| 2003 | Stanley Fafara, kid actor, Leave It to Beaver, dies at 53 |
| 1997 | Edmund Falkiner, jazz saxophinist/probation officer, dies at 59 |
| 1996 | Max Manus, resistance fighter, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Murtaza Bhutto, politician, dies at 42 |
| 1996 | Paul Draper, dancer, dies at 87 |
| 1996 | Paul Erdos, mathematician, dies of heart attack at 83 |
| 1996 | Paul Weston, bandleader, dies at 84 |
| 1995 | Monica Maurice, industrialist, dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Jimmy Hamilton, saxophonist, dies at 77 |
| 1994 | Jule Styne, Broadway composer (Gypsy, Funny Girl), dies at 88 |
| 1993 | Leonard Parkin, British TV host (ITN), dies at 64 |
| 1993 | Loan Volkerijk, Dutch baseball coach (ADO), dies at 65 |
| 1990 | Jackie Moran, actor (Janie, Barefoot Boy), dies of cancer at 65 |
| 1988 | Roy Kinnear, actor (Casanova, Pirates, Scrooge, Help!), dies at 54 |
| 1987 | Michael Stewart, |
| 1984 | Steve Goodman, folk singer and guitarist, dies at 36 |
| 1979 | Ludvik Svoboda, Czechoslovakian general/politician, dies at 83 |
| 1976 | Johan Boskamp, opera singer/actor, dies at 83 |
| 1975 | Saint-John Perse, French diplomat/poet (Nobel 1960), dies at 78 |
| 1974 | Carlyle Blackwell, Jr., entertainer, dies at 61 |
| 1974 | Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer (La Chanson d'Eve), dies at 88 |
| 1973 | Ben[jamin F] Webster, U.S. tenor saxophonist, dies |
| 1973 | Glenn Strange, actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke), dies at 74 |
| 1973 | Jim Croce, vocalist (Time in a Bottle), dies in a plane crash at 30 |
| 1971 | James Westerfield, actor (Travels of Jaime McPheeters), dies at 59 |
| 1971 | William F Albright, U.S. archaeologist, dies at 80 |
| 1971 | Yorgos Seferis, Seferiadis, Greek diplomat/poet (I sterna), dies |
| 1968 | Frank Pelleg, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1967 | Henri Mulet, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1960 | Lee Duncan, owner/trainer (Rin Tin Tin), dies of heart attack at 67 |
| 1960 | Michel Brusselmans, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1959 | Olin Howlin, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy), dies at 63 |
| 1957 | Jean Julius Christian Sibelius, Fin composer (Finlandia), dies at 91 |
| 1949 | Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1949 | Richard Dix, actor (Tombstone, Ghost Ship, 13th Hour), dies at 56 |
| 1947 | Fiorello H La Guardia, (Mayor-R-NYC, 1933-45), dies |
| 1947 | Fiorello LaGuardia, American Politician |
| 1944 | John Grayburn, English (Victoria Cross), dies in battle in Arnhem |
| 1933 | Annie Besant, English theosophy (Esoteric Christianity), dies |
| 1932 | Max Slevogt, German painter, dies at 63 |
| 1927 | George Nichols, actor (His Favorite Pastime, Star Boarder), dies at 62 |
| 1917 | Herbert Morris, Jamaican deserter in France, executed at 17 |
| 1908 | Pablo Martin Melitou de Sarasate y Navascuez, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1898 | Theodor Fontane, German author (Der Stechlin), dies at 78 |
| 1897 | Karel Bendl, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1896 | Gottfried Conradi, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1886 | John Liptrot Hatton, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1873 | Lulu Strauss und Torney, German poet and writer, dies |
| 1865 | William H Revere, Jr., U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies |
| 1863 | Benjamin Hardin Helm, U.S. attorney/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 33 |
| 1863 | Jakob Grimm, writer, dies at 78 |
| 1839 | Jose Gaspar de Francia, dictator of Paraguay, 1816 - 1839, dies at 74 |
| 1823 | Daniel Steibelt, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1810 | Wouter J van Troostwijk, painter, dies at 28 |
| 1807 | Charles G van Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, wife of F Louisa W, dies |
| 1806 | Utamaro Kitagawa, painter, dies |
| 1803 | Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist, executed |
| 1773 | Pieter de Swart, architect (Delfts Port Rotterdam), dies at 63 |
| 1731 | Sicco van Goslinga, Fries diplomat/sect of High Council, dies at 67 |
| 1706 | Pierre Verdier, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1703 | Archibald Campbell, Scottish military man (blood bath of Glencoe), dies at 52 |
| 1679 | Cornelis Evertsen the Young, Vice-Admiral of Zealand, dies at 51 |
| 1648 | Marco Ivan Lukacic, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1647 | Giovanni Del Turco, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1639 | John Meursius, van Meurs, historian, dies at 60 |
| 1624 | Isaac Le Maire, Amsterdam ship owner, dies at about 66 |
| 1613 | Willem H van Est (Estius), theologist, dies |
| 1586 | Anthony Babington, page/conspirator to Mary Stuart, executed at 24 |
| 1493 | Philippe Pot, governor/viceroy of Burgundy, dies |
| 1384 | Louis, duke of Anjou/wife of Marie of Bretagne |
| 1168 | Paschal III, Guido di Crema, Italian anti-Pope, dies |
