| 2008 | Jerry Wexler, dies in Sarasota, Florida, of congestive heart failure, at 91 |
| 2003 | Roy Neal, TV journalist, NASA correspondent, dies at 82 |
| 2002 | Jesse Brown, American Politician |
| 2000 | Edward Craven Walker, gadfly, invented the lava lamp, dies at 82 |
| 1999 | Hugh Casson, British Architect |
| 1996 | Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Ernest Leslie Bouts, motor-racing driver, dies at 93 |
| 1996 | Masao Maruyama, social scientist, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Humphrey Sims Moore, pacifist/journalist, dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Shepherd Mead, London England, dies of stroke at 80 |
| 1994 | Simon R Naoli, Tanzanian marathoner, dies in an accident at 28 |
| 1994 | Wout Wagtmans, cyclist (Rome-Naples-Rome 1957), dies at 64 |
| 1993 | Robert W. Kempner, German officer of justice in Prussia, dies at 93 |
| 1992 | Evelyn Wesler Zemel, U.S. author (American Glass Animals), dies |
| 1992 | Giorgio Perlasca, Italian anti-fascist (saved 5,200 Jews), dies |
| 1992 | Marie Paxton, entertainer, dies after brief illness |
| 1992 | Martha Blackburn, Canada newspaper publisher (London Free Press), dies |
| 1992 | Osamu Inaba, Japanese Minister of justice, dies |
| 1991 | Marietta Tree, ambassador (U.N. Comm of Human Rights), dies at 74 |
| 1990 | Nina Bara, actress (Missile to the Moon), dies of cancer at 66 |
| 1989 | F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian/director (IISG), dies |
| 1988 | Barry Bingham Sr, U.S. daily newspaper publisher, dies at 82 |
| 1988 | Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, President of Pakistan, killed in plane crash |
| 1988 | Ray Buchanan, U.S. blues gitarist, dies at about 48 |
| 1985 | Richard Yardumian, U.S. composer (Creator Spirit), dies at 68 |
| 1983 | Anthony Costello, actor (Blue), dies at 42 |
| 1983 | Benjamin V Cohen, U.S. author of New Deal-legislation, dies at 88 |
| 1982 | Patrick J G McGee, Irish actor (Barry Lyndon), dies at 60 |
| 1978 | Harrison Kerr, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1976 | Jean P J C Haesaert, Flemish lawyer/sociologist, dies at 84 |
| 1975 | Mujibur Rahiman, Pakistani sheik, killed in a military coup at 53 |
| 1974 | Edmund Cobb, actor (Motorcycle Gang), dies at 82 |
| 1974 | Mrs Park Chung Hi, wife of South Korean president, murdered |
| 1972 | Alf Thorbald Hurum, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1971 | Paul Lukas, actor (Kim, Berlin Express), dies of heart failure at 76 |
| 1970 | Karl August Andersen, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1969 | Stijn Streuvels, F Lateur, Flemish writer (Vlaschard), dies at 97 |
| 1968 | Edward Kilenyi, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1967 | Rene Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter, dies at 68 |
| 1966 | Gerhard/Gerhart Pohl, German writer (Battle of Kolbenau), dies at 64 |
| 1966 | Jan Kiepura, actor (Give Us this Night), dies of heart attack at 64 |
| 1966 | Seena Owen, actress/writer (Queen Kelly), dies at 71 |
| 1963 | John Powell, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1958 | William L C "Big Bill" Broonzy, U.S. blues singer and guitarist, dies at 65 |
| 1956 | Constantine Freiherr von Neurath, German foreign minister, dies at 83 |
| 1951 | Artur Schnabel, Austria/US pianist (Reflections on Music), dies at 69 |
| 1936 | Grazia Deledda, Sardina/Italian author (Nobel 1926), dies at 64 |
| 1936 | Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1935 | Gerard Brucken Fock, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1935 | Wiley Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 36 |
| 1935 | Will Rogers, humoprist, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 55 |
| 1935 | Paul Signac, French Artist |
| 1918 | Peter Gast, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1914 | Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Baba yaga), dies at 59 |
| 1907 | Joseph Joachim, German violinist and composer, dies at 76 |
| 1901 | Karl Weinhold, Germany, sociologist, dies at 77 |
| 1887 | Meir Aron Goldschmidt, Danish writer (Ravnen, Hjemlos), dies at 67 |
| 1864 | Daniel Phineas Woodbury, U.S. engineer/Union general-major, dies |
| 1853 | Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1853 | Frederick William Robertson, English Clergyman |
| 1852 | Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92 |
| 1848 | Timothy Olmstead, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1807 | Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70 |
| 1798 | Felice Alessandri, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1758 | Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (fotometrie), dies at 60 |
| 1729 | Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), dies at 64 |
| 1728 | Marin Marias, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1725 | Gerard Noodt, lawyer, dies at 77 |
| 1666 | Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionary/astronomer, dies |
| 1619 | Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Cracow, dies |
| 1615 | Cornelis C Vrancx, Flemish poet and writer (Comfort of Soles), dies |
| 1600 | Johann Baptista Serranus, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1576 | Baliny Valentin Bakfark, composer, dies |
| 1464 | Pius II, Aenea S Piccolomini, Italian Pope (1458-64), dies at 58 |
| 1118 | Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1081-1118), dies |
| 1057 | Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan |
| 1038 | Stefanus I, Arpad, 1st king of Hungary, dies |
| 423 | Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), dies |
| 69 | Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered |
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