| 2007 | Ruth Graham, dies in North Carolina, of illness, at 87 |
| 2007 | Kurt Waldheim, dies in Vienna, Austria, of heart failure, at 88 |
| 2000 | Robert Trent Jones, golf course architect, Augusta National Course, dies at 93 |
| 1997 | Henry C. Gordon, USAF/astronaut (Dynasoar), dies at 71 |
| 1997 | Richard Jaeckel, actor, Starman, The Dark, dies of cancer at 70 |
| 1996 | Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Thomas Edward Montgomery, drummer, dies at 73 |
| 1995 | Anthony Joly de Lotbiniere, television producer, dies at 69 |
| 1995 | Gesualdo Bufalino, novelist, dies at 74 |
| 1995 | Roger Joseph Zelazny, sci-fi writer, dies of cancer at 60 |
| 1995 | Rory Gallagher, Irish rock guitarist (See Here), dies at 47 |
| 1995 | Roger Zelazny, American Writer |
| 1994 | Denys Hay, historian, dies at 78 |
| 1994 | Harry "Little" Caesar, blues singer and actor (City Heat), dies at 66 |
| 1994 | Henry Mancini, composer (Pink Panther, Moon River), dies at 70 |
| 1994 | Lionel Grigson, professor of Jazz, dies at 52 |
| 1994 | Marcel Mouloudji, French actor/chansonnier (Le Deserteur), dies at 71 |
| 1994 | Marianne Kunvari, writer, dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Michel Vitold, Russian/French actor (Madame et le Mort), dies at 78 |
| 1994 | Simon Prior, British auto maker, dies of injuries |
| 1993 | Vincent T Hamlin, cartoonist (Alley Oop), dies at 93 |
| 1991 | Joy Finzi, Joyce A Black, British painter, dies at 84 |
| 1991 | Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A passage to India), dies at 83 |
| 1989 | Pete de Freitas, drummer (Echo and the Bunnyman), dies |
| 1986 | Alan Jay Lerner, Broadway librettist, dies in New York at 67 |
| 1986 | Jorge Luis Borges, Arg author (Book of Sand), dies in Geneva at 86 |
| 1986 | Marlin Perkins, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom), dies at 81 |
| 1982 | Marie Rambert, Cyviam Ramberg, Polish/British ballerina, dies at 94 |
| 1982 | Marjorie Bennett, actress (Blossom-Dobie Gillis), dies at 87 of cancer |
| 1978 | Theodore Karyotakis, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1977 | Alan Reed, actor (Fred Allen)/voice (Fred Flintstone), dies at 69 |
| 1977 | Robert Middleman, actor (Barney-Monroes), dies at 66 |
| 1974 | Knud Christian Jeppesen, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1968 | Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51 |
| 1968 | Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies at 66 |
| 1965 | Guido Guerrini, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1965 | H V Kaltenborn, newscaster (Who Said That?), dies at 86 |
| 1964 | [Hei]ko E Arnoldi, actor and director (3 Drops of Water), dies at 81 |
| 1962 | Mykhaylo Verikivsky, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1960 | Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romanian Foreign Minister (1945-52), dies at 67 |
| 1960 | Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1951 | Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician, dies at 73 |
| 1948 | Ernst Henrik Ellberg, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1948 | John Blackwood McEwen, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1944 | Joaquin Alvarez Quintero, Spanish playwright (El Patio), dies at 71 |
| 1944 | Lubor Niederle, Czechoslovakian archaeologist/slavist, dies at 78 |
| 1944 | Robert H Iseley, U.S. pilot/lt-comdr (Saipan), dies in battle |
| 1941 | Pieter J Kromsigt, theologist/publicist (John Knox), dies at 74 |
| 1938 | William W. Campbell, U.S. astronomer (Stellar Motions), dies at 76 |
| 1938 | William Wallace Campbell, American Scientist |
| 1936 | Gilbert K Chesterton, English writer/poet (Father Brown), dies |
| 1936 | Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer |
| 1933 | Albert Ross Parsons, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1928 | Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist, dies |
| 1927 | Johanna C P Barbiers, actress (Voddenraper of Paris), dies at 79 |
| 1927 | Jerome K. Jerome, English Author |
| 1920 | Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, dies |
| 1911 | Johan Severin Svendsen, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1907 | A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/politician (CVP), dies |
| 1891 | Nicolo Gabrielli, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1885 | Agustin Bethencourt, Venezuelan publisher on Curaeao, dies at 58 |
| 1873 | Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian, dies at 92 |
| 1864 | Leonidas Polk, general, killed in action in Battle of Pine Mt |
| 1837 | Giacomo Leopardi, Italian Poet |
| 1828 | Charles Augustus, grand duke of Saxon-Weimar-Eisenach, dies |
| 1828 | Charles, Duke of Prussia, dies at 70 |
| 1801 | Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies in London |
| 1800 | Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general/architect, murdered at 47 |
| 1789 | Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1752 | Charles-Antoine Coypel, French carpet designer, dies at 57 |
| 1752 | Daniel Marot, French/Netherlands, architect/engraver, dies at about 88 |
| 1750 | Franz Anton Maichelbeck, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1744 | Andre Campra, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1727 | Cornelis Cruys, Norwegian/Dutch admiral, dies at 70 |
| 1709 | Gottfried Wegner, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1594 | Orlandus Lassus, composer (Prophet sybillarum), dies at about 61 |
| 1594 | Roland de Lassus, composer, dies |
| 1349 | Gunther Van Schwarzburg, German anti-king 1349, dies at about 44 |
| 1144 | Aboe 'l-Kasim Mahmoed ibn Omar al-Zapowersjari, theologist, dies at 69 |
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