| 2001 | Harvey R. Ball, graphic designer, invented the ubiquitous smiley face in 1963, dies at 79 |
| 2001 | Harvey Ball, American Celebrity |
| 2000 | Christopher Pettiet, actor, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, dies at 24 |
| 1999 | Boxcar Willie, born Lecil Travis Martin, guitarist, American hobo music singer, sang country, gospel music, dies from leukemia, in Branson, Missouri, at age 67 |
| 1997 | George Wald, scientist, dies at 90 |
| 1996 | Marthe Robert, essayist/translator, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | William Wilkinson, businessman/conservationist, dies at 63 |
| 1995 | Chris Pyne, Norman Christopher Chris Pyne, musician, trombonist, played with Humphrey Lyttelton, recorded with Ronnie Scott, toured with Frank Sinatra's backing bands, Gordon Beck, Charlie Watt's big band, dies at 56 |
| 1994 | Harry la Fontaine, Danish/US resistance fighter/producer, dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Jean Carmet, dies at 72 |
| 1994 | Q T Macon, blues vocal/guitar, dies at 60 |
| 1993 | Isaac Rojas, Vice President of Argentina (1955-58), dies |
| 1993 | Patience Jarvis, dies of melanoma at 56 |
| 1992 | Joe Medwick, vocalist, dies at 61 |
| 1991 | James Schuyler, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1980), dies |
| 1990 | Henry Kendrick, dies |
| 1989 | Abbie Hoffman, yippie peace activist of the 60's, dies at 52 |
| 1989 | Sugar Ray Robinson, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 67 of Alzheimer |
| 1988 | Alan Stewart Paton, writer, dies |
| 1988 | Alan Paton, South African Novelist |
| 1987 | Ewan Calague, economist/statistician (Social Security) dies at 90 |
| 1984 | Ruth Taylor, actress (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 76 |
| 1983 | Desmond Bagley, British Journalist |
| 1981 | Hans Chemin-Petit, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1981 | Hendrik F Andriessen, Dutch organist/composer (Te Deum), dies at 88 |
| 1981 | Joe Louis, also known as the 'Brown bomber', U.S. heavyweight champ 1937 - 1949, dies at 66 |
| 1980 | William R Tolbert, Jr., Liberian President and 27 others killed in coup |
| 1977 | Philip K Wrigley, baseball owner for the Chicago Cubs, dies at 82 |
| 1976 | Paul Ford, actor (Phil Silvers Show), dies at 74 |
| 1975 | Josephine Baker, US/French revue artist (Folies-Bergere), dies at 68 |
| 1974 | Carl Jaffe, dies at 72 |
| 1972 | C. W. Ceram, Kurt Marek, German/U.S. writer (1st American), dies at 57 |
| 1972 | Henri Potiron, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1966 | Sumokil, president of Republic South Moluccas, executed |
| 1965 | Linda Darnell, U.S. actress (Dakota Incident), dies at 43 |
| 1961 | Nils-Eric Fougstedt, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1961 | Philippine "Pine" Belder, Mary de Klerk, actress, dies at 93 |
| 1959 | Ernest Willem Mulder, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1959 | James Gleason, dies at 76 |
| 1956 | Jose Moscardo Ituarte, Spanish general (Alcazar 1936), dies at 77 |
| 1954 | Pim [Willem JH] Mulier, Dutch journalist/sports-organizer, dies at 89 |
| 1951 | Harold Vincent Milligan, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1947 | Christian F L Leipoldt, South African writer (Die Moormansgat), dies |
| 1946 | August Borms, Flemish nazi collaborator, executed at 67 |
| 1946 | F Guicciardi, writer, dies |
| 1945 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President (D) (1933-1945), dies at 63 |
| 1945 | Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President |
| 1942 | Johannes E Akkeringa, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 80 |
| 1938 | Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author (Man and Mark), dies at 65 |
| 1938 | Serafin Alvarez Quintero, Spanish playwright (Piropos), dies at 67 |
| 1922 | Frantisek Ondricek, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1914 | Josef Nesvera, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1912 | Clara Barton, organizer (American Red Cross), dies at 90 |
| 1910 | William G Sumner, U.S. sociologist/politicologist (Folkways), dies at 69 |
| 1909 | Hermann Kotzchmar, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1909 | Hilton Kramer, American Critic |
| 1896 | Alexander Ritter, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1878 | Boss Tweed, born in New York City, New York, American Politician, Democratic leader of Tammany Hall |
| 1864 | Thomas Green, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 50 |
| 1859 | John Emde, German evangelist, dies at about 84 |
| 1850 | Adoniram Judson, American Clergyman |
| 1845 | Henry M baron the Kock, officer/politician, dies at 65 |
| 1828 | Jean Henri Appelius, Dutch lawyer/minister of Finance, dies at 60 |
| 1817 | Charles Messier, "comet ferret" and catalogs famous "M objects,", dies |
| 1797 | Josef Antonin Stepan, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1795 | Rainieri de Calzabigi, Italian literary, dies at 80 |
| 1788 | Carl Joseph Toeschi, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1788 | Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1777 | Claude-Prosper J de Crebillon, French writer (Le sopha), dies at 70 |
| 1760 | Baron Ernst Gottlieb, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1748 | William Kent, English sculptor/architect (Kensington Palace), dies |
| 1704 | John Hudde, 21x mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 76 |
| 1704 | Jacques Bossuet, French Clergyman |
| 1690 | Miguel Gomez Camargo, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1605 | Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies |
| 1555 | Johanna de Wanzinnige, Queen of Castilie (1504-20), dies at 75 |
| 1550 | Claude of Lorraine, duke of Guise, dies at 53 |
| 352 | Julius I, pope (337-52), dies |
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