| 2000 | Harry Oppenheimer, South African Businessman |
| 1995 | Danny Arnold, British TV producer, dies at 70 |
| 1995 | Pierre Schaeffer, composer/radio innovator, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | John George Hughes, bishop of Kensington, dies at 59 |
| 1994 | Ladislav Fuks, writer, novelist, psychological novels, involving despair, suffering, experience of Fascist rule, dies at 70 |
| 1994 | Linus Pauling, Nobel prize scientist (Vitamin C advocate), dies at 93 |
| 1994 | Nancy Keene Lancaster, US/British architect (Binnen House), dies at 96 |
| 1994 | Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet, dies at 64 |
| 1994 | Walter Bartley, biochemist, dies at 78 |
| 1993 | Jean King, actress (Night Hasa a Thousand Eyes), dies at 76 |
| 1993 | Lucinda Ballard, U.S. costume designer/wife of Howard Dietz, dies at 90 |
| 1992 | Feliks Arons, Dutch director/actor (A Bridge Too Far), dies at 48 |
| 1990 | Ben Rutgers Van de Loeff-Basenau, children's book writer, dies at 80 |
| 1987 | Hayden Rorke, Brooklyn, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Night Walker), dies |
| 1986 | Hermione Baddeley, actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude), dies at 79 |
| 1986 | Jacob A. W. Burger, chairman (Dutch soc-dem party), dies at 81 |
| 1986 | Lorenzo Tucker, actor (Black King), dies |
| 1981 | Jessie Matthews, actress (Gangway, First a Girl), dies at 74 |
| 1979 | Dorsey Burnette, rocker, dies at 46 of a heart attack |
| 1977 | Groucho Martin, New York City, comedian (Marx Bros), dies in LA at 86 |
| 1977 | Groucho Marx, American Comedian |
| 1976 | Alastair Sim, actor 'Christmas Carol', 'Green for Danger', dies at 75 |
| 1976 | Jeno Kenessey, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1974 | ... Davies, U.S. ambassador on Cyprus, murdered |
| 1971 | Walther Victor, writer, dies |
| 1968 | Sara Jane Roberts, child actress (Our Gang), dies after surgery at 44 |
| 1967 | Carl W de Vries, Dutch (Great-granddad King William III), dies at 84 |
| 1967 | Isaac Deutscher, Polish/English historian (Stalin-biography), dies at 60 |
| 1962 | Kerstin Hesselgren, 1st woman in Swedish parliament, dies at 90 |
| 1959 | Jacob Epstein, US/English sculptor/painter, dies at 78 |
| 1958 | Antonius "Toon" Verhey, violin cellist/conductor, dies at 63 |
| 1955 | Geza Revesz, Hungary/Dutch psychologist (Talent and genius), dies at 76 |
| 1954 | Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53), dies at 73 |
| 1947 | Ernst Laqueur, Dut chemist/psychologist (sexual hormones), dies at 67 |
| 1945 | Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher |
| 1944 | Gunther von Kluge, German field marshal, commits suicide, dies at 62 |
| 1944 | Henry J Wood, English conductor (My Life of Music, Proms), dies at 75 |
| 1936 | Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet/composer, murdered at 37 or 38 |
| 1929 | Sergei P Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57 |
| 1922 | Felipe Pedrell, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1912 | Alfonse Hasselmans, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1909 | Rembt THPLA of Boneval Faure, lawyer/1st-Member of parliament, dies |
| 1892 | Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1891 | Gestur Palsson, Icelandic writer (Verdandi, Ritsafn), dies at 38 |
| 1889 | Jean MMPA de Villiers de l'isle-Adam, French writer (Axel), dies at 60 |
| 1888 | Spencer F Baird, U.S. biologist (Wood's Hole Station), dies at 65 |
| 1881 | Joseph Labitzky, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1876 | George Smith, English assyriologist (script), dies at 36 |
| 1872 | Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1853 | George Cockburn, British Soldier |
| 1851 | Gioseffo Catrufo, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1823 | Robert Bloomfield, English Poet |
| 1822 | Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1813 | Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1813 | Josef Blazej Smrcek, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1812 | Vincenzo Righini, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1795 | Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1780 | Bernhard Haltenberger, composer, dies at 32 |
| 1753 | [Johann] Balthasar Neumann, German architect, dies at 66 |
| 1744 | Carlo Arrigoni, composer, dies at 46 |
| 1719 | Karl H Freiherr von Canstein, German lawyer, dies at 52 |
| 1699 | Jose Saenz d'aguirre, Spanish cardinal, dies at 69 |
| 1691 | Mustafa Koprulu, Turkish grand vizer, dies in battle |
| 1662 | Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher |
| 1654 | Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, rabbi/author (Tosefot Yom Tov), dies |
| 1650 | Abraham de Verwer, painter, buried at about 55 |
| 1601 | Michael the Brave, ruler of Turkey, dies |
| 1580 | Andrea Palladio, architect/writer (Il Redentore, Venice), dies at 71 |
| 1493 | Frederick III of Innsbruck, German Emperor (1440-1493), dies at 77 |
| 472 | Ricimer, Barbaars general, dies |
| 440 | Sixtus III, Italian Pope (432-40), dies |
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