| 2001 | Anthony Shaffer, playwright, Sleuth, dies at 75 |
| 2000 | L. Sprague de Camp, writer, Lest Darkness Fall, dies at 92 |
| 1997 | Phillipo Seed, social work academic, dies at 67 |
| 1996 | Mario Savio, activist, member of Berkeley Free Speech Movement, dies of heart attack at 53 |
| 1996 | Patience Edney, nurse/communist, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Tommy Lawton, footballer, dies at 80 |
| 1995 | Norman Waterhouse Lees, jazz fan, dies at 90 |
| 1995 | Philip Rawson, artist/teacher, dies at 71 |
| 1995 | Stanley Oliphant Stewart, librarian, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Dean A. Gallo, Representative-R-New Jersey 1985 - 1994, died of prostate cancer |
| 1991 | Andre Vandernoot, Flemish fluitist/conductor, dies at 64 |
| 1991 | Gene Tierney, actress (Laura, Whirlpool), dies of emphysema at 70 |
| 1990 | Will Kuluva, actor (To Trap a Spy, Go Naked in World), dies at 73 |
| 1987 | Ross R Barnett, lawyer/(Gov-D-Miss), dies at 89 |
| 1987 | William C Pahlmann, interior decorator (4 Seasons New York City), dies at 80 |
| 1985 | Joel Crothers, actor (Edge of Night), dies of a heart attack at 44 |
| 1983 | Robert Gross, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1980 | Mary Michael, actress (Biridie-Wonderful John Acton), dies at 77 |
| 1978 | Flora Campbell, actress (Faraway Hill, Date With Judy), dies at 67 |
| 1978 | Harry Bertoia, Italian Artist |
| 1972 | Billy Murcia, rocker (New York Dolls), chokes to death at 21 |
| 1972 | Tod Andrews, actor (Gray Ghost, Counterthrust), dies at 52 |
| 1969 | Augustin Lara, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1968 | Charles Munch, French/U.S. conductor, Boston Symphony Orchestra, dies at 77 |
| 1968 | Guillaume Landre, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1965 | Clarence Williams, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1965 | Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varese, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1963 | Djuanda Kartawidjaja, premier (Indonesia), dies at 52 |
| 1958 | Francis George Scott, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1955 | Charley Toorop, Annie CP Fernhout-Toorop, Dutch painter, dies at 64 |
| 1955 | Cornelis GN de Vooys, translator, dies at 82 |
| 1953 | John Parsons Beach, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1947 | Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Paradisets Have), dies at 66 |
| 1946 | Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1944 | Hannah Senesh, Jewish poet, executed by Nazis in Budapest |
| 1944 | Lord Moyne, British prefect (Middle-East), murdered |
| 1944 | Segundo "Boy" Ecury, Aruba, WW II resistance fighter, executed at 22 |
| 1939 | Adolphe Max, Belgian liberal MP, dies at 69 |
| 1935 | Billy Sunday, American Athlete |
| 1929 | Max von Bathe, German prince/Chancellor (1910-11, 18), dies at 62 |
| 1922 | William Baines, composer, dies at 23 |
| 1914 | Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist (Dante), dies at 79 |
| 1912 | Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1901 | Bohdan Borkowski, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1901 | Kate Greenaway, English children book illustrater, dies at 55 |
| 1900 | PWJ Le Gallais, British Lt-colonel, dies in battle at Bothaville |
| 1897 | Edouard Deldevez, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1893 | Piotr Ilyich Tchaikofsky, Rus composer (Nutcracker), dies at 53 |
| 1876 | Giacomo Antonelli, Secretary of State of Pius IX, dies at 70 |
| 1875 | John Baptist van Son, Dutch Catholic politician, dies at 71 |
| 1865 | Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1862 | Charles Davis Jameson, U.S. Union Brigadier General (Fair Oaks), dies at 35 |
| 1839 | Hayim Rapoport, Rabbi of Ostrowiec/author (Maxim Chayyim), dies |
| 1836 | Charles X, King of France (1824-30), dies at 79 |
| 1835 | Ignaz Schuster, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1822 | Hendrik van Stralen, Secretary of Interior, dies at 71 |
| 1801 | Christian Friedrich Gregor, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1796 | Catherine the Great, Russian Royalty |
| 1795 | Jiri Antonin Benda, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1771 | Hermanus Noordkerk, Dutch jurist, dies at 69 |
| 1730 | Hans Hermann von Katte, Prussian lieutenant, beheaded |
| 1712 | Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1672 | Heinrich Schutz, German composer (Weihnachtsoratorium), dies at 87 |
| 1669 | Laurentius Erhard, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1656 | Johan IV, duke of Braganea/king of Portugal (1640-56), dies at 52 |
| 1650 | Willem II, earl of Nassau/prince of Orange, dies at 24 |
| 1632 | Gustavus II Adolphus, king of Sweden, dies in battle at 37 |
| 1406 | Innocent VII, Cosma de' Migliorati, Italian Pope (1404-06), dies |
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