| 2004 | Francoise Sagan, writer, A Certain Smile, dies at 69 |
| 2004 | Tim Choate, actor, Babylon 5, dies at 49 |
| 2003 | Herb Gardner, writer, A Thousand Clowns, dies at 68 |
| 2000 | Bonnie Wiley, journalist, dies at 90 |
| 2000 | Dorr Bothwell, painter, dies at 97 |
| 1998 | Jeff Moss, writer/composer, Sesame Street, dies at 56 |
| 1997 | Jonathon Silver, entrepreneur/arts patron, dies at 47 |
| 1996 | Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, egyptologist, dies at 87 |
| 1996 | Mark Frankel, actor (Solitaire for 2, Simon-Sisters), dies at 34 |
| 1996 | Pavel Anatolievich Sudoplatov, spy, dies at 89 |
| 1994 | Colin Berry Haycraft, publisher, dies at 65 |
| 1994 | David Napley, solicitor, dies at 79 |
| 1994 | Otto F Walther, Swiss publisher/author (Der Stumme), dies at 66 |
| 1993 | Zita Johann, Hungarian/U.S. actress (Mummy), dies at 89 |
| 1991 | Mary Lawrence, actress (Best Man), dies of respiratory failure at 73 |
| 1991 | Theodore Geisel, author (Dr. Seuss), dies of cancer at 87 |
| 1990 | Jay Currin, stuntman/actor (Back to the Beach, Serial), dies at 34 |
| 1984 | Neil Hamilton, actor (Com Gordon-Batman), dies of asthma at 85 |
| 1983 | Isobel Baillie, oratorio singer, dies |
| 1982 | Sarah Churchill, actress (Royal Wedding, Spring Meeting), dies at 67 |
| 1981 | Patsy Kelly, actress (Brigid Murphy-Cop and the Kid), dies at 71 |
| 1978 | Ruth Etting, U.S. dancer/singer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 80 |
| 1976 | Bruno VeSota, actor and director (Chopper, Teenage Doll), dies at 54 |
| 1976 | Romney Brent, actor and writer (Dinner at the Ritz), dies at 74 |
| 1975 | Clive Morton, actor (Goodbye Mr. Chips, Moonraker), dies at 71 |
| 1975 | Ian Hunter, actor (Sir Richard-Robin Hood), dies at 75 |
| 1968 | Harry Robert Wilson, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1968 | Robert Arthur Ley, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X), dies at 47 |
| 1968 | Virginia Valli, actress (Flames, Guilty?, Storm), dies of stroke at 70 |
| 1967 | Orville Caldwell, Deputy Major (LA-1940), dies at 71 |
| 1967 | Robert H van Gulik, diplomat/writer (Judge Tie), dies |
| 1964 | Paul E Kahle, German orientalist, dies |
| 1961 | Sumner Welles, U.S. diplomat (Good Neighbor Policy), dies at 68 |
| 1960 | Matyas Seiber, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1960 | Melanie Klein, Reizes, child psycho-analyst, dies |
| 1953 | Berthold Viertel, writer, dies at 68 |
| 1951 | Georges Rency, Belgian poet/literature, dies at 75 |
| 1951 | Phillippus Paracelsus, physician/alchemist, dies at 48 |
| 1949 | Pierre Breville, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1948 | Warren William, actor (Fear, Wolf Man, Madame X), dies at 53 |
| 1939 | Carl Laenmie, film producer, dies |
| 1934 | Edwin Lehare, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1910 | Rudolf Dellinger, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1898 | Bartel Wilton, ship builder, dies at 70 |
| 1896 | Francis SK Fitzgerald, U.S. writer (Great Gatsby, Zelda), dies |
| 1894 | Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book publisher (Van Dale), dies |
| 1892 | Cornelis A van Sypesteyn, Dutch governor of Suriname, dies at 69 |
| 1892 | Patrick S Gilmore, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1889 | Daniel H. Hill, American Soldier |
| 1881 | Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1875 | William Walker, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1865 | Frantiszek Soltyk, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1856 | Henry, 1st viscount Hardinge of Lahore, Governor-General of India, dies |
| 1855 | Alexandre Stievenard, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1834 | A J Pedro I van Alcantara, Emperor of Brazil (1822-31), dies |
| 1815 | John Sevier, indian fighter (Gov/Rep-Tn), dies at 70 |
| 1813 | Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1790 | John Keyse Sherwin, engraver/painter, dies |
| 1755 | Georg Gebel, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1568 | Antoon van Stralen, Flemish mayor of Antwerp, beheaded at about 47 |
| 1545 | Albrecht von Brandenburg, archbishop/monarch of Mainz, dies at 55 |
| 1541 | Paracelsus, Swiss Scientist |
| 1536 | Janus Secundus, neo latin poet (Basia), dies at 24 |
| 1517 | Frederik IV, of Baden, bishop of Utrecht, dies |
| 1435 | Isabella of Bayern, Queen of France (Treaty of Troyes), dies |
| 1230 | Alfonso IX, king of Leon/Castilie, dies |
| 1228 | Stefanus I Nemanjic de Eerstgekroonde, king of Serbia (1217-28), dies |
| 1180 | Manuel I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (1143-80), dies |
| 1143 | Innocent II, Gregorio de' Papareschi, Italian Pope 1130 - 1143, dies |
| 911 | Ludwig III, the child, last Carolingian German King (899-911), dies |
| 786 | Al-Hadi, Arabic kalief of Islam (185-86), dies |
| 768 | Pippin III, the short, King of France, dies at 53 |
| 366 | Liberius, Italian Pope (352-66), dies |
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