| 2004 | Robert Merrill, opera singer, dies at 85 |
| 2003 | Madame Chiang Kai-shek, more-than-just-a-political-widow, dies at 105 |
| 2002 | Adolph Green, "lyricist, screenwriter", Singin' in the Rain, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher, dies at 67 |
| 1996 | Diana Trilling, writer, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Lin Onus, artist, dies at 47 |
| 1996 | Ronald Alfred Gardyne "Rags" Butler, sailor, dies at 68 |
| 1996 | Harold E. Hughes, American Politician |
| 1994 | Robert Lansing, actor (Blade Runner, Equalizer), dies of cancer at 66 |
| 1994 | William Leonard, head (CBS News), dies of a stroke at 78 |
| 1992 | Kees Spermon, Dutch painter/graphic artist, dies |
| 1991 | Lance Baker, dies at 31 |
| 1990 | Louis Althusser, French philosopher, dies |
| 1986 | Edward A Doisy Sr, discoverer of vitamin K (Nobel 1943), dies at 92 |
| 1986 | Lino Ventura, actor (French Detective, Slap, Jig-Saw), dies at 67 |
| 1984 | David Gorcey, actor (Angel's Alley), dies at 63 in a diabetic coma |
| 1984 | Oskar Werner, actor (Farenehit 451), dies of a heart attack at 61 |
| 1983 | Jessica Savage, Margate New Jersey, newscaster (NBC Weekend), dies at 36 |
| 1983 | Tamara Shayne (Jolson Story), actress, dies at 80 of a heart attack |
| 1982 | Jacques Klein, Brazilian pianist, dies at 52 |
| 1978 | Maybelle Carter, country singer (Johnny Cash Show), dies at 69 |
| 1976 | Leonard Lee, U.S. R&B-singer (Shirley and Lee-I'm Gone), dies at 40 |
| 1975 | Barboura Morris, actor (Wasp Woman, Machine-Gun Kelly), dies at 43 |
| 1975 | Charles Brokaw, actor (Outer Gate, I Cover the War), dies at 77 |
| 1969 | Tommy Edwards, rocker, dies at 47 |
| 1966 | Claire McDowell, actress (Big Parade), dies after long illness at 88 |
| 1963 | Raphael HLAJM Verwilghen, architect/urban developer, dies at 78 |
| 1957 | Frederick Burton, actor (One Way Passage), dies at 86 |
| 1954 | Henri Zagwijn, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1953 | Maurice Lugeon, Swiss geologist (nappism), dies at 83 |
| 1952 | Susan Peters, actress (Random Harvest), dies at 31 |
| 1950 | Al Jolson, Asa Yoelson, singer and actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 64 |
| 1948 | Eugeniusz Morawsky-Dabrowa, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1946 | Ernest Thompson Seton, American Leader |
| 1942 | Georg Stumme, German general/commandant of African corps, dies |
| 1942 | Ralph Rainger, composer, dies at 41 |
| 1939 | Zane Grey, U.S. western writer (Spirit of the Border), dies at 67 |
| 1935 | Abe Landau, U.S. gangster, murdered |
| 1935 | Dutch Schultz [Arthur Flegenheimer], U.S. gangster, murdered at 33 |
| 1935 | Otto "Aba Daba" Berman, U.S. gangster, murdered |
| 1929 | Thomas F Tout, historian (Manch school of historiography), dies at 74 |
| 1928 | F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian, dies |
| 1926 | Olympia Brown, American Activist |
| 1925 | Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Karatigin, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1921 | John B Dunlop, Scottish inventor air tire (Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81 |
| 1915 | W G Grace, British cricketer, dies |
| 1913 | Henry Potonie, German paleo-botanist/geologist (sapropelium), dies |
| 1903 | Francis Ellingwood Abbot, theologian (Scientific Theism), dies at 66 |
| 1901 | Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank), dies |
| 1899 | W Penn Symons, British General-Major, dies in battle |
| 1892 | Mehemed Emin Pasja, German explorer, murdered at 52 |
| 1890 | Karel M M Verlat, Flemish painter/graphic artist, dies |
| 1886 | Johann Nepomuk Kafka, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1872 | Theophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic, dies at 61 |
| 1869 | Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Tolbecque, Belgian composer, dies at 72 |
| 1838 | Joseph Lancaster, English Educator |
| 1806 | Franz Seydelmann, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1801 | Johann Gottlieb Naumann, German composer, dies at 60 |
| 1799 | William Paca, U.S. judge/signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 58 |
| 1782 | Joseph Reipel, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1753 | Columban Praelisauer, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1602 | Franciscus Junius, French/Netherlands calvinist theologist/vicar, dies at 57 |
| 1450 | Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint, dies at 70 |
| 1260 | Koetoez, Turkish sultan of Egypt, murdered |
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