| 2004 | Katharina Dalton, doctor/writer, coined the phrase pre-menstrual syndrome, PMS, dies at 88 |
| 2002 | Denys Fisher, inventor, created the Spirograph, dies at 84 |
| 1999 | Frankie Vaughan, singer/actor, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, dies at 71 |
| 1997 | Jan Peder Syse, Prime Minister of Norway 1989 - 1990, dies |
| 1997 | John Seldon Whale, theologian, dies at 100 |
| 1997 | Red Skelton, comedian (Red Skelton Show), dies at 84 |
| 1997 | Red Skelton, comic, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Jessie "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" Hill, jazz musician, dies at 63 |
| 1996 | Spiro T. Agnew, American Politician |
| 1995 | Grady Sutton, actor (Come Blow Your Horn, Flying Blind), dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Yehuda Meir Getz, rabbi/soldier/religious leader, dies at 71 |
| 1994 | Henk Figee, author/publisher (Shoes of the Sea), dies at 46 |
| 1994 | John DeLaFose, zydeco musician, dies at 55 |
| 1994 | Karl R Popper, philosopher (Poverty of Historianism), dies at 92 |
| 1994 | Paul Nicholas Young, architect, dies at 47 |
| 1994 | Karl Popper, Austrian Philosopher |
| 1993 | Christian Nyby, U.S. director (Big Sleep, Thing), dies at 80 |
| 1992 | Feodor Chaliapin, Jr., actor (King's Whore), dies after illness at 87 |
| 1992 | William A Swanberg, biographer (Henry Luce, Pulitzer 1973), dies at 84 |
| 1989 | Jay Stewart, annoucer on Lets Make a Deal, commits suicide |
| 1986 | Patricia Phoenix, English actress (Coronation Street), dies at 62 |
| 1985 | Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer, dies by accident |
| 1984 | Richard Basehart, actor (Rage), dies following several strokes at 70 |
| 1983 | Humberto Madeiros, U.S. cardinal to Boston, dies at 67 |
| 1980 | Anastasio Somoza, former Nicaraguan President, assassinated in Paraguay |
| 1980 | Katherine A Porter, U.S. author (Ship of Fools, Pulit-66), dies at 90 |
| 1979 | Miloslav Kabelac, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1973 | Hugo Winterhalter, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1972 | Akim Tamiroff, actor (Hotel Paradisio, Lord Jim), dies at 72 |
| 1966 | Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58), dies at 35 |
| 1961 | Adnan Menderes, Prime Minister of Turkey 1950 - 1960, dies at 62 |
| 1961 | Simon Delmonte, actor and director (Bleke Bet), dies at 68 |
| 1960 | Jose Sancho Marraco, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1959 | Bert Leysen, Belgian TV director, dies at 39 |
| 1958 | Eugene Jungers, Belgian governor of Rwanda Urundi, dies at 70 |
| 1958 | Friedrich Adolf Paneth, Austrian/British chemist, dies at 71 |
| 1957 | John W. "John" Eisenloeffel, goldsmith, dies at 81 |
| 1956 | Mildred E "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, Gold Medal 1932 Olympics, dies at 42 |
| 1953 | Emil Ermatinger, Switzerland, literature critic, dies at 80 |
| 1953 | Henry Holden Huss, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1948 | Andre Serot, colonel/commandant of French air force (WW II), dies |
| 1948 | Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator for Palestine, assassinated |
| 1948 | Lillian Brainthwaite, British actress (Man About the House), dies at 75 |
| 1948 | Ruth Benedict, anthropoligst, dies |
| 1944 | ... Kussin, German General-maj/commanding Arnhem, dies in battle |
| 1934 | Edmund van der Straeten, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1926 | August Sauer, Austria literature historian, dies at 70 |
| 1916 | Seth Low, American Educator |
| 1908 | Thomas E Selfridge, earlier U.S. aviator, 1st to die in an air crash |
| 1907 | Ignaz Brull, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1895 | Auguste Toulet, Belgian balloonist, dies |
| 1892 | Ignaz V Zingerle Edler von Simmersberg, Austrian, dies |
| 1884 | Louis Schubert, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1879 | Eugene Emmanuel Violletle-Duc, gothic archetect, dies |
| 1877 | William Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer, dies at 77 |
| 1869 | Peter M Roget, England, lexographer (Roget's Thesaurus), dies |
| 1868 | Roman Nose (Wiquini), Cheyenne indian leader, dies |
| 1864 | Walter Savage Landor, author, dies |
| 1863 | Albartus Telting, Fries poet/2nd-Member of parliament, dies |
| 1863 | Alfred Victor Comte de Vigny, poet, dies |
| 1863 | Alfred de Vigny, French Poet |
| 1862 | Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, (Rep-D)/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 41 |
| 1862 | William Edwin Starke, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 48 |
| 1858 | Dred Scott, U.S. slave (REV-decision Supreme court), dies |
| 1846 | Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1839 | Ethel Mary Dell, Mrs G T Savage, romantic novelist, dies |
| 1824 | Giacomo Tritto, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1823 | Abraham L Breguet, French clock maker, dies at 76 |
| 1820 | Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1803 | Franz Xaver Sussmayr, composer, dies |
| 1771 | Tobias George Smollett, novelist (Adv of Roderick Random), dies at 50 |
| 1762 | Francesco Xaverio Geminiani, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1732 | Josef Antonin Planicky, composer, dies at 40 |
| 1702 | Olof Rudbeck, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1679 | Juan Jose of Austrian, Spanish gen/Governor of Netherlands, dies at 50 |
| 1665 | Philip IV, King of Spain (1621-55), dies |
| 1652 | Bonaventura Elsevier, book publisher/merchant, dies at about 69 |
| 1604 | Lucas Osiander, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1575 | Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss Clergyman |
| 1574 | Pedro Menendez de Aviles, soldier/navigator, dies |
| 1322 | Robrecht III, of Bethune, Count of Flanders, dies |
| 1312 | Ferdinand V, king of Castilie/Leon, dies at 26 |
| 1179 | Hildegard van Bingen, mystic/composer (Ordo Virtutum), dies at 81 |
