| 2009 | Hugh Leonard, writer, winner, Jacob's Award, for 'Wuthering Heights', wrote Sunday Independent column 'The Curmudgeon', dies at age 82 |
| 2000 | Screamin' Jay Hawkins, R and B singer, I Put a Spell on You, dies at 70 |
| 2000 | Charles M. Schulz, cartoonist, Peanuts, dies at 77 |
| 2000 | "William ""Oliver"" Swofford", singer, ", Good Morning, Starshine, ", dies at 54 |
| 2000 | Tom Landry, American Coach |
| 1997 | Nora Beloff, journalist, dies at 78 |
| 1997 | Walter Ritchie, sculptor, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Earring George Mayweather, blues harmonica player, dies at 66 |
| 1995 | L Jansma, Fries publisher (Friese stamp), dies |
| 1995 | Rachid Mimouni, author, teacher at Ecole superieure du commerce, Algiers, wrote 'La Malediction', dies of hepatitis in Paris, France, at age 49 |
| 1995 | Terence Beckles, pianist/teacher, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Tony Secunda, rock band manager, dies at 54 |
| 1995 | Robert Bolt, British Playwright |
| 1994 | Donald Judd, U.S. furniture maker/architect/artist, dies at 65 |
| 1993 | James Bulger, English child beaten to death at 2, by 10 yr old boys |
| 1992 | Bep [Lambertus] van Klaveren, boxing champ 1928 Olympics gold, dies |
| 1992 | Dorothy Tree, actress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Nazi Agent), dies |
| 1992 | Ton Brandsteder, CEO (Sony Netherland BV), dies at 74 |
| 1991 | Edward A Blatt, director (Between 2 Worlds), dies at 88 |
| 1991 | Robert Wagner, mayor (NYC-D-1954-65), dies |
| 1989 | Mauritius Balfoort, French/Flemish director, dies at 83 |
| 1989 | Thomas Bernhard, most prominent German-speaking postwar era author, writer, playwright, novelist, dies at 58 of tuberculosis in Ohlsdorf, Upper Austria |
| 1987 | Lang Jeffries, Canadian actor (Skip-Rescue 8), dies at 55 |
| 1986 | Guy Douglas Hamilton Warrack, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1986 | Sid Stone, comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 82 |
| 1985 | Nicholas Colssanto, actor (Coach-Cheers), dies at 61 |
| 1984 | Anna Anderson Manahan, Grand Duchess Anastasia, dies in Virginia |
| 1984 | Julio Cort zar, Argentina writer (Final del Juego), dies at 69 |
| 1983 | Eubie Blake, ragtime-composer/pianist (Memories of You), dies at 100 |
| 1982 | Cornelis Rijnsdorp, Dutch writer (Culprit), dies at 87 |
| 1982 | Hal Hooker, cricket (307 partners with Kippax for last wicket), dies |
| 1982 | Victor Jory, actor (Adv of Tom Sawyer, 1st Lady, Jigsaw), dies at 79 |
| 1981 | Jean Dixon, actress (Joy of Livng, You Only Live Once), dies |
| 1980 | Floyd Taliaferro Alderson, actor (Crossing Trails), dies |
| 1979 | Jean Renoir, French writer and director 'Human Beast', 'Rules of the Game', dies at 84 |
| 1976 | James Clifton Williams, composer (Sinfonians), dies at 52 |
| 1976 | Sal Mineo, actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed at 37 |
| 1973 | Benjamin Frankel, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1971 | George Shelton, actor (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 86 |
| 1971 | James Cash Penney, U.S. founder (J C Penney), dies at 95 |
| 1970 | Andre Souris, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1969 | Johanna EFG Tourniaire, actress (Potasch and Perlemoer), dies at 80 |
| 1965 | Henry Kulky, actor (Otto-Life of Riley), dies at 53 |
| 1960 | Bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown), dies at 71 |
| 1959 | George Antheil, U.S. pianist/composer (Ballet Mecanique), dies at 58 |
| 1958 | Marcel Cachin, 1st communist French senator, dies at 88 |
| 1957 | Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Martha og Maria), dies at 82 |
| 1955 | Tom Moore, actor (Ladies be Seated, Majority Rules), dies at 71 |
| 1954 | Dziga Vertov, Kaufman, Russian dir (3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58 |
| 1947 | Sidney Toler, actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), dies at 72 |
| 1945 | ... de Jong, Dutch vicar/resistance fighter, executed |
| 1945 | Henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah, Youth Aliyah), dies |
| 1945 | Walraven [Wally] van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis, executed at 39 |
| 1942 | Grant Wood, U.S. painter (American Gothic), dies at 49 |
| 1933 | Henri Duparc, French composer, dies at 85 |
| 1929 | Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, Germany para-psychologist, dies at 66 |
| 1920 | Emile Sauret, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1920 | Jean Allemane, French socialist/communard (allemanisten), dies at 77 |
| 1920 | Ottalee Baker, Frank "Home Run" Baker's wife, dies at 31 |
| 1916 | J. W. Richard Dedekind, German mathematician, dies |
| 1915 | Charles Emile Waldteufel, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1915 | Fanny Crosby, American Musician |
| 1905 | Marcel Schwob, French writer/journalist (Coeur double), dies |
| 1901 | Ramon de Campoamor bon Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Colon), dies at 83 |
| 1896 | Charles Louis Ambrose Thomas, French composer (Mignon), dies at 84 |
| 1896 | Isaac Murphy, jockey, 628 wins on 1,412 mounts (44.5%), dies at 35 |
| 1886 | P J Edvard Backstrom, Swedish writer, dies at 44 |
| 1886 | Horatio Seymour, American Politician |
| 1878 | Alexander Duff, Scottish Clergyman |
| 1861 | Hippolyte-Andre-Baptiste Chelard, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1837 | Ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50 |
| 1834 | Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 65 |
| 1820 | Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1812 | Andrew Cherry, Irish Dramatist |
| 1804 | Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden), dies at 79 |
| 1799 | Frantisek Xaver Dusek, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1787 | Ruggiero Boscovich, Italian physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75 |
| 1771 | Adolf Frederik, king of Sweden (1751-70), dies at 60 |
| 1762 | Laurent Belissen, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1738 | James Sherard, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1728 | Agostino Steffani, Italian/German diplomat/composer, dies at 73 |
| 1684 | Pietro Andrea Ziani, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1616 | John Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65 |
| 1590 | Francois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat, dies at 65 |
| 1554 | Jane Grey, queen of England for 13 days, beheaded at 17 |
| 1554 | Lord Guildford Dudley, Jane Grey's husband, beheaded |
| 1538 | Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, dies at about 57 |
| 1242 | Hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide |
| 1128 | Toghtekin, slave/atabek of Damascus, dies |
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