| 2006 | Eileen Caddy, new age author, spiritual teacher, founded Findhorn Foundation commune, an international New Age community, dubbed 'Vatican of the New Age', today home to 400 residents from more than 40 countries, dies at age 89 in Findhorn, Scotland |
| 2003 | William V. Roth, Jr., Representative-R-Delaware 1967 - 1971, Senator-R-Delaware 1971 - 2001 |
| 1997 | Alexander Oppenheim, mathematician, dies at 94 |
| 1997 | Martin Carter, poet/critic, dies at 70 |
| 1997 | Rafael Jose Fernandez de la Calzada y Ferrer, restaurateur, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Cao Yu, playwright, dramatist, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Charles Edwin Molnar, computer pioneer, dies at 61 |
| 1996 | Edward Blishen, writer teacher/broadcaster, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Mae Barnes, singer, dies at 89 |
| 1995 | Evangeline Bruce, hostess, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Nancy LaMott, singer, cabaret genre, album 'Ask Me Again' ranked 12th in Billboard Magazine's Top Jazz Albums chart, performed twice for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, dies at 43 |
| 1994 | Antoine Pinay, Prime Minister of France 1952 - 1953, dies |
| 1994 | Herman W. "Fritz" Liebert, U.S. librarian/Yale-curator, dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Norman Beaton, actor (Eureka, Black Joy, Mighty Quinn), dies at 60 |
| 1994 | Glenn M. Anderson, Representative-D-California 1969 - 1993 |
| 1993 | Charles JB Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer: Ogentroost, dies at 87 |
| 1993 | Myrna Loy, actress (Thin Man, Vanity Fair), dies at 88 |
| 1992 | Bernard Drukker, Dutch pianist/orchestral leader (duivelswiel), dies |
| 1991 | Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (La marge), dies at 82 |
| 1990 | Alice Marble, California, tennis star, dies at 77 |
| 1990 | Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss writer (Besuch der alten Dame), dies at 69 |
| 1986 | Heather Angel, actress (Lifeboat, Daniel Boone), dies at 77 |
| 1986 | Ella Baker, American Activist |
| 1983 | Leora Dana, actress (Amityville II, Change of Habit), dies at 60 |
| 1983 | Leora Dana, actress (Sylvie Kosloff-Another World), dies |
| 1983 | Mary Renault [Challans], British author (Funeral games), dies at 78 |
| 1981 | Cornelius Cardew, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1981 | Pigmeat Markham, comedian (Here Comes da Judge-Laugh In), dies at 75 |
| 1980 | Harm van Riel, Dutch Liberal Party politician, dies at 73 |
| 1979 | Jon Hall, actor (Ramor of the Jungle), dies at 66 |
| 1976 | Eduard Claudius, writer, dies |
| 1975 | Cyril Delevanti, actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis), dies at 88 |
| 1975 | Hendrik Kruls, Dutch general/chief military authority 1944 - 1946, dies at 73 |
| 1974 | Rufe Davis, actor (Floyd Smoot-Petticoat Junction), dies at 66 |
| 1973 | Henry Green, English Novelist |
| 1971 | Max Mell, Austria artillery officer/literary, dies at 88 |
| 1969 | Raymond A Spruance, U.S. Admiral (battle of Midway), dies at 83 |
| 1968 | Siegfried Reda, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1966 | Charles Watts, actor (Lone Ranger and Lost City of Gold), dies of cancer |
| 1963 | Hubert ME Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45), dies at 79 |
| 1961 | Grandma [Anna M] Moses, U.S. painter, dies at 101 |
| 1961 | John Acton, 1st Baron Acton, English historian, friends with De Tocqueville, Bluntschli, Montalembert, his extensive library was purchased after his death by Andrew Carnegie, dies |
| 1958 | Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed |
| 1958 | Barhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign affairs, executed |
| 1958 | Brand Dirck Ochse, film/bioscope pioneer (Polygoon), dies at 66 |
| 1958 | Rafiq Aref, Iraqi chief-staff Arabs Statenbond, executed |
| 1958 | Tim Moore, actor (Kingfish-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 70 |
| 1951 | Selim Palmgren, Finnish pianist/composer (Daniel Hjort), dies at 73 |
| 1945 | Robert van Genechten, Dutch Nazi (NSB), commits suicide |
| 1945 | Vittorio Mario Vanzo, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1944 | Lupe Velez, actress (Joe Palooka), overdoses on seconal at 34 |
| 1944 | Vassily Kandinsky, abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration), dies at 78 |
| 1944 | Wassily Kandinsky, Russian Artist |
| 1942 | Eleanor Everest Freer, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1940 | Dusty Tapscott, cricket (bro of Doodles, 4&1 in only S Af Test), dies |
| 1929 | Knut Algot Hakanson, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1924 | Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74 |
| 1919 | Amintore Galli, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1909 | Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter, dies at 53 |
| 1898 | George Frederick Bristow, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1894 | Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist, dies at 68 |
| 1881 | August Senoa, Croatian writer (Kletva [The Curse]), dies at 43 |
| 1872 | Helena Beeloo, Hague's maid, murdered by Henry Jut |
| 1872 | W T van der Kouwen-ten Cate, Hague's Dame, murdered by Henry Jut |
| 1863 | Friedrich Hebbel, writer, dies at 50 |
| 1862 | Conrad Feger Jackson, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 49 |
| 1862 | Maxcy Gregg, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 48 |
| 1862 | Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 39 |
| 1814 | Charles Joseph Prince of Ligne, Belgian Field Marshal/author, dies at 79 |
| 1812 | Marianne von Martinez, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1793 | Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1784 | Samuel Johnson, English Author |
| 1774 | Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother, dies at 50 |
| 1769 | C F Gellert, writer, dies at 54 |
| 1738 | Gotthard Wagner, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1729 | Anthony Collins, English philosopher (On Liberty and Necessity), dies at 53 |
| 1693 | Dodoftei, Romanian metropolitan of Moldavia/writer (Saint Lives), dies |
| 1693 | Willem Van de Velde, Dutch the Old, seascape painter, dies at about 82 |
| 1672 | Jan II Kazimierz, king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63 |
| 1622 | Jan Campanus, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1603 | Franciscus Vieta, mathematician, dies in Paris at 63 |
| 1574 | Selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74), dies at 50 |
| 1565 | Konrad von Gesner, naturalist, dies at 49 |
| 1557 | Niccolo Tartaglia, Italian mathematician, dies |
| 1521 | Manoel I "the Great", King of Portugal (1495-1521), dies at 52 |
| 1404 | Albrecht, duke of Bavaria, dies at 74 |
| 1250 | Frederick II, German Emperor (1212-1250), dies at 55 |
| 1204 | Maimonides, Jewish philosopher/talmudic scholar, dies in Cairo at 69 |
| 1126 | Hendrik IX, the Black, Duke of Bayern (1120-26), dies |
| 1124 | Callistus II, Guido di Borgogna, Italian Pope (1119-24), dies |
| 1048 | Al-Biruni, Arabic royal astrologer, dies at 74 |
| 838 | Pippijn I, King of Aquitania, dies |
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