| 2004 | William Mitchell, food scientist, invented Pop Rocks, dies at 92 |
| 2000 | John Tukey, American Scientist |
| 1996 | Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot, dies at 93 |
| 1996 | Evelyn Levine, composer, dies at 94 |
| 1995 | Eleanore Griffin, screenwriter, dies |
| 1995 | George Romney, politician, dead Heart attack, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Jaime de Mora y Aragon, actor/publicist (Last Judgement), dies at 70 |
| 1995 | Laurindo Almeida, composer/guitarist, dies at 76 |
| 1994 | Marino Iandioro, canned tomato pioneer, dies at 64 |
| 1994 | Thomas Davis, U.S. movie editor/son of MGM-chief Frank D, dies at 26 |
| 1993 | Daniel Fuchs, U.S., screenwriter (Hard Way), dies at 84 |
| 1993 | Matthew B Ridgway, U.S. Army Chief of Staff (1953-55), dies at 98 |
| 1992 | Mary Wells, U.S. soul singer (My Guy), dies at 49 |
| 1992 | Ron Webber, dies of cancer at 60 |
| 1990 | Brent Mydland, rock keyboardist/vocalist (Grass Roots), dies at 38 |
| 1987 | Joe Liggins, U.S. composer (I've a Right to Cry), dies at 71 |
| 1986 | Averell Harriman, statesman, dies in Yorktown Heights, New York at 94 |
| 1984 | Ed "Psycho" Gein, mass murderer (Psycho based on him), dies at 78 |
| 1984 | George Gallup, pioneer of public opinion polls, dies |
| 1982 | Betty Walker, actress (Steve Lawrence Show), dies at 54 |
| 1981 | Donald Lybbert, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1980 | Alan Hoskins, dies |
| 1980 | Kenneth Tynan, English Critic |
| 1977 | Gena Branscombe, composer, dies at 95 |
| 1977 | Hans-Otto Borgmann, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1977 | Karac Plant, son of Robert Plant, dies of respratory failure at 6 |
| 1975 | Leigh Whipper, actor (Hidden Eye, Jungle Queen), dies at 98 |
| 1974 | Arthur K Watson, U.S. businessman (IBM), dies at 55 |
| 1974 | Charlotte MT "Lotte" Bartschart, actress (Dolle Lola), dies at 82 |
| 1973 | Mike Burke, President (New York Yankees)/dir (Madison Square Garden), dies |
| 1970 | Claud Allister, actor (Kiss Me Kate, Quartet), dies at 81 |
| 1969 | Raymond Walburn, actor (Spoilers, Dixie), dies after illness at 81 |
| 1968 | Lilian Harvey, British actress (Congress Dances), dies |
| 1967 | Matthijs Vermeulen, Dutch composer/critic, dies at 79 |
| 1959 | Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet/publisher (Amor), dies at 54 |
| 1957 | Carlos Castillo Armas, president of Guatemala, murdered |
| 1956 | Miguel Bernal Jiminez, composer, dies at 46 |
| 1954 | Hans Lodeizen, Johan Frederik, poet (Travel to Congo), dies at 26 |
| 1953 | Nikolaos Plastiras, Greece premier (1945-50, 51-2), dies |
| 1952 | Maria Eva "Evita" Duarte Peron, Argentina's 1st lady, dies at 33 |
| 1952 | Evita Peron, Argentinian Statesman |
| 1946 | Morris Hirshfield, Polish/US painter, dies |
| 1944 | Reza Sjah Pahlawi, Reza Chan, cossack officer/shah of Persia, dies |
| 1942 | Titus, Anno S, Brandsma, philosopher (Dachau), dies |
| 1941 | Benjamin Whorf, anthropologist, dies |
| 1941 | Marx Dormoy, French socialist, killed by a time bomb |
| 1925 | William Jennings Bryan, lawyer (Scopes-monkey trial), dies at 65 |
| 1920 | Carlos Troyer, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1918 | Eduard "Mick" Mannock, British WW I flyer (Victoria Cross), dies |
| 1916 | Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1915 | James Murray, philologist, dies |
| 1910 | Philipus J Hoedemaker, theologist, dies at 71 |
| 1902 | Charles Kendall Adams, historian, educator, served as second President of Cornell University 1885 - 1892, President, University of Wisconsin 1892 - 1901, dies at age 67, in Redlands, California |
| 1881 | George Borrow, writer, dies |
| 1872 | Michele Carafa, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1863 | Samuel Houston, 1st President of Rep of Texas (1836-38, 41-44), dies at 70 |
| 1836 | Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1826 | Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1819 | George Leonard, American Lawyer |
| 1806 | K vs. Gunderode, writer, dies at 26 |
| 1801 | Daniel Dal Barba, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1770 | Michael Schevenstuhl, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1728 | John Friend, physician/politician, dies |
| 1719 | Johann Georg Christian Storl, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1712 | Thomas Osborne, English Prime Minister 1690 - 1694, dies at 80 |
| 1680 | John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet/courtier, dies |
| 1677 | Michael Franck, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1630 | Charles Emanuel I, the Great, Duke of Savoy (Peace of Lyon), dies |
| 1541 | Francisco Pizarro, Spanish explorer, murdered in Lima |
| 1533 | Atahualpo, Inca ruler, dies |
| 1471 | Paul II, Pietro Barbo, Italian Pope (1464-71), dies at 54 |
| 1342 | Charles I Robert van Anjou, King of Hungary (1307-42), dies |
| 811 | Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (802-11), dies in battle |
| 796 | Offa, king of Mercia (75.-796) |
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