| 1997 | Bobby Helms, singer, Recorded Jingle Bell Rock, dies at 63 |
| 1996 | Alan Ande Anderson, opera director, dies at 78 |
| 1996 | David Schine, businessman, dies at 70 |
| 1996 | Harold William Woolhouse, plant scientist, dies at 63 |
| 1996 | Henry Ralph Carr, soldier, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Vivian Ellis, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1995 | Al Hansen, Norwegian American artist, dies at 67 |
| 1995 | Murray Dickie, opera singer/director, dies at 71 |
| 1995 | Richard Bernard Pape, POW escaper/writer, dies at 79 |
| 1994 | Christopher Clarkson, test Pilot, dies at 92 |
| 1994 | Jocelyn Olaf Hambro, financier, dies at 75 |
| 1994 | Ronald Batty, bookseller, dies at 82 |
| 1993 | William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983), dies at 81 |
| 1992 | Kitty McKane Godfree, Tennis champ (Wimbledon 1924, 26), dies at 96 |
| 1991 | Jean Arthur [Gladys Greene], U.S. actress (Shane), dies |
| 1989 | Hy Gardner, newspaper columnist, dies at 80 |
| 1989 | Isidore Feinstein Stone, author (I F Stone's Weekly), dies at 81 |
| 1988 | Zdenek Blazek, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1986 | Coluche, Michel Colucci, French comic, dies at 41 |
| 1986 | Len Bias, 1st pick of Celtics, suffers fatal cocaine-induced seizure |
| 1986 | Murray P Haydon, artificial heart recipient, dies in Louisville at 59 |
| 1984 | Lee Krasner Pollock, U.S. painter, dies at 75 |
| 1984 | Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1982 | John Cheever, U.S. writer (Wapshot Chronicle, Pulitzer), dies at 70 |
| 1973 | Roger Delgado, actor (Adv's of Sir Francis Drake, Dr. Who), dies at 55 |
| 1966 | Ed Wynn, comedian (Ed Wynn Show), dies at 79 |
| 1966 | Marjan Kozina, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1965 | James B Collip, Canadian bio-chemist (insulin), dies at 72 |
| 1962 | Frank Borzage, U.S., director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), dies at 69 |
| 1956 | Lulu [Luise] Strauss und Torney, German poet and writer, dies at 82 |
| 1956 | Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist |
| 1953 | Ethel Rosenberg, executed at Sing Sing, in 5 tries |
| 1953 | Julius Rosenberg, New York City, 1st U.S. civilian executed for espionage at 37 |
| 1947 | Willem H Fly, typographer/co-founder (SDAP), dies at 84 |
| 1944 | Han Yong-woon, Zen teacher, dies in Seoul County, Korea at 65 |
| 1940 | Aurelien FM Lugne-Poe, French actor (Pirouette), dies at 70 |
| 1940 | Maurice Jaubert, composer, dies at 40 |
| 1939 | Grace Abbott, social worker (US Children Bureau), dies at 60 |
| 1937 | James M Barrie, Scottish writer (Dear Brutus/Peter Pan), dies |
| 1937 | James M. Barrie, British Playwright |
| 1932 | Solomon Tshkisho Platje, South African writer, dies |
| 1922 | Johannes C Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer, dies at 71 |
| 1921 | Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota), dies at 33 |
| 1915 | Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev, Russian composer (Oresteia), dies at 58 |
| 1914 | Brandon Thomas, British Actor |
| 1902 | John E E Dalberg baron van Acton, English historian, dies at 69 |
| 1867 | Maximilian F J, Austrian arch duke/Emperor of Mexico, dies |
| 1864 | George Lincoln Prescott, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies of injuries |
| 1840 | John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrial/orangist, dies at 50 |
| 1837 | Aleksander A Bestoezjev-Marlinsky, Russian writer, dies in battle |
| 1820 | Joseph Banks, English natural historian (Cook/Australia), dies |
| 1811 | Samuel Chase, U.S. judge signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 70 |
| 1794 | Richard H Lee, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 62 |
| 1794 | Richard Henry Lee, American Politician |
| 1787 | John Brown, (British) theologist, dies |
| 1762 | Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1759 | Charles-Joseph-Balthazar Sohier, composer, dies at 31 |
| 1747 | Alessandro Marcello, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1747 | Nadir, shah of Persia (1736-47), murdered |
| 1730 | Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1652 | Louis de Geer, Netherlands/Swedish industrialist/millionaire, dies at 64 |
| 1554 | Sixt[us] Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Judith), dies at 53 |
| 1542 | Leo Judae, Swiss pastor/church reformer |
| 1341 | Juliana van Falconieri, Italian saint/Swedish tenor, dies |
| 1312 | Piers Gaveston, earl of Cornwall, beheaded |
| 1113 | Odo/Odardus van Kamerijk, French writer/bishop of Kamerijk, dies |
