| 2004 | Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch Athlete |
| 1999 | Robert Shaw, chorale director, founded the Robert Shaw Chorale, dies at 82 |
| 1999 | Sarah Delany, author/teacher, Having Our Say, dies at 109 |
| 1998 | Mohammad Yusuf Khan, prime minister of Afganistan in (1963-65), dies |
| 1998 | Shinichi Suzuki, music teacher, dies at 99 |
| 1997 | Herbert Eugene Caen, columnist, dies at 80 |
| 1997 | Jean Dixon, psychic (Gift of Prophecy), dies of a heart attack at 79 |
| 1997 | Jeane Dixon, astrologer, newspaper columnist, dies at 79 |
| 1996 | Jonathan Larson, composer, dead Aortic aneurysm at 35 |
| 1996 | Ruth Berghaus, choreographer/director, dies at 68 |
| 1995 | Peter Black, TV critic, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Tom Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Brave Dodo), dies at 62 |
| 1995 | William Sylvester, actor (2001, Devil Doll, Blind Corner), dies at 72 |
| 1994 | Stephen Cole Kleene, mathematician (Regular Expressions), dies at 85 |
| 1992 | John Touchstone, actor (Across Five Aprils), dies of cirrhosis at 59 |
| 1992 | Mahmoud Riad, Secretary-General of Arab League (1972-79), dies |
| 1992 | Vernon William Reed Sr, singer, dies after a long illness at 73 |
| 1991 | Stanley Brock, actor (Tin Men), dies of heart attack at 59 |
| 1990 | Alexander Lockwood, actor (Duel), dies |
| 1990 | Ava Gardner, actress (Barefoot Contessa), dies of pneumonia at 67 |
| 1990 | Ian Dudley Hardy, entertainer, dies |
| 1988 | Colleen Moore, actress (These Girls Won't Talk), dies at 87 |
| 1986 | Ernst Schnabel, writer, dies at 72 |
| 1982 | Mihail A Suslov, Soviet party ideologist, dies at 79 |
| 1981 | Adele Marie Astaire, sister of Fred Astaire, dies at 82 |
| 1981 | Richard Talmadge, actor (Speed Reporter), dies |
| 1981 | [Adele] Marie Astaire, actress (Last Man on Earth, Millie), dies at 82 |
| 1980 | David Newell, actor (Dangerous Curves, White Heat), dies at 75 |
| 1979 | J Robertson Hare, actor (Fighting Stock), dies at 87 |
| 1978 | Tango Duke, dies in Australia at 42; oldest known thoroughbred horse |
| 1977 | Donald Kerr, actor (Devil Bat, Killer Bats), dies at 85 |
| 1976 | Chris Kenner, rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, recording artist, 1961 hit I Like It Like That was on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, song Land of a Thousand Dances was recorded by Patti Smith, and others, dies |
| 1975 | Vivien Kellems, TV hostess (The Power of Women), dies at 78 |
| 1975 | Charlotte Whitton, Canadian Politician |
| 1970 | Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female DA in NY, dies at 70 |
| 1970 | Marie Benavente, actress (Paradise), dies at 84 |
| 1969 | John Zajic, Czechoslovakian student, self incinerates |
| 1968 | Virginia Maskell, actress (Only Two Can Play), dies at 31 |
| 1965 | Staff Nees, Flemish composer (Maria-oratorio), dies at 63 |
| 1963 | Wilson Kettle, Nfld, dies at 102, leaving 582 living descendents |
| 1960 | Diana Barrymore, actress (Ladies Courageous), dies at 38 |
| 1960 | Rutland Boughton, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1952 | Sveinn Bjornsson, Danish 1st President of Iceland (1944-52), dies at 70 |
| 1949 | Emil Axman, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1947 | Al Capone, Chicago gangster, dies of syphilis at 48 |
| 1947 | Grace Moore, soprano/actress (One Night of Love), dies at 45 |
| 1942 | Eugene Samuel-Holeman, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1921 | Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovych, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1920 | Amadeo Modigliani, Italian sculptor/painter, dies at 35 |
| 1910 | Leon Walras, French economist (School of Lausanne), dies at 75 |
| 1906 | Joseph Wheeler II, Confederate General, dies at 70 |
| 1906 | Pierre L Goossens, Belgian archbishop of Malines/Cardinal, dies at 78 |
| 1899 | Alfredo d'Escragnolle, French/Brazilian writer (Innocencia), dies |
| 1896 | Frans C Baeckelmans, Flemish architect (Court of Justice), dies at 68 |
| 1896 | Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy (1878-96), dies |
| 1882 | Peter Singer, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1875 | Leopold Jansa, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1855 | Dorothy Wordsworth, author, diarist, poet, sister of William Wordsworth, romantic poet, dies at 83 |
| 1829 | William Shield, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1821 | Johan Valckenier, Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 62 |
| 1820 | Joseph F. Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79 |
| 1744 | Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer, dies at 64 |
| 1733 | Reinier V van Hompech, Dutch General-Major cavalry, dies |
| 1726 | Guillaume Delisle, French geographer (Atlas geographique), dies at 50 |
| 1640 | Robert Burton, author (Anatomy of Melancholy), dies |
| 1586 | Lucas Cranach "the Young", German painter, dies at 70 |
| 1547 | Lieven Algoet, Flemish humanist, dies |
| 1494 | Ferdinand I, cruel king of Naples, dies |
| 1139 | Godfried I, with the Beard, duke of Brabant/earl of Leuven, dies |
| 1138 | Anacletus II, Pietro Pierleone, Jewish anti-pope (1130-38), dies |
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