| Year | People / Celebrity Name | People / Celebrity Profession | Country |
|---|
| 0721 | Empress Gemmei | Empress Genmyo, 43rd emperor of Japan |  Japan |
| 1170 | Thomas Becket | Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury | -flag.jpg) United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1202 | Igor Svyatoslavich | Ukrainian prince |  Ukraine |
| 1606 | Istvan Bocskay | Prince of Transylvania |  Hungary |
| 1634 | John Albert Vasa | Polish bishop |  Poland |
| 1661 | Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant | French poet |  France |
| 1689 | Thomas Sydenham | English physician | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1737 | Joseph Saurin | French mathematician and a converted Protestant minister | France |
| 1743 | Hyacinthe Rigaud | French painter | France |
| 1785 | Johan Herman Wessel | Well known poet in Dano-Norwegian literature |  Norway |
| 1825 | Jacques-Louis David | French painter | France |
| 1891 | Leopold Kronecker | German mathematician |  Germany |
| 1894 | Christina Rossetti | English poet | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1897 | Henry George | American writer, politician and political economist | -flag.jpg) United States(USA) |
| 1897 | William James Linton | English born American wood engraver, landscape painter, political reformer and author of memoirs, novels, poetry and non-fiction | United States(USA) |
| 1905 | Martin Wiberg | Swedish computer pioneer |  Sweden |
| 1910 | Reginald Doherty | World No. 1 British male tennis player | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1916 | Grigori Rasputin | Russian monk |  Russia |
| 1919 | Sir William Osler | Canadian physician and author |  Canada |
| 1924 | Carl Spitteler | Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature |  Switzerland |
| 1926 | Rainer Maria Rilke | Austrian poet |  Austria |
| 1929 | Wilhelm Maybach | German automotive designer | Germany |
| 1937 | Don Marquis | American author | United States(USA) |
| 1937 | Alma Tell | American stage and motion picture actress | United States(USA) |
| 1941 | Tullio Levi-Civita | Italian mathematician |  Italy |
| 1953 | Violet MacMillan | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 1959 | Robin Milford | English composer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1960 | Philippe Panneton | French Canadian physician, diplomat and writer | Canada |
| 1960 | Eden Phillpotts | English author, poet and dramatist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1967 | Paul Whiteman | American bandleader | United States(USA) |
| 1968 | Austin Farrer | English theologian and philosopher | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1970 | Marie Menken | American experimental filmmaker and socialite | United States(USA) |
| 1971 | John Marshall Harlan II | Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court | United States(USA) |
| 1976 | Ivo Van Damme | Belgian middle distance runner |  Belgium |
| 1980 | Tim Hardin | American folk musician and composer | United States(USA) |
| 1980 | Nadezhda Mandelstam | Russian writer and educator | Russia |
| 1981 | Miroslav Krleza | Croatian writer |  Croatia |
| 1984 | Leo Robin | American composer, lyricist and songwriter | United States(USA) |
| 1986 | Harold Macmillan | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1986 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Russian filmmaker, writer and opera director | Russia |
| 1988 | Mike Beuttler | British Formula One driver | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1993 | Mher Mkrtchyan | Popular Soviet Armenian actor |  Armenia |
| 1995 | Lita Grey | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 1996 | Mireille Hartuch | French singer, composer and actress | France |
| 1998 | Jean-Claude Forest | Writer and illustrator of comics and the creator of character Barbarella | France |
| 1999 | Leon Radzinowicz | Academic criminologist and the founding director of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2001 | Takashi Asahina | Japanese conductor | Japan |
| 2001 | Cassia Eller | Brazilian musician |  Brazil |
| 2003 | Bob Monkhouse | English entertainer |  Reunion |
| 2003 | Earl John Hindman | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 2003 | Dinsdale Landen | British actor | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2004 | Ken Burkhart | American baseball player and umpire | United States(USA) |
| 2004 | Julius Axelrod | American biochemist | United States(USA) |
| 2004 | Liddy Holloway | New Zealand actress |  New Zealand |
| 2005 | Gerda Boyesen | Norwegian-born body psychotherapist | Norway |
| 2007 | Phil O Donnell (footballer) | Scottish football player | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2007 | Kevin Greening | British radio presenter | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2008 | Daniel Nagrin | American modern dancer and choreographer | United States(USA) |
| 2008 | Freddie Hubbard | American jazz trumpeter |  Romania |
| 2009 | Steve Williams | American professional wrestler and former collegiate football and wrestling star at the University of Oklahoma | United States(USA) |
| 2009 | Akmal Shaikh | Pakistan born British businessman | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2010 | Bill Erwin | American television, film and stage actor | United States(USA) |
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