| 1996 | Phyllis Pearsall, painter/writer, dies at 89 |
| 1995 | Agnes Patrick, campaigner, dies at 85 |
| 1995 | Michael Ende, German writer (Neverending Story), dies at 65 |
| 1995 | Michael VerMeulen, writer, journalist, magazine editor, broke story on U.S. AIDS epidemic, published in Vanity Fair, Parade, GQ founding features editor, dies at 38 |
| 1994 | David Wright, poet, dies at 74 |
| 1994 | Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian pater, murdered |
| 1994 | Pieter de Cort, Belgian rock guitarist (Betty Goes Green), dies at 25 |
| 1993 | Rene Ray, English countess/actress (Farewell again), dies at 80 |
| 1993 | E. P. Thompson, British Historian |
| 1991 | Christian Anders, actor/composer (Death Stone, Love Cult), dies |
| 1991 | Eleanor Berry, actress (Death Valley Days), dies |
| 1990 | Willy Vandersteen, Flemish cartoonist (Suske and Wiske), dies |
| 1988 | Hazel Dawn, U.S. singer and actress (Under Clover, Margie), dies at 98 |
| 1987 | John Huston, US/Irish actor and director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81 |
| 1985 | Ruth Gordon, actress (Big Bus), dies of a stroke in her sleep at 88 |
| 1983 | Jan Clayton, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie), dies at 66 |
| 1982 | Nini de Boel, Flemish operetta singer (White Horse), dies at 84 |
| 1979 | Simonow, writer, dies |
| 1978 | Bruce Catton, U.S. historian/writer (Civil War), dies at 78 |
| 1972 | William HAF, English prince/grandson of George V, dies in accident at 29 |
| 1971 | Nathan Leopold, U.S. kidnapper/murderer of Bobby Franks (1924), dies |
| 1969 | Clarence R Hennecke, actor (Keystone Kops), dies at 74 |
| 1968 | John Gordon Mein, U.S. ambassador in Guatemala, dies |
| 1968 | Nick Castle, choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland), dies at 58 |
| 1967 | Charles Darrow, U.S. inventor of Monopoly, dies |
| 1967 | Paul Muni [Muni Weisenfreund] actor (Good Earth), dies at 71 |
| 1964 | Gracie Allen, Mrs. George Burns/comedian (Burns and Allen), dies at 62 |
| 1964 | Lumsden Hare, actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox), dies at 89 |
| 1961 | Thomas Connolly, 1st baseball umpire elected to hall of fame, dies |
| 1960 | Anton Lajovic, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1959 | Bohuslav Jan Martinu, Czechoslovakian composer (Hry o Marti), dies at 68 |
| 1958 | Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1951 | Robert Walker, actor and writer (Bataan, Madame Curie), dies at 32 |
| 1944 | Ernst Thalmann, German communist, dies in Buchenwald |
| 1943 | Boris III, of Saksen-Coburg, King of Bulgaria (1918-43), dies |
| 1931 | Francis Bellamy, American Clergyman |
| 1930 | Alvar Gullstrand, Swedish optician (Nobel 1911), dies |
| 1922 | Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Eu/Brazil, dies at 80 |
| 1919 | Louis Botha, South African Boer leader, dies |
| 1916 | Francis W. Warre-Cornish, English vice-provost of Eton (1893-1916), dies |
| 1914 | Anatol Konstantinovich Lyadov, composer (Baba Yaga), dies at 59 |
| 1914 | Anatoli Liadov, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1903 | August Labitzky, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1903 | Frederick Law Olmsted, American Architect |
| 1900 | Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Women on University), dies |
| 1885 | Julius Hopp, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1861 | William Lyon MacKenzie, Canadian Journalist |
| 1859 | James Henry Leigh Hunt, English Writer |
| 1818 | Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader, founder of Chicago, dies |
| 1803 | Charles L Fournier, Flemish writer/painter, dies |
| 1798 | James Wilson, Scottish lawyer, U.S. judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at 55 |
| 1793 | Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/parliament member, dies |
| 1778 | Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/shipminister, dies |
| 1767 | Johann Schobert, composer, dies |
| 1677 | Wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver/etcher/cartoonist, dies at 54 |
| 1676 | Joan Cererols, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1654 | Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Swedish earl/chancellor/regent, dies at 71 |
| 1647 | Johann Dilliger, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1646 | Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Poesie liriche), dies at 53 |
| 1645 | Hugo Grotius, Dutch Theologian |
| 1550 | Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle, Charles V's Assistant Secretary of State, dies |
| 1544 | Alardus Aemstelredamus, priest/humanist, dies at about 53 |
| 1539 | Lieven Pain, Flemish, beheaded at about 75 |
| 1484 | Diogo, duke of Viseu, murdered |
| 1481 | Afonso V, King of Portugal, dies |
| 1065 | Frederik van Luxembourg, duke of Netherlands-Lutherans (1046-65) |
| 876 | Louis the German, King of East France Empire (833-76), dies |
| 430 | Aurelius Augustinus, church elder/thinker (Belijdenissen), dies at 75 |
| 430 | Saint Augustine, saint and Doctor of the Church, patron saint of brweers, printers, and theologians, dies at age 75 |
| 388 | Magnus Maximus, Spanish West Roman Emperor (383-88), executed |
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