| 2008 | Stephanie Tubbs Jones, dies in Ohio, of a brain aneurysm, at 58 |
| 2007 | Leona Helmsley, dies of congestive heart failure at 87, in Greenwich, Connecticut |
| 2001 | Sir Fred Hoyle, "astronomer, science fiction writer", ", coined the term ""big bang"", ", dies at 86 |
| 1999 | Bobby Sheehan, American Musician |
| 1996 | George Brian Snape, businessman/rugby league entrepreneur, dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Rio Reiser, born Ralph Christian Mobius, musician, singer, political activist, member of ton Steine Scherben, a famous rock group, wrote Rachhaussong supporting the squatter scene, dies at 46 |
| 1995 | Hugo Pratt, graphic artist, dies at 68 |
| 1995 | John E. Gilmore, tenor Saxophonist, dies at 63 |
| 1995 | Paul Foster, singer, Soul Stirrers gospel group member, dies at 75 |
| 1995 | Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist, dies at 64 |
| 1995 | Von McDaniel, baseball player, dies at 56 |
| 1995 | William Kennedy, baseball player, dies at 76 |
| 1994 | Aleksander Petrovic, film Director, dies at 65 |
| 1994 | Kalman Kahana, Polish co-founder of state Israel, dies at 81 |
| 1993 | Bernard Delfgaauw, philosopher (Johnson murderer!), dies at 80 |
| 1992 | Ivan Nikolayevich Anikeyev, cosmonaut, dies at 59 |
| 1992 | William Taylor, chairman (FDIC), dies at 53 |
| 1991 | Betty Bowden, British dancer/actress (Vote for Nigel), dies at 86 |
| 1991 | Lenore Strunsky Gershwin, widow of Ira Gershwin, dies at 90 |
| 1990 | Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer, dies |
| 1986 | Donn Bennett, TV host (The Big Idea), dies at 76 |
| 1986 | Thad Jones, jazz trumpeter, dies of cancer at 63 |
| 1986 | Walter Brooke, actor (DA Scanlon-Green Hornet), dies at 71 |
| 1985 | Harchand Singh Longowai, Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists |
| 1983 | Kerwin Duinmeijer, Antillean boy, murdered by racist at 15 |
| 1982 | Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (Zulu), dies of bone cancer at 53 |
| 1980 | Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, dies at 91 |
| 1978 | Ivan Jirko, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1978 | Petros John Petridis, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1976 | Phyllis Konstam, actress (Murder, Skin Game), dies at 69 |
| 1974 | Ilona Massey, actress (Love HAppy, Holiday in Mexico), dies at 62 |
| 1970 | Hildo Krop, modernistic sculptor, dies at 86 |
| 1968 | Earl Sande, U.S. jockey (Kentucky Derby), dies at 69 |
| 1961 | Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer, dies at 82 |
| 1960 | Rudolf Moser, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1959 | Alfred Kubin, writer, dies at 82 |
| 1959 | William Halsey, American Soldier |
| 1956 | [Emile M] Louis Madelin, French historian (Fouche), dies at 85 |
| 1952 | Kurt Schumacher, German politician/chairman (SPD), dies |
| 1948 | David John de Lloyd, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1947 | Franz VM Cumont, Belgian religious historian, dies at 79 |
| 1935 | Otakar Ostrcil, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1935 | Charles Shere, composer, music critic, Music Director for radio KPFA, Berkeley, wrote book, 'How I Saw Duchamp', dies |
| 1932 | Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1932 | Paul Keller, German writer (Vergrabenes Gut), dies at 59 |
| 1932 | Tadeusz Joteyko, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1931 | Waldemar von Baussnern, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1919 | Gregor MacGregor, English cricket wicketkeeper (8 Tests 1890-93), dies |
| 1917 | JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies |
| 1915 | Paul Ehrlich, Germ geneologist (Chemotherapy, Nobel 1908), dies in 61 |
| 1914 | Pius X, Giuseppe M Sarto, Pope (1903-14), dies |
| 1912 | William Booth, English minister/founder (Leader des Heils), dies |
| 1910 | Arthur Coquard, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1908 | Louis Varney, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1888 | William Chappell, English Writer |
| 1885 | Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market), dies at 42 |
| 1864 | Daniel Chaplin, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies |
| 1864 | John H Kelly, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 24 |
| 1856 | Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1854 | Friedrich WJ von Schelling, German philosopher, dies at 79 |
| 1854 | Friedrich von Schelling, German Philosopher |
| 1825 | Richard Wainwright, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1823 | Pius VII, Luigi B Chiaramonti, Pope (1800-23), dies at 83 |
| 1813 | Jan Krtitel Vanhal, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1804 | Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis and Clark Expedition |
| 1799 | Johann Christian Gottlob Eidenbenz, composer, dies at 37 |
| 1679 | Jacob Alting, Dutch theologist, dies at 60 |
| 1648 | Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military/philosopher, dies at 65 |
| 1639 | Martin Opitz, German poet and historian (Troerinnen), dies at 41 |
| 1632 | Valentin de Boulogne, French painter, buried at 38 |
| 1538 | Aefgen Listinck, Dutch anabaptist, burned at stake |
| 1384 | Geert Great, Gerardus Magnus, theologist (Getijdenboek), dies |
| 1153 | Bernard[us] van Clairvaux, French saint, dies |
| 984 | John XIV, Petrus Canepanova, Italian Pope (983-84), dies |