| 2005 | Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, Mexican Diplomat |
| 2004 | Ronald Reagan, president, governor and actor, dies at 93 |
| 1999 | Mel Torme, "singer, songwriter", Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire, dies at 73 |
| 1998 | Jeanette Nolan, actress, The Horse Whisperer, dies at 86 |
| 1997 | J. Anthony Lukas, writer, Pulitizer, Common Ground, suicide at 64 |
| 1996 | Baldev Singh Chahal, campaigner, dies at 59 |
| 1996 | Vito Scotti, actor (Nude Bomb, Get Shorty, Big Bus), dies at 78 |
| 1995 | Bettina Vernon-Warren, dancer, dies at 75 |
| 1994 | Ish Kabbible, Merwyn A Bogue, cornetist (Kay Kyser), dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Thomas Millar, historian, dies at 67 |
| 1993 | Conway Twitty, country star (Linda on My Mind), dies in surgery at 59 |
| 1992 | Laurence Naismith, actor (Scrooge, Gypsy Girl), dies at 83 |
| 1992 | Max Lerner, U.S. writer/columnist (New York Post), dies at 88 |
| 1990 | J Zeldenrust, pathology-anatomy, dies |
| 1990 | Vasily V Kuznetsov, President of U.S.S.R. supreme soviet (1982-83, 85), dies |
| 1988 | Clarence M Pendleton, chairman of Commission on Civil Rights (1981-88) dies |
| 1984 | Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indies Sikh leader |
| 1981 | Philo McCullough, actor (Branded, Ridin' Thru), dies |
| 1980 | Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician, dies at 70 |
| 1979 | Pauline Offner, Zen Theravadin nun, dies at 53 |
| 1978 | John Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher, dies at 71 |
| 1977 | "Sleepy" John Estes, rocker (Electric), dies at 74 |
| 1976 | Jean Paul Getty, U.S. oil magnate/billionaire, dies at 83 |
| 1976 | Walter Field, entertainer, dies at 101 |
| 1973 | Max Terhune, actor (Range Justice, Night Riders), dies at 82 |
| 1970 | "Jopie" Pengel, Johan A, premier Suriname (1963-69), dies at 54 |
| 1970 | Jay Irving, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh), dies at 69 |
| 1967 | Edna Park Edwards, entertainer, dies at 72 |
| 1966 | Natacha Rambova, costume designer, dies at 69 |
| 1965 | Eleanor Farjeon, English Writer |
| 1953 | Bill Tilden, tennis champ, dies at 60 |
| 1953 | Roland Young, actor (David Copperfield, Irene, Dulcy), dies at 65 |
| 1953 | William Farnum, actor (Drifter, Scarlet Letter), dies at 76 |
| 1944 | Riccardo Zandonai, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1939 | Elijah Beardsworth, world quick shaving champion, dies |
| 1939 | Frank Van de Goes, writer/marxist theorist, dies |
| 1932 | Henry Taberer, cricket (bowl Trumper only Test wkt for South Africa), dies |
| 1930 | Jules Pascin, Julius Pincas, Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist, dies |
| 1927 | Paul Lacombe, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1923 | George H Breitner, impressionist painter, dies at 65 |
| 1921 | Georges Feydeau, French playwright (Chat and Poche), dies at 58 |
| 1919 | Eugen Levine, head of 2nd Bavarian soviet republic, assassinated |
| 1916 | Horatio H. Kitchener, British General of Sudan, drowns at 65 |
| 1915 | Brzeska, sculptor, dies |
| 1910 | O. Henry, American Writer |
| 1908 | Luca Fumagalli, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1900 | Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28 |
| 1894 | Immanuel Faisst, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1885 | Julius Benedict, composer (Protoghesi), dies at 80 |
| 1880 | Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author (Betuwsche Novellen), dies at 52 |
| 1868 | Anselm Huttenbrenner, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1864 | William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 39 |
| 1861 | John Garland, U.S. Union colonel/Brigadier-General, dies in battle |
| 1861 | Tomas Genoves y Lapetra, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1859 | Gamaliel Bailey, American Journalist |
| 1852 | Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1826 | Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, composer (Oberon), dies at 39 |
| 1816 | Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Serva Padrona), dies at 76 |
| 1785 | Gottfried August Homilius, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1722 | Johann Kuhnau, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1667 | Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist (Assertiones Theologicae), dies |
| 1625 | Orlando Gibbons, English organist/composer (Silver Swan), dies at 41 |
| 1568 | Lamoraal, earl of Egmont/prince of Gavere, beheaded |
| 1568 | Philips van Montmorency count of Horne, admiral/statesman, beheaded |
| 1568 | Willem Key, painter, dies at about 47 |
| 1443 | Ferdinand, Portuguese saint/slave to Fez, dies |
| 1288 | Hendrik VI, earl of Luxembourg/Laroche (1281-88), dies in battle |
| 754 | Boniface, Winfrid, English saint/archbishop (Dokkum), dies at 79 |
| 754 | Eoda, English speaking bishop of Utrecht, murdered |
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