| 2003 | Sam Phillips, entreprenuer/DJ, started Sun Records, dies at 80 |
| 2001 | John Walters, British Musician |
| 1998 | Buffalo Bob Smith, TV personality, The Howdy Doody Show, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Alan Cheales, dominican priest, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Claudette Colbert, actress (Happened One Night), dies of stroke at 93 |
| 1996 | Magda Schneider, actress (Going Gay, Be Mine Tonight), dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Biggie Rodwell Tembo Marasha, musician, dies at 36 |
| 1995 | Charles James Dunn, japanese scholar, dies at 80 |
| 1995 | Harry Shorto, linguist, dies at 75 |
| 1994 | Enid Balint-Edmonds, British psychoanalyst, dies at 90 |
| 1994 | Henry Mackie, designer of the Belfast Calorimeter, dies at 73 |
| 1994 | Theo van Scheltinga, skater, dies at 80 |
| 1993 | Edward B A M Raczynski, Polish president-in-exile 1979 - 1986, dies at 97 |
| 1993 | Jay Scott, Jeffrey Scott Beaven, US/Canada movie critic, dies at 43 |
| 1993 | John Castrios, 1st murder in Washington, New Hampshire in 200 years, killed at 45 |
| 1992 | Brenda Marshall, actress (Highway West, Smiling Ghost), dies at 76 |
| 1992 | Joe Shuster, co creator (Superman), dies at 78 |
| 1992 | Titti Sotto, latin songwriter, dies at 48 of aids |
| 1991 | Leonardus S van Egerat, travel expert, dies at 68 |
| 1991 | William Ball, actor (Suburban Commando), dies at 60 |
| 1990 | Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered |
| 1990 | Karl Weber, dies of heart failure at 74 |
| 1987 | Mary Spinell, actress (Last Horror Film), dies |
| 1983 | Howard Deitz, MGM executive, dies at 86 of Parkinson's disease |
| 1983 | Lynn Fontanne, Broadway's premier actress (Emmy 1965), dies at 95 |
| 1983 | Howard Dietz, American Musician |
| 1982 | Frank Nicholson, South African cricket wicket-keeper (1935-36), dies |
| 1980 | Charles McGraw, actor (Michael-Falcon, Smith Family), dies at 66 |
| 1980 | Norman Lloyd, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1979 | Beppie Nooij, Jr., Dutch actress (Rooie Sien), dies at 67 |
| 1977 | Johanna Andersen-Nexo, wife of Danish poet Martin A-N, dies at 74 |
| 1977 | Jurgen Ponto, West German banker, murdered |
| 1975 | James Blish, American Author |
| 1974 | Lev Konstantinovich Knipper, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1973 | Erich Katz, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1973 | Guy Middleton, actor (Fur Collar, Now and Forever), dies at 65 |
| 1970 | George Szell, Hungarian/U.S. conductor, Cleveland Orchestra, dies at 73 |
| 1968 | Jon Leifs, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1967 | Alfried Krupp, German industrialist, dies at 59 |
| 1967 | John Macchia, actor (Beach Blanket Bingo), dies of stroke at 35 |
| 1966 | Edward G Craig, English actor/dir (On Art of Theatre), dies at 94 |
| 1965 | Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (Key), dies at 79 |
| 1962 | Myron McCormick, actor (China Girl, Jigsaw), dies of cancer at 54 |
| 1958 | Alexander Albrecht, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1957 | Sem Dresden, Dutch composer and conductor, dies at 76 |
| 1943 | Benjamin James Dale, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1936 | Adolf Philipp, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1927 | Robert Marquies de Flers, French writer (Monsieur Bretonneau), dies |
| 1918 | Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi of Brisk, talmudic scholar, dies |
| 1914 | Jean Jaures, leading socialist, assassinated in Paris |
| 1912 | Mutsuhito, 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912), dies at 60 |
| 1903 | Servas Daems, Peeter Klein, Flem writer (Wheelbarrows), dies at 65 |
| 1898 | Otto von Bismarck, German "Iron" chancellor, dies at 83 |
| 1865 | George Wright, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies at 61 |
| 1863 | George Crockett Strong, U.S. Union general-major, dies of injuries at 29 |
| 1859 | Richard Rush, American Lawyer |
| 1832 | Jean-A-C Chaptal, French chemist/Internal minister, dies |
| 1796 | Nicolas the Pigage, French classical architect, dies |
| 1784 | Denis Diderot, writer, dies at 70 |
| 1781 | Augustin Ullinger, composer, dies at 35 |
| 1771 | Thomas Gray, English poet, dies at 54 |
| 1741 | Wierich PL count von Daun, Governor-General of Austria and Netherlands, dies |
| 1727 | Franz Weichlein, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1718 | William Penn, English Quaker/colonizer 'No cross, no crown', dies |
| 1712 | Abraham Elsevier, publisher, dies |
| 1655 | Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1653 | Gabriel Naude, French librarian/ composer, dies at 53 |
| 1652 | John Cloppenburg, vicar/theologist, dies at 68 |
| 1528 | Jacopo d'antonio Negreti Palma, Italian painter, dies at about 48 |
| 1516 | Johan V Nassau, earl of Nassau-Vianden/Dietz, dies |
| 579 | Benedict I, Italian Pope (575-79), dies |
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