| 1999 | Bethel Leslie, actress/writer, Long Day's Journey into Night, dies at 70 |
| 1999 | Hazel Frederick, face in a crowd, faced the camera when Mary Tyler Moore tossed her hat in the opening credits of her show, dies at 91 |
| 1998 | Kerry Thornley, American Philosopher |
| 1998 | Dante Fascell, Representative-D-Florida 1955 - 1993, died of colorectal cancer |
| 1997 | Georges Marchal, actor (Dirty Game, Blondine), dies at 77 |
| 1996 | Anna Pollak, mezzo-soprano, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Al Levitt, American jazz artist, dies at 63 |
| 1994 | Franfo Fortini, poet, dies at 77 |
| 1994 | Jeffrey Dahmer, Butcher of Milwaukee, killer, killed in prison at 34 |
| 1994 | Jerry Rubin, U.S. anti-war activist (Youth Party), dies at 56 |
| 1994 | Ronald "Buster" Edwards, Great Train Robber, commits suicide at 62 |
| 1994 | Vicente Enrique y Tarancon, Spanish cardinal, dies at 87 |
| 1993 | Abu Rish, Palestinian PLO-leader, dies at 23 |
| 1993 | Garry Moore, TV host (I've Got A Secret), dies of emphysema at 78 |
| 1993 | Kenneth Connor, English comic/actor (Carry on Sergeant), dies at 75 |
| 1993 | Khaled Moustapha Zir, Palestinian Hamas leader, shot to death at 25 |
| 1992 | Bill Kearns, U.S. actor (Playtime), dies of lung cancer at 69 |
| 1992 | June Joyce Lewis Fraser, entertainer, dies at 75 |
| 1992 | Ronald Smeenk, Dutch cabaret performer, dies |
| 1990 | Tamara De Treaux, actress (ET), dies at 31 |
| 1989 | Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent, Dutch soprano (Songs for Life), dies at 91 |
| 1987 | Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist professor (isolated growth hormones), dies at 74 |
| 1987 | Paul Arma, pianist, composer, ethnomusicologist, dies at 83 |
| 1986 | Herb Vigran, actor (Ernest-Ed Wynn Show), dies at 76 |
| 1986 | Louis van Lint, Belgian painter, dies at 76 |
| 1985 | Fernand Braudel, French historian, dies at 83 |
| 1984 | Hans Speidel, German gen/NATO-supreme commander (1957-64), dies at 87 |
| 1983 | Christopher George, actor (Chisum, Heist), dies of heart attack at 54 |
| 1978 | Andre Morell, actor (Hound of the Baskervilles), dies at 69 |
| 1977 | Trevor Bardette, actor (Clanton-Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 75 |
| 1977 | John Little McClellan, Senator-D-Arkansas 1943 - 1977 |
| 1976 | Robert Fleming, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1976 | Rosalind Russell, actress (Mame), dies of cancer at 68 |
| 1972 | Gustave Frederic Soderlund, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1972 | Havergal Brian, composer, dies at 96 |
| 1971 | Wasfi Tal, Jordan's PM, assassinated by Black Sept in Cairo |
| 1970 | Fritz vs. Unruh, writer, dies at 85 |
| 1970 | Jan Drda, Czechoslovakian author (Nema Barikada), dies at 55 |
| 1969 | Roy Barcroft, actor (Eyes of Texas, Son of Zorro), dies at 67 |
| 1968 | Enid Mary Blyton, author (Before I Go To Sleep), dies at 70 |
| 1967 | Leon Mba, 1st president of Gabon (1960-67), dies |
| 1966 | Vittorio Giannini, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1964 | Charles Meredith, actor (Court of Last Resort), dies at 70 |
| 1964 | Jan Fabricius, Dutch/English playwright (Dolle Hans), dies at 93 |
| 1963 | Fred Uttal, TV host (QED), dies at 55 |
| 1963 | Karyn Kupcinet, actress (Carol-Gertrude Berg Show), murdered at 23 |
| 1962 | Wilhelmina HPM, queen of the Netherlands (1898-1948), dies at 82 |
| 1960 | Richard N Wright, U.S. author (Native son), dies at 52 in Paris France |
| 1959 | Lester Vail, actor (Dance Fools Dance), dies on 59th birthday |
| 1954 | Enrico Fermi, Italian/U.S. physicist (Nobel 1938), dies at 53 |
| 1947 | Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, WW II hero (liberator of Paris), dies at 44 |
| 1945 | Dwight Davis, donator of tennis' Davis cup, dies |
| 1944 | Bijnen, Dutch opposition leader (LKP), shot to death in Apeldoorn |
| 1944 | Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian, dies |
| 1944 | Joop Brouwer de Koning, youngest Dutch radio operator, executed at 25 |
| 1944 | Lode Zielens, Flemish author/journalist, dies at 43 |
| 1940 | Nicolae Iorga, author/president of Romania, murdered by fascist |
| 1940 | Jesse Livermore, American Businessman |
| 1939 | James A Naismith, creator of basketball, dies at 78 |
| 1927 | Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist (New-Guinea), dies |
| 1918 | Alexis Contant, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1916 | Marthinus T Steyn, President of Orange-Free state (1896-1902), dies at 59 |
| 1915 | Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic (C'era una Volta), dies at 76 |
| 1912 | Heinz Galinski, chairman (Central Council for Jews in Germany), dies |
| 1907 | Ricardo Castro Herrera, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1899 | Adrian the la Rey, son of South African general, dies in battle at 19 |
| 1898 | Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, writer, poet, master of the novella, works include 'Das Amulett' or 'The Amulet', dies at 73 in Kilchberg, Switzerland |
| 1878 | Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1876 | Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist, dies at 84 |
| 1861 | Robert Fuhrer, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1860 | Heinrich Florida Rellstab, German music theorist, dies |
| 1859 | Washington Irving, U.S. author (Geoffrey Crayon, gent), dies |
| 1827 | Dov Baer Schneersohn, Lubavitch leader/author (Imirei Binah), dies |
| 1815 | Johann Peter Salomon, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1794 | Friedrich WLGA von Steuben, Prussian/U.S. inspector-general of Washingtons army, dies at 64 |
| 1788 | Charles C of Nassau-Weilburg, governor of Maastricht, dies at about 53 |
| 1785 | William Whipple, merchant, judge, and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 55 |
| 1695 | Giovanni Paulo Colonna, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1694 | Matsuo Basho, Japanese Poet |
| 1680 | Giovanni L Bernini, Italian sculptor/painter, dies |
| 1641 | Robert Dowland, English luitist/son of John Dowland, dies at about 50 |
| 1590 | Pierre de Loyseleur de Villiers, S Netherlands theologist, dies at about 60 |
| 1559 | Erasmus Sarcerius, German luthers theologist, dies at about 58 |
| 1545 | Jacob van Liesveld, printer/"heretic" (Refeyen), beheaded |
| 1514 | Hartmann Skull, German physician/historian (Skull's Liederbuch), dies |
| 1499 | Edward Plantagenet, 18th Count of Warwick, beheaded |
| 1262 | Shinran, founder of Japan's True Pure Land Buddhist sect, dies |
| 1058 | Kazimierz I Restaurator, duke of Poland (1034-58), dies |
| 741 | Gregory III, Syrian Pope, dies |
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