| 2005 | Philip Morrison, American Scientist |
| 2004 | Pat Tillman, soldier/pro football player, dies at 27 |
| 2003 | Felice Bryant, Songwriter, ", Wake Up, Little Susie, ", dies at 77 |
| 1996 | David Shipman, film historian, dies at 63 |
| 1996 | Erma Bombeck, humorist (Grass is Greener), dies at 69 |
| 1996 | Hiteshwar Saikia, Prime Minister of Indian state of Assam (1991-96), dies |
| 1995 | Don Pullen, pianist/composer, dies at 53 |
| 1995 | Maggie Kuhn, activist (Gray Panthers), dies at 89 |
| 1994 | D Nauta, theologist/church historian/lawyer, dies at 96 |
| 1994 | Denis Pitts, film-maker, journalist, novelist, wrote, 'This City is Ours', 'The Predator', dies at 64 |
| 1994 | Jack Alexander Bently, trombonist, dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President (1969-75), dies of stroke at 81 |
| 1994 | Schmidt Hans Burkhardt, artist, dies at 89 |
| 1994 | Richard M. Nixon, American President |
| 1994 | Karl Hess, American Writer |
| 1993 | Andries Treurnicht, founder South Africa Conservative Party, dies at 72 |
| 1993 | Cesar Chavez, U.S. farm worker (United Farm Workers), dies at 66 |
| 1993 | Mark Koenig, baseball shortstop (New York Yankees), dies at 88 |
| 1992 | Billy Wayne White, murderer, executed in Texas at 34 |
| 1992 | Joop [Joseph] van Santen, Dutch 1st Chamber member (CPN), dies |
| 1992 | Youcca Troubatzkoy, actress (Flower of the Night), dies |
| 1990 | Bertil Unger, actor (Devil and Max Devlin), dies |
| 1989 | Huey Newton, U.S., Black Panther leader, shot dead at 47 |
| 1988 | Irene Rich, U.S. actress (Beau Brumell, Champ), dies at 96 |
| 1988 | Charles Melvin Price, Representative-D-Illinois 1945 - 1988 |
| 1986 | Mircea Eliade, writer, dies |
| 1984 | Ansel Adams, U.S. photographer, dies at 82 |
| 1983 | Earl "Fatha" Hines, U.S., jazz pianist/conductor, dies |
| 1983 | Walter Slezak, actor (Bedtime For Bonzo), commits suicide in New York at 80 |
| 1983 | Earl Hines, American Musician |
| 1982 | Melville Bell Grosvenor, President National Geographic Society, dies at 80 |
| 1981 | Brailsford Reese Brazeal, dean (Morehouse College), dies at 76 |
| 1980 | Jane Froman, singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen), dies at 72 |
| 1978 | Will Geer, actor (Grandpa Walton-Waltons), dies at 75 |
| 1977 | Charles Sanford, orchestra leader (Your Show of Shows), dies at 71 |
| 1976 | Frutuoso de Lima Viana, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1975 | Mary Philips, actress (Farewell to Arms), dies at 75 |
| 1967 | Tom Conway, actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show), dies at 62 |
| 1962 | Solomon Pimsleur, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1962 | Vera Reynolds, actress (Dragnet Patrol, Lawless Woman), dies at 62 |
| 1961 | Maria Radulphus, Adrian Hermus, Curaeao school inspector, dies at 91 |
| 1957 | Ignatius Roy D Campbell, British poet (Garcia Lorca), dies at 54 |
| 1953 | Top Naeff, Anthonetta van Rhijn-N, Dutch writer, dies at 75 |
| 1951 | Stanley Ridges, actor, 'Possessed', 'Sergeant York', 'Mr. Ace', dies at 59 |
| 1950 | Charles H Houston, architect of NAACP legal campaign, dies at 54 |
| 1946 | Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice Supreme Court (1941-46), dies at 73 |
| 1946 | Lionel Atwill, actor (Captain Blood, Great Waltz), dies at 61 |
| 1946 | Harlan Stone, American Lawyer |
| 1945 | Kathe Kollwitz, German graphic artist, dies at 77 |
| 1944 | Mezio Agostini, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1933 | Frederick Henry Royce, motorcar pioneer, dies |
| 1930 | Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish journalist, author and poet (Rugens sange), dies at 63 |
| 1929 | Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1925 | Andre Caplet, composer, dies at 46 |
| 1908 | Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British premier (1905-08), dies |
| 1901 | William Stubbs, historian/bishop, dies |
| 1892 | Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1883 | Octave Fouque, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1865 | Francis Washburn, U.S. Union colonel/general major, dies of injuries |
| 1864 | Joseph Gilbert Totten, U.S. Union general-major, dies at 76 |
| 1844 | Henri-Montan Berton, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1833 | Richard Trevithick, inventor (steam locomotive), dies at 62 |
| 1830 | Knud L Rahbek, Danish literary/historian, dies at 69 |
| 1827 | Thomas Rowlandson, caricaturist, dies |
| 1821 | John Crome, Old Crome, English landscape painter/etcher, dies at 52 |
| 1788 | Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch poet, dies 46 |
| 1782 | Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1778 | James Hargreaves, inventor (spinning jenny), dies |
| 1776 | Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer, dies at 67 |
| 1722 | Pieter Erberfeld, German/Thais merchant on Java, dies |
| 1699 | Hans A baron von Abschatz, Silesian poet, dies at 53 |
| 1677 | Wenzel E Furst von Lobkowitz, Austria chancellor (16..-74), dies at 68 |
| 1672 | Georg Stiernhielm, Swed scholar, author and poet (Hercules), dies at 73 |
| 1662 | John Tradescant, traveller/gardener, dies |
| 1648 | Catharina Belgian van Nassau, daughter of Willem, dies at 69 |
| 1592 | Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 80 |
| 1521 | Juan de Padilla, Spanish nobleman/communero-rebel, beheaded |
| 1462 | Gilbert of Lannoy, master of Villerval/Tronchiennes/Santes, dies |
| 1355 | Eleonora Plantagenet, daughter of King Edward II, dies at 36 |
| 1253 | Elias van Cortona, Italian general (1232-39), dies at about 53 |
| 536 | Agapitus I, Italian Pope (535-36), dies |
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