| 2007 | Grace Paley, dies in Vermont, of breast cancer, at 84 |
| 2004 | Daniel Petrie, Canadian Director |
| 1997 | Mary Louise Smith, first woman to chair the Republican National Committee, dies at 82 |
| 1997 | Robin Skelton, British Writer |
| 1996 | David Donaldson, painter, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Robert Lewis Campbell Lorimer, publisher, dies at 77 |
| 1996 | William James Millar Mackenzie, political scientist, dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Jose Antonio Giron de Velasco, politician, dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine), dies at 80 |
| 1993 | Don Getz, U.S. filmer (Playpoint) |
| 1993 | Kasdi Merbah, Prime Minister of Algeria 1988 - 1989, assassinated |
| 1991 | Boris Pugo, U.S.S.R. minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide |
| 1991 | Colleen Dewhurst, actress (Murphy Brown), dies of cancer at 67 |
| 1990 | Merlin Marston, actor (Blue Sky), dies of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at 45 |
| 1989 | Diana Vreeland, American Editor |
| 1984 | Charles Whittenberg, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1980 | James S. McDonnell, American Businessman |
| 1979 | Henry Beernink, politician, dies at 69 |
| 1979 | James T Farrell, U.S. writer (French Girls are Vicious), dies |
| 1978 | Ignazio Silone, Italian author (Fontamara, Pane e vino), dies at 78 |
| 1978 | Jomo Kenyatta, 1st premier of Kenya (1963-78), dies at 83 |
| 1977 | Sebastian Cabot, actor (Mr French-Family Affair), dies at 59 |
| 1976 | Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (1955-60), dies at 73 |
| 1976 | Oskar Brusewitz, East German vicar, sets self on fire |
| 1974 | Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian, dies at 66 |
| 1974 | Jacob Bronowski, English Scientist |
| 1973 | Louise Huff, actress (Sea Waif, Caprice, Disraeli), dies at 77 |
| 1970 | Richard Frank Donovan, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1967 | Tom Conway, actor (Mrs Minerva), dies of liver ailment at 63 |
| 1966 | Apolinary Szeluto, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1965 | Henriette de Vreker-Verschuur, actress (Revolt in Mental Home), dies |
| 1963 | William Richard Morris, 1st viscount Nuffield motor manufacturer, dies |
| 1963 | Eric Johnston, American Businessman |
| 1962 | R A Schroder, writer, dies |
| 1958 | Roger Martin du Gard, novelist/playwright, dies |
| 1944 | Raymond Aimos, actor (Golem, Mayerling, La Bandera), dies at 55 |
| 1942 | Henry Eichheim, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1942 | Mikhailmichel Fokine, Russian ballet dancer/choreographer, dies |
| 1942 | Alice Duer Miller, American Poet |
| 1937 | David C Salas, Antillian writer (Josephina), dies |
| 1936 | Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue), dies at 99 |
| 1933 | Adolf Loos, Austria architect (building of houses), dies at 62 |
| 1929 | Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I), dies at 74 |
| 1926 | Charles William Elliot, President of Harvard (1869-1909), dies at 92 |
| 1926 | Charles W. Eliot, American Educator |
| 1926 | Charles William Eliot, American Educator |
| 1922 | Michael Collins, Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush |
| 1920 | Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (Gustavus Vasa), dies at 60 |
| 1914 | Raffenel, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle |
| 1914 | Rondoney, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle |
| 1912 | Pope Gregory IX, dies |
| 1903 | Robert A T G C Salisbury, British premier (1885..1902), dies at 73 |
| 1901 | Gunnar Wennerberg, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1893 | Ernst II, duke of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer, dies at 75 |
| 1891 | John Neruda, Czechoslovakian writer/poet (Povidky Malostranske), dies at 57 |
| 1890 | Vasile Alecsandri, Romania poet/Foreign minister, dies at 69 |
| 1889 | John Sanger, circus entrepreneur, dies |
| 1886 | Jose da Silva Mendes Leal, Portuguese author (Indiana), dies at 67 |
| 1879 | Friedrich August Kummer, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1874 | Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet, dies |
| 1866 | George Shillibeer, pioneer of London's 1st bus service, dies |
| 1862 | Henry Bohlen, German/US Brigadier-General (Union), dies in battle at 51 |
| 1850 | Nikolaus Lenau, writer, dies at 48 |
| 1831 | John White, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1828 | Franz Joseph Gall, German/French physician (frenology), dies at 70 |
| 1818 | Warren Hastings, 1st governor-general of India (1773-84), dies at 85 |
| 1806 | Jean-Honore Fragonard, French painter/engraver, dies at 74 |
| 1801 | Pieter G van Overstraten, Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies, dies at 46 |
| 1793 | Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France, dies at 80 |
| 1755 | Caspar Burman, historian/mayor (Utrecht), dies |
| 1553 | John Dudley, English Lord Admiral/premier (1551-53), beheaded |
| 1532 | William Warham, English archbishop of Canterbury (1502-32), dies at 82 |
| 1485 | Richard III, king of England (1483-85), killed in battle at 32 |
| 1367 | Egidius AC Albornor, Spanish archbishop of Toledo, dies at about 57 |
| 1350 | Philips VI, of Valois, King of France (1328-50), dies |
| 1286 | Erik V Klipping, king of Denmark, murdered |
| 1280 | Nicholas III, Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, Italian Pope (1277-80), dies |
| 1241 | Gregory IX, Ugolino di Segni, Italian Pope, dies |
| 1188 | Ferdinand II, king of Castilie/Leon/Asturie/Galicie, dies |
| 634 | Abd Allah Abu Bekr, Arabic merchant/1st kalief of Islam, dies |
| 408 | Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader (395-408), dies at 48 |
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