| 2004 | Margaret Hassan, humanitarian, director of Care in Iraq who was murdered by terrorists, dies at 59 |
| 2003 | Gene Anthony Ray, dancer/actor, Fame, dies at 41 |
| 2002 | Eddie Bracken, actor, Miracle of Morgan's Creek, dies at 87 |
| 2001 | Charlotte Coleman, actress, Four Weddings and a Funeral, dies at 33 |
| 2000 | Robert Trout, radio Methuselah, ", coined the term ""fireside chat"" to describe FDR's informal speeches, ", dies at 91 |
| 1997 | Eddie Arcaro, jockey (won 2 Triple Crowns), dies at 81 |
| 1997 | Stefan Lorant, writer, Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, dies at 96 |
| 1996 | Havelock Henry Trevor Hudson, lloyd's underwriter, dies at 77 |
| 1996 | Joseph Bernardin, cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, dies at 68 |
| 1996 | Vera von der Heydt, psychoanalyst, dies at 96 |
| 1996 | Virginia Cherrill, actress (Lake Extra, Brat, City Lights), dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Jack Finney, author (Body Snatchers), dies of pneumonia at 84 |
| 1995 | Jack Walter Braden Finney, writer, dies at 84 |
| 1995 | John Lapworth Holt, boat Designer, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | John Lee Admiral-Barber, dies at 90 |
| 1994 | Ferdinand J Kranenburg, director of queen (North Holland), dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Jake Dengel, U.S. actor (Ragtime, Ironweed), dies at 61 |
| 1994 | John F Hampe, pathologist (Fabric and Stoflongen), dies at 83 |
| 1994 | John I M Stewart, detective writer (A Comedy of Terrors), dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Michael Grierson Jarrett, archaeologist, dies at 60 |
| 1993 | Sanzo Nosaka, co-founder of Japanese Communist Party (1922), dies |
| 1992 | Clem Beauchamp, U.S. stuntman/director (Tarzan, Superman), dies |
| 1992 | Earnest FH Happel, East German soccer/trainer/coach, dies |
| 1992 | George Adams, U.S. tenor saxophonist/flautist (Changes One), dies |
| 1992 | Joop Van Nellen, soccer/trainer (DHC/"We go to Rome!"), dies |
| 1992 | Robert Reese, producer, dies of natural causes at 66 |
| 1991 | Tony Richardson, British director (Tom Jones), dies of AIDs at 63 |
| 1990 | K L Poll, journalist/author, dies |
| 1990 | Malcolm Muggeridge, WW II spy for Britain, dies at 87 |
| 1990 | Robert Mariano, entertainer, dies at 21 |
| 1987 | Pieter Menten, Dutch war criminal, dies at 88 |
| 1984 | George Matthews, Brooklyn, New York, actor (Chick-Glynis), dies at 73 |
| 1982 | Joachim Stutschewsky, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1979 | Bill Farrimond, England cricket wicketkeeper (4 Tests 1930-35), dies |
| 1977 | Richard Addinsell, English composer (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 73 |
| 1975 | Max Ackermann, German "entartet" painter, dies at 88 |
| 1974 | Johnny Mack Brown, actor (Lawman is Born, Back Trail), dies at 70 |
| 1972 | Martin Dies, (Rep)/1st chairman of House Un-American, dies |
| 1965 | Russell Collins, actor (Niagara, Close Up, Shockproof), dies at 68 |
| 1965 | Dawn Powell, American Writer |
| 1964 | Hendrik G Cannegieter, meteorology/director KNMI, dies at 85 |
| 1962 | Manuel Galvez, Argentina writer/poet (Hombres and Soledad), dies at 80 |
| 1960 | Walter Catlett, actor (Climax), dies of a stroke at 71 |
| 1959 | Thomas Ross, actor (Without Limit), dies at 84 |
| 1956 | Juan Negrin, Spanish anatomy/socialist premier (1937-39), dies at 67 |
| 1955 | Robert E Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois), dies at 59 |
| 1955 | Robert E. Sherwood, American Playwright |
| 1946 | Herman de Man, Salomon H Hamburger, author/Radio Orange, dies |
| 1946 | Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (Vita Breve, Atlantida), dies at 69 |
| 1935 | J Wouter[us] van Dieren, biologist (Terschelling), dies |
| 1929 | Joseph McGinnity, baseball pitcher (New York Giants), dies at 58 |
| 1925 | Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1922 | Carl Michael Ziehrer, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1917 | William Smith, British deserter in France, executed at 20 |
| 1915 | Booker T Washington, educator/organizier, dies at 59 in Tuskegee Ala |
| 1915 | Theodor Leschetizky, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1914 | Frederick Sleigh "Bobs" Roberts, governor of Natal, dies at 82 |
| 1910 | John LaFarge, American Artist |
| 1908 | Kwang-siu, emperor of China, dies |
| 1906 | Hendrik J Schimmel, author/dramatist, dies |
| 1902 | Paulus T van der Maesen the Sombreff, foreign minister, dies |
| 1860 | Feliks Ostrowski, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1844 | Flora Tristan, writer, dies at 41 |
| 1842 | Henry de Cock, reform vicar, dies at 41 |
| 1841 | Thomas Bruce, Count of Elgin and Kincardine, British diplomat, dies |
| 1832 | Charles Carroll, large landowner, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 95 |
| 1832 | Rasmus Rask, Danish language scholar, dies at 44 |
| 1831 | Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, Austrian composer/piano builder, dies at 74 |
| 1831 | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German Philosopher |
| 1825 | Jean Paul, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, Romantic, wrote 'Quintus Fixlein', 'Schmelzles Reise', dies at 62, in Bayreuth, Germany |
| 1819 | William Samuel Johnson, American Politician |
| 1814 | Michael Kelly Lawler, Major General Union volunteers, dies in 1882 |
| 1804 | Agatha "Aagje" Blanket, literary (Sara Burgerhart), dies at 62 |
| 1794 | Pieter Nieuwland, prodigy/"Dutch Newton", dies at 30 |
| 1780 | Jacobus Houbraken, engraver/illustrator, dies at 81 |
| 1734 | Louise de Keroualle, English duchess/mistress of king Charles II, dies |
| 1716 | Gottfried W. Leibniz, German philosopher/theologist, dies at 70 |
| 1716 | Gottfried Leibniz, German Philosopher |
| 1692 | Christoph Bernhard, German composer, dies at 64 |
| 1687 | Eleanor "Nell" Gwyn, English mistress of King Charles II, dies at 37 |
| 1682 | Rocklof Volckertsz of Goens, Governor-General of Ned's-Indies, dies at 63 |
| 1673 | Michael Wisniowieki, King of Poland, dies |
| 1633 | William Ames, English Philosopher |
| 1625 | Giulio C Procaccini, Italian sculptor/painter, dies |
| 1589 | Philipp Apianus [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German geographer, dies at 58 |
| 1522 | Anne de Beaujeu, daughter of French king Louis XI, dies at 61 |
| 1359 | Gregorius Palamas, Byzantine mystic/archbishop/saint, dies |
| 1263 | Alexander Nevski, Aleksandr, Russian ruler (1252-63), dies at 43 |
| 976 | T'ai tsu, emperor of China/founder of Sung-dynasty, dies |
| 784 | Alberik I, bishop of Utrecht, dies |
| 563 | Justinianus, co-emperor of Byzantium (527-563), dies at 82 |
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