| 2004 | Carl Mydans, photographer, Life, dies at 97 |
| 1998 | James Patrick Murray, American Journalist |
| 1996 | Edward Digby Baltzell, Ivy League sociologist, dies at 80 |
| 1995 | David Warrilow, actor (Simon, Radio Days, Barton Fink), dies at 60 |
| 1995 | Howard Koch, screenwriter, dies at 92 |
| 1995 | Marjorie Sykes, peace campaigner, dies at 90 |
| 1995 | William Strethan "Wild Bill" Davis, musician, dies at 76 |
| 1994 | Elias Canetti, buried next to James Joyce |
| 1994 | Joseph Paul Jack Sharkey Zukauskas, boxer, dies at 91 |
| 1993 | Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator/interpreter, dies at 72 |
| 1993 | Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator, dies at 72 |
| 1993 | Robert C Maynard, CEO (Oakland Tribune), dies at 56 |
| 1992 | Andre de Villiers, South African, murdered |
| 1992 | Barbara Morgan, photographer (Martha Graham), dies at 92 |
| 1992 | Tommy Nutter, fashion designer (bell bottom pants), dies of AIDs at 49 |
| 1991 | Don Dubbins, actor (Enchanted Island, DI), dies at 63 |
| 1991 | Leo Geerts, Marcel van der Linden, Belgian writer/critic, dies |
| 1991 | Mervyn Nelson, director (Some of My Best Friends Are...), dies at 76 |
| 1990 | Pearl Bailey, actress (Landlord)/singer, dies of heart attack at 72 |
| 1990 | Roderick Cook, actor (Rockabye), dies of apparent heart attack at 58 |
| 1988 | Franklin D. Roosevelt,, Jr., Representative-D-New York 1949 - 1955, dies on 74th birthday |
| 1988 | Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, President of Pakistan (1978-88), dies at 63 |
| 1988 | Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, President of Pakistan (1978-88), dies in crash at 64 |
| 1988 | Victoria Shaw, actress (Alvarez Kelly, Westworld), dies |
| 1987 | Charles Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet, dies at 84 |
| 1987 | Rudolph Hess, Nazi (46 years in Spandau Prison), commits suicide at 93 |
| 1984 | Holly Roffey, youngest heart transplant, dies at 4 weeks |
| 1983 | Ira Gershwin, lyricist, dies in Beverly Hills at 86 |
| 1982 | Barney Phillips, actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), dies at 68 |
| 1982 | Ruth Voorst, South African (A World Apart), killed by letter bomb |
| 1981 | Robert Russell Bennett, U.S. composer/arranger (Oklahoma!), dies at 87 |
| 1979 | Vivian Vance, actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), diesof cancer at 67 |
| 1976 | Murvyn Vye, actor (Road to Bali, Escape to Burma), dies at 63 |
| 1976 | William Redfield, actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop), dies at 48 |
| 1975 | Sig Arno, Hamburg Germany, actor (My Friend Irma), dies at 80 |
| 1975 | Vladimir Kutz, Russian distance runner. Gold Medal 1956 Olympics, dies at 48 |
| 1974 | Aldo Palazzeschi, Giurlani, Italian writer, dies at 89 |
| 1974 | Edgar Dearing, actor (Free and Easy, Abraham Lincoln), dies at 81 |
| 1973 | Conrad Aiken, U.S. poet (Pulitzer), dies at 74 |
| 1973 | Jean Barraque, French composer, dies at 45 |
| 1973 | Paul Williams, rocker (Temptations), commits suicide at 32 |
| 1972 | Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Schoone slaapster), dies at 76 |
| 1972 | Wampilow, writer, dies |
| 1971 | Horace McMahon, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 64 |
| 1969 | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect (November Group), dies at 83 |
| 1969 | Philip Blaiberg, after 19 months with artificial heart, dies |
| 1966 | Michael Garrison, producer (Crowded Sky), dies after a fall at 43 |
| 1963 | Richard Barthelmess, actor (Heroes for Sales), dies of cancer at 68 |
| 1961 | Carlos Leon Salzedo, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1958 | Florent Schmitt, French composer/critic (Jardin Secret), dies at 87 |
| 1955 | Fernand Leger, French painter (Grand Parade), dies |
| 1954 | Billy Murray, singer (Denver Nightengale), dies at 77 |
| 1953 | Johannes B Tielrooy, literature (French Living Lesson), dies at 66 |
| 1948 | Nico J Polak, Dutch economist, dies at 60 |
| 1945 | Gino Marinuzzi, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1945 | Pater Bleijs, Louis, resistance fighter, dies in car accident |
| 1936 | Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (Surgery and Foules), dies at 36 |
| 1927 | Horace Alderman, U.S., murderer, hanged |
| 1924 | Pavel S "Paul" Urysohn, Russian mathematician, drowns at 26 |
| 1920 | Ray Chapman, hit in the head by Yankees' Carl Mays pitch, dies |
| 1914 | James Grierson, British general |
| 1909 | Richard Hoffman, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1901 | Edmond Audran, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1898 | Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1896 | Bridget Driscoll, 1st British to die in an auto-accident |
| 1893 | Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 |
| 1889 | Ernst Franck, German composer and conductor, dies at 42 |
| 1888 | James Jameson, British nature investigator (Congo), dies |
| 1887 | Franz Commer, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1880 | Ole Bull, famous violinist, virtuoso, compared to Niccolo Paganini, co-founder, Den Nationale Scene theater, dies of cancer, at home on Lysoen island, extensive funeral procession had 15 steamers, other vessels, transporting his body |
| 1878 | Richard Upjohn, U.S. architect, died |
| 1868 | Duncan Forbes, British Writer |
| 1865 | Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1865 | Mosby Munroe Parsons, U.S. Confederate General-Major, dies in battle |
| 1850 | Jose Francisco de San Martin, South American revolutionary hero, dies |
| 1804 | Barbara Hec, organized 1st methodist church in U.S., dies |
| 1792 | Jan Jachym Kopriva, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1786 | Frederik II, king of Prussia (1740-86)/composer, dies at 74 |
| 1785 | Jonathan Trumbull, U.S. patriot, dies |
| 1777 | Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1731 | Johann Augustin Kobelius, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1730 | Mauritius Vogt, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1681 | Nikon, Nikita Minin, patriarch of Rus-orthodox church, dies at 76 |
| 1676 | Grimmelshausen, writer, dies |
| 1635 | Francisco de Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna, dies at 48 |
| 1553 | Charles III, Duke of Savoy, dies |
| 1536 | Pietersz, book publisher (Kersten Knight - on Index), dies |
| 1510 | Edmund Dudley, English treasurer, beheaded |
| 1510 | Richard Empson, English treasurer, beheaded |
| 1464 | Nikolaus von Cusa, German theologist/mathematician/philosopher, dies |
| 754 | Karloman, abbot of Monte cassino, dies at >39 |
