| 1996 | Robert Croften Brown, politician, dies at 75 |
| 1995 | Alex Brown, snooker player, dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Alfred Earle Birney, poet, dies at 91 |
| 1995 | Donald Cuthbert Coleman, economic historian, dies at 75 |
| 1995 | Mary Adshead, muralist/painter, dies at 91 |
| 1995 | Peter Michalke, journalist, dies at 40 |
| 1995 | Roye England, modeller/museum curator, dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Billy Wright, English soccer player (World Champion 1950), dies at 70 |
| 1994 | James Aubrey, actor (Riders of the Storm), dies of heart attack at 75 |
| 1994 | Major Lance, soul singer, dies at 55 |
| 1994 | Marijke Vetter, Dutch journalist, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Roswell Gilbert, who mercy killed his ailing wife, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | William Ambrose Right, footballer, dies at 70 |
| 1993 | Leon Liebgold, Pol/US actor/chairman (Hebrew Actors Union), dies at 83 |
| 1992 | Johannes van Capel, oldest man in Netherlands (Born 4/22/1884), dies |
| 1991 | Frank Capra, director (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 94 |
| 1991 | Henri de Lubac, French theologist/antifascist, dies |
| 1990 | David Acer, Florida dentist, dies of AIDs after infecting 5 patients |
| 1987 | Morton Feldman, U.S. composer, dies at 61 |
| 1987 | Viktor P Nekrasov, Ukraine architect/author (Soldiers), dies at 76 |
| 1987 | Vokopach Stalingrada/Kira Georgijevna, dies at 76 |
| 1985 | Joe Jones, drummer, dies at 73 |
| 1985 | John Herbert McDowell, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1984 | Arthur Schwartz, producer (Inside USA with Chevrolet), dies at 83 |
| 1984 | Duncan Renaldo, actor (Cisco Kid), dies at 80 |
| 1982 | Della Chiesa, Italian general/mafia fighter, murdered |
| 1982 | Michael Thoma, actor (8 is Enough, Fame), dies at 55 |
| 1980 | Barbara O'Neil, actress (Tower of London, Stella Dallas) |
| 1980 | Duncan Renaldo, actor (Cisco Kid, Guns of Fury), dies at 76 |
| 1980 | Fabian von Schlabendorff, German resistance fighter/judge, dies at 73 |
| 1976 | Harry Partch, U.S. composer (Oedipus), dies at 75 |
| 1971 | Veronica Turleigh, actress (Promoter), dies at 68 |
| 1970 | Al Wilson, "Blind Owl", guitarist/vocalist (Canned Heat), dies at 27 |
| 1970 | Jochen Rindt, German race car driver, dies at 28 |
| 1970 | Vince Lombardi, football coach (Packers), dies in Washington D.C. at 57 |
| 1969 | Ho Chi Minh, [Nguyen Ta't-Tanh], North Vietnamese president, dies at 79 |
| 1967 | David Cohen, historian/chairman (Jewish Council), dies at 84 |
| 1967 | James Dunn, actor (Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 6 Gun Law), dies at 61 |
| 1967 | Woody Guthrie, rocker, dies of Huntington's Chorea at 55 |
| 1965 | Otto Lederer, actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 79 |
| 1964 | Joseph Marx, Austrian composer, dies at 82 |
| 1963 | Cruys Voorbergh, actor and director (Vliegende Hollander), dies at 64 |
| 1963 | Frico Kafenda, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1963 | Louis MacNeice, British Poet |
| 1962 | Anton Mauve, Dutch painter, dies at 63 |
| 1962 | e e cummings, U.S. poet (Tulips and Chimneys), dies at 67 |
| 1962 | e. e. cummings, American Poet |
| 1960 | Joseph Lamb, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1954 | Eugene Pallette, actor (It's a Date, My Man Godfrey), dies at 65 |
| 1951 | Robert Franz Richard Hernried, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1948 | Eduard Benesj, president Czechoslovakia (1921-22, 35-48), dies |
| 1946 | Carl Emil Paul Lincke, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1944 | Frantisek Alois Drdla, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1940 | Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet and writer (Hafvets Stjarna), dies at 59 |
| 1938 | Bart de Ligt, anti military theologist, dies at 77 |
| 1935 | Joannes DJ Aengenent, bishop of Haarlem (1928-35), dies at 62 |
| 1917 | Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed |
| 1914 | Alberic Magnard, French composer, killed in action at 49 |
| 1914 | Ferdinand AR Cabrera, Spanish/German of emperor Wilhelm II, dies at 58 |
| 1914 | Lucien-Denis-Gabriel-Alberic Magnard, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1908 | Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, Governor-General (Dutch East-Indies), dies |
| 1890 | Charles-A Chatrian, French writer (Waterloo), dies at 63 |
| 1890 | Willem Linnig, Jr., Flemish painter/graphic artist, dies |
| 1883 | Iwan Turgenjew, writer, dies at 64 |
| 1877 | Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Rep (1871-77), dies at 80 |
| 1877 | Louis Adolphe Thiers, French Statesman |
| 1871 | Vaclav Horak, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1857 | M Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist/explorer, dies at 77 |
| 1849 | Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria writer/physician, dies |
| 1843 | Cornelis PJ Elout, military/president of West Sumatra, dies at 47 |
| 1820 | Benjamin Latrobe, British Architect |
| 1811 | Ignaz Franzl, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1790 | Thomas Norris, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1739 | George Lillo, English dramatist (Fatal Curiosity), dies at 46 |
| 1708 | Christian Liebe, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1675 | Pieter Boel, Flemish painter/etcher, dies |
| 1667 | Alonso Cano, Spanish painter/sculptor/architect, dies at 66 |
| 1658 | James I, king of England (1603-25), dies at 92 |
| 1658 | Oliver Cromwell, British general (1653-58)/Lord Protector, dies at 59 |
| 1655 | Jan W van Brederode, Dutch governor/field marshal, dies at 56 |
| 1653 | Claudius Salmasius, [Claude Saumaise], French linguistic, dies at 65 |
| 1642 | Elisabeth of Nassau, daughter of Willem I/Charlotte, dies at 65 |
| 1634 | Edward Coke, English Chief Justice/politician, dies |
| 1402 | Gian Galeazzo Visconti, duke/tyrant of Milan (1395-1402), dies at 51 |
| 1205 | Petrus van Poitiers, French theologist (Sententiarum libri V), dies |
| 1189 | Jacob of Orleans, Rabbi, killed in anti Jewish riot in London England |
