| 2002 | George Sidney, American Director |
| 2001 | Cliff Hillegass, businessman, invented Cliffs Notes, dies at 83 |
| 2001 | Morris Graves, American Artist |
| 1996 | Ai Qing, modern Chinese poet, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Beryl Burton, cyclist, dies at 58 |
| 1995 | Anthony Wagner, genealogist, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Bernard Benjamin Gillis, judge, dies at 89 |
| 1995 | Esther Waterhouse, doctor/methodist, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | James Pack, naval officer museum curator, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington, engineer, dies at 75 |
| 1995 | Mikhail Moseyevich Botvinnik, world chess champ, dies |
| 1995 | Thomas Eden Binkley, musician, dies at 63 |
| 1994 | Hein Salomonson, architect, dies at about 83 |
| 1994 | Joe Layton, director (Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip), dies at 63 |
| 1993 | Balak Brahmachari, Marxist Godman, Indies guru, dies at 73 |
| 1993 | Irving Howe, U.S. writer/critic (Dissent), dies at 72 |
| 1993 | Lenore Kingston Jenson, dies of cancer at 79 |
| 1992 | Ben Frommer, dies at 78 |
| 1992 | Dick Yarmy, dies of lung cancer at 58 |
| 1992 | Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor (Golden Salamander), dies at 64 |
| 1992 | Stefano d'Arrigo, Siciilian writer, dies at 72 |
| 1991 | William De Acutis, dies at 33 |
| 1989 | Frank Easton, cricket wicketkeeper (NSW 1933-39), dies |
| 1988 | George Rose, actor (Devil's Disciple, Hideaways), dies at 68 |
| 1988 | Tamara Pos, Suriname/Dutch activist |
| 1986 | Jon William Haussermann, Jr., composer, dies at 76 |
| 1986 | Rui Coelho, composer, dies at 94 |
| 1983 | John Williams, actor (Family Affair, Dial M for Murder), dies at 80 |
| 1981 | Bobby Sands, IRA activists dies in his 66th day of his hunger strike |
| 1980 | Edmond Vandercammen, Belgian writer/poet (Grand Combat), dies at 79 |
| 1979 | Shirley O'Hara, actress (Wild Party), dies at 68 |
| 1977 | Ludwig Erhard, German minister of Economic Affairs (CDU), dies at 80 |
| 1976 | Thomas Burnett Swann, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur), dies at 47 |
| 1972 | Reverend Gary David, vocalist, dies at 76 |
| 1972 | Frank Tashlin, American Artist |
| 1971 | Alice Tissot, actress (Italian Straw Hat), dies of cancer at 81 |
| 1971 | Petro Scaglione, Italian procureur-general, killed by Mafia |
| 1969 | Ben Alexander, actor (Frank Smith-Dragnet), dies at 57 |
| 1968 | Albert Dekker, dies of accidental suffocation at 62 |
| 1963 | Heinrich Gebhard, composer, dies |
| 1963 | Jacobus JP Old, architect/co-founder (Stijl), dies at 73 |
| 1957 | Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1956 | Charles R Gallas, lexicographer (French Dictionary), dies at 88 |
| 1951 | Eddie Dunn, comedian (Face to Face, Spin the Picture), dies at 54 |
| 1949 | Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian playwright (Grand Fairie, Nobel 1911), dies |
| 1945 | Gudmundur Jonsson Kamban, Icelandic writer (Vi mordere), dies at 56 |
| 1927 | Charles Boissevain, editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies |
| 1921 | Alfred H Fried, Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel 1911), dies |
| 1921 | Alfred Fried, Austrian Activist |
| 1909 | Pauline Staegeman, German feminist, dies |
| 1902 | Bret Harte, writer, dies at 65 |
| 1892 | Jan Nepomuk Skroup, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1886 | Joseph Albert, German photographer (Albertotype), dies at 61 |
| 1885 | Lauro Rossi, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1879 | Isaac Butt, Irish Politician |
| 1875 | Jan A C A van Nispen tot Sevenaer, Dutch MP (1848-75), dies at 71 |
| 1864 | Alexander Hays, U.S. Union-general-major, dies in battle at 44 |
| 1864 | John Marshall Jones, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 43 |
| 1864 | Leroy A Stafford, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 42 |
| 1859 | Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician, dies at 53 |
| 1851 | Philip Hone, American Politician |
| 1840 | Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1840 | Matthaus Fischer, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1837 | Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85 |
| 1831 | Friedrich Ludwig Seidel, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1827 | Frederik Augustus I, Justified, King of Saxon (1806-27), dies at 76 |
| 1821 | Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor France, dies in St. Helena |
| 1801 | Philippe-Lambert-Joseph Spruyt, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 74 |
| 1786 | Pedro III, King of Portugal, dies |
| 1705 | Leopold I von Hapsburg, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire, dies at 64 |
| 1702 | Jacob Hintze, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1678 | Anna M van Schurman, Dutch poet/spoke 10 languages, dies at about 70 |
| 1613 | Johann Steuerlein, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1604 | Claudio Merulo, Italian organist/composer, dies at 71 |
| 1582 | Charlotte de Bourbon, Princess of Orange, dies |
| 1553 | Erasmus Alberus, Germ theologist (Barfusser Monche), dies at about 52 |
| 1525 | Frederik III, the Wise, ruler of Saxon (1486-1525), dies at 62 |
| 1504 | Anton of Burgundy, the Great Bastard, knight, dies at about 82 |
| 1309 | Charles II, the Lame, King of Naples (1285-1309), dies |
| 1194 | Kazimierz II, the Justified, grand duke of Poland (1177-94), dies |
| 1028 | Alfonso V, King of Leon/Galicia (999-1028), dies in battle |
| 311 | Gaius VM Galerius, emperor of Rome, dies at about 50 |
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