| 2008 | Isaac Hayes, dies in Memphis, Tennessee, of a stroke, at 65 |
| 2000 | Joan Marsh, actress, Road to Zanzibar, dies at 86 |
| 1999 | Jennifer Paterson, cook/writer/motorcyclist, Two Fat Ladies, dies at 71 |
| 1997 | Jean-Claude Lauzon, director/writer (Leola), dies in air crash at 43 |
| 1996 | Adriano Mandarino Hypolito, priest, dies at 78 |
| 1996 | Rex Tucker, TV writer/director, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Fay Honey Knopp, activist, dies at 76 |
| 1995 | Peter Lancelot Williams, dance journalist, dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Bill Baker, singer, dies at 58 |
| 1994 | Kay Petre, early racing driver, dies at 91 |
| 1994 | Leendert-John Schalm, Dutch banker on Curaeao, murdered at 58 |
| 1993 | Ken England, U.S. screenwriter (Good Girls Go to Paris), dies at 82 |
| 1991 | Josef Lipski, Polish politician, dies |
| 1990 | Richard Haines, director (Splatter University), dies |
| 1988 | Adela Rogers St. John, journalist (Free Soul, Honeycomb), dies at 94 |
| 1988 | Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama, dies at 86 |
| 1987 | Calvin Culver, actor (Score), dies |
| 1987 | Clara Peller, actress (Where's the Beef), dies at 86 |
| 1987 | I. W. Able, CEO (United Steel Workers of America, 1965-77), dies at 87 |
| 1987 | Raquel Torres, actress (Duck Soup, Sea Bat), dies |
| 1985 | Kenny Backer, comedian (Time Bandits), dies of a heart attack at 72 |
| 1979 | Dick Foran, actor (OK Crackerby), dies at 69 |
| 1977 | Vince Barnett, actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle), dies at 75 |
| 1976 | Ray "Crash" Corrigan, cowboy (Crash Corrigan's Ranch), dies at 74 |
| 1974 | Ilona Massey, actress and singer (Ilona Massey Show), dies at 64 |
| 1974 | Ivor Dean, British actor (Theatre of Death), dies at 57 |
| 1974 | Pedro Regas, actor (Pat Paulsen's Comedy Hour), dies at 92 |
| 1973 | Douglas Kennedy, actor (Lone Ranger and Lost City of Gold), dies at 57 |
| 1970 | Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, Germ composer (Requiem), commits suicide at 52 |
| 1967 | John Francis Larchet, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1966 | Felix A Vening Meinesz, geophysicist (black force), dies at 79 |
| 1966 | Jacobus C Bloem, poet (Cinders), dies |
| 1963 | Estes Kefauver, Senator-D-Tennessee 1949 - 1963, dies at 60 |
| 1963 | Matya Rakosi, Rosencranz, premier of Hungary (1952-53), dies at 71 |
| 1963 | Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy, dies at only 3 days |
| 1962 | Ted Husing, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights), dies at 60 |
| 1960 | Emil Strauss, German writer (Vaterland), dies |
| 1960 | Frank Lloyd, director (Berkeley Square, Blood on the Sun), dies at 72 |
| 1960 | Oswald Veblin, mathematician |
| 1960 | Edith Rogers, American Politician |
| 1948 | E Ball-Hennings, writer, dies at 63 |
| 1945 | Robert H Goddard, U.S., rocket pioneer, dies at 62 |
| 1944 | Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg, attempt Hitler assassination, dies |
| 1943 | C Bergsma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies |
| 1943 | J Janzen, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies |
| 1943 | J Posthuma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies |
| 1938 | Joseph Moorat, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1934 | John Kane, Scotish/US miner/painter, dies at 73 |
| 1932 | Slang, writer, dies |
| 1930 | William H Taft, U.S. president (1909-13), dies |
| 1929 | Aletta Henriette Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor/feminist, dies at 75 |
| 1921 | John M Martin, last confederate congress member, dies |
| 1911 | Carl Christian Lumbye, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1905 | Kinjikitile "Bokero" Ngwale, E African prophet/rebel leader, hanged |
| 1904 | Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French foreign minister (Dreyfus), dies |
| 1896 | Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies |
| 1890 | John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish Poet |
| 1886 | Eduard Grell, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1875 | Karl (Theodor) Andree, German journalist (Globus), dies at 66 |
| 1867 | Ira Aldridge, famed Shakespearean actor (Othello, Shylock), dies 1867 |
| 1861 | Nathaniel Lyon, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 43 |
| 1859 | George Staunton, writer |
| 1857 | John Wilson Croker, politician |
| 1843 | Jakob F Fries, German philosopher, dies |
| 1841 | Hippolyte Monpou, composer, dies at 37 |
| 1821 | Salvatore Vigano, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1806 | Johann Michael Haydn, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1802 | Aepinus, Franz UT Hoch, German physician/physicist, dies at 77 |
| 1784 | Allan Ramsay, artist |
| 1759 | Ferdinand VI, the wise, king of Spain, dies at 46 |
| 1730 | Sebastien de Brossard, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1723 | Abbe Dubois, French archbishop of Canbrier/premier (1722-23), dies |
| 1717 | Nicolaas Witsen, etcher/mayor (Amsterdam), dies |
| 1655 | Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter, dies at 50 |
| 1653 | Maarten Harpertsz Tromp, Bestevaer, Lieutenant-Admiral, dies in battle at 55 |
| 1628 | Hans Jonsson, Swedish fleet commander, drowned |
| 1589 | Maarten Schenck Nideggen, Dutch army leader, drowned at about 49 |
| 1250 | Erik IV Plovpenning, king of Denmark, murdered |
| 1002 | Al-Mansur, Arabic general strategist/regent of Cordoba, dies |
| 955 | Conrad the Red, Duke of Lotharingen, dies in battle |
| 794 | Fastrada, 3rd wife of French king Charles the Great, dies at 30 |
