| 2005 | Constance Baker Motley, American Activist |
| 2003 | Althea Gibson, tennis/golf great, first black woman to win Wimbledon, dies at 76 |
| 2003 | Elia Kazan, director, On the Waterfront, dies at 94 |
| 2002 | Whitney Blake, actress, Hazel, dies at 77 |
| 2000 | Pierre Elliott Trudeau, former Canadian Prime Minister, dies at 80 |
| 2000 | Pierre Trudeau, Canadian Statesman |
| 1996 | Bob Gibson, folk singer, dies at 64 |
| 1995 | Eddy Grove, dies |
| 1995 | Olive Gibbs, peace campaigner, dies at 77 |
| 1994 | Harry Saltzman, producer (Dr. No, Nijinski), dies at 78 |
| 1994 | Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican PRI-politician, murdered at 48 |
| 1994 | Juliette Lady Huxley Baillot, author, dies at 96 |
| 1994 | Warwick Hutton, illustrator, artist, author, created illustrations for children's books, worked with texts by Hans Christian Andersen, dies at 55 of cancer in Cambridge, England |
| 1993 | Alfonso Balcazar, dies |
| 1993 | Gustavo Brillembourg, Venezuela/U.S. advocate, dies in an accident at 35 |
| 1993 | Peter De Vries, cartoonist (New Yorker), dies at 83 |
| 1992 | Leech, mathematician, dies |
| 1991 | Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter, dies of pneumonia at 65 |
| 1989 | Ferdinand E Marcos, president of Philippines (1965-86), dies at 72 |
| 1989 | Ferdinand Marcos, Statesman |
| 1989 | Ferdinand E. Marcos, Filipino Statesman |
| 1988 | Ethel Grandin, silent screen actress (Deserter), dies at 94 |
| 1988 | Marjorie Bonner Lowry, actress (Reno, Poor Girls), dies at 83 |
| 1987 | Mehdi Hashemi, Iranian aid of Ayatollah Khomeini, shot for treason |
| 1986 | Carmen DeRue, entertainer, dies |
| 1986 | Robert Helpmann, actor (Second Time Lucky, Patrick), dies at 77 |
| 1985 | Andre Kertesz, Hungarian photographer and photojournalist, dies |
| 1982 | Larry Breeding, actor (Who's Watching the Kids), dies on 36th birthday |
| 1982 | Mabel Albertson, actress (Gazebo, Bewitched), dies of Alzheimer at 81 |
| 1979 | Jimmy McCulloch, guitarist (Wings), dies at 26 |
| 1978 | John Paul I, Albino Luciano, Pope (1978), dies after 33 days as pope |
| 1978 | Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani), 263rd Catholic Pope, died |
| 1978 | Pope John Paul I, Pope |
| 1975 | Agnes Windeck, dies |
| 1975 | Sidney Fields, comedian (Abbott and Costello), dies at 77 |
| 1974 | Raymond Largay, actor (April in Paris, Variety Girl), dies at 88 |
| 1973 | Mantan Moreland, comedian (Watermelon Man), dies at 71 |
| 1973 | Norma Crane, actress, 'Fiddler on the Roof', dies of cancer at 44 |
| 1973 | Wystan H Auden, British/U.S. writer (Spain/Platonic Blow), dies at 66 |
| 1972 | Maurice Thiriet, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1970 | Gamal' Abd al-Nassar, Egypt President (1953-70), dies of heart attack at 52 |
| 1970 | John Roderigo Dos Passos, U.S. writer (Manhattan Transfer), dies at 74 |
| 1968 | Corry Lievens, Flemish actress/playwright/dir (Blue Bird), dies at 64 |
| 1966 | Andre Breton, French Surrealist poet (Manifest of Surrealism), dies at 70 |
| 1966 | Eric Fleming, actor (Gil-Rawhide), dies at 41 |
| 1966 | Lucky Millinder, bandleader/singer, dies |
| 1965 | Eddie Gribbon, actor (Keystone Kops), dies after long illness |
| 1964 | George Dyson, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1964 | Harpo [Arthur] Marx, comedian (Marx Bros), dies at 75 |
| 1964 | Nacio Herb Brown, dies |
| 1961 | Michael Shepley, actor (Dick and the Duchess), dies at 54 |
| 1959 | Gerard Hoffnung, artist/humorist/musician, dies |
| 1957 | Albert Ascoli, Italian developed anti-tuberculosis vaccine, dies |
| 1957 | Luis Cluzeau-Mortet, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1955 | Arthur Donaldson, dies |
| 1954 | Bert Lytell, actor (Henry-One Man's Family), dies at 69 |
| 1954 | Morten Korch, dies |
| 1953 | Edwin P Hubble, astronomer, designer of telescopes, dies at 63 |
| 1953 | Edwin Powell Hubble, American Scientist |
| 1952 | Paul Hastings Allen, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1948 | EJ Ratcliffe, dies |
| 1948 | Gregg Toland, cinematographer, dies at 44 |
| 1947 | Francisco Santiago, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1947 | William B Davidson, dies |
| 1946 | Jean Van de Eeckhoudt, Belgian painter, dies |
| 1943 | Fritzi Brunette, dies |
| 1942 | Evelyn Thatcher, dies |
| 1939 | Felicjan Szopski, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1928 | Con Conrad, dies |
| 1922 | Andrejs Jurjans, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1920 | Nestor de Tiere, Flemish playwright (Bride of the Sea), dies |
| 1914 | Porsteinn Erlingsson, Icelandic poet (Malleysingjar), dies at 56 |
| 1914 | Stevan Mokranjac, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1914 | Richard W. Sears, American Businessman |
| 1911 | Louis Pincoffs, businessman/Dutch politician 1st-Chamber, dies |
| 1907 | Frederich I W L, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907), dies at 81 |
| 1903 | Jesus Monasterio, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1902 | Emile Zola, French writer (Nana/Germinal/J'accuse), dies at 62 |
| 1899 | Giovanni Segantini, Italian painter (Become his fare), dies |
| 1895 | Louis Pasteur, French bacteriologist (Pasteurization), dies at 72 |
| 1891 | Herman Melville, writer (Billy Budd, Moby Dick), dies at 72 |
| 1884 | Fred Morley, cricket lefty quick (16 wkts in 4 Tests for Eng), dies |
| 1879 | Nathan C. Meeker, U.S., poet and writer, murdered |
| 1875 | Aleksei K Tolstoi, Kozjma Prutkov, Russian poet, dies at 58 |
| 1873 | Emile Gaboriau, detective writer (Monsieur Lecoq), dies at 37 |
| 1869 | Libri, mathematician, dies |
| 1868 | Thomas Carmichael Hindman, attorney and Confederate general-major, shot at 40 |
| 1859 | Rinse Posthumus, Fries writer, dies |
| 1852 | Johann Friedrich Schwencke, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1833 | Lemuel Haynes, Revolutionary War veteran, dies at 88 |
| 1819 | Karl Haack, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1815 | Nicolas Desmarest, French geographer (Volcanos), dies at 90 |
| 1789 | Thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire |
| 1759 | Cornelis Pronk, portrait painter/cartoonist, dies at 67 |
| 1757 | Andrea Zani, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1702 | Robert Spencer 2nd earl of Sunderland, English Prime Minister 1687 - 1688, dies at 61 |
| 1694 | Mouton, mathematician, dies |
| 1667 | Jacobus Golius, mathematician/founder (Leidse observ), dies at 71 |
| 1657 | Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana, daugher of Willem of Orange, dies at 75 |
| 1652 | John Asselijn, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 42 |
| 1649 | Ottavio Vernizzi, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1618 | Gilles van Ledenberg, Secretary of Utrecht States 1588 - 1618, suicide at 68 |
| 1509 | Siwara/Sjoerd Aylva, Fries army leader (siege of Franeker) |
| 1296 | Adolf VII, earl of Mountain (1259-96), dies |
| 1197 | Henry VI von Hohenstaufen, Roman Catholic German King (1169-97), dies |
| 1104 | Pedro I, king of Navarra and Aragon, dies |
| 929 | Wenceslaus I, duke of Bohemia, murdered |
