| 2008 | William F. Buckley, Jr., dies in Stamford, Connecticut, at 82 |
| 2003 | Fred Rogers, writer, actor, minister, and musician, 'Mr. Rogers', dies at 74 |
| 2002 | Spike Milligan, "comic, writer", The Goon Show, dies at 83 |
| 1998 | J. T. Walsh, actor, Pleasantville, dies at 54 |
| 1996 | Francois Chaumette, actor (They Never Slept, Christine), dies at 72 |
| 1996 | George Ian Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl, dies at 64 |
| 1996 | Pat Smythe, show jumper, dies at 67 |
| 1996 | Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator, dies at 60 |
| 1995 | Bernard Cornfield, financier, dies at 67 |
| 1995 | Philip Sherrington, opus Dei Priest, dies at 51 |
| 1994 | Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Karl I Pelgrom, Dutch sculptor, dies at 66 |
| 1994 | Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer, dies at 92 |
| 1994 | Leopold "Hans" Kohr, Austria social philosopher/economist, dies at 84 |
| 1993 | Jose Duval, actor (Juan Valdez), dies at 72 |
| 1993 | Lillian Gish, U.S. actress (Birth of a Nation), dies at 96 |
| 1993 | Ruby Keeler, actress (42nd Street), dies of cancer at 83 |
| 1992 | S. I. Hayakawa, Senator-R-California 1977 - 1983, dies of a stroke at 85 |
| 1992 | Marinus Ruppert, Dutch trade union leader (CNV), dies at 80 |
| 1991 | H J of Royen, manager Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra, dies at 52 |
| 1991 | Robert-Jan Akkerman, Dutch diplomat (to Tunis), murdered |
| 1989 | Conrad Lorenz, Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies |
| 1989 | Joe Silver, actor (Rage, Rapid, Deathtrap, Shivers), dies at 66 |
| 1989 | Konrad Lorenz, Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies at 85 |
| 1987 | Joan Greenwood, English actress (Gentle Sex, Bad Sister), dies at 65 |
| 1985 | David Huffman, actor (FIST, Jane Doe, Firefox, Onion Field), dies |
| 1985 | Henry Cabot Lodge, (Sen-R)/diplomat, dies at 82 |
| 1985 | Pat J O'Malley, actor (My Favorite Martian, Maude), dies at 83 |
| 1985 | Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American Politician |
| 1982 | Malika A Sabirova, Russian dancer, dies at 39 |
| 1980 | George Tobias, actor (Abner Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 78 |
| 1978 | Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1977 | Allison Hayes, actress (Attack of 50 Foot Woman), dies at 47 |
| 1975 | Neville Cardus, writer/cricketer, dies |
| 1974 | Pat Brady, Toledo Ohio, actor (Roy Rodgers Show), dies at 59 |
| 1973 | Lucijan Marija Skerjanc, Yugoslav composer and conductor, dies at 72 |
| 1970 | Robert Bruce Lockhart, diplomat/writer, dies |
| 1969 | John Boles, actor (Stella Dallas, Curly Top), dies at 73 |
| 1968 | Johannes Tralow, writer, dies at 85 |
| 1968 | Ludvik Podest, composer, dies at 46 |
| 1966 | Minerva Urecal, actress (Apache Rose, Ghost Crazy), dies at 81 |
| 1962 | Willie Best, actor (Charlie-My Little Margie), dies at 45 |
| 1961 | Platt Adams, high jumper, Gold Medal 1912 Olympics, dies |
| 1960 | Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer, dies at 58 |
| 1958 | Harry Cohn, CEO (Columbia Pictures), dies of a heart attack |
| 1956 | Frank Dailey, orchestra leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54 |
| 1956 | Gunther Ramin, German organist/composer/choir conductor, dies at 57 |
| 1955 | Tom Howard, comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 66 |
| 1952 | Theodorus Pangalos, Greek general/dictator 1926, dies at 74 |
| 1950 | Yvan Goll, writer, poet, surrealist, expressionist, most famous war poem 'Requiem for the Dead of Europe', dies at 58 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
| 1945 | HJ Lochtman, Dutch chaplain/resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen |
| 1943 | Kostis Palamis, Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Basilia), dies at 84 |
| 1942 | Karel WFM Doorman, Dutch rear-admiral (Java Sea), KIA at 52 |
| 1940 | Peter Behrens, German architect, dies |
| 1939 | Nadezjda K Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin, dies at 70 |
| 1936 | Ivan P Pavlov, Russian physiologist (reflexes, Nobel 1904), dies at 86 |
| 1936 | Ivan Pavlov, Russian Psychologist |
| 1936 | Joshua Willis Alexander, American Judge |
| 1930 | George Haven Putnam, American Soldier |
| 1929 | Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1923 | Charles Francis Abdy Williams, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1920 | Alexandru D Xenopol, Romanian historian, dies at 72 |
| 1913 | Adam Sedgwick, English zoologist (Peripatus), dies at 58 |
| 1887 | Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin, Russian composer, dies at 53 |
| 1881 | George Colley, British governor of Natal/general, dies in battle at 46 |
| 1862 | Gabriele dell' Addolorata, patron of Italian Catholic youth, dies at 23 |
| 1852 | Joseph Drechsler, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1844 | Nicholas Biddle, U.S. lawyer/diplomat/statesman/financier, dies at 85 |
| 1830 | Elias Hicks, American Clergyman |
| 1805 | Stefan Paluselli, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1797 | Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1779 | Jan Nepveu, Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1769-79), dies at 59 |
| 1735 | John Arbuthnot, physician/mathematician, dies |
| 1733 | Johann Adam Birkenstock, composer, dies at 46 |
| 1731 | Angelo Predieri, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1706 | John Evelyn, diarist, dies |
| 1656 | Johan van Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer/writer/interpreter, dies |
| 1167 | Robert of Melun, English philosopher/bishop of Hereford, dies |
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