| 2007 | Madeleine L'Engle, dies at 88, of natural causes |
| 2007 | Luciano Pavarotti, died in Modena, Italy, of pancreatic cancer, at 71 |
| 1998 | Akira Kurosawa, director, Rashomon, dies at 88 |
| 1997 | Philippe Rossillon, administrator, dies at 66 |
| 1996 | William James Moyce, armaments scientist, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Buster Mathis, heavyweight boxer, dies at 52 |
| 1995 | Joanne Gail Abbott, executive (MTV), dies at 36 |
| 1994 | Duccio Tessari, Italian director, dies of cancer at 67 |
| 1994 | James Clavell, author/director (King Rat, Shogun), dies at 69 |
| 1994 | Max Kaminsky, trumpeter, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Nicky Hopkins, rock pianist (Rolling Stones), dies at 50 |
| 1994 | Wolf Donner, Austrian movie historian/festival director, dies at 55 |
| 1993 | Josephine Rich Corday, vaudevillian, dies of kidney failure at 79 |
| 1990 | T Issan Dorsey, founder (Hartford St. Zen Center SF), dies |
| 1990 | Tom Fogerty, rocker (Creedence Clearwater), dies of tuberculosis at 48 |
| 1986 | Blanche Sweet, U.S. actress (DW Griffith movies), dies at 90 |
| 1985 | Jane Frazee, singer and actress (Alice-Beulah), dies at 67 of pneumonia |
| 1985 | Johnny Desmond, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies of cancer at 65 |
| 1984 | E J Andre, actor (Eugene Bullock-Dallas), dies at 74 |
| 1984 | Ernest Tubb, singer (Grand Ole Opry), dies at 70 |
| 1981 | Joseph Yasser, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1981 | Maria Palmer, actress (Days of Glory, Web), dies |
| 1979 | Ronald Binge, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1978 | Jan Berger, Dutch politician, dies at 59 |
| 1977 | Guido Pannain, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1977 | Paul Burkhard, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1975 | Rien van Nunen, Dutch actor (Spuit Elf), dies at 62 |
| 1974 | Olga Baclanova, actress (Freaks, Docks of New York), dies at 75 |
| 1974 | Otto Kruger, actor (Lux Video Theater), dies on 89th birthday |
| 1973 | William H Harris, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1968 | Karl Ranki, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1966 | Hendrik F Verwoerd, South African Prime Minister 1958 - 1966, assassinated at 64 |
| 1966 | Luigi Perrachio, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1966 | Margaret Sanger, U.S. feminist/birth control pioneer, dies at 86 |
| 1965 | Konstantin Mostras, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1963 | Margarita Sierra, actress (Surfside 6), dies after heart surgery at 26 |
| 1962 | Hanns Eisler, composer (North Vietnam/East German National Anthem), dies at 64 |
| 1960 | Jimmy Savo, comedian (Through the Crystal Ball), dies at 65 |
| 1959 | Edmund Gwenn, actor (Them, Java Head, Miracle on 34th St), dies at 83 |
| 1959 | Kay Kendall, British actress (Genevieve), dies of leukemia at 32 |
| 1956 | Felix Borowski, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1952 | Jose Forns y Cuadras, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1948 | Gerrit H Kersten, vicar/founder (Calvinist Party), dies at 66 |
| 1947 | Paul Guthnick, German astronomer, dies at 76 |
| 1945 | John S Mccain, U.S. admiral, (WW II-Pacific Ocean), dies |
| 1944 | Robert Lejour, Belgian lawyer/resistance fighter, murdered |
| 1941 | Hugo Loudon, president-director (Royal Oil), dies at 81 |
| 1939 | Arthur Rackham, artist/illustrator (Grimm's Fairy Tales), dies at 71 |
| 1937 | Henry Kimball Hadley, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1932 | Gilbert Parker, British Politician |
| 1919 | Worm Pander, sculptor |
| 1919 | Lord Charles Beresford, British Politician |
| 1903 | Charles Ammi Cutter, U.S. bibliographer, dies at 66 |
| 1902 | Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet), dies at 75 |
| 1902 | Philip James Bailey, English poet (Universal hymn), dies at 86 |
| 1863 | Lucius March Walker, Confederate Brigadier-General (in duel), dies at 33 |
| 1831 | Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1819 | Georg Druschetzky, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1811 | Julien-Amable Mathieu, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1748 | Edmund Gibson, English Judge |
| 1701 | James II [Stuart], king of England (1685-88), dies at 68 |
| 1649 | Famiano Strada, Italian jesuit (bello belgico decades duae), dies at 77 |
| 1635 | Adrian A Metius, mathematician/fort architect, dies at 63 |
| 972 | John XIII Crescentii, pope (965-72), dies |
| 394 | Eugenius, linguistic/anti emperor of Rome (392-94), dies in battle |
