| 2006 | Karin Struck, author, wrote women's literature, politically liberal, openly opposes abortion, converted to Catholicism, 1996 dies |
| 2002 | Guy Stockwell, actor, Beau Geste, dies at 67 |
| 2000 | Deborah Laake, writer, Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond, dies at 47 |
| 1998 | Carl Wilson, rock vocalist (Beach Boy), dies of lung cancer at 51 |
| 1998 | Nazim al-Kudsi, Syrian Prime Minister 1949, 1950 - 1951, President 1961 - 1963, dies |
| 1998 | Johann Hoelzel Falco, musician, singer, songwriter, hip pop, new wave, electro pop genres, hits include 'Der Kommissar', 'Rock Me Amadeus', dies at age 40 in Puerta Plata, Dominican Republic, from injuries received in a collision with a bus |
| 1998 | Carl Wilson, rock 'n' roller, Beach Boys, dies at 51 |
| 1998 | Falco, singer, Rock Me Amadeus, dies at 40 |
| 1996 | Guy Madison, actor (Wild Bill Hickok), dies at 74 |
| 1996 | Ronald Fletcher, broadcaster, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Rosemary Tsay, drama critic/SOE operator, dies at 76 |
| 1995 | Arthur S Taylor, Jr., U.S. drummer/author (Notes on notes), dies at 65 |
| 1995 | James Ingram Merrill, U.S. poet (Braving the elements), dies at 68 |
| 1995 | James Merrill, American Poet |
| 1994 | Ignace Strasfogel, Polish/US pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Jack Kirby, cartoonist and co-creator X-Men, Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Fantastic Four, and Thor, dies at 76 |
| 1994 | Joseph Cotten, actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Norman Del Mar, conductor/writer (Conducting Brahms), dies at 74 |
| 1993 | Frances Hunt, actress (You're a Sweetheart), dies of stroke at 77 |
| 1993 | Arthur Ashe, tennis star (Wimbledon 1975), dies of AIDS at 49 |
| 1992 | Frank Wilson, actor (Beware, Sunday Sinners, Club), dies at 37 |
| 1992 | Wade Preston, actor (Man Called Sledge), dies at 62 |
| 1991 | Danny Thomas, comedian (Jazz Singer), dies of a heart attack at 79 |
| 1991 | Marten Levendig, Dutch TV correspondent to Moscow, dies |
| 1990 | Jane Novak, silent screen actress (Ghost Town), dies of stroke at 94 |
| 1990 | John Merivale, actor (Caltiki), dies |
| 1989 | Andre Cayatte, dies |
| 1989 | Barbara Tuchman, historian (Guns of August-Pulitzer), dies at 77 |
| 1988 | Lee Goodman, actor (Imitation of Life), dies of TB at 64 |
| 1988 | Marghanita Laski, English author (Victorian chaise-lounge), dies |
| 1986 | William Collier, actor (Up the River, She's My Weakness), dies |
| 1985 | Charles Briggs, actor (13 Frightened Girls, Captain Newman), dies at 53 |
| 1985 | Dandy Nichols, actress (Confessions of a Window Cleaner), dies at 78 |
| 1982 | Ben Nicholson, England, painter/sculptor (Circle), dies at 87 |
| 1979 | Alain Teister, Dutch sculptor/writer, dies at 47 |
| 1979 | Arthur van Schendel, Dutch art historian, dies at 68 |
| 1976 | Vince Guaraldi, jazz pianist (Charlie Brown TV specials), dies at 43 |
| 1973 | Ira S. Bowen, U.S. physicist and astronomer (Mount Wilson/Palomar), dies at 74 |
| 1972 | Julian H Steward, U.S. anthropologist (South American), dies at 70 |
| 1970 | Roscoe Karns, actor (Captain Shafer-Hennesey), dies at 78 |
| 1968 | C Montague Shaw, actor (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws), dies at 85 |
| 1967 | Martine Carol, French actress (Nana), dies of heart attack at 46 |
| 1966 | Johan Algot Haquinius, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1965 | Jack Wagner, actor (Jive Junction), dies at 68 |
| 1964 | Sophocles Venizelos, premier of Greece (1944, 50-51), dies at 69 |
| 1964 | W L Cornford, England cricket wicket-keeper (4 Tests vs. New Zealand 1930), dies |
| 1964 | Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino Statesman |
| 1963 | Mohammed ibn al-Chattabi Abd el-Krim, Morocco opposition leader, dies |
| 1963 | Werner Erich Josten, German composer (Jungle), dies at 77 |
| 1961 | Archibald T Davison, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1960 | Jesse Belvin, rocker, dies at 26 in a car crash |
| 1958 | 7 soccer players of Manchester United, die in an aircrash at Munich |
| 1954 | Maxwell Bodenheim, American Poet |
| 1952 | George VI, King of Britain (1936-52), dies at 56 |
| 1952 | King George VI, British Royalty |
| 1948 | Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator, dies at 38 |
| 1947 | Albert JM Bakker, Dutch actor (Teun the night watch), dies at 82 |
| 1947 | Luigi Russolo, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1947 | Ellen Wilkinson, English Politician |
| 1945 | Jan Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed |
| 1945 | Paul Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed |
| 1943 | HA Seyffardt, Dutch Lieutenant-General/NSB "minister", dies at 71 |
| 1942 | Wobbe de Vries, Dutch linguist, dies at 78 |
| 1941 | Maximilien Luce, French painter, dies at 82 |
| 1938 | Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss house painter, dies at 77 |
| 1930 | Eva Strittmatter, writer, dies at 17 |
| 1927 | Daniel F Scheurleer, Dutch musicologist/banker, dies at 71 |
| 1923 | Edward E Barnard, U.S. astronomer (5th moon Jupiter), dies at 65 |
| 1923 | Edward E. Barnard, American Scientist |
| 1919 | Friedrich W. Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter, dies at 81 |
| 1918 | Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter/cartoonist, dies at 55 |
| 1917 | Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semite journalist, dies at 72 |
| 1916 | Anne C A I van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist, dies at 73 |
| 1914 | J Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter (Hague School), dies at 69 |
| 1899 | Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor, dies at 67 |
| 1897 | Ebenezer C Brewer, British writer (Dictionary of Phrase and Fable), dies |
| 1896 | Abraham Czn van Stolk, Dutch art collector, dies at 82 |
| 1881 | Pieter Mijer, Governor-General of Netherlands Indies (1866-72), dies at 68 |
| 1865 | John Pegram, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 33 |
| 1859 | Johannes Josephus Viotta, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1812 | Carlo Goldoni, writer, dies at 104 |
| 1804 | Joseph Priestley, English / U.S0 theologist, philosopher. and chemist, dies at 70 |
| 1798 | Niels Schiorring, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1793 | Carlo Goldoni, Italian author (L'avaro), dies at 85 |
| 1785 | Iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83), dies at 48 |
| 1783 | Lancelot "Capability" Brown, English architect (Kew), dies at about 67 |
| 1725 | Johann Philipp Krieger, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1699 | Jozef Ferdinand of Bavaria, heir of Spanish king Carlos II, dies |
| 1695 | Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95), dies |
| 1617 | Prosper Alpinus, Italian physician/botanist, dies at 63 |
| 1612 | Christopher Clavius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown) |
| 1497 | John Ockeghem, Flemish singer/composer, dies at 79 |
| 1140 | Thurstan, archbishop of York, dies |
| 891 | Photius, Byzantine theologist/patriarch of Constantinople/saint, dies |
| 743 | Hisham ibn 'Abd al-Malik, 10th Moslem caliph, dies at about 52 |
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