| 2005 | Wellington Mara, American Businessman |
| 2002 | Richard Harris, actor, Camelot, dies at 72 |
| 2002 | Paul Wellstone, Senator-D-Minnesota 1991 - 2002, died in a plane crash in Minnesota at age 58 |
| 2001 | Elizabeth Jennings, English Poet |
| 2001 | Marvin Harris, American Scientist |
| 1999 | Payne Stewart, professional golfer, won the U.S. Open, 1991 and 1999, won PGA Championship in 1989, among others, dies in Mina, South Dakota, at age 42, due to hypoxia from depressurization of a Learjet |
| 1998 | Dick Higgins, composer, coined term 'intermedia', founder, Something Else Press, dies of a heart attack in Quebec, Canada |
| 1996 | Eugene Polyakov, dancer, dies at 95 |
| 1995 | Bobby Riggs, tennis star, dies of prostate cancer at 77 |
| 1995 | David Healy, actor (Supergirl, Doomsday Gun, Patton), dies at 64 |
| 1995 | Kenneth Kweku Sinaman Dadzie, diplomat, dies at 65 |
| 1995 | Robert Grieve, civil Servant, dies at 84 |
| 1995 | Robert Lorimer Riggs, tennis Player, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Viveca Lindfors, actress (Stargate, Luba, Misplaced), dies at 74 |
| 1994 | Anthony David Machell Cox, medievalist, dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Mildred Natwick, U.S. actress (Barefoot in Park), dies at 89 |
| 1993 | Francisco Velis, El Salvador guerilla leader (FMLN), murdered |
| 1993 | Mary C Lawton, jurist (CIA's Agency Seal Medallion), dies at 58 |
| 1993 | Philip P Cohen, Doctor (Nobel), dies at 85 |
| 1993 | Vincent Price, actor (Raven, Fly), dies of lung cancer at 82 |
| 1993 | Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 54 |
| 1992 | Adelino Da Palma Carlos, Prime Minister of Portugal 1974, dies |
| 1992 | Roger Miller, country singer (King of the Road), dies at 56 |
| 1991 | Bill Graham, rock concert promoter (Filmore, Dylan), dies at 60 |
| 1991 | Khigh Dhiegh, actor (Forbidden Nights), dies of heat failure at 75 |
| 1989 | Gerard Walschap, Flemish writer, dies |
| 1989 | Mary McCarthy, author (Group), dies, at 77 |
| 1988 | Bill Cody, actor (Blazing Justice, Ghost City), dies at 75 |
| 1987 | Cecil Brown, news correspondent (CBS), dies at 80 |
| 1986 | Forrest Tucker, actor (O'Rourke-F Troop, Dusty Trail), dies at 67 |
| 1985 | Elsa Moranet, writer, dies at 67 |
| 1985 | Morton Downey, singer (Star of the Family), dies at 83 |
| 1984 | Pascale Ogier, actress (Ghost Dance), dies of heart attack at 24 |
| 1983 | Hermann Ambrosius, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1981 | Ariel Durant, U.S. author (Story of Civilization), dies at 83 |
| 1976 | Raymond Queneau, M Presle, French writer (Last Days), dies at 73 |
| 1975 | Frank Puglia actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book), dies at 83 |
| 1973 | Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian marathoner (Olympic-gold 1960, 64), dies at 46 |
| 1973 | G Paul H Schuitema, graphically designer/photographer, dies |
| 1972 | Norman Norell [Levinson], U.S. fashion designer, dies at 72 |
| 1971 | Albertus W. "Albert" van Dalsum, actor and director (King Lear), dies at 82 |
| 1969 | Rudolf Forster, actor (Threepenny Opera, Tonio Kroeger), dies at 84 |
| 1968 | Jean Schlumberger, French writer (Passions), dies |
| 1964 | Belle Montrose, actress (Mrs Harrison-Hathaways), dies at 78 |
| 1963 | Abu-Bakr Khairat, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1961 | Peter Jensen, co-inventer (loud speaker), dies at 75 |
| 1960 | Jose Padilla, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1959 | Bob Murphy, TV host (RFD America), dies at 42 |
| 1957 | Henry C van de Velde, Flemish painter/architect, dies at 94 |
| 1957 | Lord Dunsany, Edward J M D Plunkett, author (Jorkens), dies at 79 |
| 1957 | Maria "Mary" Beekman, actress (Modern Landhaaien), dies at 73 |
| 1957 | Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, U.S. gangster (Murder Inc), dies at 55 |
| 1956 | Risto Ryti, Finnish minister/premier/president, dies at 67 |
| 1954 | Marika Stiernstedt, Swedish author (Froken Liwin), dies at 78 |
| 1952 | Sergei Bortkiewicz, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1944 | Fake Krist, nazi collaborator, killed |
| 1943 | H van Zanten, guerrilla leader on North Sumatra, executed |
| 1941 | Robert Delaunay, French painter, dies at 56 |
| 1939 | Cornelis JK van Aalst, president Dutch Business Society, dies at 73 |
| 1936 | Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author and poet, dies at 76 |
| 1933 | Lillian Hall-Davies actress (Farmer's Wife, Ring), dies at 36 |
| 1926 | Frederick, Jr. Zech, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1921 | Bat Masterson, American Explorer |
| 1920 | Alexander, king of Greece (1917-20), dies after ape bite at 27 |
| 1907 | Edmund Hart Turpin, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1906 | Albert Reville, French theologist (Jesus of Nazareth), dies at 79 |
| 1904 | Teresa Milanollo, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1902 | Frank Norris, writer, dies at 32 |
| 1902 | [B] Frank[lin] Norris, U.S. writer (Pit), dies at 32 |
| 1895 | Charles Halle, British pianist, dies |
| 1892 | Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1892), dies at 60 |
| 1878 | Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1876 | Ida von Duringsfeld, German writer (Schelde bis zur Mas), dies at 60 |
| 1861 | Friedrich C von Savigny, German lawyer, dies at 82 |
| 1855 | Willem F earl van Bylandt, military, dies at 84 |
| 1845 | Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French Vice-Admiral, dies at 81 |
| 1833 | Abbas Mirza, Persian governor/heir to the throne, dies at 44 |
| 1806 | Henry Knox, American Soldier |
| 1760 | George II (August), king of Great Britain (1727-60), dies at 76 |
| 1676 | Justus G Schottel [Schottelius], German linguistic/poet, dies at 64 |
| 1647 | Evangelista Torricelli, Italian Scientist |
| 1604 | Claude de la Tremoille, French duke of Thouars/huguenot, dies |
| 1510 | Il Giorgione, Giorgio del Castelfranco, Italian painter, dies at 32 |
| 1495 | John II, the Perfect/Consummate, King of Portugal (1481-95), dies |
| 1415 | Anton van Bourgondie, French son of Philip the Stout/duke, dies at 31 |
| 1415 | Eduard, duke of York, dies at 45 |
| 1415 | Philip of Nevers, French earl, dies in battle |
| 1415 | Robert of Bar, French knight, dies in battle |
| 1400 | Geofrey Chaucer, author (Canterbury Tales), dies in London |
| 1400 | Geoffrey Chaucer, English Poet |
| 1154 | Stefanus van Blois, king of England (1135-54), dies |
| 1047 | Magnus I Godhi, king of Norway/Denmark (1035-47), dies |
| 625 | Boniface V, Italian Pope (619-25), dies |
| 304 | Marcellinus, bishop of Rome, dies |
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