| 2007 | Paul Gillmor, dies in Arlington, Virginia, of head and neck trauma from falling down stairs, at 68 |
| 2003 | Gisele MacKenzie, "singer, actress", Your Hit Parade, dies at 76 |
| 2002 | Cliff Gorman, actor, All That Jazz, ., dies at 65 |
| 2001 | Heywood Hale Broun, "commentator, writer", dies at 83 |
| 2001 | Justin Wilson, Cajun cook/storyteller, dies at 87 |
| 1999 | Allen Funt, Candid Camera guy, dies at 84 |
| 1997 | Georg Solti, conductor, dead, dies at 84 |
| 1997 | Leon Edel, biographer, literary critic, wrote biography of Henry James, won Pulitzer Prize, dies at 89 |
| 1997 | Mother Teresa, philanthropist, Nobel (1979), No Greater Love, dies of cardiac arrest at 87 |
| 1997 | Sir Georg Solti, conductor, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Leonard Katzman, TV producer, dies at 69 |
| 1996 | Richard Clement Charles Thomas, rugby international/journalist, dies at 67 |
| 1996 | Rose Isabel Williams, sister of Tennessee Williams, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Francis Showering, brewer, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | James "Pigmeat" Jarrett, pianist, dies at 95 |
| 1995 | John Britten, motorcycle Designer, dies at 45 |
| 1994 | Billy Usselton, saxophonist, dies at 68 |
| 1994 | Edgar Louis Vanderstegen Millington Drake, painter, dies at 62 |
| 1994 | John Newman, Australian parlement member (Lab), murdered at 47 |
| 1994 | William Usselton, U.S. tenor saxophonist, dies at 68 |
| 1993 | Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (Spy Who Loved Me), dies at 78 |
| 1993 | John Truscott, Australian set designer (Camelot), dies at 57 |
| 1993 | Willem Wagter, actor (Ghetto, Medic Center West), dies at 60 |
| 1992 | Billy Herman, 2nd baseman/manager (Dodgers, Cubs), dies at 83 |
| 1992 | Dorothy MacKaye, marital advisor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 88 |
| 1992 | Irving Allen Lee, actor (Newspaper Boys), dies of AIDS at 43 |
| 1990 | Beppo Brem, actor (Frontgockel), dies of heart failure at 84 |
| 1990 | Lord Caradon, British Diplomat |
| 1988 | Gert Froebe, actor (Lover's Wood, Upper Hand), dies at 75 |
| 1982 | Maurice Naessens, Belgian banker, dies at 73 |
| 1982 | Douglas Bader, British Soldier |
| 1981 | Ayatollah Ali Qoddusi, prosecutor-general of Iran, assassinated |
| 1980 | Barbara Loden, actress (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 48 |
| 1972 | Josef Romano, Israeli olympian, murdered |
| 1972 | Mosje Weinberg, Israeli olympic wrestling coach, murdered |
| 1969 | Henk Bijvanck, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1969 | Mitchell Ayres, orchestra leader (Hollywood Palace), dies at 58 |
| 1968 | Juan Jose Castro, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1944 | Willem M Groenewegen, resistance fighter, executed |
| 1939 | Cornelis J "Cor" van Ast, Dutch actor and director (Two Boys), dies at 67 |
| 1932 | Paul Bern, husband of Jean Harlow, dies |
| 1920 | Robert Harron, actor (Intolerance), accidental shot to death at 27 |
| 1914 | Charles Peguy, French writer/publisher (Clio), dies in battle at 41 |
| 1910 | Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist, dies at 70 |
| 1910 | Julian Edwards, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1898 | Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, disguised as man fought for union, dies |
| 1890 | Ludwig Deppe, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1877 | Crazy Horse, Tashunka Witko, last great Sioux war chief, dies at 27 |
| 1859 | W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter, dies at 68 |
| 1858 | Moritz G, Moses, Saphir, Hungarian journalist, dies at 63 |
| 1803 | Francois Devienne, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1684 | John Uytenhage van Lacks, lawyer/author, drowned at 48 |
| 1683 | Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French Minister of Navy, dies at 64 |
| 1659 | Pieter de Carpentier, Flemish Governor-General of Netherlands East-Indies, dies at 71 |
| 1572 | Pieter Tichelmann, Flemish Franciscan, dies at about 71 |
| 1569 | Edmund Bonner, English bishop of London 1539 - 1549, dies at 69 |
| 1569 | Pieter Bruegel, South Netherlands painter, dies at about 44 |
| 1566 | Suleiman I, Great Law Giver, sultan of Turkey (1520-66), dies at 71 |
| 1548 | Catharine Parr, queen of England/wife of Henry VIII, dies at about 36 |
| 1235 | Henry I, duke of Brabant, dies |
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