| 2002 | Richard M. Helms, American Celebrity |
| 2001 | Howard Finster, American Artist |
| 1996 | Charles Edward Pevensey Tennant, aristocrat, dies at 39 |
| 1996 | John Bauldie, music journalist/Dylanologist, dies at 47 |
| 1996 | Matthew Harding, businessman/football supporter, dies at 42 |
| 1995 | K B Wilson, methodist principal (Westminster College), dies at 50 |
| 1995 | Kingsley Amis, author, dies of injuries from a fall at 73 |
| 1995 | Mary Wickes, actress (Sister Act), dies at 79 |
| 1995 | Ralph Whitlock, writer, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Simone Gallimard, publisher, dies at 77 |
| 1994 | Benoat Regent, French actor (Du Bottom du Coeur), dies at 41 |
| 1994 | Chester WIlliams, painter, dies at 73 |
| 1994 | David Buchan, ethno-Musicologist, dies at 55 |
| 1994 | Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies |
| 1994 | Harold Horace Hopkins, inventor (Endoscope), dies at 75 |
| 1994 | Jimmy Miller, pop drummer/singer/producer (Motorhead), dies at 52 |
| 1994 | Rollo May, founder (Humanistic Psychology Movement), dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Sandy Horn, lesbian Activist, dies at 59 |
| 1993 | Elie A Cohen, physician (held in Auschwitz), dies at 84 |
| 1993 | Fred C Shapiro, U.S. journalist (Tiananmen-square 1989), dies at 62 |
| 1993 | Jiri Hajek, Czechoslovakian lawyer/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80 |
| 1992 | Cleavon Little, actor (Blazing Saddles), dies of colon cancer at 53 |
| 1992 | Red Barber, sportscaster (Dodgers, Yankees), dies at 84 |
| 1991 | Peter Willes, British actor/producer (Way We Live), dies |
| 1991 | Steven Jesse Bernstein, American Writer |
| 1989 | Roland Winters, actor (Jet Pilot, Meet Millie), dies at 84 |
| 1987 | Lino Ventura, Italian/French actor (Medusa touch), dies at 68 |
| 1986 | Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, bio-chemist (Vitamin C, Nobel 1937), dies at 93 |
| 1986 | Ivor Francis, actor (Dusty's Trail), dies at 68 |
| 1986 | Jane Dornnacker, WNBC-AM New York City helicopter traffic reporter, dies doing a live traffic report as her copter crashes |
| 1986 | Albert Szent-Gyorgi, Hungarian Scientist |
| 1984 | Harold Laurence Walters, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1984 | Napoleon Whiting, actor (Silas-Big Valley), dies at 75 |
| 1982 | Savitri Devi, French Writer |
| 1981 | Michael Granger, actor (Creature with Atom Brain, Pier 5 Havana), dies |
| 1979 | Jesse Bishop, murderer, dies in Nevada gas chamber |
| 1979 | Nadia Boulanger, French composer (Lasirene), dies at 92 |
| 1975 | Arnold Toynbee, English historian/cultural sociologist, dies at 86 |
| 1975 | Arnold J. Toynbee, British Historian |
| 1973 | Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist, conductor and composer, dies at 96 |
| 1972 | Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudist/portraits), dies |
| 1970 | Rene Schneider, Chilean general/supreme commander, murdered |
| 1969 | Giovanni Martinelli, Italian opera singer (New York Met), dies on 84th birthday |
| 1966 | Hewlett Johnson, Red Deacon of Canterbury, dies |
| 1965 | Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian leader (PKI 1951-65), murdered at 42 |
| 1965 | Paul Tillich, German/US Theologist (Courage To Be), dies |
| 1961 | Joseph Schenck, Russian Businessman |
| 1960 | Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian, painter/decorator, dies at 67 |
| 1954 | Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer/pilot, dies at 54 |
| 1948 | Augustyn Hlond, Polish cardinal, dies |
| 1943 | Josef Venantius von Woss, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1942 | Gustave "Staff" de Clercq, leader Flemish Nationally Covenant, dies |
| 1942 | Sybren Tulip, NSBer/supt of police in Amsterdam (1941-42), dies |
| 1934 | Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, gangster, shot dead at 30 by FBI in Ohio |
| 1932 | Anna Dickinson, dies just a week shy of her 90th birthday |
| 1927 | Ross Youngs, Hall of Fame baseballer, dies of Bright's disease at 30 |
| 1926 | Jules Van de Hill, Belgian lawyer/politician, dies |
| 1922 | Lyman Abbott, American Author |
| 1919 | Bruce F Cummings, English author (Enjoying Life), dies at 30 |
| 1906 | Paul Cezanne, French painter, dies at 67 |
| 1897 | Justin Winsor, American Writer |
| 1889 | Olivier Metra, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1882 | Janos Arany, Hungarians poet (Toldi Szerelme), dies at 65 |
| 1881 | Janis Cimze, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1869 | Michael Sars, Norwegian zoologist, dies at 64 |
| 1859 | Louis (Ludwig) Spohr, composer (Faust), dies at 75 |
| 1852 | Hans C E Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king, dies at 86 |
| 1835 | Willem G F Bentinck, earl/politician/organist, dies at 73 |
| 1818 | Joachim H Campe, German theory/author, dies at 72 |
| 1813 | August Harder, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1802 | Samuel Arnold, English composer, dies at 62 |
| 1764 | Jean Marie I'aine Leclair, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1763 | French van Mieris "the Young", painter/historian, dies at 73 |
| 1751 | Willem IV KH Friso, prince of Orange-Nassau, dies at 40 |
| 1725 | Alessandro Scarlatti, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1725 | Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlotti, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1708 | Herman Witsius, Wits, reformed theologist, dies at 72 |
| 1707 | Cloudesley Shovell, Admiral, drowns at Scilly |
| 1651 | Jacob Praetorius, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1613 | Mathurin Regnier, French poet (Macette), dies |
| 1565 | Jean Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile, dies |
| 1494 | Gian Galeazzo, Italian duke of Milan (1476-94), dies |
| 1383 | Ferdinand I, the wise, king of Portugal, dies |
| 741 | Charles Martel, ruler of the Franks, dies at 63 |
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