| 2005 | T. Cooper Evans, Representative-R-Iowa, 1981 - 1987 |
| 2002 | Joe Strummer, rocker, The Clash, dies at 50 |
| 2002 | Kenneth Tobey, actor, dies at 85 |
| 2001 | Lance Loud, "actor/early ""reality show"" star", An American Family, dies at 50 |
| 2000 | Florynce Rae Kennedy, lawyer/lecturer, dies at 84 |
| 1998 | Virginia Graham, talk show host/writer, dies at 86 |
| 1997 | Douglas Ranger, surgeon, dies at 81 |
| 1997 | John Pinkerton, compuer scientist, dies at 78 |
| 1997 | Johnny Coles, trumpeter, dies at 71 |
| 1997 | Juzo Itami, Japanese director, commits suicide at 64 |
| 1997 | Hugh Seymour, 8th Marquess of Hertford, Peerage of Great Britain, dies at 67 |
| 1996 | Hetta Empson, artist, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Butterfly McQueen, actress 'Gone With the Wind', dies in a fire at 84 |
| 1995 | James Meade, English Economist |
| 1993 | Alexander Mackendrick, director (Whiskey Galore!), dies at 81 |
| 1993 | Don DeFore, actor (George Baxter-Hazel), dies of cardiac arrest at 76 |
| 1992 | Frederick W. Franz, CEO (Watch Tower), dies at 99 |
| 1991 | Ernst Krenek, Austrian/US composer (Orpheus and Eurydike), dies at 91 |
| 1990 | Cecil Effinger, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1990 | Helene Stanley, actress (Carnival Story, Roar of the Crowd), dies |
| 1989 | Samuel Beckett, Irish/French writer (Molloy, Nobel 1969), dies at 83 |
| 1988 | Tucker Smith, singer/dancer (Cool-West Side Story), dies |
| 1987 | Alice Terry, Taaffe, actress (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse), dies |
| 1987 | Leonidas Zoras, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1986 | Celius Dougherty, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1980 | Dick Kallman, actor (Hank Dearborn-Hank), murdered at 47 |
| 1979 | Darryl F Zanuck, film producer (20th Century Fox), dies at 77 |
| 1977 | Johann Nepomuk David, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1974 | Fosco Giachetti, entertainer, dies at 70 |
| 1974 | Lorraine Gauguin, entertainer, dies at 50 |
| 1974 | Richard Long, actor (Prof-Nanny and Professor), dies at 47 |
| 1973 | Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1973 | Irna Phillips, creator of 5 TV soap operas, dies at 72 |
| 1971 | Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans, Dutch writer (Eric), dies at 58 |
| 1971 | Renee Evans, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 63 |
| 1969 | Donald Foster, actor (Herbert Johnson-Hazel), dies at 80 |
| 1969 | Ilse Steppat, actress (Invisible Terror), dies at 52 |
| 1969 | Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Shanghai Express), dies at 75 |
| 1968 | Louise Granville, entertainer, dies of influenza at 73 |
| 1967 | Lee Krieger, actor (Clambake, One Way Wahini), dies at 48 |
| 1965 | Al Ritz, actor (Gorilla, Hi Ya Chum), dies at 62 |
| 1964 | Bonifacio Gil Garcia, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1959 | Gilda Gray, actress (Piccadilly), dies of heart attack at 60 |
| 1958 | Fjodor W. Gladkow, Russian author (Cement), dies at 75 |
| 1958 | Lion Feuchtwanger, Germ/US philosopher (Judische Krieg), dies at 74 |
| 1951 | Powell Weaver, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1950 | Julius Weismann, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1950 | Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1945 | Otto Neurath, Austrian/British philosopher, dies at 63 |
| 1944 | Antoine Mariotte, composer, dies on 69th birthday |
| 1944 | Harry Langdon, U.S. comic/director (Heart Trouble), dies at 60 |
| 1941 | Leopoldo Mugnone, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1940 | Nathanael West, Weinstein, U.S. writer (Cool Million), dies at 37 |
| 1939 | Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues", U.S. blues singer/composer, dies at 53 |
| 1937 | Daito Kokushi, Zen founder of Daitokuji, dies in Kyoto at 55 |
| 1923 | Arthur H Bird, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1918 | Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter, dies at 83 |
| 1917 | Francesca Saveria Cabrini, U.S. saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67 |
| 1913 | Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69 |
| 1908 | Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44 |
| 1906 | Robert Rainy, minister, professor of Church history at New College, theological seminary, principal of New College, argued against Dean Stanley's Broad Church views, dies |
| 1902 | Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62 |
| 1899 | Dwight L Moody, U.S. evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies |
| 1899 | Dwight L. Moody, American Clergyman |
| 1893 | Benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1893 | Johann Czerski, German chaplain, dies at 80 |
| 1890 | Harry Pollitt, chairman British communist (1956-60), dies |
| 1880 | George Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday |
| 1875 | Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1874 | Johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1870 | Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46 |
| 1867 | Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79 |
| 1863 | Michael Corcoran, Union Brigadier-General, dies at 36 |
| 1832 | Ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1828 | Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th U.S. President Andrew Jackson, dies |
| 1815 | Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards |
| 1797 | Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1767 | John Newberry, English publisher, dies |
| 1745 | Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1738 | Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1723 | Jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70 |
| 1721 | Nathaniel Hawes, tortured and executed in England for robbery |
| 1668 | Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies |
| 1641 | Maximilien de Bethune duke of Sully, Prime Minister of France, dies at 81 |
| 1603 | Mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37 |
| 1440 | Bluebeard, pirate, executed |
| 1419 | John XXIII, Baldassare Cossa, Italian Pope (1410-15), dies |
| 1337 | Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54 |
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