| 2003 | Johnny Paycheck, singer, Take This Job and Shove It, dies at 65 |
| 2001 | Dale Earnhardt, American Celebrity |
| 1998 | Harry Caray, sportscaster for the Chicago Cubs, dies at 77 |
| 1998 | Mya Than Tint, Myanmarese author, dies of brain hemorrhage at 69 |
| 1998 | Robert Merrill, songwriter (Funny Girl), commits suicide at 76 |
| 1998 | Bob Merrill, songwriter, Funny Girl, dies at 76 |
| 1998 | Harry Caray, Cubs baseball announcer, dies at 77 |
| 1997 | Emily Hahn, writer, dies at 91 |
| 1997 | Enrique Peralta Azurdia, military President of Guatemala in 1963 - 1966, dies |
| 1997 | Eric William Fenby, musician, dies at 90 |
| 1996 | Brian Daley, writer, dies at 48 |
| 1996 | Nicholas Beriozoff, ballet master, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Richard Leslie Hill, historian, dies at 94 |
| 1995 | Calder Willingham, U.S. scriptwriter (End as a Man), dies at 72 |
| 1995 | Denny Cordel, rock music producer-Laverack, dies at 51 |
| 1995 | Eddie Williams, blues/Jazz Bassist, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | John Rhea "Yank" Lawson, trumpeter, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Yank Lawson, U.S. jazz trumpeteer (Stormy weather), dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Peter Caddy, founder of the Findhorn Community, dies at 76 |
| 1993 | Edward S "Ted" Haworth, U.S. set designer (Sayonara, Marty), dies at 76 |
| 1993 | Jacqueline Hill, dies of cancer at 63 |
| 1993 | Leslie Norman, English director/producer (Dunkirk), dies at 82 |
| 1993 | Michael David Morrison, actor (Caleb-As the World Turns), dies at 33 |
| 1985 | Willy Alberti, Carel Verbruggen, Dutch singer, dies at 58 |
| 1982 | Edith Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand detective writer/producer, dies at 82 |
| 1982 | Tina Carver, actress (Inside Detroit, Uranium Boom), dies at 58 |
| 1980 | Gale Robbins, actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Mr. Hex), dies at 58 |
| 1978 | Charlotte Greenwood, actress (Oklahoma, Moon over Miami), dies at 84 |
| 1978 | Derrick De Marney, actor (Inheritance, Projected Man), dies at 71 |
| 1978 | Maggie McNamara, actress (3 Coins in a Fountain, Cardinal), dies at 49 |
| 1977 | Andy Devine, Jeremiah Schwartz, actor (Andy's Gang), dies at 71 |
| 1977 | Maria Realino, teacher (Botany of Curaeao), dies at 87 |
| 1977 | Ralph Graves, actor (Extra Girl), dies at 77 |
| 1976 | Anton Betzner, writer, dies at 81 |
| 1976 | Eddie Dowling, composer (Anywhere USA), dies at 81 |
| 1976 | Joseph Henabery, actor and director (Cobra), dies at 88 |
| 1975 | Chivu Stoica, Stoica Chivu, premier of Romania 1955 - 1961, dies at 66 |
| 1975 | Luigi Dallapiccola, composer, dies |
| 1975 | Raymond Moley, U.S. advisor to President Roosevelt "Brain Trust", dies at 88 |
| 1973 | Franc Costello, U.S. gangster, dies at 82 |
| 1970 | Desiderius A Stracke, Flemish jesuit/literature historian, dies at 94 |
| 1969 | Dragisa Cvetkovic, Serbian premier of (Yugoslavia 1939-4.), dies at 76 |
| 1968 | Sigurd Erixon, etnologist (Atlas "ver Svensk Folkkultur), dies at 79 |
| 1967 | Manuel Palau Boix, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1967 | Robert J Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb, dies at 62 |
| 1966 | Anne Anema, Dutch lawyer/journalist/politician (ARP), dies at 94 |
| 1966 | Casimir von Paszthory, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1966 | Grigori Grigoyevich Nelyubov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 31 |
| 1963 | Monte Blue, silent film actor (Apache), dies of heart attack at 73 |
| 1963 | Todd "Hugh" Gaitskell, leader British Labour Party, dies at 56 |
| 1959 | Alfred Alessandrescu, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1959 | Eric Zeisl, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1959 | Jaroslav Kvapil, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1957 | Henry N Russell, co-author (temperature-luminosity graph), dies |
| 1956 | Gustave Charpentier, French opera composer (Louise), dies at 95 |
| 1951 | Piet A. W. Hopmans, bishop of Breda (Crusade), dies at 85 |
| 1950 | Voranc Prezikov, Lovro Kuhar, Slavic author (Jamnica), dies at 56 |
| 1949 | Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier of Spain (1931-36), dies at 71 |
| 1944 | Charles Davenport, American Scientist |
| 1943 | Henri Polak, Dutch union leader/politician (soc-dem), dies at 74 |
| 1939 | Ludwig Bonvin, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1938 | Alida JM Tartaud-Little, actress (Rotterdam Stage), dies at 64 |
| 1938 | Edward Anseele, Belgian minister of Rail, dies at 81 |
| 1938 | Louis EJM de la Vallee-Poussin, (The Way to Nirvana), dies at 69 |
| 1933 | James Corbett, (Gentleman Jim), heavyweight box champ (1892-97), dies |
| 1932 | Frederik Augustus III, King of Saxon (1904-18), dies at 66 |
| 1925 | James Lane Allen, U.S. writer (Choir Invisible), dies at 75 |
| 1917 | Charles E Barber, U.S. chief engraver (1879-1917), dies |
| 1915 | Frank James, American Criminal |
| 1911 | Bill Murdoch, cricketer, dies while watching Australia vs. South Africa Test |
| 1906 | Willem Doorenbos, literary/critic, dies at 85 |
| 1905 | Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International), dies at 75 |
| 1899 | M Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 56 |
| 1898 | Frances Willard, founder (Woman's Christian Temperance), dies at 58 |
| 1895 | Albrecht FR, arch duke of Austrian (Battle at Custozza), dies at 77 |
| 1890 | Guyla Andr ssy Sr, earl/premier of Hungary (1867-71), dies at 66 |
| 1885 | Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1878 | Peter D Regout, industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht), dies at 76 |
| 1876 | Charlotte Saunders Cushman, American Actress |
| 1861 | Louis C Luzac, Dutch minister of Internal affairs, dies at 74 |
| 1846 | Giovanni Liverati, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1834 | William Wirt, American Statesman |
| 1833 | Georg Johann Schinn, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1833 | Ignac Ruzitska, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1830 | Charles G G, Earl of Merode, mayor (Brussels), dies at 67 |
| 1829 | Jan Krtitel Kuchar, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1817 | Giacomo Quarenghi, master builder (Hermitage Theater), dies at 72 |
| 1807 | August G Meissner, German estheticus/literary, dies at 53 |
| 1807 | S von Laroche, writer, dies at 75 |
| 1803 | J. W. L. Gleim, writer, dies |
| 1799 | Maurus Haberhauer, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1790 | Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1745 | Nicola Fago, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1712 | Duke of Bourgondie, French king Louis XIV's grandson, dies |
| 1683 | Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Dutch landscape painter/etcher, dies at 62 |
| 1660 | Judith Jansdochter Leyster, Dutch painter, buried |
| 1587 | Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded at 44 |
| 1564 | Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian sculptor/painter (David), dies at 88 |
| 1546 | Martin Luther, biblical scholar/religious reformer, dies at 62 |
| 1535 | Agrippa von Nettesheim, German royal astrologer, dies at 48 |
| 1535 | Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, physician/theologian, dies |
| 1478 | Duke of Clarence, forced drowning in a wine barrel |
| 1455 | Fra Angelico, Italian monk/painter, dies |
| 1397 | Enguerrand VII, French master of Coucy/count of Soissons, dies at 56 |
| 1294 | Kublai Khan, Chinese Statesman |
| 1217 | Alexander Neckum de Sancto Albano, English encyclopedist, dies at 59 |
| 999 | Gregory V, Bruno, 1st German Pope, dies |
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