| 2006 | Steve Irwin, wildlife expert, television personality, 'The Crocodile Hunter', wildlife documentary series, dies in Batt Reef, Australia, of a stingray barb |
| 1997 | Belle Stewart, Scottish traditional singer, dies at 91 |
| 1997 | Jeffrey Bernard, journalist, wrote column, 'Low Life', for The Spectator magazine, dies in Soho, England, after refusing dialysis treatment |
| 1995 | Chuck Greenberg, new age musician (Shadowfax), dies at 45 |
| 1995 | Edmond Jouhaud, general, dies at 90 |
| 1995 | John Megna, actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird), dies at 42 |
| 1995 | William Moses Kunstler, UCLA attorney (Chicago 7), dies at 78 |
| 1995 | William Kunstler, American Activist |
| 1994 | Laurentius LM "Laurens" van Deenen, (pathed)physiologist, dies at 66 |
| 1994 | Louis Myers, blues guitarist /harmonica player, dies at 64 |
| 1993 | Clyde Adler, voice (White Fang/Black Tooth-Soupy Sales), dies |
| 1993 | Herve Villechaize, actor (Fantasy Island), shoots self to death at 50 |
| 1993 | Mehmet Sincar, Turkish/Kurd MP, murdered |
| 1992 | John van Dreelen, Jacques T van Drielen Gimberg, actor (Topaz), dies |
| 1991 | Charlie Barnet, saxophonist (Cherokee), dies of pneumonia at 77 |
| 1991 | Dottie West, country singer (Here Comes my Baby), dies at 58 in a car |
| 1991 | Margaret Ramsay, vocalist, dies |
| 1991 | Thomas Tryon, actor (Cardinal)/writer (Other), dies at 65 |
| 1990 | Henry Faas, Wandelganger, Dutch journalist (Volkskrant), dies |
| 1990 | Irene Dunne, actress (5 oscars), dies of heart failure at 91 |
| 1989 | Georges Simenon, Belgian/French writer and director (Maigret), dies at 86 |
| 1985 | George O'Brien, actor (Daniel Boone, Salute), dies of a stroke at 85 |
| 1985 | Isabel Jeans, actress (Suspicion, Easy Virtue, Tovarich), dies at 93 |
| 1981 | Verne Rowe, actor (Verne-Fernwood 2 Night), dies at 59 |
| 1980 | Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist, dies at 74 |
| 1979 | Jef van de Wiele, Belgian politician, dies at 76 |
| 1975 | Walter Tetley, cartoon voice (Sherman-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 60 |
| 1974 | Creighton W. Abrams, Jr., U.S. general/army staff chief (Vietnam), dies at 59 |
| 1974 | Marcel Achard, French dramatist (La forges the Paris), dies at 75 |
| 1970 | James M Taylor, USAF/astronaut, dies at 39 |
| 1965 | Albert Schweitzer, German/French missionary (Nobel 1954), dies at 90 |
| 1964 | W Bergengruen, writer, dies at 71 |
| 1963 | Robert Schuman, French premier/chair (European Parliament), dies at 77 |
| 1960 | Alfred E Green, director (Copacabana), dies after long illness at 71 |
| 1946 | Paul Lincke, German composer and conductor (Lysistrata), dies at 79 |
| 1944 | Izaak van der Horst, Dutch resistance fighter, executed |
| 1938 | Clifford Dempsey, actor (Salute), dies at 73 |
| 1937 | Giovanni Salviucci, composer, dies at 29 |
| 1922 | Georges Sorel, French social philosopher, dies at 74 |
| 1918 | Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Raubmenschen), dies at 51) |
| 1914 | Charles Peguy, French Philosopher |
| 1913 | Henry Billings Brown, American Judge |
| 1907 | Edvard Grieg, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1907 | Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Norwegian composer (Peer Gynt Suite), dies at 64 |
| 1905 | Pierre de Braza, founder (French Congo), dies |
| 1903 | Herman Zumpe, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1853 | Jonathan Blewitt, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1845 | Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher, dies at 82 |
| 1828 | Cornelis Stevens, Belgian RC foreman/polemist, dies at 80 |
| 1784 | Cesar F Cassini "the Thury", French astronomer (geodesic labor), dies |
| 1759 | Girolamo Chiti, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1709 | Jean-Franeois Regnard, French comedic poet/slave in Algeria, dies |
| 1644 | John Wtenbogaert, theologist (Kerckelicke history), dies at 87 |
| 1571 | Earl of Lennox, regent of Scotland, murdered |
| 1553 | Cornelia da Nomatalcino, monk converted to Judaism, burned at stake |
| 1154 | Gilbert de la Porree, French philosopher/bishop of Poiters, dies |
| 1085 | Irmgarde van Keulen, German countress of Aspel/saint, dies |
| 454 | Dioscorus van Alexandria, patriarch (council of Efeze), dies |
| 422 | Boniface I, Italian Bishop of Rome, dies |
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