| Year | People / Celebrity Name | People / Celebrity Profession | Country |
|---|
| 1348 | Emperor Hanazono | Emperor of Japan |  Japan |
| 1381 | John of Ruysbroeck | One of the Flemish mystics |  Netherlands |
| 1455 | Isabel of Coimbra | Queen of Portugal |  Portugal |
| 1463 | Albert VI of Austria | Habsburg Archduke |  Austria |
| 1469 | Piero di Cosimo de Medici | De facto ruler of Florence |  Italy |
| 1515 | Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba | The Great Captain,Spanish general |  Spain |
| 1547 | Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquistador | Spain |
| 1594 | Gerardus Mercator | Flemish cartographer |  Germany |
| 1615 | Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon | French soldier |  France |
| 1665 | Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet | Society hostess and a major figure in the literary history of 17th century | France |
| 1694 | Pierre Paul Puget | French artist | France |
| 1719 | Pasquier Quesnel | French Jansenist theologian | France |
| 1723 | Philip II, Duke of Orleans | Regent of France | France |
| 1726 | Samuel Penhallow | English born American colonist and historian | -flag.jpg) United States(USA) |
| 1747 | Vincent Bourne | English classical scholar | -flag.jpg) United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1748 | Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset | English politician | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1769 | Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau | German prince | Germany |
| 1774 | Johann Friedrich Agricola | German composer | Germany |
| 1810 | Philipp Otto Runge | German painter | Germany |
| 1814 | Marquis de Sade | French author | France |
| 1844 | Prince Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko | Polish general and politician |  Poland |
| 1849 | Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen | Queen consort of William IV | Germany |
| 1859 | John Brown (Abolitionist) | American abolitionist | United States(USA) |
| 1860 | Ferdinand Christian Baur | German theologian and leader of the Tubingen school of theology | Germany |
| 1863 | Jane Pierce | First Lady of the United States | United States(USA) |
| 1888 | Namık Kemal | Turkish nationalist poet, translator, journalist and social reformer |  Turkey |
| 1890 | Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox | United States Army officer | United States(USA) |
| 1892 | Jay Gould | American financier | United States(USA) |
| 1899 | Gregorio del Pilar | Filipino general |  Philippines |
| 1916 | Paolo Tosti | Italian, later British, composer and music teacher | Italy |
| 1918 | Edmond Rostand | French dramatist | France |
| 1924 | Kazimieras Buga | Lithuanian linguist and philologist |  Lithuania |
| 1931 | Vincent d Indy | French composer and teacher | France |
| 1935 | James Henry Breasted | American Egyptologist | United States(USA) |
| 1935 | Martha Carey Thomas | American educator | United States(USA) |
| 1936 | John Ringling | American circus owner | United States(USA) |
| 1937 | Frank Chapman (baseball) | Professional baseball player | United States(USA) |
| 1943 | Nordahl Grieg | Norwegian poet, novelist, dramatist and journalist |  Norway |
| 1944 | Josef Lhevinne | Russian-born pianist |  Russia |
| 1944 | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti | Italian poet and editor | Italy |
| 1944 | Eiji Sawamura | Japanese professional baseball player | Japan |
| 1949 | Albert Ammons | American pianist | United States(USA) |
| 1950 | Dinu Lipatti | Romanian classical pianist and composer |  Romania |
| 1950 | Dinu Lipatti | Romanian classical pianist and composer | Italy |
| 1953 | Reginald Baker | Australian athlete and actor |  Australia |
| 1957 | Manfred Sakel | Polish psychiatrist | Poland |
| 1957 | Harrison Ford | American film actor | United States(USA) |
| 1963 | Thomas Hicks | American runner | United States(USA) |
| 1963 | Sabu Dastagir | Film actor of Indian (South Asian) origin - although he later took American citizenship | United States(USA) |
| 1966 | Giles Cooper | Prolific radio dramatist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1967 | Francis Cardinal Spellman | American religious leader | United States(USA) |
| 1967 | Billy Chapman | English footballer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1968 | Adamson-Eric | Estonian painter |  Estonia |
| 1969 | Kliment Voroshilov | Soviet military commander and bureaucrat | Russia |
| 1971 | Wim Hesterman | Dutch boxer | Netherlands |
| 1972 | Yip Man | Chinese martial artist |  China |
| 1974 | Max Weber (politician) | Swiss Federal Councilor |  Switzerland |
| 1976 | Danny Murtaugh | American second baseman | United States(USA) |
| 1979 | Jan Pijnenburg | Dutch track cyclist | Netherlands |
| 1980 | Romain Gary | French novelist, film director, World War II aviator and diplomat | France |
| 1980 | Chaudhry Muhammad Ali | Pakistani statesman who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Pakistan |  Pakistan |
| 1982 | Marty Feldman | English writer, comedian and actor | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1983 | Fifi D Orsay | Canadian actress |  Canada |
| 1983 | Atholl McKinnon | South African cricketer |  South Africa |
| 1985 | Aniello Dellacroce | Italian immigrant gangster, and underboss of the Gambino crime family | United States(USA) |
| 1985 | Philip Larkin | Great English poets | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1986 | Desi Arnaz | Cuban-born American actor and bandleader | United States(USA) |
| 1986 | John Curtis Gowan | American psychologist | United States(USA) |
| 1987 | Luis Federico Leloir | Argentine doctor and biochemist,Nobel Prize laureate | France |
| 1987 | Yakov Borisovich Zel rudovich | Prolific Soviet physicist | Russia |
| 1987 | Donn F. Eisele | United States Air Force test pilot and later a NASA astronaut | United States(USA) |
| 1988 | Tata Giacobetti | Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) | Italy |
| 1988 | Karl-Heinz Burger | German SS-Oberfuhrer, SS and Police Leader and colonel | Germany |
| 1990 | Robert Cummings | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 1990 | Aaron Copland | American composer | United States(USA) |
| 1992 | Michael Gothard | English actor | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1993 | Pablo Escobar | Colombian drug lord |  Colombia |
| 1995 | Robertson Davies | Canadian writer | Canada |
| 1995 | Roxie Roker | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 1997 | Shirley Crabtree | English professional wrestler famous for his record breaking 64 inch chest | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1997 | Michael Hedges | American composer, acoustic guitarist and singer, songwriter | United States(USA) |
| 1997 | Shirley Crabtree | British professional wrestler | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1999 | Charlie Byrd | Famous and versatile American guitarist | United States(USA) |
| 2000 | Gail Fisher | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 2002 | Ivan Illich | Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest | Austria |
| 2002 | Arno Peters | Developed the Peters world map | United States(USA) |
| 2002 | Alan Davidson (food writer) | British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2003 | Suzanne Cloutier | Canadian film actress | Canada |
| 2004 | Alicia Markova | English ballerina | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2004 | Mona Van Duyn | American poet | United States(USA) |
| 2005 | Nat Mayer Shapiro | American painter | United States(USA) |
| 2006 | Mariska Veres | Dutch singer |  Denmark |
| 2007 | Robert O. Anderson | American business leader, legendary wildcatter and philanthropist | United States(USA) |
| 2007 | Eleonora Rossi Drago | Italian film actress | Italy |
| 2007 | Elizabeth Hardwick (writer) | American literary critic, novelist and short story writer | United States(USA) |
| 2007 | Jennifer Alexander | Canadian ballet dancer | Canada |
| 2008 | Odetta | African-American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist | United States(USA) |
| 2008 | Henry Gustav Molaison (HM) | Memory-impaired patient | United States(USA) |
| 2008 | Ted Rogers | Canadian entrepreneur | Canada |
| 2008 | Edward Samuel Rogers | President and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc and the fifth richest person in Canada | Canada |
| 2008 | Kathleen Baskin-Ball | Ordained elder in the United Methodist Church | United States(USA) |
| 2009 | Foge Fazio | American former National Football League defensive assistant and college football head coach | United States(USA) |
| 2009 | Maggie Jones (actress) | English actress | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2009 | Eric Woolfson | Scottish lead singer, songwriter and lyricist, executive producer, pianist and co-founder of The Alan Parsons Project | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2011 | Chiyono Hasegawa | Japanese supercentenarian | Japan |
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