| 2008 | Aime Cesaire, dies in Martinique, of heart trouble, at 94 |
| 2004 | Soundarya, Actress |
| 2003 | Robert Atkins, diet doctor, Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution, dies at 72 |
| 1998 | Linda McCartney, photographer, organic businesswoman, dies at 56 |
| 1997 | Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (1983-93), dies at 78 |
| 1996 | Eva Jones, poet and novelist, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Jose Luis Lopez Aranguren, philosopher, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Michele Carew, daughter of baseball great Rod, dies of Leukemia at 18 |
| 1995 | Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator, dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Peter Hacker, U.S. journalist/actor (NBC, Broadcast News), dies at 69 |
| 1993 | Turgut zal, president of Turkey (1989-93), dies at 65 |
| 1992 | Hank Penny, country music singer, dies at 73 of heart failure |
| 1991 | Jack Yellen, U.S. poet (Sons o' Fun), dies at 97 |
| 1990 | Ralph David Abernathy, U.S. civil rights leader, dies |
| 1990 | Ralph Abernathy, American Activist |
| 1989 | Charles Lampkin, dies |
| 1988 | Eva Novak, actress (Medicine Man), dies of pneumonia at 90 |
| 1988 | Louise Nevelson, sculptor, dies of brain tumor at 88 |
| 1987 | Carlton Barrett, Jamaican reggae drummer (No woman no cry), dies at 36 |
| 1987 | Dick Shawn, comedian (Producers), dies on stage at 57 |
| 1986 | Bessie Head, writer, dies |
| 1985 | Ilona Bodden, writer, dies |
| 1983 | Felix Pappalardi, rocker (Cream, Mountain), dies |
| 1983 | Mark W. Clark, U.S. general (WW II), dies at 87 |
| 1983 | Peter Potter, DJ (Peter Potter Show, Juke Box Jury), dies at 78 |
| 1977 | Marjorie Gateson, actress (One Man's Family), dies at 86 |
| 1976 | Jean-Jacques Gailliard, Belgian painter, dies at 85 |
| 1974 | Frank McGee, Today show host, dies of cancer at 52 |
| 1974 | Herbert Elwell, U.S. composer (Happy Hypocrite), dies at 75 |
| 1974 | Vinnie Taylor, rocker (Canned Heat), dies of a drug overdose |
| 1971 | Roberto Lupi, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1970 | Sergei U S Aleksi, patriarch of Russian-Orthodox church, dies at 92 |
| 1968 | Margaret Seddon, dies at 95 |
| 1967 | John Coltrane, American Musician |
| 1962 | Louise Fazenda, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 66 |
| 1960 | Eddie Cochran, rocker, dies at 21 in a car crash |
| 1948 | Johan P earl of Limburg Stirum, diplomat, dies at 75 |
| 1945 | Hannie Schaft, "Girl with red hair," executed |
| 1945 | Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului), dies |
| 1945 | Walter Model, German Field Marshal, commits suicide at 54 |
| 1936 | Charles J M Ruys de Beerenbrouck, Dutch Prime Minister 1918 - 1923, 1929 - 1933, dies |
| 1915 | Johannes P Kelly, Kellij, Dutch actor/operetta writer, dies at 60 |
| 1899 | Hans Balatka, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1892 | Alexander Mackenzie, Canadian Statesman |
| 1891 | Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1890 | John Barnett, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1884 | Thomas Gold Appleton, American critic, writer, and artist, dies |
| 1873 | Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1863 | Daniel Smith Donelson, Confederate gen/cousin of Andrew Jackson, dies at 61 |
| 1854 | Gottlob Wiedebein, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1838 | J Schopenhauer, writer, dies at 71 |
| 1837 | Edouard viscount de Walckiers, very wealthy slave trader, dies |
| 1837 | Joseph Anderson, American Politician |
| 1835 | William Henry Ireland, forger (Shakespearean manuscripts), dies |
| 1790 | Benjamin Franklin, statesman and inventor, dies at 84 |
| 1764 | Johann Mattheson, German composer/musicologist, dies at 82 |
| 1726 | Henriette Amalia, ruler of Nassau-Dietz, dies at 49 |
| 1714 | Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1711 | Jozef I, Habsburg, emperor of Germany (1705-11), dies at about 32 |
| 1696 | Madame de Sevigne, French Writer |
| 1679 | John van Kessel, Flemish painter, dies at 53 |
| 1630 | Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (battle of White Mt), dies |
| 1574 | Joachim Camerarius, Liebhard Kammerer, German philologist, dies |
| 1427 | Jan IV, duke of Brabant/Limburg/wife of Jacoba van Bayern, dies |
| 1297 | Willem van Afflighem, Flemish poet/abbot St. Truiden, dies at about 86 |
| 1272 | Zita/Cita, Italian maid/saint, dies at about 59 |
| 858 | Benedict III, Italian Pope (855-58), dies |
| 818 | Bernhard I, King of Italy, dies |
