| 2007 | Jean Baudrillard, dies at 77 |
| 2004 | Frances Dee, actress, Little Women, dies at 96 |
| 2001 | Kim Walker, actress, Say Anything, dies at 32 |
| 2000 | John Colicos, actor, in the original Battlestar Gallactica, dies at 71 |
| 1998 | Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed |
| 1997 | Anthony Hopkins, clinical Neurologist, dies at 59 |
| 1997 | Jagan Guyanes, Prime Minister of Guyana 1953, 1957 - 1964, dies |
| 1997 | Michael Manley, Jamaican Prime Minister, PNP, 1972 - 1980, 1989 - 1992, dies |
| 1996 | Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician, dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Herbert "Herb" Hall, clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Simon Cadell, actor (Enemy at the Door), dies at 45 |
| 1995 | Delroy George Wilson, singer, dies at 46 |
| 1995 | Emile van Moerkerken, photographer (Ice Princess), dies at 78 |
| 1995 | Helene Weijel, author (In Two Worlds), dies at 44 |
| 1994 | Leighton Noble, singer/Bandleader, dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Max Schubert, winemaker, dies at 89 |
| 1994 | Melina Mercouri, Greek actress (Never on a Sunday), dies at about 68 |
| 1994 | Moses Rascoe, blues singer, dies at 77 |
| 1994 | Tengis Abuladze, Georgia SSR MP (Penalty), dies at 71 |
| 1993 | Cyril Collard, French director (Lesson nuits fauves), dies at 35 |
| 1993 | Douglas Marland, soap writer (As the World Turns), dies at 58 |
| 1993 | Nicholas Ridley, English Minister of Finance, dies at 64 |
| 1992 | Elvia Allman, actress (Night at Earl Carroll's), dies of pneumonia |
| 1992 | Emmy Huf, Dutch cabaret performer/writer (I Want Warm Meat), dies |
| 1992 | Maria Vieira da Silva, Portuguese painter (Mirror Palace), dies at 83 |
| 1989 | Harry Andrews, actor (Equus, Helen of Troy, Hill), dies at 77 |
| 1988 | Konstantin Iliev, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1987 | Edward Zorinsky, Senator-D-Nebraska, 1976 - 1987, died of a heart attack |
| 1986 | Adolph Caesar, actor (Club Paradise, Soldier's Story), dies |
| 1986 | Georgia O'Keefe, U.S. painter (Flowers), dies at 98 |
| 1986 | Georgia O'Keeffe, American Artist |
| 1985 | Eric Sloane, U.S. artist, dies at 80 |
| 1984 | Henry Wilcoxon, actor (Cleopatra, Dragnet, Jericho), dies at 78 |
| 1984 | Martin Niemoller, German submarine captain and anti-nazi minister, dies at 92 |
| 1984 | Pierre Cochereau, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1983 | Thelma Pelish, actress (Pajama Game), dies at 55 |
| 1982 | Ayn Rand, author-philosopher (Atlas Shrugged), dies in New York at 77 |
| 1982 | Jan Lemaire, Dutch actor and writer (Beautiful Juultje), dies at 97 |
| 1981 | Klaus Grabowski, child molester, shot by parent |
| 1979 | Charles Wagenheim, actor (Halligan-Gunsmoke), dies at 83 |
| 1976 | "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, lt-hvywgt box champ (1930-34), dies at 71 |
| 1974 | Ernest Becker, Canadian Scientist |
| 1973 | Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist, composer and conductor, dies at 72 |
| 1973 | Pearl S[ydenstricker] Buck, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938), dies at 80 |
| 1973 | Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author (Sputniki), dies at 67 |
| 1973 | Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist |
| 1971 | Raymond Herreman, Flemish writer (Don't Forget to Live), dies at 74 |
| 1970 | William Hopper, actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason), dies at 55 |
| 1968 | Isa Krejci, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1968 | Joseph Martin, Jr., Speaker of the House, dies at 83 |
| 1967 | Nelson Eddy, U.S. baritone/actor (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 65 |
| 1967 | Oscar Shaw, actor (Rhythm on the River, Marianne), dies at 76 |
| 1967 | Zoltan Kodaly, Hungarian composer (Hary Janos), dies at 84 |
| 1966 | Richard Hageman, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1965 | Margaret Dumont [Daisy Baker], actress (Animal Crackers), dies at 75 |
| 1965 | Ruvim Pergament, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1964 | King Paul I, of Greece (1947-64), dies at 62 |
| 1963 | Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam), dies at 91 |
| 1961 | George Formby, British singer/comedian, dies at 56 |
| 1961 | Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director of Tivoli, dies at 59 |
| 1959 | Fred Stone, actor (Hideaway, Westerner), dies at 85 |
| 1954 | Jan Kalf, Dutch literature/art historian, dies at 80 |
| 1954 | Louis Zimmermann, violinist, dies at 80 |
| 1951 | Ivor Novello, actor and writer (Lodger, Phantom Fiend), dies at 58 |
| 1950 | Lew Lehr, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One), dies at 54 |
| 1947 | Ludwig Weber, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1945 | Jan Thijssen, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm |
| 1945 | Rudolph Karel, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1941 | Gutzon Borglum, sculptor Mount Rushmore, dies at 73 |
| 1941 | John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, sculptor (Mount Rushmore), dies at 73 |
| 1941 | Leen Schijvenschuurder, Dutch February strike leader, executed |
| 1939 | [Carl L] Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician, dies at 86 |
| 1937 | Frank Vosper, actor and writer (Jew Suss), dies at 37 |
| 1937 | Rudolf Otto, German Theologian |
| 1936 | Josef Stransky, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1936 | Rubin Goldmark, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1935 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American Judge |
| 1933 | Anton J Cermak, U.S. mayor of Chicago, murdered |
| 1932 | John Philip Sousa, U.S. composer (Stars and Stripes Forever), dies at 77 |
| 1924 | Meyer E van Beem, actor (Moittige Janus), dies at 85 |
| 1917 | Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899), dies at 73 |
| 1905 | John H. Reagan, American Politician |
| 1900 | Gottlieb Daimler, designed 1st motorcycle, dies at 65 |
| 1892 | Alice James, American Writer |
| 1888 | Louisa May Alcott, U.S. author (Old-fashioned Girl), dies at 55 |
| 1867 | Wiktor Kazynski, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1867 | Charles Farrar Browne, American Writer |
| 1854 | Caspar GC Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist, dies at 80 |
| 1851 | Alexander Aliabiev, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1846 | Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49 |
| 1836 | Davy Crockett, U.S. pioneer (Alamo), killed in battle at 49 |
| 1754 | Henry Pelham, English premier (1745, 46-54), Gin Act, dies at about 57 |
| 1753 | Gerhardus Havingha, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1720 | Pieter van Flowers, Flemish painter, buried at 63 |
| 1674 | Johann Paul Schor, German barok painter, dies at 58 |
| 1616 | Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown) |
| 1615 | Pieter Both, Dutch admiral/1st Governor-General (East Indies, 1609-14), drowns |
| 1583 | Zacharias Ursinus, German theologist (Heidelberger), dies at 48 |
| 766 | Chrodegang, church reformer/bishop of Mainz, dies at about 50 |