| 2003 | Michael Kelly, journalist, Atlantic Monthly - died in Iraq in an accident, dies at 45 |
| 2000 | Terence McKenna, novel writer/mystic, dies at 43 |
| 1999 | Helen Aberson, writer, Dumbo, dies at 92 |
| 1999 | Lionel Bart, composer, songwriter, wrote pop music, musicals, created book, music and lyrics for Oliver!, dies at 68 |
| 1997 | Judy Flannery, master triathelete, killed by a car at 56 |
| 1996 | Carl Stokes, 1st black mayor of a major U.S. city, Cleveland, dies |
| 1996 | Christopher John Seward, aid worker, dies at 45 |
| 1996 | Ron Brown, Secretary of Commerce, dies in an accident |
| 1996 | Ronald Harmon Brown, politician, dies at 54 |
| 1996 | Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes, bluesman, dies at 59 |
| 1995 | David Alexander Reginald Herbert, writer, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Harvey Pennick, golfer/teacher, dies at 89 |
| 1994 | Betty Furness, actress/news consumer reporter (WNBC), dies at 78 |
| 1994 | Frank G Wells, U.S. director (Walt Disney), dies at 62 |
| 1994 | Jerome Lejeune, French geneticist (Syndrome of Down), dies at 67 |
| 1994 | Pat Harper, New York City news anchor (WPIX, WNBC), dies |
| 1993 | Alexander Mnouchkine, French movie producer (Professional), dies at 83 |
| 1993 | Dieter Plage, German wildlife filmmaker, dies at 57 |
| 1993 | Eduardo Cabellero Calderon, Colombian writer/diplomat, dies at 83 |
| 1993 | Pinky Lee, kiddie host (Pinky Lee Show), dies of heart attack at 85 |
| 1992 | Lloyd "Slim" Andrews, actor (Buf Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies |
| 1992 | Margaret Barker, actress (Fathers and Son), dies of lung cancer at 83 |
| 1991 | Graham Greene, British writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana), dies at 86 |
| 1990 | Katharine Balfour, actress (Love Story), dies of ALS at 69 |
| 1990 | Sarah Vaughn, jazz singer, dies of lung cancer at 66 |
| 1990 | Sarah Vaughan, American Musician |
| 1989 | Norman Woolard, actor (Guilty, Saul and David, Medeleine), dies at 79 |
| 1988 | Milton A Caniff, U.S. cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates), dies at 81 |
| 1986 | Peter Pears, English tenor (Death in Venice), dies at 75 |
| 1986 | Richard Manuel, rock pianist/vocalist (Band), dies on 41st birthday |
| 1982 | Herman W. Filarski, Dutch bridge journalist, dies at 69 |
| 1982 | Warren Oates, actor (East of Eden, Stoney Burke), dies at 53 |
| 1980 | Luella Gear, actress (Joe and Mabel), dies at 82 |
| 1976 | Maurice Johnstone, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1975 | Mary Ure, actress (Sons and Lovers, Where Eagles Dare), dies at 42 |
| 1974 | Marston Bates, American Scientist |
| 1972 | Ferde Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1972 | Ferde Grofe, U.S. composer (Grand Canyon Suite), dies at 80 |
| 1971 | Joseph Valachi, U.S. gangster, dies at 66 |
| 1971 | Manfred Bonnington Lee, Ellery Queen, detective writer, dies at 65 |
| 1971 | Joe Valachi, American Celebrity |
| 1969 | Rex Evans, actor (Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, Zara), dies at 65 |
| 1966 | Russel Crouse, U.S. stagewriter (Life with Father), dies at 73 |
| 1962 | Benny "Kid" Paret, U.S. welterweight boxer, dies after fight, at 24 |
| 1962 | Manolis Kalomiris, Greek opera composer, dies at 78 |
| 1960 | Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at 87 |
| 1958 | Theodor Kramer, writer, dies |
| 1956 | T Kostov, Bulgarian vice-premier, executed |
| 1951 | Johannes C. Kielstra, Dut economist/Governor of Suriname 1933 - 1944, dies at 72 |
| 1950 | Adolf Wiklund, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1950 | Carter G Woodson, American historian (black studies), dies at 74 |
| 1950 | Kurt Julian Weill, German composer (Dreigroschenoper), dies at 50 |
| 1950 | Carter G. Woodson, American Historian |
| 1949 | Basil Harwood, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1946 | Masaharu Homma, Lieutenant General (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed |
| 1945 | Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet and writer (Vienna Verbatim), dies at 43 |
| 1943 | Conrad Veidt, German/US actor (Cabinet of Dr. Calgary), dies at 50 |
| 1942 | Albert Siklos, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1942 | Paul Gilson, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1941 | Andre Michelin, French tire manufacturer, dies at 88 |
| 1941 | Pal Teleki-von Szek, Prime Minister Hungary 1920 - 1921, 1939 - 1941, suicide at 61 |
| 1936 | Bruno Hauptmann, convicted Lindbergh baby killer, executed |
| 1933 | Wilson Mizner, playwright, entrepreneur, raconteur, wrote, 'The Deep Purple', 'The Greyhound', opium addict, boxing manager, hotel manager, managed restaurant The Brown Derby, with brother, Addison Mizner, dies |
| 1930 | Emma Albani, Canadian Musician |
| 1920 | Homer Newton Bartlett, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1919 | Paul Geisler, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1910 | Catherine Helen Spence, Australian Author |
| 1909 | Benjamin Johnson Lang, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1901 | Richard D'Oyly Carte, promotor (Gilbert and Sullivan operas), dies |
| 1897 | Johannes Brahms, German composer and conductor, 'Hungarian Dances', dies at 63 |
| 1884 | Carel JCH van Nispen tot Sevenaer, Dutch Cath politician, dies at 59 |
| 1882 | Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1882 | Jesse James, outlaw, shot dead at 34, in St. Joseph, Missouri by Robert Ford |
| 1876 | Henriette Davidis, writer, dies |
| 1868 | Franz Adolf Berwald, Swedish composer, dies at 71 |
| 1862 | James Clark Ross, Arctic explorer, dies |
| 1858 | Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer, dies at 79 |
| 1854 | John Wilson, Scottish Writer |
| 1850 | Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek, organist/pianist/composer, dies at 75 |
| 1849 | Juliusz Slowacki, Pol poet (Father of the Plague-Patient), dies at 39 |
| 1838 | Francesco Antommarchi, Napoleon's physician on St. Helena, dies at 57 |
| 1826 | Reginald Heber, bishop and hymn writer, dies |
| 1822 | Friedrich Bertuch, writer, dies |
| 1811 | Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish (court)painter, dies at 83 |
| 1797 | Nonnosus Madlseder, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1769 | Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet (in blood), dies at 71 |
| 1695 | Melchior de Hondecoeter, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 58 |
| 1694 | Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere, Flemish painter, buried at 64 |
| 1682 | Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter, dies |
| 1581 | Huibert Duifhuis, Roman Catholic pastor (Rotterdam/Utrecht), dies |
| 1525 | Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet (Le Api), dies at 49 |
| 1512 | Richard Pafraet, Dutch printer, dies |
| 1287 | Honorius IV, Giacomo Savelli, Italian Pope (1285-87), dies |
| 628 | Chosroes II, emperor of Persia (579..628), murdered by his son |
| 33 | Christ, crucified (according to astronomer Humphreys and Waddington) |
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