| 2007 | Craig L. Thomas, dies in Maryland, of leukemia, at 74 |
| 2005 | Jean O'Leary, American Activist |
| 2004 | Steve Lacy, American Musician |
| 1997 | Ronnie Lane, bassist (Faces), dies of multiple sclerosis at 50 |
| 1997 | Kurt Adler, therapist/writer, dies at 92 |
| 1997 | Ronnie Lane, rocker, Faces, dies at 50 |
| 1996 | Tito Okello, president of Uganda (1985-86), dies |
| 1995 | Ernest Borneman, sexual researcher psychotherapist, dies at 80 |
| 1995 | Herta Ryder, literary agent, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Paul WIlliams, climber, dies at 49 |
| 1994 | Derek Lek Leckenby, rock guitarist (Herman's Hermits), dies at 48 |
| 1994 | Earle Warren, alto Sax Player, dies at 79 |
| 1994 | Horace "Stephen" McNally, attorney/actor (Johnny Belinda), dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Massimo Troisi, Italian actor and director (Ricomincio da tre), dies at 41 |
| 1994 | Roberto Burle Marx, landscape gardener, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Sophie Winter, actress (She's a Good Fighter), dies at 33 |
| 1994 | Thomas Stuart Willan, historian, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Toto Bissainthe, voodoo poet, dies at 59 |
| 1993 | June Smaney, actress (Sainted Sister), dies of apparent suicide at 71 |
| 1992 | Carl Stotz, founder (baseball's little league), dies at 82 |
| 1990 | Jack Gilford, comedic actor (Cocoon II), dies at 82 of stomach cancer |
| 1989 | Ayatalloh Ruhullah Khomeini, Iranian leader (-1989), dies at 89 |
| 1989 | Dik Browne, cartoonist (Hi and Lois, Hagar the Horrible), dies at 71 |
| 1989 | Vaclav Kaslik, Czechoslovakian opera composer and conductor, dies at 71 |
| 1975 | Evelyn Brent, actress (Nitwits, Last Command, Spy Train), dies at 75 |
| 1973 | Arna Bontemps, writer (Harlem Renaissance), dies at 72 in Nashville |
| 1973 | Murray Wilson, father of beachboys Brian, Carl and Dennis, dies at 55 |
| 1972 | Godfried Devreese, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1971 | Gyorgy Lukacs, Hungarian philosopher, dies at 86 |
| 1971 | Joe E. Lewis, comedian, singer, famous for Al Capone's heavies beating him after he refused to renew his contract at Green Mill Cocktail Lounge in Chicago, Illinois, movie, book, 'The Joker is Wild', dies in New Jersey, age 69 |
| 1970 | Hjalmar Schcacht, Horace Greeley, Nazi minister, dies |
| 1970 | Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier Suriname, dies |
| 1970 | Menasha Skulnik, comedian (Menasha the Magnificent), dies at 78 |
| 1970 | Sonny Tufts, actor (Atomic Blonde, 7 Year Itch), dies at 58 |
| 1968 | Dorothy Gish, de Guiche, actress (Home Sweet Home), dies at 70 |
| 1968 | Walter Nash, New Zealander Statesman |
| 1965 | Bernard Verhoeven, poet/educator (Pleidooi near een non), dies |
| 1962 | William Beebe, U.S. biologist/explorer, dies at 84 |
| 1960 | Lucien Littlefield, actor (Mr Beasley-Blondie), dies at 64 |
| 1959 | Charles Vidor, director (Gilda, Farewell to Arms), dies at 58 |
| 1958 | M Lichnowsky, writer, dies at 79 |
| 1956 | Max Kowalski, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1954 | Harold Hoffman, Governor New Jersey, dies at 58 |
| 1951 | Serge Koussevitsky, conductor/composer, dies at 76 |
| 1950 | Sam Staples, cricket pace bowler (3 Tests 1927-28), dies |
| 1945 | Georg Kaiser, playwright, dies at 66 |
| 1943 | Jean du Bela, singer and actor (Sobibor), dies at 39 |
| 1942 | Reinhard Heydrich, German protector (Bohemia/Moravia (Lidice)), dies |
| 1941 | Wilhelm II von Hohenzollern, emperor (Germany, 1888-1918), dies |
| 1931 | Ibn Ali Hussein, King of Hejaz, dies |
| 1926 | Eugeen of Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Sparks and Radiates), dies |
| 1926 | Frederick Robert Spofforth, cricketer/demon bowler, dies |
| 1925 | Gheorghe Dima, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1925 | Pierre Louys, PF Louis, French writer (Aphrodite), dies |
| 1922 | William Halse Rivers, British psychologist/anthropologist, dies |
| 1921 | Heinrich E Albers-Schonberg, German x-ray experimenter, dies at 56 |
| 1916 | Mildred J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You), dies at 56 |
| 1915 | William Charles Denis Browne, composer, dies at 26 |
| 1913 | Emily Wilding Davidson, suffragette, trampled to death by a horse |
| 1907 | Agathe Grondahl, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1905 | Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1880 | Eugen Adam, painter, dies |
| 1876 | Abdul-Aziz, 32nd sultan of Turkey (1861-76), dies at 46 |
| 1875 | Eduard Morike, German vicar/poet/writer (Peregrina), dies at 70 |
| 1872 | Johan R Thorbecke, literature/liberal premier, dies |
| 1872 | Stanislaw Moniuszko, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1850 | Willem F Mauritius HK, prince of Orange, dies at 74 |
| 1849 | Countess of Blessington, Irish Novelist |
| 1826 | Karl Maria FE von Weber, German composer (Oberon), dies at 39 |
| 1825 | Ferdinand I, King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV), dies |
| 1818 | John van Well, choreographer/mime (Pierrot), dies at 44 |
| 1809 | Nicolai Arbraham Abildgaard, Danish painter/architect, dies at 65 |
| 1798 | Giacomo Casanova, writer, author, adventurer, book, 'Histoire de ma vie', or, 'History of My Life', profiles customs of 18th century European social life, dies at age 73 |
| 1793 | Jan Ekels de Young, Dutch painter, dies at 34 |
| 1792 | John Burgoyne, soldier/playwright, dies |
| 1674 | John Lievensz, painter/etcher/wood carver, dies at 66 |
| 1663 | William Juxon, archbishop of Canterbury (1660-63), dies |
| 1608 | Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint, dies at 44 |
| 1585 | Marc-Antoine de Muret, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1558 | Maximilian of Burgundy, leader of Holland/admiral, dies at 43 |
| 1463 | Flavio Biondi, Italian writer (Rome instaurata), dies at about 65 |
| 1316 | Louis X, King of France (1314-16), dies at 26 |
| 1267 | Hendrik of Vianden, bishop of Utrecht (1252-67), dies |
| 1039 | Conrad II the Salian, King/Emperor of Germany (1024/27-39), dies at 49 |
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