| 2003 | Leni Riefenstahl, director, Triumph of the Will, dies at 101 |
| 1998 | Leonid Kinskey, actor, Casablanca, dies at 95 |
| 1996 | Elizabeth Eyre de Lanaux, designer artist/writer, dies at 102 |
| 1995 | Eileen Zhang Ailing Chang, writer, dies at 73 |
| 1995 | Olga Ivinskaya, mistress of Boris Pasternak, dies of cancer at 83 |
| 1995 | Safa Khulusi, writer, dies at 78 |
| 1994 | Arthur Rex Alston, British sports commentator, dies at 93 |
| 1994 | Deborah Bear, English still photographer (Pasolini/Fellini), dies at 44 |
| 1994 | Dennis Morgan, actor (Cattle Town, Canyon Pass), dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Edna Manilow, mother of singer Barry Manilow, dies at 70 of cancer |
| 1994 | Michael Peters, choreographer, dies |
| 1993 | Hall Bartlett, U.S. director (Jonathan Livingston Seagull), dies at 70 |
| 1993 | Lorin "Whitey" Harrison, surfer, dies at 80 of a heart attack |
| 1993 | Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher/author/diplomat, dies at 88 |
| 1992 | Quentin N. Burdick, Senator-D-North Dakota 1960 - 1992, dies at 84 |
| 1991 | Alex North, music composer (Spartacus), dies at 80 of cancer |
| 1991 | Brad Davis, U.S., actor (Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire), dies at 41 |
| 1991 | Jan J Lipski, chairman (Polish Socialist Party)/writer, dies |
| 1991 | Jo Budie, Dutch orchestra leader (KRO), dies |
| 1984 | Rene Bernier, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1983 | Antonin Magne, French bicylist (won Tour de France 1931, 34), dies |
| 1983 | Willem C "Wim" Kan, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 72 |
| 1981 | Hediki Joekawa, Japans physicist (Nobel 1949) at 74 |
| 1981 | Roy Wilkins, longtime executive director of NAACP, dies at 80 |
| 1980 | Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist/theory/educator, dies at 84 |
| 1980 | Willard Libby, American Scientist |
| 1979 | Jean Seberg, actress (Breathless, Airport), commits suicide at 40 |
| 1978 | Pancho Vladigerov, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1977 | Zero [Samuel J] Mostel, U.S. actor (Fiddler on the Roof), dies at 62 |
| 1976 | Assen Karastoyanov, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1976 | Joaquin Zamacois Soler, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1975 | John Mylong, actor (Robot Monster), dies at 82 |
| 1974 | Robert Cox, last surviving member of Keystone Kops, dies at 79 |
| 1969 | Bud Collyer, TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth), dies at 61 |
| 1965 | Dorothy Danridge, actress (Island in the Sun), dies at 41 in Hollywood |
| 1962 | Hermann Standiger, German chemist (Nobel 1953), dies at 84 |
| 1960 | Johan J "Jussi" Bjorling, Swedish epic tenor, dies at 49 |
| 1956 | Gerrit Bolkestein, Dutch minister of Education (1939-4.), dies at 84 |
| 1956 | Vital Celen, Flemish writer ('t Pastoorke van Vossendonck), dies at 69 |
| 1955 | John de Young, cardinal and archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 69 |
| 1953 | Frederick M. Vinson, American Judge |
| 1951 | Jurgen Stroop, Nazi commander of Warsaw Ghetto, executed |
| 1951 | Maria Montez, actress (Arabian Nights), dies of heart seizure at 33 |
| 1951 | John French Sloan, American Artist |
| 1949 | Richard Strauss, German composer 'Don Quixote' and 'Metamorphosis', dies at 85 |
| 1944 | Erwin von Witzleben, German Field Marshal, hanged at 62 |
| 1944 | Jan van Gilse, composer/Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 63 |
| 1935 | Carl Austin Weiss, murderer of Senator Huey Long, shot down |
| 1935 | Huey P Long, (Sen-La) assassinated at Baton Rouge Capitol building |
| 1933 | Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali, 1st king of Iraq/Syria, dies at 50 |
| 1917 | Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1914 | William E. Darwin, British son of Charles Darwin, dies at 74 |
| 1899 | Vaclav Hugo Zavrtal, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1895 | Adam Opel, German manufacturer (motorcars), dies at 58 |
| 1894 | Hermann von Helmholtz, German Physicist |
| 1882 | Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (surface of Liouville), dies |
| 1881 | W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral, dies at 84 |
| 1879 | Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1879 | William Morris Hunt, American Artist |
| 1871 | Etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1840 | John H van de Palm, theologist/literature/speaker, dies at 77 |
| 1838 | Pietro Rovelli, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1819 | Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1814 | Thomas Spence, English Writer |
| 1811 | Peter S Pallas, German geologist/zoologist, dies at 69 |
| 1706 | Romanus Weichlein, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1675 | Amalia, countess of Solms-Braunfels, dies at 73 |
| 1660 | Daniel von Czepko, German poet, dies at 54 |
| 1656 | Joseph Hall, English Clergyman |
| 1654 | Peter Claver, Spanish saint (baptized 300,000 slaves), dies |
| 1645 | Francisco Gomez Quevedo y Villegas, Spanish author and poet, dies at 64 |
| 1645 | Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish Writer |
| 1644 | Francis Quarles, English poet (Enchiridion), dies |
| 1637 | Robert Fludd, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1633 | Carlo Caraffa, Italian jesuit/religious order founder, dies at about 72 |
| 1613 | Don Carlo Gesauldo, composer, dies |
| 1560 | Amy Robsart, wife of English premier Robert Dudley, dies by accident |
| 1555 | Thomas Villanova, Spanish saint/archbishop of Valencia, dies |
| 1550 | Hans [Johann] Vischer, German count of Johann Cicero, dies |
| 1100 | Clement III, Wibert van Ravenna, 1st anti-pope (1084-1100), dies |
| 876 | Lodewijk de Duitser, king of East French Republic (833-76), dies at 72 |
| 780 | Leo IV de Chazaar, Byzantine Emperor (775-80), dies |
| 701 | Sergius I, Syrian/Italian Pope (687-701), dies |
| 394 | Arbogast, French general, commits suicide |
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