| 2010 | Albertina Walker, a famous U.S. gospel singer known as the 'Queen of Gospel' dies in Chicago |
| 2008 | Norman Hogg, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 1983 - 1997, dies after a long illness, at 70 |
| 1997 | Brown Meggs, CEO (Capitol Records), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 66 |
| 1996 | Geoffrey Finsberg, politician, dies at 70 |
| 1996 | Harold Watkins Shaw, musicologist, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot, dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Susan Gautier TV producer-Smith, dies at 33 |
| 1996 | William Prince, actor (Ken Baxter-Another World), dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Christopher Keene, musician, dies at 48 |
| 1995 | Frederick Harry Baines, painter, dies at 85 |
| 1995 | John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man), dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator, dies at 45 |
| 1994 | Brian Hartley, mathematician, dies at 55 |
| 1994 | Diana Churchill, actress (Spider, Sally Bishop), dies at 81 |
| 1994 | John the King, CDA-minister of Social Businesses, dies at 68 |
| 1994 | Manual Pina, fashion Designer, dies at 50 |
| 1993 | Manke Nelis, Cornelis Pieters, singer (Aunt Saar), dies at 73 |
| 1992 | Willy Brandt, chancellor of West Germany (1969-74), dies of cancer at 78 |
| 1991 | Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (Sounds of the Night), dies at 75 |
| 1988 | Ernst Hermann Meyer, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1985 | Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of Achille Lauro, threw him off boat |
| 1985 | Ricardo Bacchelli, playwright and poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94 |
| 1984 | Frederick Brisson, producer, dies at 71 after a stroke |
| 1983 | Joan Hackett, actress (Group, Flicks, Rivals), dies of cancer at 49 |
| 1982 | Fernando Lamas, actor and director (Lost World), dies of cancer at 67 |
| 1982 | Philip J Noel-Baker, English minister (Nobel 1959), dies at 92 |
| 1979 | June Nash, actress (Strange Cargo, Dynamite), dies at 68 |
| 1978 | Jim Gilliam, coach (Los Angeles Dodgers), dies at 49 |
| 1978 | Karl Swenson, actor (Lara-Little House on the Prairie), dies at 70 |
| 1978 | Tibor Serly, Hungarian violist/composer (American Elegy), dies at 76 |
| 1975 | Alberto Hemsi, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1973 | Gabriel Marcel, writer, dies |
| 1971 | Christopher Dark, actor (Man Behind the Badge), dies at 51 |
| 1971 | Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1970 | Jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75 |
| 1970 | Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist/philosopher, dies |
| 1969 | Eduardo Ciannelli, actor (Waldo-Johnny Staccato), dies at 81 |
| 1967 | Clement R Attlee, premier pf Great Britain (1945-51), dies at 84 |
| 1967 | [Ernesto] Che Guevara [Serna], Arg/Cuban revolutionary, dies |
| 1967 | Clement Atlee, British Statesman |
| 1964 | Charles Hodge, New York Univeristy professor (Answers for Americans), dies at 69 |
| 1963 | Remedios Varo, Spanish Artist |
| 1956 | Dirk Koster, literary (New noises), dies at 69 |
| 1953 | Kathleen Ferrier, English alto singer, dies at 41 |
| 1953 | Nigel Bruce, actor Dr. Watson in 'Sherlock Holmes', dies at 58 |
| 1947 | Felix Salten, Siegmund Salzmann, Austria writer (Bambi), dies at 78 |
| 1945 | Herman T Colenbrander, historian, dies at 73 |
| 1944 | Wendell Lewis Wilkie, Republican politician, dies at 52 |
| 1944 | Wendell L. Wilkie, American Lawyer |
| 1940 | Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Gaskugeln), dies at 78 |
| 1936 | Munshi Premchand, Indian Writer |
| 1931 | John Monash, Australian Soldier |
| 1927 | Ricardo Guiraldes, Argentine poet and writer (Don Segundo Sombra), dies |
| 1925 | Abraham PC of Karnebeek, liberal foreign minister (1918-27), dies |
| 1919 | Eugene Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la Robe), dies |
| 1912 | Wilhelm Kuhe, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1907 | Alfred, Liechtensteins noble of Austrian Herrenhaus, dies at 65 |
| 1904 | Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria sociologist/philosopher, dies at 62 |
| 1897 | Martin Pluddemann, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1895 | Charles Oberthur, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1888 | Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian Minister of Justice, dies |
| 1869 | Franklin Peirce, 14th president 1853 - 1857, dies in Concord, New Hampshire at 64 |
| 1865 | Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1864 | Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory, U.S. Union-Brigadier-General, dies at about 34 |
| 1863 | Richard Whately, English Writer |
| 1862 | James Streshley Jackson, attorney and Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 39 |
| 1862 | William Rufus Terrill, Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 28 |
| 1842 | Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1834 | Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1803 | Vittoria A Alfieri, Italian earl/writer (Filippo), dies at 54 |
| 1803 | Vittorio Alfieri, Italian Dramatist |
| 1793 | John Hancock, U.S. merchant and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 56 |
| 1772 | Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1771 | John E Loovens, lawyer, dies at 76 |
| 1754 | Henry Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones), dies at 47 |
| 1728 | Anne Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 47 |
| 1722 | Gerard Callenbach, Dutch admiral, dies at 80 |
| 1686 | Adriaen Paets, Rotterdams regent/diplomat, dies at about 55 |
| 1683 | Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1680 | Elisabeth, abbess, dies at 61 |
| 1656 | Johan Georg I, ruler of Saxon (1611-56, Peace of Prague), dies at 71 |
| 1651 | Isaac Elsevier, book publisher, dies at 55 |
| 1613 | Sebastian de Covarrubias bon Horozco, lexicographer, dies at 74 |
| 1606 | Jan, the Aged, count of Nassau/fathered 24, dies |
| 1604 | Janus Dousa, Johan van de Does, literature/politician, dies at 58 |
| 1253 | Robert Grosseteste, English Bishop/expert (optica), dies |
| 1094 | St. Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos minstery in Venice |
| 705 | Abd al-Malik, kalief of Damascus, dies |
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