| 2012 | British film actress, Dinah Sheridan, dies at the age of 92 |
| 2004 | David Bailey, actor, Passions, dies at 71 |
| 1998 | Flip Wilson, comic, The Flip Wilson Show, dies at 64 |
| 1998 | Nelson Goodman, American Philosopher |
| 1997 | Charles Hallahan, actor (Hunter), dies of heart attack at 54 |
| 1997 | Fenton Robinson, U.S. blues guitarist (Tennessee Woman), dies at 62 |
| 1997 | Hastings Kamuzu Band, PM/President of Malawi (1964-66/66-94), dies |
| 1996 | Hugh Joseph Charles James L'Etang, medical writer, dies at 79 |
| 1996 | Michael Economides, restaurateur, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Richard Stubbs, publicity adviser, dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Ambrose Thibodeaux, cajun accordionist, dies at 92 |
| 1994 | Arthur Ballard, artist, dies at 79 |
| 1994 | Gerard John Toorenaar, Amsterdam police commissar, dies at 69 |
| 1993 | Anthony Burgess, novelist (Clockwork Orange), dies of cancer at 76 |
| 1993 | Claudia McNeil, actress (Raisin in the Sun), dies of diabetes at 77 |
| 1991 | Bill Graham, rock promoter, dies |
| 1991 | Eleanor Audley, voice (Wicked Stepmother-Cinderella), dies at 86 |
| 1990 | Bill Vukovich, Indie 500 driver, dies in crash at 27 |
| 1989 | Frank M Thomas, actor (Behind the Headlines, M'Liss), dies |
| 1989 | Ratu Sir George Cakobau, Fiji cricketer/Governor-General, dies |
| 1987 | Anton F Pieck, illustrator (1001 Nights), dies at 92 |
| 1987 | Harold Washington, 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87), dies at 65 |
| 1982 | Robert Coote, actor (MacBeth), dies in New York City of a heart attack at 73 |
| 1981 | Jack Albertson, actor (Chico and the Man), dies at 74 |
| 1980 | George Raft, New York City, actor (Scarface), dies at 85 |
| 1977 | Richard Carlson, actor (Col MacKenzie-MacKenzie's Raiders), dies at 65 |
| 1975 | Moyna MacGill, actress (Strange Affair of Uncle Harry), dies |
| 1974 | Nick Drake, rocker, dies of a drug overdose at 26 |
| 1974 | Rosemary Lane, actress (Chatterbox, 4 Wives), dies at 61 |
| 1974 | [Sithu] U Thant, United Nations Secretary-General (1961-72), dies in New York of cancer at 65 |
| 1973 | Laurence Harvey, actor (Of Human Bondage), dies of cancer at 45 |
| 1972 | Hans H B Scharoun, German architect (Berlin Philharmonic), dies at 79 |
| 1972 | Henri Coanda, Romanian Inventor |
| 1971 | Hank Mann, actor (Keystone Kops), dies at 84 |
| 1970 | Yukio Mishima, Japanese author/nationalist (Harakiri), dies at 45 |
| 1968 | Marcel Labey, composer, dies at 93 |
| 1968 | Phil Lord, actor (Stud's Place), dies at 89 |
| 1968 | Upton B Sinclair, U.S. author (Jungle), dies at 90 |
| 1967 | Ossip Zadkine, Zadkin, Russian sculptor (Destroyed City), dies at 77 |
| 1964 | Clarence Kolb, actor (Mr Honeywell-My Little Margie), dies at 90 |
| 1959 | Gerard Philipe, French actor (El Cid, Don Carlos), dies at 36 |
| 1958 | Charles F Kettering, invented auto self-starter, dies at 82 |
| 1958 | Charles Kettering, American Inventor |
| 1952 | Antonio Guarnieri, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1952 | Jean-Fernand Vaubourgoin, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1951 | Raden Mas Noto Suroto, Indonesian poet (Wayang Songs), dies at 63 |
| 1950 | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish Author |
| 1949 | Luther "Bill" Robinson, "Bojangles" famed tap dancer, dies at 71 |
| 1948 | Charles D Brown, actor (Eve Knew Her Apples), dies at 61 |
| 1944 | Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/baseball commisioner, dies at 78 |
| 1941 | Pedro Aguirre Cerda, president Chili (People's Front), dies |
| 1935 | Maria H "Mina" Beersmans, Flemish actress (After 30 Years), dies at 72 |
| 1923 | Ernst Debes, German cartographer (Moon Atlas), dies at 83 |
| 1923 | Syd Callaway, cricket all-round (3 Tests for Australia 1891-95), dies |
| 1914 | Davorin Jenko, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1913 | Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer (Ball Screw), dies |
| 1901 | Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer/music theorist, dies at 62 |
| 1895 | Edmond van der Straeten, Belgian lawyer/musicologist, dies at 68 |
| 1893 | Joseph W. Krutch, U.S. naturalist (Was Europe a Success?), dies |
| 1887 | Johann J Bachofen, Swiss historic rights, dies at 71 |
| 1885 | Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1874-85), dies at 27 |
| 1885 | Thomas A Hendricks, 21st Vice President, dies at 66, 8 months after taking office |
| 1883 | Ludwig Erk, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1865 | Heinrich Barth, German historian/geographer (Central Africa), dies |
| 1854 | John G Lockhart, scorpion, English biographer, dies at 60 |
| 1830 | Pierre Rode, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1815 | Johann Peter Saloman, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1773 | Carl Hockh, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1755 | Johann Georg Pisendel, German violist/composer, dies at 76 |
| 1750 | Francesco Feroci, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1640 | Giles Farnaby, composer, dies |
| 1456 | Jacques Coeur, French merchant/banker, dies in battle |
| 1185 | Lucius III, Ubaldo Allucingoli, Italian Pope (1181-85), dies |
| 1120 | Countess of Perche, bastard daughter of English king Henry I, drowns |
| 1120 | William, English crown prince/son of Henry I, drowns at 17 |
| 992 | Mieszko I, Polish advisor to Pope John XV, dies |
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