| Year | People / Celebrity Name | People / Celebrity Profession | Country |
|---|
| 0942 | William I, Duke of Normandy | Second Duke of Normandy |  France |
| 1187 | Pope Gregory VIII | Pope from October 25, 1187 until his death |  Italy |
| 1195 | Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut | Count of Hainaut, count of Flanders |  Belgium |
| 1273 | Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi | Persian mystic and poet |  Afghanistan |
| 1663 | Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba | 17th century queen of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms |  Angola |
| 1697 | Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland | Queen of Poland |  Poland |
| 1721 | Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough | English soldier and statesman | -flag.jpg) United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1763 | Frederick Christian | Prince-Elector of Saxony |  Germany |
| 1830 | Simon Bolivar | South American liberator | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1833 | Kaspar Hauser | German mystery boy | Germany |
| 1847 | Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria | Empress of the French and Sovereign Duchess of Parma |  Austria |
| 1860 | Desiree Clary | Queen of Sweden and Norway |  Sweden |
| 1889 | Wilhelm von Giesebrecht | German historian | Germany |
| 1907 | William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin | Mathematical physicist and engineer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1909 | Leopold II of Belgium | King of the Belgians | Belgium |
| 1917 | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson | English physician and feminist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1927 | Rajendra Lahiri | Bengali Hindu Brahmin revolutionary |  India |
| 1929 | Manuel Gomes da Costa | 96th Prime Minister of Portugal and 10th President of Portugal |  Portugal |
| 1930 | Peter Warlock | Anglo-Welsh composer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1932 | Charles Winckler | Danish athlete |  Denmark |
| 1933 | Thubten Gyatso | The 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet |  China |
| 1940 | Alicia Boole Stott | Irish mathematician |  Ireland |
| 1947 | Johannes Nicolaus Bronsted | Danish physical chemist | Denmark |
| 1956 | Eddie Acuff | American actor | -flag.jpg) United States(USA) |
| 1957 | Dorothy L. Sayers | English author | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1962 | Thomas Mitchell (Actor) | American film actor and screenwriter | United States(USA) |
| 1962 | Carl Diem | German Olympic official | Germany |
| 1964 | Victor Franz Hess | Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate | Austria |
| 1967 | Jack Perrin | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 1967 | Harold Holt | 17th Prime Minister of Australia |  Australia |
| 1975 | Theodore Roosevelt Hound Dog Taylor | American Chicago blues guitarist and singer | United States(USA) |
| 1978 | Josef Frings | German Archbishop of Cologne | Germany |
| 1978 | Don Ellis | American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer and bandleader | United States(USA) |
| 1981 | Mehmet Shehu | Albanian Communist politician |  Albania |
| 1982 | Homer S. Ferguson | United States Senator | United States(USA) |
| 1982 | Leonid Borisovitch Kogan | Russian violinist |  Russia |
| 1982 | Leonid Kogan | Violin virtuoso and one of the 20th centurys most famous Soviet violinists | Russia |
| 1987 | Marguerite Yourcenar | French author | France |
| 1991 | Armand Frappier | French-Canadian physician and microbiologist |  Canada |
| 1991 | Joey Smallwood | Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland | Canada |
| 1992 | Dana Andrews | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 1992 | Gunther Anders | Jewish philosopher and journalist | Germany |
| 1996 | Wayne Barlow | American composer of contemporary classical music | United States(USA) |
| 1998 | Allan D Arcangelo | American Artist and Printmaker | United States(USA) |
| 1999 | C. Vann Woodward | Pre-eminent American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations | United States(USA) |
| 1999 | Grover Washington, Jr. | American jazz-funk and soul-jazz saxophonist | United States(USA) |
| 1999 | Rex Allen | American actor, singer, and songwriter | United States(USA) |
| 2002 | Hank Luisetti | American basketball player | United States(USA) |
| 2002 | James Hazeldine | British film, stage and television actor | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2003 | Otto Graham | American professional football and basketball player who played for the Cleveland Browns in both the AAFC and NFL, as well as the Rochester Royals in the NBL | United States(USA) |
| 2004 | Tom Wesselmann | American pop artist | United States(USA) |
| 2004 | Dick Heckstall-Smith | English jazz and blues saxophonist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2005 | Marc Favreau | Canadian television and film actor and poet | Canada |
| 2005 | Jack Anderson (columnist) | American newspaper columnist | United States(USA) |
| 2005 | Ed Devereaux | Australian actor | Australia |
| 2005 | Haljand Udam | Estonian orientalist and translator |  Estonia |
| 2006 | Esko Nikkari | Prolific Finnish actor |  Finland |
| 2006 | Larry Sherry | American right-handed relief pitcher | United States(USA) |
| 2008 | Sammy Baugh | American football player | United States(USA) |
| 2008 | Dave Smith (pitcher, born 1955) | Major League Baseball relief pitcher | United States(USA) |
| 2008 | Freddy Breck | German schlager singer, composer, record producer and news anchor | Germany |
| 2008 | Justin Robert Levens | American mixed martial artist | United States(USA) |
| 2009 | Jennifer Jones | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 2009 | Chris Henry | American football wide receiver | United States(USA) |
| 2009 | Dan O Bannon | American motion picture screenwriter, director and occasional actor | United States(USA) |
| 2010 | Captain Beefheart | American musician and visual artist | United States(USA) |
| 2010 | Walt Dropo | American college basketball standout and a professional baseball first baseman | United States(USA) |
| 2012 | Dina Manfredini | Italian-American supercentenarian | Italy |
| 2012 | Charlie Adam | Scottish footballer | United Kingdom(UK) |
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