| 2009 | Helen Suzman, dies in Johannesburg, South Africa, at 91 |
| 2009 | Claiborne Pell, dies in Newport, Rhode Island, of Parkinson's disease, at 90 |
| 2007 | Tillie Olsen, dies at 94, in Oakland, California |
| 2005 | Shirley Chisholm, American Politician |
| 2005 | Bob Matsui, American Politician |
| 2005 | Shirley Chisholm, Representative-D-New York 1969 - 1983 |
| 2002 | Jack Haldeman, science fiction writer, Perry's Planet, dies at 60 |
| 2002 | Julia Phillips, producer, The Sting, dies at 57 |
| 2001 | Ray Walston, actor, TV's My Favorite Martian, dies at 86 |
| 2000 | Marc Davis, Disney cartoonist, designed Disney's Pirates of the Carribean ride, dies at 86 |
| 2000 | Victor Serebriakoff, genius, designed IQ tests, dies at 86 |
| 1998 | Helen Wills Moody Roark, tennis ace (31 Grand Slams), dies at 92 |
| 1997 | Graham Kersey, cricket wicket keeper, dies in car crash |
| 1997 | Joan Rice, actress, Payroll, Steel Key, Curtain Up, dies at 66 |
| 1997 | John Burgess, rugby administrator, dies at 71 |
| 1997 | Townes Van Zandt, singer and songwriter, dies at 52 |
| 1996 | Arleigh Burke, admiral, U.S. Navy, Chief of Naval Operations during President Eisenhower administration, served admirably in World War II and the Korean War, dies at 94 |
| 1996 | Arthur Rudolph, rocket Engineer, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Hamish Imlach, folk singer/comic, dies at 55 |
| 1995 | Eugene Wigner, physicist (Nobel prize for physics-1963), dies at 92 |
| 1995 | Frederick West, English contractor/serial killer, commits suicide at 53 |
| 1995 | Jess Stacy, pianist, jazz musician, dies at 90 |
| 1995 | Ted Hawkins, U.S. blues singer (Watch Your Step), dies at 58 |
| 1994 | Cesar Romero, U.S. actor (Joker-Batman), dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Werner Schwab, writer, playwright, visual artist, dies at 35 |
| 1994 | James Clay, saxophonist, flutist, hard bop jazz music genre, style influenced by Sonny Rollins, dies at 59 in Dallas, Texas |
| 1993 | June Clayworth, actress (Bodyguard, Criminal Court), dies of lymphoma |
| 1993 | Phyllis Hill, actress (Singing in the Dark), dies of lung cancer at 72 |
| 1992 | Constantin Poustochkine, jazz critic, dies |
| 1992 | Corky Geil, dancer, dies in Long Beach, California at 64Okla |
| 1992 | Ginette Leclerc, actress (Baker's Wife), dies at 79 |
| 1992 | Grace Hopper, computer scientist, dies at 85 |
| 1992 | Hette G Abma, vicar/Dutch MP (SGP), dies |
| 1992 | Mike Frankovich, U.S. producer (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies |
| 1991 | Charles B Timmer, Dutch writer (Russia Black on White), dies at 83 |
| 1991 | Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish author (Gnome Patjoepelke), dies at 81 |
| 1990 | Charles Boost, Dutch film critic, dies at 82 |
| 1990 | Gerhard Schroder, West German minister of Defense, dies at 79 |
| 1990 | Suzuki Sochu, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)/abbot of Ryutakuji, dies |
| 1988 | Leo Steiner, New York's Carnegie Deli owner, dies |
| 1987 | Gustav Knuth, actor (Heidi, Rats), dies at 85 |
| 1986 | David Cecil, English Writer |
| 1982 | Paul Belmondo, French sculptor (Bathing Woman, Orleans), dies at 83 |
| 1982 | Victor Buono, actor (Mr Schubert-Man from Atlantis), dies at 43 |
| 1982 | Vladimir K Zworykin, Russian/American engineer (cathode-ray tube), dies |
| 1980 | Frank Wykoff, sprinter, Gold Medals 1928, 1932, 1936 Olympics, dies at 70 |
| 1980 | Pietro Nenni, Italian politician (Socialists), dies at 88 |
| 1975 | Arthur Pierson, actor and director (Hat Check Girl), dies at 73 |
| 1972 | Jane Morgan, actress (Mrs Margaret Davis-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 91 |
| 1972 | Kenneth Patchen, U.S. poet and writer (Cloth of Tempest), dies at 60 |
| 1972 | Maurice A Chevalier, French actor (Can Can, Gigi), dies at 83 |
| 1972 | Maurice Chevalier, French Actor |
| 1969 | Barton Maclane, actor (General Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 68 |
| 1967 | Moon Mullican, rocker, dies at 58 |
| 1966 | Vincent Auriol, President of France (1947-53), dies at 82 |
| 1965 | Gertrude Michael, actress (Caged, Cleopatra), dies at 53 |
| 1965 | Juan Bautista Plaza-Alfonzo, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1964 | Otto Emanuel Olsson, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1964 | Rika Hopper, Dutch actress (Comedia, Anastasia), dies at about 86 |
| 1962 | Diego Martinez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76 |
| 1961 | Dashiell Hammett, author (Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon), dies at 66 |
| 1960 | Margaret Sullavan, actress (Back Street), overdose at 48 |
| 1958 | David Broekman, musican (Think Fast), dies at 55 |
| 1958 | Edward Weston, American Photographer |
| 1957 | Ruth Draper, U.S. elocutionist, dies at 67 or 72 |
| 1953 | Hank Williams, country singer (Cold Cold Heart), dies at 29 |
| 1953 | Ludomir Rozycki, Polish composer and conductor (Casanova), dies at 68 |
| 1949 | Malcolm Campbell, English cyclist (world speed-record), dies at 63 |
| 1948 | Hermann K J Zilcher, German pianist/composer (Liebesmesse), dies at 66 |
| 1948 | Willem Louis Frederic Landre, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1944 | C T B Turner, cricket (17 Tests 1886-95, 101 wkt All time great), dies |
| 1942 | Jaroslav Jezek, composer, dies at 35 |
| 1937 | John Gresham Machen, Presbyterian theologian, professor, New Testament, Princeton Seminary, formed Orthodox Presbyterian Church, dies of pneumonia at age 55 |
| 1934 | Jakob Wassermann, writer, dies at 60 |
| 1932 | C. P. Scott, British Journalist |
| 1923 | Willie Keeler, American Athlete |
| 1920 | Paul Adam, French writer (L'enfant d'Austerlitz), dies at 57 |
| 1919 | William W. Campbell, Canadian poet (Ian of the Orcades), dies at 60 |
| 1907 | Cyrill Kistler, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1906 | Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1901 | Ignatius Donnelly, U.S. attorney/lieutenant governor of Minnesota, dies at 69 |
| 1887 | Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter, dies at 66 |
| 1866 | Friedrich Ruckert, pseudonym, Freimund Raimar, writer, poet, master of 30 languages, professor of Oriental languages, dies |
| 1850 | Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist, dies at 76 |
| 1818 | Fedele Fenaroli, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1817 | Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium), dies at 73 |
| 1816 | Francois Alexander Sallantin, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1800 | Louis J M Daubenton, France, zoologist, dies at 83 |
| 1793 | Francesco Guardi, Italian painter, dies at 80 |
| 1789 | Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1787 | Arthur Middleton, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 44 |
| 1784 | Patrice F earl de Neny, South Netherlands Secret Council chairman, dies at 67 |
| 1783 | Jacobus Enschede, Haarlems printer, dies at 39 |
| 1782 | Johann Christian Bach, German composer/Mozarts tutor, dies at 46 |
| 1780 | Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1777 | Emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1768 | Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1766 | James III Edward, Old Pretender, king of Great Britain and Ireland, dies at 77 |
| 1758 | Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Codrus), dies at 26 |
| 1753 | Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1730 | Daniel Finch, 2nd earl of Nottingham, dies at 82 |
| 1716 | William Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75 |
| 1701 | Pietro Sanmartini, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1661 | Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 64 |
| 1630 | Tetsugen, Zen teacher (Jodo sect converted to Obaku Zen), dies |
| 1626 | Cornelis Pieterse Hoft, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at 68 |
| 1617 | Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies |
| 1560 | Guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies |
| 1559 | Christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59), dies |
| 1557 | Jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), dies at 65 |
| 1517 | Hermann Vischer, the Younger, German bronze merchant, dies |
| 1515 | Louis XII, "the Justified" king of France (1498-1515), dies at 52 |
| 1387 | Karel de Boze, king of Navarra (1349-87), dies |
| 962 | Boudouin III, count of Flanders, dies |
| 898 | Odo, earl of Paris/king of France (888-98), dies at about 39 |
| 404 | Telemachus, Roman monk, murdered |
| 379 | Basilius the Great, of Caesarea, saint (Moralia), dies |
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