| 2004 | Elmer Bernstein, composer, Thoroughly Modern Millie, dies at 82 |
| 1998 | Persis Khambatta, actress, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, dies at 47 |
| 1996 | Geoffrey Dearmer, poet, dies at 103 |
| 1996 | Hugo Gryn, rabbi, broadcaster, appeared on BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day, leading voice in interfaith dialogue, dies at 66 |
| 1996 | Thoams Eric Evans, dean of St. Paul's, dies at 68 |
| 1995 | James Ackley Maxwell, actor and director (Traitors, Otley), dies at 66 |
| 1994 | Gottlob Frick, singer, bass, performed opera including roles by Wagner and Mozart, dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Henri Calef, Bulgarian/French director (Jericho), dies |
| 1994 | John Beavan, newspaper Editor, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Judy Ann Scott-Fox, agent, dies at 56 |
| 1994 | Richard Lawrence Millington Synge, chromatographer, dies at 79 |
| 1993 | Alf Bold, German festival programmer, dies of AIDS at 47 |
| 1992 | Gerard Sonder, Dutch radio host (AVRO), dies |
| 1992 | John Stuges, director (Gunfight at OK Corral), dies of emphysema at 82 |
| 1991 | Vaughn Shoemaker, U.S. cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer), dies |
| 1990 | B F Skinner, psychologist (Skinner Box), dies of Leukemia at 86 |
| 1990 | Raf Reymen, Flemish actor, dies |
| 1989 | Bert Oosterbosch, racing cyclist, won World amateur team time trial championship, won World Professional individual pursuit title, successful track and road racer, dies at age 32, of acute cardiac arrest |
| 1989 | Luis Carlos Galan, Colombian presidential candidate, murdered |
| 1988 | Alexandr V Shchukin, Russian cosmonaut, dies in SU-26 crash at 42 |
| 1988 | Frederick Ashton, choreographer (Cinderella), dies at 83 |
| 1982 | Beverly Bayne, actress (Romeo and Juliet, Passionate Youth), dies at 87 |
| 1981 | Anita Loos, U.S. (stage)author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 88 |
| 1980 | Norman Cazden, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1977 | Tibor Dery, writer, wrote satire on Hungarian communist regime, primary work, 'The Unfinished Sentence', dies at 82 |
| 1969 | Laci Boldemann, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1969 | Mildred Davis, actress (Haunted Spooks), dies of coronary at 68 |
| 1969 | Otto Stern, German/U.S. physicist (Nobel 1943), dies at 81 |
| 1968 | Cy Walter, pianist (3's Company), dies at 52 |
| 1966 | Isaac Keesing, Dutch founder (System Keesing), dies at 80 |
| 1966 | Watze Cuperus, Frisian author (Struggle and Blessing), dies at 75 |
| 1962 | Cleo Ridgely, silent screen actress (I Remember Mama), dies at 68 |
| 1961 | Learned Hand, Chief judge of U.S. court of Appeals, dies at 89 |
| 1961 | Leonhard Frank, writer, dies at 78 |
| 1957 | Wawrzyniec Jerzy Zulawski, composer, dies at 41 |
| 1952 | Ralph Byrd, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show), dies at 43 |
| 1950 | Julien Lahaut, chairman Belgian Communist Party, murdered |
| 1949 | Paul J Mares, U.S. jazz trumpetist/composer (Tin Roof Blues), dies at 49 |
| 1944 | Cecile Chaminade, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1944 | Ernst "Teddy" Thalmann, leader of German KPD, dies |
| 1943 | Hans Jeschonnek, German air force general/chief-staff, commits suicide |
| 1942 | Erwin Schulhoff, Czechoslovakian/Russian composer/pianist, dies at 48 |
| 1940 | Walter Chrysler, American Inventor |
| 1934 | Delilah L Beasley, U.S. author/columnist (Oakland Tribune), dies at 61 |
| 1922 | William Henry Hudson, British Author |
| 1916 | Edward D Pain, English journalist (New York World), dies in battle at 36 |
| 1915 | Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet (Rubab-i Sjikeste), dies at 47 |
| 1907 | John Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82 |
| 1901 | Richard Kleinmichel, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1896 | Frederick Nichols Crouch, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1894 | William Charles Levey, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1870 | Felix Salm-Salm, Prussian/US prince/Brigadier-General, dies in battle |
| 1870 | John P. Kennedy, American Soldier |
| 1863 | Thomas Welsh, U.S. Union Brigadier-General (Antietam), dies at 39 |
| 1853 | Peter Lichtenthal, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1850 | H de Balzac, writer, dies at 51 |
| 1850 | Honore de Balzac, French Novelist |
| 1840 | Antony CW Staring, Dutch patriot/poet (Jaromir), dies at 73 |
| 1811 | Johann Heinrich Zang, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1803 | James Beattie, Scottish poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth), dies at 67 |
| 1765 | Frans I Stefanus, RC German emperor (1745-65), dies at 56 |
| 1652 | Benjamin G Cuyp, historical painter, dies at about 40 |
| 1559 | Paul IV, Giampietro Caraffa, Pope (1555-59), dies at 83 |
| 1503 | Alexander VI, Rodrigo de Borja, Spanish Pope (1492-1503), dies |
| 1276 | Adrian V, Ottobono Fieschi, Italian Pope (7/11-8/18/1276), dies |
| 1236 | Theodorus Van Celles, monastery founder (Kruisheren), dies |
| 1227 | Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, dies |
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