| 2004 | Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino Actor |
| 2003 | Jeanne Crain, actress, An Apartment for Peggy, dies at 78 |
| 2001 | W. G. Sebald, German Writer |
| 1999 | Cathy Hainer, journalist, USA Today, dies at 38 |
| 1999 | Douglas Leigh, Broadway sign designer, dies at 92 |
| 1998 | Norman Fell, actor, Three's Company, dies at 74 |
| 1997 | Owen Barfield, philosopher of language, dies at 99 |
| 1997 | Robert Sutton, electronics engineer, dies at 82 |
| 1997 | Stubby Kaye, actor (Guys and Dolls, Sweet Charity), dies at 79 |
| 1996 | Alan Hargreaves, climber, dies at 92 |
| 1996 | Norman Hackforth, broadcaster, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Don Anthony, bandleader/songwriter, dies at 85 |
| 1995 | Rob Harris, sky surfer, dies while skydiving at 28 |
| 1994 | Mary Ann McCall, singer, dies at 75 |
| 1994 | Petrus HJ van Doorne, bus manufacturer/owner (BOVA), dies at 58 |
| 1993 | Myrna Loy, Williams, U.S. actress (Jazz Singer), dies at 88 |
| 1991 | Robert Eddison, British actor (Uncle Silas), dies at 83 |
| 1990 | F Durrenmatt, writer, dies at 69 |
| 1990 | Hope Sansberry, actress (Rats are Coming), dies at 94 |
| 1990 | Johannes von Thurn und Taxis, prince in Germany, dies at 64 |
| 1989 | Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68 |
| 1989 | Jock Mahoney, actor (Dallas, Cow Town, Range Rider), dies at 70 |
| 1989 | Lee Van Cleef, actor (Good Bad and Ugly, Sabata), dies at 64 |
| 1988 | Stuart Symington, Senator-D-Missouri 1953 - 1976, |
| 1987 | Paul Clinton Sundberg, actor (Belle of NY, Easter Parade), dies |
| 1985 | Roger Maris, home run hitter, 61 in 61, New York Yankees, dies of cancer at 51 |
| 1985 | Stanley G[rauman] Weinbaum, U.S., sci-fi author (Red Peri), dies at 85 |
| 1984 | Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet (Historia del corazon), dies at 86 |
| 1980 | Elston Howard, MVP catcher (New York Yankees), dies at 59 |
| 1975 | Arthur Treacher, TV announcer (Merv Griffin Show), dies at 81 |
| 1974 | Walter Lippmann, U.S. journalist (One of Dynasty), dies at 85 |
| 1973 | Yitzhak Edel, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1966 | Emma Dunn, actress (You Can't Fool Your Wife), dies at 91 |
| 1966 | Richard Whorf, actor (Chain Lightning), dies of heart attack at 60 |
| 1966 | Verna Felton, actress (Hilda-December Bride), dies at 76 |
| 1965 | Hermann Sandby, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1964 | William Bendix, actor (Life of Riley), dies at 58 |
| 1963 | Dinah Washington, singer, dies of sleeping pill overdose at 39 |
| 1963 | Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD), dies at 62 |
| 1960 | Gregory Ratoff, actor (Skyscraper Souls), dies of leukemia at 63 |
| 1959 | Maria EG "Lizzy" Ansingh, Dutch painter (Cast Off), dies at 84 |
| 1959 | Stanley Spencer, English Artist |
| 1955 | Otto Braun, German Politician |
| 1952 | Olav Fartein Valen, Norwegian composer, dies at 65 |
| 1950 | Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer (Heroische Fahrt), dies at 65 |
| 1948 | Reginald Owen Morris, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1947 | Franz Zorell, German RC lexicographer, dies at 84 |
| 1947 | Stanley Baldwin, English premier (1923, 24-29, 35-37), dies at 80 |
| 1945 | Constantino Gaito, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1945 | Forrester Harvey, actor (Tarzan and Mate, Chump at Oxford), dies at 61 |
| 1945 | Henry van Goudoever, Dutch lawyer/judge, dies on his 69th birthday |
| 1945 | Josef Kramer, known as "beast of Belsen," and 10 others, hanged |
| 1942 | Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 61 |
| 1939 | Helene ELJ Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder, dies at 70 |
| 1938 | Marie FM Emmanuel, French composer/musicologist (Salamine), dies at 76 |
| 1935 | Stanley G Weinbaum, U.S., sci-fi writer (Martian Odyssey), dies |
| 1928 | Theodore Roberts, actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments), dies at 77 |
| 1926 | Theo van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter (pointillism), dies at 64 |
| 1923 | Giuseppi Gallignani, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1918 | Sidonio Pais, prince of Portugal, murdered |
| 1914 | Giovanni Sgambati, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1909 | Leopold II, king of Belgium, dies |
| 1906 | John A. C. Oudemans, Dutch geographer/astronomer, dies at 78 |
| 1903 | William Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair |
| 1900 | Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46 |
| 1893 | Karolina Pawlowa, writer, dies at 86 |
| 1886 | Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer, dies at 27 |
| 1873 | J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist, dies |
| 1873 | Louis Agassiz, Swiss Scientist |
| 1862 | George Dashiell Bayard, Union Brigadier General, dies at 27 |
| 1861 | Albert, prince consort of England/husband of Queen Victoria, dies at 42 |
| 1861 | George HG earl of Aberdeen, English minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 76 |
| 1861 | Heinrich August Marschner, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1849 | Conradin Kreutzer, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1829 | Luigi Marchesi, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1823 | Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53 |
| 1799 | George Washington, 1st president United States 1789 - 1797, dies at 66 |
| 1788 | Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74 |
| 1788 | Carlos III, King of Naples/Spain (1759-88), dies at 72 |
| 1760 | Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies |
| 1754 | Mahmud I, sultan of Turkey, dies at 58 |
| 1734 | Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist, dies at 44 |
| 1732 | Johann Philipp Fortsch, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1591 | Juan de la Cruz, de Yepes, Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint, dies |
| 1542 | James, king of Scotland (1513-42), dies at 30 |
| 1417 | John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged and burned |
| 1136 | Harald IV, "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered |
| 1077 | Agnes of Poitou, German empress/wife of emperor Henry III, dies |
| 872 | Adrian II, Italian Pope (867-72)/last married pope, dies at about 80 |