| 2007 | Al Oerter, dies in Florida, of heart failure, at 71 |
| 2004 | Richard Avedon, photographer, dies at 80 |
| 2002 | Walter Annenberg, publisher/philanthropist/ambassador, started TV GUide, dies at 94 |
| 1997 | Gul Mohammed, world's shortest man (22.1"/56.16 cm), dies at 36 |
| 1996 | Joonas Kokkonen, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1996 | Patrick McGeown, politician, Belfast City Council councilor, volunteer, Provisional Irish Republican Army, participant, Irish hunger strike, 1981, dies at 40 from a heart attack |
| 1995 | Aditya Biria, industrialist, dies at 50 |
| 1995 | Margaret Gorman Cahill, 1st Miss America (1921), dies at 90 |
| 1995 | Rene Mable Neighbour Cloke, illustrator, dies at 90 |
| 1994 | Brad O'Hare, dies of complications due to AIDS at 43 |
| 1994 | Carlos Lleras Restrepo, president of Colombia (1966-70), dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Karoli Ruth Needles, painter, dies at 54 |
| 1994 | Scott Dunbar, bluse vocalist/guitarist, dies at 90 |
| 1993 | Janine Darcey, French actress (Priez pour nous), dies at 75 |
| 1993 | Joseph Warren, actor (Gift of Love, Urban Warriors), dies at 77 |
| 1992 | Bruce Vorhauer, inventor (Today contraceptive sponge), suicide at 50 |
| 1992 | Harry Milton Ray, singer and actor (Avanti!), dies of stroke at 45 |
| 1991 | Jan van Tongeren, painter, dies |
| 1990 | Christine Forrest, actress (Martin), dies |
| 1990 | Curtis Lemay, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations, dies at age 83 |
| 1990 | John Stewart Bell, Irish Physicist |
| 1985 | Charlotte White, U.S. author (New Yorker, Charlotte's Web), dies at 86 |
| 1985 | E. B. White, American Comedian |
| 1984 | Hansje Toussaint, Hermina A Schenk, singer/cabaretiere, dies at 69 |
| 1984 | Walter Alston, Baseball manager (Los Angeles Dodgers), dies at 72 |
| 1984 | Walt Alston, American Athlete |
| 1980 | George Meany, union President (AFL-CIO), dies at 86 |
| 1979 | Roy Harris, U.S. composer, dies at 81 |
| 1979 | Dorothy Arzner, American Director |
| 1975 | Al Jackson, rock drummer (Booker T and The MG's), dies at 39 |
| 1973 | Joe Devlin, actor (Sam-Dick Tracy), dies at 74 |
| 1972 | Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement, dies at 87 |
| 1972 | Louis Leakey, English anthropologist, dies at 68 |
| 1970 | Hans Poser, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1970 | Petar Konjovic, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1968 | Marcel Duchamp, French painter (Descending an Escalator), dies |
| 1966 | Albert P A A Besnard, poet/journalist (Doom and Thirst), dies |
| 1965 | Edward E "Doc" Smith, U.S., sci-fi writer (Subspace encounter), dies |
| 1965 | Gareth Hughes, actor (Midnight Girl), dies at 71 |
| 1964 | Ernst Toch, composer (Melodie Lehre), dies at 76 |
| 1961 | Donald Cook, actor (Too Young To Go Steady), dies at 60 |
| 1956 | Stan Ockers, Belgian world champ cyclist (1955), dies at 36 |
| 1945 | Walter B Cannon, U.S. physiologist (Traumatic Shock), dies at 73 |
| 1943 | Antoine T Broekman, resistance fighter, executed at 32 |
| 1943 | Anton JT Koreman, resistance fighter, executed at 27 |
| 1943 | Antoon Pleyte, resistance fighter, executed at 26 |
| 1943 | Dionysius Remiens, resistance fighter, executed at 24 |
| 1943 | Earnest Klijzing, resistance fighter, executed |
| 1943 | Gideon Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 22 |
| 1943 | Hans Katan, resistance fighter, executed at 24 |
| 1943 | Henri H Geul, resistance fighter, executed at 27 |
| 1943 | Johan Kalshoven, resistance fighter, executed at 20 |
| 1943 | Johan Roemer, resistance fighter, executed at 22 |
| 1943 | Johan van Mierlo, resistance fighter, executed at 35 |
| 1943 | John Charles Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 23 |
| 1943 | Leo Frijda, resistance fighter, executed at 20 |
| 1943 | Louis Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 21 |
| 1943 | Maarten van/of Gilse, resistance fighter, executed at 27 |
| 1943 | Olaf T Thomsen, resistance fighter, executed at 23 |
| 1943 | Peter "Pam" Pooters, resistance fighter, executed at 32 |
| 1943 | Sape Kuiper, resistance fighter, executed at 19 |
| 1943 | Victor van Swieten, resistance fighter, executed at 36 |
| 1943 | Walter Brandligt, literature/resistance fighter, executed at 42 |
| 1930 | Ricardo Drigo, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1929 | Antoine Bourdelle, French Sculptor |
| 1927 | Wilhelm Harteveld, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1911 | Pjotr A Stolypin, premier of Russia (1906-11), dies |
| 1911 | Wilhelm Dilthey, Germ philosopher (Das Leben Schleiermans), dies at 77 |
| 1904 | William GGVV Harcourt, historian/English Secretary of State, dies at 76 |
| 1901 | Abdoer-Rahman, emir of Afghanistan, dies |
| 1881 | Frantisek Matej Hilmar, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1876 | Henri-Jerome Bertini, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1876 | James Lick, American Celebrity |
| 1868 | Rama IV, Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua, king of Thai (1851-68), dies at 63 |
| 1864 | John Dunovant, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle |
| 1814 | Jakob I van Przysucha, Polish hassidic leader, dies |
| 1807 | John Muhlenberg, Lutheran pastor, dies on his 61st birthday |
| 1795 | Robert Bakewell, English cattle breeder, dies at about 70 |
| 1770 | Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1768 | Robert Simson, Scotland mathematician, dies at 80 |
| 1708 | John Blow, composer (Venus and Adonis), dies at 59 |
| 1704 | Cornelis Dusart, painter/engraver, dies at 44 |
| 1684 | Pierre Corneille, French lawyer/dramatist (El Cid, Polyeucte), dies at 42 |
| 1633 | Filaret, Fjodor N Romanov, patriarch of Moscow, dies |
| 1602 | Hernando de Cabezon, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1578 | Don Juan d'Austria, Spanish land guardian of Netherlands, dies at 31 |
| 1574 | Maarten van Heemskerck, painter (Christ), dies |
| 1499 | Marsilio Ficino, Italian Philosopher |
| 1404 | Boniface IX, Pietro Tomacelli, Pope (1389-1404), dies |
| 976 | Al-Hakam II, Moors kalief of Cordoba, dies |
| 552 | Teja, king of Ostrogoten, dies in battle |
| 540 | Vedastus St. Vaast, 1st bishop of Atrecht/saint, dies |
| 290 | [Christian] Bacchus, roman soldier/martyred saint, killed |
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