| 2002 | William Rosenberg, Entreprenuer, started Dunkin' Donuts, dies at 86 |
| 1997 | Clive Brain, educationalist, dies at 57 |
| 1997 | Malcolm Hughes, artist, dies at 77 |
| 1997 | Kathy Keeton Guccione, publisher, A founder of Omni, dies at 58 |
| 1996 | Douglas Hyde, socialist/Christian, dies at 85 |
| 1995 | Louis "Mr Bo" Collins, blues SInger, dies at 63 |
| 1995 | Orville Reddenbacher, popcorn magnate, drowns in bathtub at 88 |
| 1995 | Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Yevgeni Nikolayevich Khludeyev, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 55 |
| 1994 | Frankie Kennedy, Irish flute player, tin whistle player, co-founder of the band Altan, dies at 38 of Ewing's sarcoma, in Northern Ireland |
| 1993 | Bruce Ferden, U.S. conductor (NY, Washington, Amsterdam), dies at 44 |
| 1993 | Richard Landau, U.S. screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies at 79 |
| 1992 | Frederick Combs, playwright/director, dies of AIDS at 57 |
| 1992 | Jacques Pic, french restaurant owner, dies |
| 1990 | Werner Janssen, U.S. composer (New Years Eve in New York), dies at 91 |
| 1989 | Guido de Moor, actor (Flanagan, Because of the Cats), dies |
| 1988 | Oren Lee Staley, 1st President of National Farmers Org (1955-79), dies at 65 |
| 1986 | Vivian Duncan, entertainer (Duncan Sisters), dies |
| 1985 | Italo Calvino, sci-fi author (T-Zero, Mr. Palomar), dies at 61 |
| 1984 | June Preisser, dancer/actress (Babes in Arms), dies in car crash at 61 |
| 1982 | Samuel L M Barlow, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1981 | Joke Kool-Smit, Dutch feminist, dies |
| 1978 | Rolf Gunther, East German priest, self imolation |
| 1974 | Eve March, actress (Adam's Rib, Danny Boy), dies at 63 |
| 1973 | Bob Gilbert, actor (Never the Twain Shall Meet), dies of hepatitis 75 |
| 1973 | Gram Parsons, rocker (Byrds), dies of OD at 26 |
| 1972 | Robert M Casadesus, French pianist/composer (Prix Diemer), dies at 73 |
| 1969 | Bert [Lambertus] Bakker, director Free Netherland/inventor, dies |
| 1969 | Rex Ingram, actor and director (Elmer Gantry), dies of heart attack at 73 |
| 1968 | Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopying), dies at 62 |
| 1968 | Red Foley, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 58 |
| 1967 | Martin Block, TV announcer (Chesterfield Supper Club), dies at 64 |
| 1962 | Pogodin, writer, dies |
| 1961 | Pieter Tesch, mine engineer/geology (Pedestal of Netherlands), dies |
| 1954 | Tibor Harsanyi, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1952 | Giuseppe Zoppi, Swiss writer (Presento il mio Ticino), dies |
| 1949 | Will Cuppy, American Writer |
| 1944 | David Lord, British lieutenant/Dakota-pilot DFC/VC, dies in battle |
| 1944 | Hilary Barlow, British colonel, dies |
| 1944 | John AC Fitch, British Lt-colonel, dies in battle in Arnhem |
| 1935 | Jules M Cambron, French Governor-General to Algeria/ambassador, dies |
| 1935 | Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian Scientist |
| 1927 | Isadora Duncan, American Dancer |
| 1925 | Francis Darwin, English Scientist |
| 1918 | Liza Nina Mary Frederica Lehmann, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1911 | Pjotr A Stolypin, premier of Russia (1906-11), dies |
| 1902 | Maria Hendrika, Queen of the Belgians, dies |
| 1898 | George Grey, New Zealander Leader |
| 1882 | Andreas I Schaepman, archbishop of Utrecht (1868-82), dies at 67 |
| 1881 | James A Garfield, 20th president (1881), dies of gunshot wound at 49 |
| 1881 | James A. Garfield, American President |
| 1864 | Archibald Campbell Godwin, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle |
| 1864 | David Allen Russell, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 43 |
| 1864 | Robert Emmet Rodes, U.S. Confederate General-major, dies in battle at 35 |
| 1863 | Preston Smith, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 39 |
| 1862 | [Lewis] Henry Little, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 45 |
| 1836 | Carl Friedrich Ebers, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1830 | Stanislas Champein, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1812 | Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German Businessman |
| 1761 | Peter Musschenbroek, physician/physicist (Leidse Bottle), dies at 69 |
| 1756 | Josef Antonin Sehling, composer, dies at 46 |
| 1719 | Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant/lord of the manor, executed at 59 |
| 1719 | Jan Weenix, Dutch painter, buried |
| 1678 | Christoph B von Galen, prince-bishop of Munster (1650-78), dies at 71 |
| 1356 | Gautier de Brienne, duke of Athens/French supreme commander, dies |
| 1356 | Geoffroy de Charny, French nobleman, dies in battle |
| 1356 | Jean de Clermont, French marshal, dies in battle |
| 1180 | Louis VII, the Younger, King of France (1137-80), dies at 59 |
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