| 2004 | Emiel Petrone, CD/DVD developer, dies at 61 |
| 2001 | Kathleen Freeman, actress, Blues Brothers, dies at 82 |
| 2001 | Peter Maas, writer, Serpico, dies at 72 |
| 1999 | James White, writer, Sector General books, dies at 71 |
| 1999 | Martha Rountree, journalist, Meet the Press, dies at 87 |
| 1999 | Michelle Thomas, 12/22/98, Family Matters, dies at 30 |
| 1997 | Eric Gairy, Prime Minister of Grenada 1974 - 1979, dies |
| 1995 | Alfred Eisenstaedt, photojournalist, dies at 96 |
| 1995 | Arthur Holt, politician, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Dwayne Goettel, musician, industrial, techno genres, member of industrial band Skinny Puppy, played keyboards for band Psyche and Water, dies at age 31 |
| 1995 | Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist, dies at 66 |
| 1995 | James Pilditch, designer, dies at 66 |
| 1995 | Johnny Carey, soccer star, dies at 76 |
| 1995 | Vincent Gordon Lindsay White, tycoon, dies at 72 |
| 1994 | Henri Rousselot, admiral, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70 |
| 1994 | Rabah Stambouli, Algerian sociologist/politician, murdered at 65 |
| 1994 | Richard Jock Kinneir, graphic designer, dies at 77 |
| 1994 | Zoltan Fabri, Hungarian director, dies of heart attack at 76 |
| 1993 | Charles Scorsese, actor (Cape Fear, Goodfellas, Wise Guys), dies at 80 |
| 1993 | Edwina Lewis, actress (Boy Who Cried Bitch), dies of heart attack 42 |
| 1993 | Victorine Hefting, historian/wife of Bert Baker, dies at 88 |
| 1992 | Malcolm Atterbury, actor (7 Days in May, Wild River), dies at 85 |
| 1992 | Virginia Sale-Wren, entertainer, dies of heart failure at 92 |
| 1992 | Wayne McLaren, Marlboro Man, dies of lung cancer at 51 |
| 1992 | Vernon Howard, spiritual teacher, speaker, philosopher, author, wrote humor books, children's books, spoke and wrote about self-development, self-awareness, spiritual, psychological growth, dies |
| 1991 | Florence B Seibert, bio-chemist (TB), dies at 93 |
| 1990 | David Rose, composer (Holiday for Strings, Stripper), dies at 80 |
| 1989 | Helen le Clerq, Dutch dancer, dies |
| 1989 | Ronald Laing, British psychiatrist (anti-psychiatry), dies |
| 1989 | Yusef Hawkins, shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst because he's black |
| 1987 | Siegfried Borris, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1986 | Charles Janssens, Belgian actor (Mira, Malpertuis), dies at 80 |
| 1982 | Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian director (Herr Puntila), dies at 85 |
| 1982 | Stanford Moore, U.S. biochemist (Nobel 1977), dies |
| 1980 | Norman Shelley, English radio actor (Churchill's Speech), dies at 77 |
| 1979 | Richard Hearne, actor (Captain Horatio Hornblower), dies at 70 |
| 1977 | Sebastian Cabot, actor (Giles French-Family Affair), dies at 59 |
| 1975 | Hank Patterson, actor (Fred Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 87 |
| 1974 | Roberto Assagioli, Italian Psychologist |
| 1972 | Balis Dvarionas, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1971 | Gisela Hernandez Gonzalo, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1971 | Oliver F McGowan, actor (Banning, Stagecoach), dies at 64 |
| 1970 | Nel Rose, dancer, dies at 55 |
| 1966 | Francis Xavier Bushman, actor (Ben-Hur), dies at 83 |
| 1965 | John Bata, Czechoslovakian shoe manufacturer, dies at 67 |
| 1965 | George Black, Canadian Public Servant |
| 1962 | Hoot Gibson, silent screen cowboy actor (Last Outlaw), dies at 70 |
| 1962 | Irving Fine, composer (Toccata), dies at 47 |
| 1962 | Walter Anderson, German Writer |
| 1960 | Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway librettist, dies at 65 |
| 1958 | Martin du Gard, writer, dies |
| 1956 | ... Kennedy, daughter of future President Kennedy, dies same day |
| 1944 | Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1943 | Johann P Zilcher, German composer, dies at 88 |
| 1939 | Sidney Coe Howard, playwright (Silver Cord, Pulitzer 1925), dies at 48 |
| 1937 | Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1933 | Adolph Loos, Austrian architect, dies at 62 |
| 1929 | Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies |
| 1927 | Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Mass |
| 1926 | Rudolph Valentino, silent movie idol (Sheik), dies in New York at 31 |
| 1914 | Felix Fivet, Belgian baby, executed by German troops at 3 weeks |
| 1914 | George A Pogson, British consul in Puerto Rico, dies |
| 1903 | Paul J C Gabriel, Dutch water colors painter/etcher, dies at 75 |
| 1898 | Joseph Robinson, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1878 | Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1865 | Ferdinand G Waldmuller, Austria painter (biedermeier), dies |
| 1839 | Charles Philippe Lafont, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1831 | August WA Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian Field Marshal, dies at 70 |
| 1825 | Amos Bull, composer, wrote book of hymns 'The Responsary', used in New England churches, dies at 81 |
| 1819 | Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, dies on 34th birthday |
| 1806 | Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (coulometrie), dies at 70 |
| 1802 | Corona Elizabeth Wilhelmine Schroter, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1777 | Giuseppe Sellitto, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1723 | Antoine Mouque, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1668 | Artus Quellinus, Flemish sculptor (Amsterdam townhall), dies |
| 1628 | George Viliers, 1st duke of Buckingham, assassinated by Felton at 36 |
| 1618 | Gerbrant A Bredero, poet/playwright (Moortje), dies at 33 |
| 1591 | Luis de Leon, scholar/poet, dies |
| 1540 | Guillaume Bude, French humanist, dies at about 72 |
| 1507 | Jean Molinet, Burgundy historian (Chroniques), dies at about 72 |
| 1328 | Nicolaas Zannekin, leader of rebel Flemish farmers, dies in battle |
| 1305 | William Wallace, Scottish patriot, hanged, disemboweled and beheaded |
| 634 | Aboe Bekr Abd Allah, al-Siddik, friend/successor of Mohammed, dies |