| 2007 | Mary Douglas, dies in London, from complications of cancer, at 86 |
| 2004 | June Taylor, choreographer, Jackie Gleason Show, dies at 85 |
| 2003 | Mark McCormack, American Businessman |
| 2002 | Dave Berg, cartoonist, Mad, dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Edward McInnes, German scholar, dies at 60 |
| 1996 | Mike Jeremy Boorda, commandant (NATO), commits suicide at 57 |
| 1996 | Pierre Debizet, resistance fighter/special agent, dies at 72 |
| 1996 | Jeremy Boorda, admiral, U.S. Navy, 25th Chief of Naval Operations, dies of suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, in Washington, D.C. |
| 1995 | Lola Flores, singer and actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona), dies at 70 |
| 1995 | Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Alain Cuny, actor (Lovers, Emanuelle, Camille Claudel), dies |
| 1994 | Phani Majumdar, film director, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Vasek Simek, Czechoslovakian/U.S. actor, 'Green Card', 'Mistress', dies at 66 |
| 1993 | Marv Johnson, U.S. soul singer (You Got What it Takes), dies at 54 |
| 1992 | Marisa Mell, actress (Hostages), dies of cancer at 53 |
| 1991 | Prudence Nesbitt, British actress/TV producer, dies |
| 1990 | Dag Drollet, Cheyenne Brando's boyfriend killed by brother Christian |
| 1990 | Jim Henson, puppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), dies at 53 |
| 1990 | Sammy Davis, Jr., singer and actor (Golden Boy), dies at 64 |
| 1989 | Hassan Khaled, sheik of Lebanon, murdered |
| 1988 | Carrie Baxter, Best Bodybuilder (1983-85), dies in car crash at 42 |
| 1988 | Kay Baxter, Best Bodybuilder in the World (1983-85), dies at 42 |
| 1988 | Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72), dies at 78 |
| 1985 | Margaret Hamilton, actress, played the Wicked Witch in the 'Wizard of Oz', dies at 82 |
| 1984 | Andy Kaufman, comedian (Latka-Taxi), dies of cancer at 35 |
| 1984 | Irwin Shaw, U.S. writer (Rich Man, Poor Man), dies at 71 |
| 1979 | Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader and civil rights pioneer, dies at 90 |
| 1979 | A. Philip Randolph, American Activist |
| 1975 | Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder |
| 1973 | A P Gutersloh, writer, dies at 86 |
| 1972 | Maxime Dumoulin, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1969 | Johnny Jordan, cameraman (You Only Live Twice), dies at 44 |
| 1966 | Randolph Turpin, boxer, shot dead in his home |
| 1959 | Joe Cook, Stage comedian, dies at 69 |
| 1958 | Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten], Flemish playwright, dies at 49 |
| 1957 | Eliot Ness, American Public Servant |
| 1955 | James Agee, U.S. critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY |
| 1954 | Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (Vienna State Opera), dies at 61 |
| 1954 | Werner Bischof, Swiss photographer, dies accidentally at 38 |
| 1953 | Django Reinhardt, Belgian Musician |
| 1949 | William Newzam Prior Nicholson, painter/engraver, dies |
| 1944 | George Ade, U.S. novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78 |
| 1944 | Leone Sinigaglia, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1944 | Max Brand, Frederick Schiller Faust, western author, dies |
| 1942 | Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies |
| 1942 | Bronislaw Malinowski, Polish Scientist |
| 1938 | Stephen Fairbairn, oarsman/coach, dies |
| 1932 | Ki Imukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered |
| 1932 | William Pember Reeves, politician/poet, dies |
| 1929 | Lilli Lehmann, soprano, dies |
| 1928 | Edmund William Grosse, poet/author, dies |
| 1926 | Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Mohammed Osman), last sultan of Turkey, dies |
| 1924 | Candy Cummings, American Athlete |
| 1918 | Eusapia Palladino, Napolitan, dies at 64 |
| 1910 | Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter, dies at 53 |
| 1904 | N I Bobrikov, Russian governor-general in Finland, dies |
| 1903 | Eduard Rappoldi, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1892 | John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies |
| 1892 | Theodoor J Canneel, Flemish painter, dies at 74 |
| 1880 | Karl August Krebs, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1864 | Lean Bear, Cheyenne chief, murdered |
| 1863 | Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 47 |
| 1862 | Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40 |
| 1847 | Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59 |
| 1835 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer, dies |
| 1830 | Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician, dies |
| 1829 | William Congreve, English officer, dies at 56 |
| 1819 | Alexander van Bylandt, military, dies at 75 |
| 1805 | Christian Brunings, hydraulic engineer, dies at 68 |
| 1782 | Daniuel Charles Solander, botanist, dies |
| 1777 | Button Gwinnet, U.S. revolutionary leader, dies from wounds |
| 1768 | Cornelis Writer, fleet supervisor, dies at about 81 |
| 1762 | Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1754 | Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1703 | Charles Perrault, author/fairy tale writer, dies |
| 1691 | Jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason |
| 1669 | Pietro da Cortona, Berrettini, painter/architect, dies |
| 1669 | Reyer Anslo, writer/poet, dies at about 42 |
| 1620 | William Adams, English Explorer |
| 1434 | Pieter Appelmans, Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60 |
| 942 | Saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies |
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