| 2006 | Daniel Schaefer, Representative-R-Colorado 1983 - 1999 |
| 2003 | Graham Jarvis, actor, Seventh Heaven, dies at 72 |
| 2002 | Robert Urich, actor, Spenser for Hire, dies at 55 |
| 2002 | Ruth Fertel, restaurateur, started Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, dies at 75 |
| 2001 | Michael Ritchie, American Director |
| 1998 | Marie-Louise Febronie Meilleur, oldest person in 1998, dies at 117 |
| 1997 | Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, media tycoon, dies at 66 |
| 1997 | Mae Boren Axton, song writer (Heartbreak Hotel), dies at 82 |
| 1997 | Michael Stroka, TV actor, Aristede-Dark Shadows, dies of cancer at 57 |
| 1996 | Lucille Bremer, dancer/actress (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 73 |
| 1996 | Madeleine Bourdouxhe, writer, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Raymond Earl Hill, saxophonist, dies at 62 |
| 1996 | Stavros Spyros Niarchos, Greek shipowner, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Arthur English, comedian, dies at 75 |
| 1995 | Cheyenne Brando, daughter of Marlon, commits suicide |
| 1995 | Cyril Enfield, film Director, dies at 80 |
| 1995 | Stewart Myles MacPherson, broadcaster, dies at 86 |
| 1994 | John McLiam, dies of Parkinson's disease at 75 |
| 1994 | Ralph Waldo Ellison, U.S. writer (Invisible Man), dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Ron Vawter, U.S. actor (Roy Cohn, Silence of the Lambs), dies at 45 |
| 1994 | Samuel Selvon, author, writer-in-residence, University of Calgary, Canada, dies at 70 |
| 1994 | Ralph Ellison, American Author |
| 1993 | John P. W. Meefout, sculptor (Laying wife), dies at 77 |
| 1992 | Andy Russell, drummer/vocalist (Your Hit Parade), dies of stroke at 72 |
| 1992 | Frank Killmond, dies at 58 |
| 1992 | Neville Brand, actor (Stalag 17), dies of emphysema at 71 |
| 1991 | David Lean, director (28 academy awards), dies of pneumonia at 83 |
| 1989 | Tawfieq Yusuf Awwaad, Lebanese writer, dies |
| 1988 | Abu Jihad, Khalil al-Wazzir, PLO-leader, murdered |
| 1988 | Jacques de Kadt, Dutch 2nd chamber member (soc-dem), dies at 90 |
| 1988 | Khalil al-Wazir, PLO military commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos |
| 1988 | Warde Donovan, dies at 72 |
| 1985 | Scott Brady, Gerald Tierney, actor (Shotgun Slade), dies at 60 |
| 1980 | Alf Sjoberg, dir (Fadern, Oen, Domaren), dies in a car crash at 76 |
| 1978 | Lucius D. Clay, general and Governor U.S. zone W-Germany (airlift), dies at 80 |
| 1973 | Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian/German conductor (London Symphony), dies at 43 |
| 1972 | Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author (Nobel 1968), dies at 72 |
| 1971 | Mihaly Vaci, Hungarian poet/politician, dies at 46 |
| 1970 | Peter Veres, Hungarian minister of defense/writer, dies at 73 |
| 1970 | Richard J. Neutra, Australia/US architect (Who Bought America?), dies at 78 |
| 1970 | Richard Neutra, American Architect |
| 1968 | Edna Ferber, author (American Beauty), dies at 78 |
| 1968 | Fay Bainter, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair), dies at 76 |
| 1959 | Charles Halton, dies at 83 |
| 1955 | Abdullah Seif el-Islam, brother of Yemenite king Ahmed, beheaded |
| 1951 | Emile Erens, Dutch hagiographer (Pastor of Ars), dies at 85 |
| 1949 | Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, Indon communist, executed at 54 |
| 1941 | Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st baron/statisician, dies |
| 1941 | Josiah Stamp, British Businessman |
| 1938 | Bertram Wagstaff Mills, circus proprietor, dies |
| 1929 | Abraham van Stolk Jzn, art collector, dies at 57 |
| 1924 | Jack Board, cricket wicket-keeper (England in 6 Tests 1898-1906), dies |
| 1920 | John Conrad Nordqvist, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1915 | Nelson W. Aldrich, American Politician |
| 1914 | George W. Hill, U.S. astronomer (moon orbit), dies at 76 |
| 1904 | Samuel Smiles, Scottish Author |
| 1881 | George William Martin, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1879 | Bernadette, st/(saw Virgin Mary at Lourdes), dies in Nevers France |
| 1876 | Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1870 | Anatoli O Demidov, Russian ruler of Donato/traveller, dies |
| 1865 | Robert C Tyler, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle |
| 1860 | Carolina, duchess of Berry/daughter of crown prince of Naples, dies |
| 1859 | Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist |
| 1858 | Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher, dies at 87 |
| 1850 | Marie [Gresholtz] Tussaud, maker of wax figures, dies |
| 1846 | Domenico Dragonetti, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1828 | Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Spanish painter/cartoonist, dies at 82 |
| 1825 | John Henry Fuseli, painter/art writer (Tracks in the Snow), dies at 84 |
| 1825 | Henry Fuseli, British Artist |
| 1760 | Laurence, 4th Earl Ferrers, executed for murder of his steward |
| 1756 | Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (Discover rings of Saturn), dies at 79 |
| 1743 | Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, Dutch lawyer (Roman law), dies at 69 |
| 1689 | Aphra Behn, English Dramatist |
| 1687 | George Villiers 2nd duke of Buckingham, dies at 59 |
| 1619 | Denijs Calvaert/Caluwaert, Dionisio Fiamingo, Flemish painter, dies |
| 1529 | Louis de Berquin, French humanist/reformer/heretic, burned at stake |
| 1496 | David van Bourgondie, Bishop of Utrecht (1456-96), dies at about 69 |
| 1446 | Filippo Brunelleschi, architect, dies |