| 2004 | John Peel, DJ, dies at 65 |
| 1999 | Hoyt Axton, singer/actor/songwriter, Joy to the World, dies at 61 |
| 1996 | Gordon Scarrott, engineer, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Hans Walter Kosterliz, biochemist, dies at 93 |
| 1996 | Sylvia Mary Paget Chancellor, philanthropist, dies at 95 |
| 1995 | Bernhard Heiliger, sculptor, dies at 79 |
| 1995 | Georgia Neese Gray, 1st Woman Treasurer of USA, dies at 95 |
| 1994 | Rudi van Vlaenderen, Flemish actor/dir/poet (Thyestes), dies at 64 |
| 1994 | Tutta Rolf, actress (Whalers), dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Wilbert Harrison, singer, dies at 65 |
| 1993 | Absolutely Nobody, David Powers, Washington lieutenant governor candidate, dies at 37 |
| 1993 | H Hardenberg, writer, dies |
| 1992 | Dottie Green, female baseball player (Peaches), dies of cancer at 71 |
| 1992 | Jerome Andrews, US/French dancer/choreographer, dies |
| 1992 | Laurel Cronin, actor (Beethoven, Housesitter), dies of cancer at 53 |
| 1991 | Bill Graham, rock promoter, dies at 60 |
| 1991 | Lori Rae Matthews, crushed to death by an artist's 485 lb umbrella |
| 1990 | William Paley, CEO (CBS), dies of a heart attack at 89 |
| 1990 | William S. Paley, American Businessman |
| 1984 | John Woods Duke, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1984 | Laurie Langenbach, author, dies at 37 |
| 1984 | Sue Randall, actress (Miss Landers-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 49 |
| 1982 | Giovanni Benelli, archbishop of Florence/Pope candidate, dies |
| 1980 | Marcello J tie Neves Alves Caetano, premier of Portugal, dies at 74 |
| 1979 | Park Chung-hee, South Korean President, assassinated |
| 1976 | Deryck Victor Cooke, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1972 | Igor Sikorsky, Russian/US helicopter builder, dies at 83 |
| 1971 | Robert Gordon director/writer (Loveless), dies at 76 |
| 1968 | Erich Von Stroheim, actor and director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52 |
| 1964 | Agnes Miegel, writer, dies |
| 1962 | Hattie McDaniel actress, 'Gone With the Wind', dies at 67 |
| 1962 | Louise Beavers, actress (Beulah-Beulah), dies at 64 |
| 1961 | Milan Stojadinovic, premier of Yugoslavia (1935-39), dies at 73 |
| 1957 | N Kazantzakis, writer, dies |
| 1957 | Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek Writer |
| 1956 | Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer, dies at 60 |
| 1955 | Arne Eggen, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1954 | Floris HL Prims, Flemish priest/historian/archivist of Antwerp, dies |
| 1936 | Bob Dellemijn, Lourdes-ganger/Franco-volunteer, dies in battle at 18 |
| 1935 | Akos Buttykai, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1929 | Arno Holz, poet, dramatist, freelance writer, wrote book of poetry 'Phantaesus', dies at 66 |
| 1909 | Horiboemi Ito, Prince of Japan, assassinated by a Korean |
| 1903 | Herbert Stanley Oakeley, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1903 | Victorin de Joncieres, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1890 | Collodi, Carlo Lorenzini, Italian writer (Pinocchio), dies |
| 1890 | Carlo Collodi, Italian Writer |
| 1881 | Billy Clanton, brother of Ike, dies |
| 1874 | Peter Cornelius, German composer, dies at 49 |
| 1868 | B F Randolph, South Carolina state senator, assassinated |
| 1867 | John Fawcett, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1864 | Henriette ALF countess of Wegimont, wife of king Willem I, dies at 72 |
| 1858 | Isac Baker Woodbury, composer, dies at 39 |
| 1848 | Vissarion G Belinski, Russian literature critic, dies |
| 1823 | Josef Preindl, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1806 | Timothy Dexter, American Businessman |
| 1756 | Johann Theodor Romhild, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1749 | Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, French composer/organist, dies at 72 |
| 1733 | Antonio Veracini, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1706 | Andreas Werkmeister, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1693 | Coenraad van Beuningen, mayor of Amsterdam/diplomat, dies at 71 |
| 1679 | Roger Boyle, British Soldier |
| 1678 | John Jenkins, composer, dies |
| 1661 | Johann B Schup, Schuppius, German poet/historian/vicar, dies |
| 1658 | Francisco de Borja y Aragon Esquilache, Spanish poet, dies |
| 1640 | Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 63 |
| 1608 | Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Spanish royal painter, dies |
| 1607 | Philipp Nicolai, German Lutherian theologist/poet/composer, dies at 52 |
| 1576 | Frederick II the Vrome, ruler of Palts, dies |
| 1440 | Gilles de Rais, French marshal, killer of 140 children, hanged |
| 1235 | Andras II Arpad, King of Hungary (1205-35), dies |
| 1132 | Floris the Black, brother of earl Dirk VI of Holland, murdered |
| 899 | Alfred the Great, writer/king of Wessex (871-99), dies |
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