| 2009 | Kelly Groucutt, bass player, Electronic Light Orchestra, ELO, musician, pop, rock, rock and roll genres, dies in Worcester, England, at age 63 |
| 2001 | Stanley Kramer, director, Judgment at Nuremberg, dies at 87 |
| 2001 | William Masters, sex researcher, dies at 85 |
| 2000 | Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian Architect |
| 1998 | Grandpa Jones, country comic/banjo wizard, 'Hee Haw', dies at 84 |
| 1997 | Deng Xiaoping, head of the Chinese Communist Party, dies at 92 |
| 1997 | Leo Rosten, writer/humourist (Joys of Yiddish), dies at 88 |
| 1997 | Stanley Pearson, footballer, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Brenda Bruce, actress (December Bride, Nightmare), dies at 77 |
| 1996 | Charles O Finley, baseball owner for the Oakland A's, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Grant Sawyer, U.S. politician, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Madhaviah Krishnan, naturalist, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Calder Willingham, novelist/Scriptwriter, dies at 72 |
| 1995 | Ian Ball, photographer, dies at 80 |
| 1995 | Shlomo Averbach, Israeli ultra-orthodox rabbi, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Derek Jarman, actor and director (Tempest), dies of AIDS at 52 |
| 1994 | Georges Watin, Algerian/French officer (OAS), dies at 71 |
| 1994 | Renske Vellinga, Dutch speed-skater, dies in auto-accident at 19 |
| 1993 | Gerhard Gesell, judge (Pentagon Papers), dies of liver cancer at 82 |
| 1993 | Michael Morrison, actor (Caleb-As the World Turns), dies at 33 |
| 1992 | Chet Leaming, dies after brief illness at 66 |
| 1991 | Peggy Mondo, actress (Who's Minding the Store), dies at 50 |
| 1990 | Michael Powell, English director (Life and Death of Col Blimp), dies at 84 |
| 1989 | Jaap van de Merwe, Dutch journalist/cabareter (Hadjememaar), dies |
| 1989 | Merwe, journalist/cabaret performer (Hadjememaar), dies |
| 1986 | Adolfo Celi, actor (Thunderball), dies at 63 |
| 1986 | James Eastland, Senator-D-Mississippi, 1941 - 1941 and 1943 - 1978, dies at 81 |
| 1986 | Paul Stewart, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline), dies at 77 |
| 1985 | Elizabeth Julesberg, author (Dick and Jane), dies |
| 1985 | George Holmes, actor (Man in the Trunk), dies at 66 |
| 1984 | Ina Ray Hutton, orchestra leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show), dies at 66 |
| 1983 | Alice White, actress (Employees' Entrance), dies at 78 of a stroke |
| 1981 | Frank Merrik, composer, dies at 94 |
| 1980 | Bon Scott, Australia rock vocalist (AC/DC-Whole Lotta Rosie), dies at 33 |
| 1977 | Anthony Crosland, British Politician |
| 1975 | Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian 12-tone composer, dies at 71 |
| 1970 | Ralph Edward Flanders, (Sen-VT), dies at 89 |
| 1968 | Ralph Dunn, actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65 |
| 1967 | Wilmer King, 1st casuality on Tappan Zee Bridge NY, dies |
| 1965 | Forrest Taylor, actor (This is Life, Man Without a Gun), dies at 81 |
| 1965 | Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romanian president, dies at 63 |
| 1962 | Albert Israel Elkus, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1952 | Knut Hamsun, writer, dies at 92 |
| 1952 | Lawrence Grant, actor (Bulldog Drummond), dies at 82 |
| 1950 | Edyth Walker, U.S. singer, dies at 82 |
| 1949 | Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1945 | Wim Speelman, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at 26 |
| 1944 | Siegfried Garibaldi Kallenberg, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1941 | Hamilton Hamilton Harty, composer and conductor, dies at 61 |
| 1933 | Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1927 | Georg Brandes, Cohen, Danish literary-historian/critic, dies at 85 |
| 1923 | Jeronimo Gimenez y Bellido, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1916 | Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist, dies at 78 |
| 1915 | Gopal Krishna Gokhale, India's social reformer/politician, dies |
| 1897 | Karl T Weierstrass, German mathematician, dies at 81 |
| 1894 | Ernesto Camillo Sivori, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1892 | Monty Bowden, cricket captain (England vs. South Africa 1889), dies at 26 |
| 1887 | Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66 |
| 1887 | Multatuli, writer, named most important Dutch writer of all time, 2002, Society for Dutch literature, dies in Ingelheim am Rhine, Germany |
| 1878 | Charles F Daubigny, French restaurateur/painter, dies at 61 |
| 1875 | Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76 |
| 1864 | William Edwin Baldwin, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies |
| 1858 | Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1849 | Bernard Barton, American Poet |
| 1837 | Georg Buchner, German playwright (Leonce und Lena), dies at 23 |
| 1822 | Jeronymo Francisco de Lima, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1815 | Leonhard von Call, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1790 | Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1785 | Johann Christoph Richter, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1724 | Peter Schuyler, English Politician |
| 1653 | Luigi Rossi, composer, dies |
| 1620 | Roemer P Visscher, poet, buried in Amsterdam |
| 1605 | Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1568 | Miles Coverdale, translator (1st complete English Bible), dies at 80 |
| 1553 | Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41 |
| 1545 | Pierre Brully, Peter Brulius, calvinist minister, burned to death |
| 1414 | Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury/chancellor of England, dies |
| 1401 | William Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London |
| 1260 | Boniface, of Lausanne, Belgian bishop/saint, dies |
| 197 | D Clodius Septimus Albinus, Roman bequest in England, dies in battle |
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