| 2007 | Kurt Vonnegut, dies at his home in Manhattan, at 84 |
| 2001 | Nyree Dawn Porter, actor, The Forsyte Saga, dies at 61 |
| 2001 | Sir Harry Secombe, actor, The Goon Show, dies at 79 |
| 2001 | Harry Secombe, Welsh Actor |
| 1998 | Rodney Harvey, actor, model, featured in Life Magazine spread with Madonna, appeared in Fox series, 'The Outsiders', guest on television show 'Twin Peaks', appeared in 'My Own Private Idaho', died at age 30, of a heroin overdose |
| 1997 | Michael Dorris, writer, scholar, first unmarried man to adopt child, Raynold Abel, wrote about Reynold in 'The Broken Cord', commits suicide in Concord, New Hampshire, at age 52 |
| 1996 | Daniel Wolf, journalist, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Edwin Clarke, historian/neurologist, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Jessica Dubroff, hoped to be youngest to fly across U.S., crashed at 7 |
| 1996 | Louis Osman, artist/goldsmith/craftsman, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, advertising magnate, dies at 89 |
| 1994 | Johan Block, Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia), dies at 64 |
| 1993 | Mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered |
| 1993 | Rachmon Nabiyev, President of Tadzjikistan (1973..92), dies at 63 |
| 1992 | Adele Dixon, singer and actress (Uneasy Virtue), dies of pneumonia at 83 |
| 1992 | Eve Merriam, poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of cancer at 75 |
| 1992 | James Brown, actor (Rip-Adv of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 72 |
| 1991 | Tom Rosqui, dies at 62 |
| 1990 | Barbara Ann Miller, dies |
| 1989 | Henk van Galen Last, Dutch journalist, dies at 68 |
| 1988 | David Prater, U.S. singer (Sam and Dave-Soul Man), dies in car crash at 50 |
| 1988 | Jeff Donnell, actor (Hoedown, 9 Girls), dies at 66 of a heart attack |
| 1987 | Erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83 |
| 1987 | Kent Taylor, actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders), dies at 79 |
| 1987 | Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67 |
| 1985 | Enver Hoxha, party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76 |
| 1983 | Dolores Del Rio, actress (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 78 |
| 1981 | Marie Ney, dies at 85 |
| 1980 | Charlotte Henry, dies |
| 1980 | Florence Lake, dies |
| 1977 | Jacques Prevert, French poet (La puil et le beau), dies at 77 |
| 1976 | Liam Dunn, dies a 59 |
| 1975 | Dorothy Patten, dies at 70 |
| 1974 | Curt Conway, dies |
| 1974 | Abraham Robinson, German Mathematician |
| 1973 | Ted de Corsia, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon), dies at 69 |
| 1970 | Cathy O'Donnell, dies at 66 |
| 1970 | John H O'Hara, U.S. journalist (Pal Joey, Rage to Live), dies at 65 |
| 1969 | Ludvig Irgens Jensen, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1961 | Francis de Bourguignon, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1952 | Wadi' Sabra, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1950 | Bainbridge Colby, American Public Servant |
| 1945 | Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish resistance fighter (in Dachau), dies at 29 |
| 1939 | SS Van Dine, William Huntingdon Wright, detective writer, dies at 50 |
| 1936 | Mitya Stillman, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1935 | Anna Katharine Green, American Author |
| 1934 | John Collier, British Artist |
| 1921 | Augusta Victoria, Queen of Prussia/wife of Emperor Wilhelm II, dies |
| 1916 | Richard Harding Davis, journalist, dies at 52 |
| 1906 | Georgi Apollonovitch Gapon, Rus-orthodox clergyman/tsarist agent, dies |
| 1906 | James A Bailey, circus showman (Barnum and Bailey), dies at 58 |
| 1903 | Gemma Galgani, Italian saint, dies at 25 |
| 1902 | ... Potgieter, South African Boer general, dies in battle |
| 1901 | Ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1887 | Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1884 | Henry James Byron, English Dramatist |
| 1881 | Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (Torn Trondal), dies at 40 |
| 1875 | Heinrich Schwabe, discoverer (11-year sunspot cycle), dies |
| 1854 | Karl Adolph von Basedow, East Germany (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55 |
| 1853 | Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer, dies |
| 1842 | John England, bishop of Charleston Carolina, dies |
| 1839 | John Galt, Scottish writer (Last of the Lairds), dies at 59 |
| 1838 | Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull), murdered at 40 |
| 1812 | Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Opfer Noachs), dies at 35 |
| 1810 | Jakob Zupan, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1783 | Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64 |
| 1729 | Manuel de Egues, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1648 | Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1512 | Gaston de Foix, French pretender to Navarra throne, dies in battle |
| 1500 | Michael T Marullus, Greeks poet, drowns |
| 1240 | Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies |
| 1034 | Romanus III Argyrus, Byzantine emperor (1028-34), assasinated by wife |
| 678 | Donus, Italian Pope (676-78), dies |
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