| 2007 | Brett Somers, dies in Westport, Connecticut, at 83 |
| 2001 | Fred De Cordova, producer/director, Tonight Show, dies at 90 |
| 1996 | Brother Eugene Gerard Salois, teacher, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | George Scheuer, writer/journalist, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Hilary Preston, editor, dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Joan Perry Cohn Harvey, actress (Hands of a Stranger), dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Peter Michael Grayson, showman, dies at 70 |
| 1995 | Marguerite Fawdry, museum curator, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Michio Watanabe, politician, dies at 72 |
| 1995 | Sam McCluskie, trade unionist, dies at 63 |
| 1994 | Alain Berdarin, founder/owner of "Crazy Horse Saloon," suicide at 78 |
| 1994 | Haywood Frank Henry, sax player, dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Helena Manson, Venezuela/French actress (Nude in a White Car), dies at 94 |
| 1994 | Michael Joyce, stage Manager, dies at 48 |
| 1993 | Frits Noske, musicologist (Tie Musikwerk), dies at 72 |
| 1993 | Herman Meyer, Germanist (Deutsche Dichtung), dies at 82 |
| 1992 | Walter B. Jones, Representative-D-North Carolina 1966 - 1992, dies at 79 |
| 1991 | Allan Sobek, dancer, dies |
| 1991 | Andre Baruch, Radio/TV announcer dies at 83 |
| 1991 | John Hoyt, actor (My Favorite Brunette), dies of lung cancer at 87 |
| 1990 | G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA), dies |
| 1990 | Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 60 |
| 1989 | Robert Penn Warren, American Novelist |
| 1987 | Bob Tadema Sporry, author, dies at 75 |
| 1986 | Virginia Gregg, actress (Little Women), dies at 69 |
| 1983 | LeRoy Prinz, choreographer, dies at 88 |
| 1983 | Willie Bobo, jazz drummer (Cos), dies at 49 |
| 1983 | Beverley Nichols, English Writer |
| 1982 | Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, executed in Iran |
| 1981 | Sara Haden, actress (A Family Affair), dies at 83 |
| 1980 | Bill Evans, U.S. jazz pianist, dies of a bleeding ulcer at 51 |
| 1979 | Tommy Leonetti, singer and actor (Gomer Pyle USMC), dies at 50 |
| 1978 | Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft builder, dies at 80 |
| 1972 | Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1972 | Geoffrey Fisher, Clergyman |
| 1967 | Eva McKenzie, sister of Ida Mae/actress (Virtuous Husband), dies at 78 |
| 1967 | Hans Haug, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1964 | Alfred Blalock, American Inventor |
| 1963 | Fred Hillebrand, actor (Martin Kane), dies at 69 |
| 1956 | Henry Clough-Leiter, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1956 | Charles Richards, Canadian Politician |
| 1953 | Jacques Thibaud, French violinist, dies |
| 1951 | Jacinto Guerrero, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1950 | Vojtech Rihovsky, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1945 | Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern, Austrian composer, dies at 61 |
| 1943 | Hans Ulrich Humpert, composer, dies at 2 |
| 1942 | Jack Singer, U.S. war reporter (Wasp), dies |
| 1940 | Dick Ket, painter/cartoonist, dies at 37 |
| 1938 | Thomas Wolfe, U.S. writer (Enigma), dies at 62 |
| 1937 | Clifford Heatherley, actress (For Love or Money, Cash), dies at 48 |
| 1936 | Bela Anton Szabados, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1934 | David Vaughan Thomas, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1932 | Charles Hutchison Gabriel, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1929 | Sara Amsel, Indon/Dutch actress/wife of Carel van Hoisted, dies at 58 |
| 1927 | Herman Gorter, socialist/poet (Mai, Pan), dies at 62 |
| 1924 | Anthony Johnson Showalter, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1923 | Sayed Darwish, composer, dies at 31 |
| 1921 | Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Russian baron/general, dies |
| 1916 | Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1914 | Jacobus Herculas de la Rey, Uncle Chose, Boer general, dies at 66 |
| 1902 | Horace Gray, American Judge |
| 1895 | Jan Kleczynski, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1885 | Juliusz Zarebski, composer, dies at 31 |
| 1883 | Joseph AF Plateau, Belgian physicist (Blue Moon), dies |
| 1880 | William Hauser, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1875 | Jeanne-Louise Farrenc, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1862 | R E V Miles, U.S. Union Colonel, killed at Harpers Ferry |
| 1859 | John LA Luyten, Catholic Member of Dutch 2nd parliament, dies at 72 |
| 1842 | Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist and composer, dies at 70 |
| 1841 | Alessandro Rolla, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1840 | Franz Xaver Pechacek, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1750 | Charles Theodore Pachelbel, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1747 | Johann Gotthilf Ziegler, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1654 | Cornelis Bicker, merchant/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 61 |
| 1598 | Hidejoshi, Hijoshi, Japanese general strategist/kampaku, dies |
| 1525 | John Pistorius, church reformer, burned at the stake |
| 1231 | Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach, dies |
| 928 | Louis III, the Blind Proveneaals king of Lombardije/Germany, dies at 48 |
| 921 | Ludmilla, wife of 1st christian Bohemian king Borijov I/saint, dies |
| 9 | Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman viceroy of Syria, suicide at 59 |
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