| 2004 | Caitlin Clarke, actress/teacher, Dragonslayer, dies at 52 |
| 2003 | Edward Teller, scientist/professor, The father of the H-bomb, dies at 95 |
| 2003 | Larry Hovis, actor/teacher, Hogan's Heroes, dies at 67 |
| 1999 | Ruth Roman, actress, dies at 75 |
| 1997 | Myra McCulloch, teacher academic/administrator, dies at 48 |
| 1997 | Richie Ashburn, HOF baseball player (Phillies, Mets), dies at 70 |
| 1996 | Bill Monroe, bluegrass vocalist (created bluegrass music), dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Edward Greenall, businessman/sportsman, dies at 67 |
| 1996 | Jack Pepys, immunologist, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor, dies at 66 |
| 1996 | William Smith Monroe, bluegrass musician, dies at 84 |
| 1995 | Jamie L. Whitten, Representative-D-Mississippi 1941 - 1995 |
| 1994 | Keith Davis, voice Tutor/Author, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Patrick O'Neal, U.S. actor (King Rat, Night of the Iguana), dies at 66 |
| 1993 | David Tendlar, animator (Betty Boop), dies |
| 1993 | Helen O'Connell, singer (Green Eyes), dies of cancer at 74 |
| 1991 | Edwin M McMillan, U.S., chemist (neptunium, plutonium, Nobel 1951), dies |
| 1991 | John Lawrence, doctor, dies |
| 1991 | Joop H Zwart, Spanish fighter/publicist (Black Widow), dies |
| 1991 | Paul Michael Lombardi, actor, dies of AIDS at 31 |
| 1990 | Rimantas Antanas Stankiavichus, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 46 |
| 1989 | Tim Hovey, actor (Slim Carter, Man Afraid), dies of a drug overdose |
| 1987 | Gerrit John Heijn, senior executive (Ahold), kidnapped/murdered |
| 1984 | Walter Kaufmann, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1984 | Yilmaz Gueney, director (Yol, Arkadas, Baba, Agit), dies at 47 |
| 1982 | Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen, U.S., detective writer, dies at 76 |
| 1981 | Phiroz Edulji Palia, cricket (2 Tests for India, 29 runs and 0-13), dies |
| 1981 | Jacques Lacan, French Psychologist |
| 1979 | Solon Michaelides, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1978 | Jack L Warner, U.S. movie production (Warner Bros), dies at 86) |
| 1977 | John Breeden, actor (Madame Racketeer, Salute), dies at 73 |
| 1976 | Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese Communist Party chairman (1949-76), dies at 82 |
| 1976 | Mao Zedong, Chinese Leader |
| 1975 | Ethel Griffies, actress (Billy Liar, Birds), dies at 97 |
| 1975 | John McGiver, actor (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show), dies at 61 |
| 1975 | Minta Durfee, actress (Keystone Comedies, Mickey), dies at 85 |
| 1974 | Sultan Ismail Hajibeyov, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1973 | Samuel N Behrman, U.S. stage/screenwriter (Quo Vardis), dies at 80 |
| 1971 | Billy Gilbert, U.S. actor (Great Dictator, His Gal Friday), dies at 76 |
| 1969 | Katherine Singleton, actress/Miss Universe (1926), dies at 65 |
| 1967 | Helen Flint, actress (Sea Devils), dies after being hit by a car at 69 |
| 1966 | Antonio Massana, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1966 | Leon de Smet, Flemish painter, dies at 85 |
| 1966 | Nestor Paiva, actor (3 Stooges in Orbit), dies of cancer at 61 |
| 1965 | Julian Antonio Carillo-Trujillo, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1964 | Charles O'Neill, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1963 | Ernst Kantorowicz, German/US historian, dies at 68 |
| 1963 | Jan Schouten, Dutch founder (illegal Trouw)/chairman (ARP), dies |
| 1962 | Pat Rooney, vaudevillian (Night club), dies at 82 |
| 1960 | Armas Toivo Valdemar Maasalo, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1959 | Max d' Ollone, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1959 | O'Neil Gordon Collie Smith, WI cricket all-rounder, dies in car crash |
| 1958 | Charles Macartney, cricket (35 Tests 1907-26, 2131 runs 45 wkts), dies |
| 1957 | Ettore Pozzoli, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1954 | Alfred Gradstein, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1952 | Joseph Allen Sr, dies |
| 1951 | Cecil Gray, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1951 | Gibson Gowland, actor (Greed), dies at 74 |
| 1948 | James Baskett, dies |
| 1942 | Zsigmond Moricz, Hungarians writer (Rozsa Sandor), dies at 63 |
| 1941 | Gustav Ehrismann, German germanist, dies at 85 |
| 1931 | Lujo [Ludwig J von] Brentano, German economist dies at 86 |
| 1926 | David Lobo, Dutch actor, dies in railway accident |
| 1926 | Greta Lobo-Braakensiek, Dutch actress in railway accident |
| 1913 | Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician, dies |
| 1912 | Jaroslav Vrchlicky, Emil Frida, Czechoslovakian poet, dies at 59 |
| 1909 | Edward H. Harriman, American Businessman |
| 1902 | Titus AJ van Asch van Wijck, Governor of Suriname (1891-97), dies at 53 |
| 1901 | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, dies at 36 |
| 1901 | Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, minister of Cologne dies |
| 1898 | Stephane Mallarme, French publisher (L'apres-midi d'un faune), dies |
| 1888 | John van Swieten, Dutch governor of West-Sumatra, dies at 71 |
| 1878 | Jacobo Ficher, composer, dies at 18 |
| 1876 | American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle |
| 1870 | Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, American Lawyer |
| 1866 | Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian/Czechoslovakian poet/translator, dies at 65 |
| 1841 | Augustin P de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 63 |
| 1832 | Bernhard Joseph Klein, composer, dies at 39 |
| 1817 | Paul Cuffe, civil rights activist (Sierre Leone), dies at 58 |
| 1815 | John Singleton Copley, British painter, dies at 77 |
| 1810 | Johann Baptiste Hagenauer, Austrian sculptor, dies at 78 |
| 1803 | Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer, dies at 32 |
| 1770 | Bernard S Albinus, Weiss, German surgeon/anatomist, dies at 73 |
| 1770 | Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist, dies at 62 |
| 1713 | Giovanni A di Bartlommeo Viscardi, Swiss architect, dies |
| 1683 | Algernon Sidney, English Whig politician/plotter, beheaded |
| 1573 | Andre de Resende, Portuguese dominican/humanist, dies |
| 1513 | James IV, king of Scotland (1488-1513), dies in battle at 40 |
| 1488 | Francois II of Bretagne, dies |
| 1438 | Eduard [Dom Duarte], King of Portugal (1433-38)/writer, dies |
| 1087 | William I, The Conqueror, King of England/Duke of Normandy, dies |
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