| 2001 | Eileen Heckart, actress, Butterflies Are Free, dies at 82 |
| 2000 | Jose Greco, flamenco dancer, Ship of Fools, dies at 82 |
| 2000 | Alan Cranston, Senator-D-California, 1969 - 1993 |
| 2000 | Kenneth Lee Pike, American Sociologist |
| 1999 | Elliot Richardson, honest U.S. attorney general, fired by Nixon after he refused to fire Archibald Cox, dies at 79 |
| 1997 | Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate, dies at 89 |
| 1997 | Floyd Cramer, pianist, session player, architect of the 'Nashville Sound', played piano on Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel, dies of lung cancer at age 64 |
| 1997 | Lillian Billie Dove Bohney, actress, dies at 96 |
| 1997 | Michael Kennedy, son of Robert Kennedy, dies in ski accident at 39 |
| 1996 | 61 law enforcement officers, killed by felons in U.S. this year |
| 1996 | Ann Susan Hills, freelance journalist, dies at 55 |
| 1996 | David Sinclair, actor (Love and Hate), dies at 62 |
| 1996 | Frederico Davia, opera singer, dies at 63 |
| 1996 | Michael Roberts, historian, dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Phillip Edmund Clinton Manson-Bahr, tropical mediciner, dies at 85 |
| 1995 | Calvin/Hobbes, (comic strip), dies |
| 1995 | John Powell, campaigner, dies at 75 |
| 1994 | BAM "Bob" Schreiner, airline owner (S Aviation Group), dies at 79 |
| 1994 | Harri Webb, journalist, nationalist, poet, dies at 74 |
| 1994 | Leigh Bowery, designer, pop star, model, performance artist, influenced Boy George, Vivienne Westwood, dies at 33 |
| 1994 | Leo Fuchs, Polish/US Yiddish actor (Story of Ruth), dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Thomas J Watson, Jr., CEO (IBM), dies of a stroke at 79 |
| 1994 | Woodrow "Woody" Strode, U.S. rugby player/black cowboy actor (Oil), dies |
| 1994 | Woody Strode, actor (Posse, Cotton Club, Vigilante), dies at 80 |
| 1993 | Arthur Dreifuss, director/producer (Murder in Amsterdam), dies at 85 |
| 1993 | Lambert Fokkema, founder Dutch Export Combination, dies at 80 |
| 1993 | Thomas J Watson, Jr., president of IBM (1956-71)/diplomat, dies at 79 |
| 1993 | Zviad Gamsachurdia, President of Georgia SSR (1991-1993), suicide at 54 |
| 1990 | Dalton Cathey, dies of AIDS at 44 |
| 1990 | George Allen, U.S. football coach of the Los Angeles Rams and the Washington Redskins, dies |
| 1990 | Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A), dies at 62 |
| 1987 | [Gordon] Randall [P D] Garrett, author (Lord Darcy), dies at 60 |
| 1986 | Lester Albert Trimble, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1986 | Lloyd Haynes, actor (Pete Dixon-Room 222), dies at 54 |
| 1985 | Rick Nelson, singer and actor (Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), dies at 45 |
| 1985 | Sam Spiegel, Academy Award winning producer (Betrayal), dies at 84 |
| 1983 | Frank Link, actor (Burns and Schreiber Comedy Show), dies at 46 |
| 1981 | Frantisek Chaun, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1980 | Marshall McLuhan, Canadian cultural philosopher, dies at 69 |
| 1980 | Raoul Walsh, U.S. director (High Sierra), dies at about 88 |
| 1977 | Nora Marlowe, actress, dies at 62 |
| 1975 | Donal Michalsky, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1972 | Roberto Clemente, slugger (Pitts Pirate), dies in a plane crash at 38 |
| 1971 | Peter Deuel, actor (Gidget, Love on a Rooftop), commits suicide at 31 |
| 1970 | Cyril M Scott, English composer/author (Alchemist), dies at 91 |
| 1969 | Salvatore Baccaloni, opera singer and actor (Full of Life), dies at 69 |
| 1968 | Carl Oscar Ahues, German International Chess Master (1950), dies at 85 |
| 1968 | George Louis Francis Lewis, composer, dies at 16 |
| 1968 | Sabin V Dragoi, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1966 | Chief Nipo Strongheart, Native Amer actor (Pony Soldier), dies at 75 |
| 1966 | Pieter C A Geyl, historian (History of Dutch Race), dies |
| 1963 | Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer, dies |
| 1960 | Germaine Loosveldt, Flemish actress (Trees die Upright), dies at 69 |
| 1960 | Semyon Semyonovich Bogatiryov, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1958 | Gustav Hermann Unger, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1954 | Peter Van Anrooy, conductor and composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie), dies at 75 |
| 1953 | Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer/founder (KLM), dies at 64 |
| 1951 | Maxim M Litvinov, Meyer H Wallach, Russian diplomat, dies at 75 |
| 1951 | Philipp A Kohnstamm, Dutch philosopher/physicist, dies at 76 |
| 1950 | Charles Koechlin, French composer (Jungle Book), dies at 83 |
| 1950 | Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor/president (1918-20, 45-50), dies at 80 |
| 1948 | Malcolm Campbell, English race driver, dies at 63 |
| 1947 | Franz X. Ritter von Epp, German General (SW Africa), dies at 79 |
| 1946 | Frits [Frederik H] Tartaud, Dutch actor, dies at 89 |
| 1945 | Donald Douglas II, dies at 40 |
| 1941 | Sigwart Aspestrand, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1938 | Richard N Roland Holst, Dutch artist/painter, dies at 70 |
| 1936 | Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Span philosopher/poet (Cancionero), dies at 72 |
| 1936 | William FA Ellison, Irish clergyman/astronomer, dies at 72 |
| 1936 | Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish Educator |
| 1921 | Jozsef Kiss, Hungarian literary (A het), dies at 78 |
| 1920 | Albert Roelofs, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 43 |
| 1916 | Ernst Rudorff, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1907 | Jules de Trooz, Belgium PM, dies at 63 |
| 1899 | Karl Millocker, Austrian conductor and composer (Try-out Kiss), dies at 57 |
| 1894 | Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician (Stieltjes-integral), dies at 38 |
| 1893 | Jacob G de Scheffer, Dutch vicar/theologist, dies at 74 |
| 1889 | Ion Creanga, Romanian (fairy tales) author, dies at 52 |
| 1882 | Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney/premier (1881-82), dies at 44 |
| 1877 | Alberto Mazzucato, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1877 | JD Gustave Courbet, French painter (Baigneuses), dies at 58 |
| 1877 | Gustave Courbet, French Artist |
| 1874 | Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, French politician and revolutionary, dies |
| 1872 | Aleksis Kivi, Stenvall, Finnish writer/poet (Kanervala), dies at 38 |
| 1862 | James Edward Rains, lawyer/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 29 |
| 1862 | Joshua Woodrow Sill, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 31 |
| 1859 | Luigi Ricci, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1848 | Oliver Shaw, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1818 | Jean-Pierre Duport, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1809 | Franz Ignaz Beck, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1802 | Francis Lewis, Welsh / U.S. merchant and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 89 |
| 1802 | Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1775 | Richard Montgomery, General, dies fighting British |
| 1733 | Hubert K Poot, Dutch poet (Akkerleven), dies at 44 |
| 1719 | John Flamsteed, 1st Astronomer Royal, dies at 73 |
| 1659 | Janos Apaczai Csere, Hungarian theologist (Magyar Logikacska), dies at 34 |
| 1652 | Frances Cecil, 2nd wife of English earl of Shaftesbury, dies |
| 1647 | Giovanni Maria Trabaci, composer, dies |
| 1616 | Jacques Le Maire, pirate/explorer (Lemaire Strait), dies at 31 |
| 1583 | Thomas Erastus, Switzerland, theologist, dies |
| 1384 | John Wycliffe, English religious reformer/bible translator, dies |
| 1382 | Daigaku, Zen teacher/46th head of Engakuji, dies in Kamakura Japan |
| 439 | Melania the Younger, Roman monastery founder/saint, dies at about 56 |
| 406 | Godagisel, king of the Vandals, dies in battle |
| 192 | Lucius AA Commodus, Emperor of Rome (180-192), murdered at 31 |
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