| 2002 | Bruce Paltrow, producer, Saint Elsewhere, dies at 60 |
| 2002 | Norman O. Brown, American Philosopher |
| 1998 | Gene Autry, actor/singing cowboy/businessman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Andrey Lukanov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1990, assassinated at 58 |
| 1996 | Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician/socialist, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Ivan Mark Waller, mountaineer, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Robert Bourassa, Prime Minister of province of Quebec 1970 - 1976, 1985 - 1993, dies at 63 |
| 1996 | Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman, dies at 79 |
| 1996 | Sybil Marion Rosenfeld, theatre historian, dies at 93 |
| 1995 | Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67 |
| 1995 | Norman Ewart Thurston, musician, dies at 74 |
| 1994 | Faith Davis, oldest triplets (Charity and Hope survive), dies at 95 |
| 1994 | Harriet Nelson, actress (Ozzie and Harriet), dies of heart failure at 80 |
| 1994 | Ronald James Herron, architect, dies at 64 |
| 1993 | Henry Ringling North, circus owner (Ringling Bros Circus), dies at 83 |
| 1991 | Dimitrios I, patriarch/primus interparis orthodox Christians, dies |
| 1991 | Jan H Christianse, political chairman (CDA), dies |
| 1989 | Liesbeth Ribbius Peletier, Netherlands 1st female advisor of State, dies |
| 1988 | Alec Issigonis, Turkish Businessman |
| 1987 | Madeleine Carroll, actress (39 Steps, Secret Agent), dies at 81 |
| 1987 | Peter Brian Medawar, medical scientist, dies |
| 1985 | George Savalas, actor (Kojak), dies at 58 |
| 1985 | Rock Hudson, actor (MacMillian and Wife), dies of AIDS at 59 |
| 1985 | Sidney Clute, actor (Lou Grant, Cagney and Lacey), dies at 69 |
| 1983 | Gerald Strang, Canadian composer, dies at 75 |
| 1982 | William Bernbach, advertising magnate, dies at 71 |
| 1981 | Hazel Scott, Trinidadian singer/pianist, dies at 63 |
| 1980 | Valentin Stepanovich Varlamov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 46 |
| 1975 | Wade Crosby, actor (Sign of Wolf, Tales of Robin Hood), dies at 70 |
| 1974 | Ina Seidel, writer, dies at 89 |
| 1973 | Paavo Nurmi, who won 6 Olympic gold medals, dies at 76 |
| 1973 | Paul Hartman, actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction), dies at 84 |
| 1970 | Alfred Julius Swan, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1970 | Anders Bo Leif Linde, composer, dies at 37 |
| 1969 | Katharine Susannah Prichard, novelist (Black Opal), dies at 85 |
| 1967 | Albertina Rasch, ballerina/choreographer, dies at 76 |
| 1965 | [John] Selwyn (Brooke) Lloyd, British statesman, dies |
| 1962 | Frank Lovejoy, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), dies at 48 |
| 1960 | Jaroslav Doubrava, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1958 | Marie Stopes, birth control pioneer, dies |
| 1958 | Wilhelmus L Reoers, sculptor, dies at 48 |
| 1958 | Marie Carmichael Stopes, Scottish Author |
| 1957 | Jacques Fesch, French political assassin/saint?, beheaded at about 26 |
| 1956 | George Bancroft, actor (Texas, Stagecoach, Little Men), dies at 74 |
| 1956 | Paul de Backer, Belgian radiologist, dies at 73 |
| 1955 | James Dean, U.S. actor (East of Eden, Giant), dies |
| 1955 | O B Clarence, actor (Penn of Pensnsylvania), dies |
| 1944 | Rudolf Schmundt, German gen/Hitlers army adjunct, dies from injuries |
| 1943 | Robert Nathaniel Dett, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1931 | Thomas Johnstone Lipton, sportsman/merchant, dies |
| 1931 | Thomas Lipton, Scottish Businessman |
| 1927 | Svante August Arrhenius, chemist, dies |
| 1920 | Max Bruch, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1916 | Benjamin Kidel, English sociologist (Social Evolution), dies at 58 |
| 1915 | Russell Alexander, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1905 | Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuban/French sonnet poet, dies at 62 |
| 1873 | Cornelius Varley, water-color painter, dies |
| 1872 | Eberhard F Walcker, organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt A/M), dies |
| 1863 | Justinus van de Brugghen, lawyer/minister of Justice, dies |
| 1860 | Louis Hersent, painter, dies |
| 1853 | D Francois J Arago, French astronomer/physicist (chromosome), dies |
| 1850 | Sarah Biffin/Beffin, limbless miniature painter, dies |
| 1842 | Jose Mariano Elizaga, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1842 | William Ellery Channing, cleric/writer, dies |
| 1823 | Daniel Steibelt, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1809 | Wybo Fijnje, politician/patriot/journalist, dies at 59 |
| 1803 | Samuel Adams, U.S. revolutionary (Boston Massacre-Tea Party), dies at 81 |
| 1786 | August Keppel, 1st viscount/naval commander/politican, dies |
| 1780 | John Andre, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold) |
| 1729 | Arnold Boonen, portrait painter, dies at 60 |
| 1721 | Benott Audran, artist/engraver, dies |
| 1707 | Anne Jules duke the Noailles, marshal of France (huguenot), dies at 57 |
| 1678 | Wu San-kuei, gen, invited Manchus to China, dies trying to expel them |
| 1656 | Stephan Otto, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1629 | Pierre the Berulle, French cardinal/founder (French Oratorio), dies |
| 1617 | Isaac Oliver, miniature painter, dies |
| 1588 | Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (Rerum in Child), dies |
| 1564 | Andreas Vesalius, Andries of Wesel, Flemish anatomist, dies at 49 |
| 1517 | John Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37 |
| 1264 | Urbanus IV, Jacques Pantaleon, French Pope (1261-64), dies |
| 1113 | Mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies |
| 939 | Giselbert, duke of Lutheran, drowns at about 49 |
| 472 | Olybrius, emperor of Westromeinse republic (472), dies |
