| 2007 | Johnny Hart, cartoonist, creator, comic strips, 'The Wizard of Id', 'B.C.', strips each appeared in over 1,000 newspapers, dies of a stroke while at the drawing table, at age 76 |
| 2002 | John Agar, actor, the original The Thing, dies at 81 |
| 2001 | Beatrice Straight, actress, Network, dies at 82 |
| 2001 | David Graf, actor, Police Academy, movies, dies at 50 |
| 1998 | Alex Schomberg, artist, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Ian Spurling, ballet designer, dies at 59 |
| 1995 | Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb, architect, dies at 68 |
| 1994 | Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi |
| 1994 | Angelus Gottfried "Golo" Mann, German/US historian, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Arthur Gordon Clough, journalist, dies at 59 |
| 1994 | Evert Hartman, Dutch writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56 |
| 1994 | Francois de Grossouvre, President Mitterrand advisor, suicide at 76 |
| 1994 | Kurt Cobain, grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 27 |
| 1994 | Lee Brilleaux, British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at 41 |
| 1993 | Max Croiset, Dutch actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80 |
| 1993 | Richard Schmiechen, dies of AIDS at 45 |
| 1992 | Alix Talton, former Miss Georgia, dies of lung cancer at 72 |
| 1992 | Clovis Ruffin, fashion designer (T shirt dress), dies of AIDS at 46 |
| 1992 | Rick Emery, dies after long illness at 39 |
| 1989 | Tikhon Toropets, patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint, dies at 123 |
| 1988 | Cesar Bresgen, Austrian composer/organist, dies at 74 |
| 1987 | Maxine Sullivan, Williams, U.S. actress (Going Places), dies at 75 |
| 1984 | Frank Church, Senator-D-Ohio 1957 - 1981, dies at 59 |
| 1984 | Samuel C Engel, poet, dies of heart failure at 79 |
| 1983 | Gavin Gordon, television actor (Romance, Lone Cowboy), dies at 82 |
| 1982 | Brenda Benet, actress (Track of Thunder), commits suicide by gun at 36 |
| 1979 | Bruno Apitz, writer, dies at 78 |
| 1978 | Ernest Kanitz, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1977 | Siegfried Buback, West German procureur-general, murdered attorney-general |
| 1976 | Mary Margaret McBride, TV hostess (Mary Margaret McBride), dies at 76 |
| 1975 | Maxwell Maltz, cosmetic surgeon, author, self-help pioneer, invented Psycho-Cybernetics, system to improve one's self-image, lead a better life, wrote, 'Psycho-Cybernetics', believes positive self-view key to achieving goals, dies |
| 1973 | Nick Stuart, bandleader, dies of cancer at 69 |
| 1972 | "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party |
| 1972 | Abeid Karume, Tanzanian sheik/president, murdered |
| 1972 | Victor Wong, actor (Mission to Moscow, King Kong) dies at 65 |
| 1971 | Charles F Pahud de Mortanges, Gold Medals 1928, 1932 Olympics, dies at 74 |
| 1970 | Josina Machel, wife of Mozambique's 1st President Samora Machel, dies |
| 1968 | Jim Clark, of Scotland, world driving champ, dies at 32 in race car |
| 1967 | Anne Morrison Chapin, dies in West Hollywood |
| 1961 | Jesus Guridi, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1961 | Marian Jordan, radio comedienne (Fibber McGee and Molly), dies at 62 |
| 1961 | Yusef Greiss, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1960 | Ernest Holmes, author, teacher, spiritualist, founded Religious Science movement, considered 'Science of Mind', part of New Thought movement, wrote metaphysical books, including 'The Science of Mind', founded 'Science of Mind' magazine, dies |
| 1958 | Judge Jackson, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1958 | Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1958 | Elliot Paul, American Journalist |
| 1950 | Walter Huston, dies at 66 |
| 1947 | Henry Ford, U.S. industrialist - Ford cars, dies |
| 1943 | Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet (Blue Legends), dies at 72 |
| 1934 | William Monroe Trotter, African, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston |
| 1933 | Jan Erik/Eric Jan Hanussen, Berlin astrologist/illusionist, murdered |
| 1932 | Erv A Kelley, U.S. policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd |
| 1917 | Spyridon Filiskos Samaras, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1891 | Phineas T Barnum, U.S. circus promoter (B and Bailey), dies at 88 |
| 1891 | P. T. Barnum, American Entertainer |
| 1884 | Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poet (Avondlamp), dies at 80 |
| 1881 | Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican MP, dies at 65 |
| 1880 | Diederich Krug, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1877 | Errico Petrella, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1875 | Georg Herwegh, writer, dies at 57 |
| 1871 | Alexander, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 1 day old |
| 1871 | Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff, Austrian Admiral (Helgoland/Lissa), dies at 43 |
| 1862 | Sydney Nelson, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1858 | Anton Diabelli, Austria publisher/composer, dies at 76 |
| 1850 | William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets), dies at 87 |
| 1842 | Henrik A Bjerregaard, Norw writer/poet (Fjeldeventyret), dies at 50 |
| 1833 | Antoni Henryk Radziwill, Lithuanian/Polish composer, dies at 57 |
| 1810 | Pieter L van de Kasteele, Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 61 |
| 1803 | [Francois D] Toussaint L'Ouverture/Haitian revolutionary, dies |
| 1789 | Abdul-Hamid I, 27th sultan of Turkey (1774-89), dies at 64 |
| 1789 | Peter Camper, anatomist/animal scholar, dies at 66 |
| 1783 | Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1778 | Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1768 | Michel Mathieu, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1767 | Franz Sparry, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1766 | Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch classicist, dies at 81 |
| 1719 | Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theory/saint, dies at 67 |
| 1668 | William Davenant, English Poet |
| 1614 | El Greco, Spanish painter (View of Toledo), dies (birth date unknown) |
| 1524 | Philip of Burgundy, bishop of Utrecht, dies |
| 1498 | Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), dies at 27 |
| 1444 | John Capreolus, French theologist (Libri IV), dies at about 50 |
| 924 | Berengarius I, Emperor of Italy, murdered |
| 30 | Christ, crucified, according to astronomer Schaefer, dies |
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