| 2007 | Deborah Kerr, dies in England, at 86 |
| 2004 | Pierre Salinger, journalist/political press officer, dies at 79 |
| 2000 | Rick Jason, actor, Combat, dies at 74 |
| 1999 | Jean Shepherd, writer/radio artist, ", In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, ", dies at 78 |
| 1998 | Jon Postel, Father of the Internet, dies at 55 |
| 1997 | Audra Lindley, actress (Helen Roper-3's Company, Ropers), dies at 79 |
| 1997 | James Mitchner, author (Hawaii), dies of kidney failure at 90 |
| 1997 | James A. Michener, American Novelist |
| 1996 | Anthony Griffin, sailor, dies at 75 |
| 1996 | Eric Lawson Malpass, writer, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Ismond Rosen, psychoanalyst/artist, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | James Wild, music teacher, dies at 68 |
| 1996 | Jason Bernard, actor (judge-Liar Liar), dies of heart attack at 58 |
| 1995 | John Walker, museum director, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Linda Goodman, astrologer, dies |
| 1995 | Murdo Alexander MacLeod, minister, dies at 60 |
| 1995 | Thomas Augustine Martin, academic, dies at 59 |
| 1994 | William Henry Swinburne, music teacher, dies at 87 |
| 1993 | John Bowles, president (Rexall Drugs), dies at 76 |
| 1992 | Shirley Booth, actress (Hazel), dies of natural causes at 85 |
| 1991 | Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer (16 Tons), dies at 72 |
| 1991 | Tonny Huurdeman, singer and actress (Frills), dies |
| 1990 | Art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), dies of cancer at 71 |
| 1989 | Cornel Wilde, actor (Saadia, Comic, Beach Red, Gargoyles), dies at 74 |
| 1987 | Dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures), dies at 75 |
| 1986 | Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist, dies at 65 |
| 1986 | C Wttewaall van Stoetwegen, CHU Member of Dutch parliament, dies at 85 |
| 1985 | Claude Stroud, actor (Hobart-Ted Knight Show, Duke), dies at 78 |
| 1984 | Ken Carpenter, TV announcer (Lux Video Theater), dies at 84 |
| 1984 | Peggy Ann Garner, actress (Ford Theater), dies at 53 of cancer |
| 1983 | George Liberace, violinist (Liberace Show), dies at 72 |
| 1982 | Jacov Gotovac, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1982 | Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini), dies at 67 |
| 1982 | Hans Selye, endocrinologist, first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress, began stress research in 1926, published 7 popular books, 1,700 research papers, 15 monographs, dies in Montreal, Canada |
| 1981 | Moshe Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, dies at 66 |
| 1981 | Stanley Clements, actor (Boys' Prison, Army Bound, Hot News), dies |
| 1981 | William Holden, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 63 |
| 1980 | Carl PM Romme, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (KVP), dies at 83 |
| 1978 | Dan Dailey, dancer/actor, dies at 63 |
| 1977 | Michael Balcon, producer, dies at 81 |
| 1973 | Gene Krupa, U.S. swing drummer (Sing Sing Sing), dies at 64 |
| 1972 | Leo G Carroll, actor (Topper, Man From Uncle), dies at 80 |
| 1969 | Leonard Chess, Polish Businessman |
| 1962 | Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (Water and Dreams), dies at 78 |
| 1959 | George C Marshall, U.S. Army general, dies at 78 |
| 1959 | George Marshall, American Statesman |
| 1959 | George C. Marshall, American Soldier |
| 1954 | Friedrich Lubke, German politician, dies at 67 |
| 1951 | Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan 1947 - 1951, assassinated by Said Akbar |
| 1949 | Hale Ascher VanderCook, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1946 | Alfred G Jodl, Colonel General/German staff chief weather authority, hanged |
| 1946 | Alfred Rosenberg, German war criminal, hanged |
| 1946 | Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor (1930s), hanged at 54 |
| 1946 | Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian Nazi (SS), hanged |
| 1946 | Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal, hanged |
| 1946 | Granville Ransome Bantock, English composer and conductor, dies at 78 |
| 1946 | Hans Franc, German war criminal, hanged |
| 1946 | Joachim von Ribbentrop, German war criminal, hanged |
| 1946 | Julius Streicher, German District Leader (Of Sturmer), hanged |
| 1946 | Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal, hanged |
| 1946 | Wilhelm Keitel, German Field Marshal, hanged |
| 1946 | Hans Frank, German Public Servant |
| 1946 | Alfred Jodl, German Soldier |
| 1944 | Eric Westberg, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1944 | John Eigenhuis, writer (The Dike), dies at 78 |
| 1942 | 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed |
| 1939 | Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1920 | Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer and conductor (Artemis), dies at 56 |
| 1919 | Charles Harford Lloyd, composer, dies on 70th birthday |
| 1918 | Felix Arndt, composer, dies at 29 |
| 1916 | Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker's union leader, dies at 73 |
| 1893 | Carlo Pedrotti, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1891 | Sarah Winnemucca, indian scout, dies |
| 1880 | Edward Wolff, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1877 | John Zwijsen, archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 83 |
| 1867 | Salomon J Rappoport, Czechoslovakian rabbi (Ereg miliem), dies |
| 1862 | George Burgwyn Anderson, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 31 |
| 1849 | George Washington Williams, 1st major black historian, dies |
| 1836 | Friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer, dies at 33 |
| 1817 | Manuel C Piar, Curacaos/Venezulian freedom writer, dies |
| 1814 | Juan Jose Landaeta, composer, dies at 34 |
| 1799 | Antoine-Frederic Gresnick, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1793 | Marie Antoinette, queen of France, beheaded in France |
| 1791 | Grigorij A Potemkin, Monarch of Tauris, dies |
| 1774 | Robert Fergusson, Scottish songwriter (Scottish Poems), dies |
| 1750 | Silvius Leopold Weiss, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1726 | Giovanni Maria Capelli, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1694 | Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf, German lawyer, dies at 62 |
| 1690 | Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint, dies at 43 |
| 1688 | Philips Koninck, painter/etcher, buried at 68 |
| 1649 | Isaac van Ostade, painter, buried |
| 1621 | Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, organist/composer, dies at about 59 |
| 1594 | William Allen, English cardinal/founder seminary of Douai, dies at 62 |
| 1591 | Gregory XIV, Niccolo Sfondrati, Italian Pope, dies at 56 |
| 1570 | Baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered |
| 1555 | Hugh Latimer, royal chaplain of Anna Boley, burned at stake at 80 |
| 1555 | Nicholas Ridley, English theologist/bishop of Rochester, burned |
| 1553 | Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81 |
| 1473 | Reinoud II van Brederode, viscount of Utrecht, dies |
| 1333 | Nicolaas V, Pietro Rainalducci, Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies |
| 1323 | Amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74 |
| 775 | Mansur, kalief of Abbasiden, dies |