| Year | People / Celebrity Name | People / Celebrity Profession | Country |
|---|
| 1145 | Pope Lucius II | Pope from March 9, 1144 , until his death Feb 15, 1145 |  Italy |
| 1621 | Michael Praetorius | German composer |  Germany |
| 1634 | Wilhelm Fabry | German surgeon | Germany |
| 1637 | Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor | Holy Roman Emperor |  Austria |
| 1738 | Matthias Braun | Czech sculptor |  Czech Republic |
| 1744 | Frantisek Vaclav Mica | Czech conductor and composer | Czech Republic |
| 1761 | Carlo Cecere | Italian composer |  Greece |
| 1775 | Peter Dens | Belgian Catholic theologian |  Belgium |
| 1778 | Johann Gottlieb Gorner | German composer and organist | Germany |
| 1781 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | German author and philosopher | Germany |
| 1796 | Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen | Prussian general and the eldest son of Prince John Frederick | Germany |
| 1835 | Henry Hunt (politician) | British radical speaker and agitator remembered as a pioneer of working class radicalism and an important influence on the later Chartist movement | -flag.jpg) United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1839 | Francois-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier | French Canadian Patriote |  Canada |
| 1844 | Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1847 | Germinal Pierre Dandelin | Belgian mathematician | Belgium |
| 1848 | Hermann von Boyen | Prussian army officer who helped to reform the Prussian Army | Germany |
| 1849 | Pierre Francois Verhulst | Belgian mathematician | Belgium |
| 1857 | Mikhail Glinka | Russian composer |  Russia |
| 1869 | Mirza Ghalib | Indian poet |  India |
| 1885 | Leopold Damrosch | German American orchestral conductor | -flag.jpg) United States(USA) |
| 1889 | Heinrich von Dechsen | German geologist | Germany |
| 1905 | Lew Wallace | Union general in the American Civil War |  Mexico |
| 1911 | Theodor Escherich | German pediatrician | Germany |
| 1918 | Vernon Castle | English dancer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1924 | Lionel Monckton | English writer and composer of musical theater | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1928 | H. H. Asquith | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1929 | Melville E. Stone | American newspaper publisher | United States(USA) |
| 1931 | Lillian Leitzel | German acrobat and strongwoman | Germany |
| 1932 | Minnie Maddern Fiske | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 1933 | Pat Sullivan | Australian cartoonist, pioneer animator and film producer |  Australia |
| 1939 | Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin | Important Russian and Soviet painter and writer | Russia |
| 1945 | Helmut Mockel | German youth leader and politician | Germany |
| 1953 | Karl Gustaf Staaf | Swedish athlete |  Sweden |
| 1956 | Vincent de Moro-Giafferi | French criminal attorney |  France |
| 1959 | Owen Willans Richardson | British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1961 | Laurence Owen | American figure skater | United States(USA) |
| 1961 | Bradley Lord | American figure skater | United States(USA) |
| 1964 | Robert L. Thornton | American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas | United States(USA) |
| 1965 | Nat King Cole | American musician | United States(USA) |
| 1966 | Gerard Ciolek | Polish architect |  Poland |
| 1966 | Camilo Torres Restrepo | Colombian socialist, Roman Catholic priest |  Colombia |
| 1967 | Antonio Moreno | Notable actor and film director | United States(USA) |
| 1968 | Little Walter | Blues singer, harmonica player and guitarist | United States(USA) |
| 1969 | Pee Wee Russell | Jazz musician | United States(USA) |
| 1970 | Hugh Dowding | Scottish fighter pilot | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1971 | Dimitrios Loundras | Greek gymnast | Greece |
| 1973 | Tim Holt | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 1973 | Wally Cox | American comedian and actor, particularly associated with the early years of television in the United States | United States(USA) |
| 1974 | Kurt Atterberg | Swedish composer | Sweden |
| 1977 | Diomedes Olivo | MLB pitcher |  Dominican Republic |
| 1981 | Karl Richter (conductor) | German conductor, organist and harpsichordist | Germany |
| 1981 | Mike Bloomfield | American musician, guitarist and composer | United States(USA) |
| 1984 | Ethel Merman | American actress and singer | United States(USA) |
| 1988 | Richard Feynman | American physicist | United States(USA) |
| 1992 | William Schuman | American composer | United States(USA) |
| 1992 | Maria Elena Moyano | Peruvian community organizer and activist of Afro-Peruvian descent who was assassinated by the maoist Shining Path |  Peru |
| 1996 | Lucio Agostini | Italian-born Canadian conductor and composer | Canada |
| 1996 | McLean Stevenson | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 1996 | Tommy Rettig | American child actor and computer software engineer and author | United States(USA) |
| 1998 | Martha Gellhorn | American writer | United States(USA) |
| 1998 | Louie Spicolli | American professional wrestler | United States(USA) |
| 1998 | Georgios Mylonas | Greek Center Union and New Democracy politician and government minister | Greece |
| 1999 | Henry Way Kendall | American physicist | United States(USA) |
| 1999 | Big L (Lamont Coleman) | American rapper | United States(USA) |
| 2000 | John Angus MacLean | Canadian politician | Canada |
| 2002 | Howard K. Smith | American journalist | United States(USA) |
| 2002 | Kevin Smith (New Zealand actor) | New Zealand actor |  New Zealand |
| 2004 | Jan Miner | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 2004 | Jens Evensen | Norwegian lawyer, judge, politician, trade minister, international offshore rights expert, member of the International Law Commission and judge at the International Court of Justice |  Norway |
| 2005 | Pierre Bachelet | French singer and songwriter | France |
| 2005 | Samuel T. Francis | Iconoclastic anti-capitalist paleo-conservative columnist, nationally syndicated in America | United States(USA) |
| 2007 | Ray Evans | American songwriter | United States(USA) |
| 2007 | Walker Edmiston | American actor and voice-over artist | United States(USA) |
| 2008 | Ashley Callie | South African actress |  Spain |
| 2008 | Amnon Netzer | Iranian-Jewish historian, researcher, professor and journalist |  Israel |
| 2009 | Joe Cuba | Puerto Rican musician |  Puerto Rico |
| 2009 | Diether Haenicke | President of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan | United States(USA) |
| 2011 | Joe Frazier | Manager in Major League Baseball | United States(USA) |
| 2012 | Gerrit Ybema | Dutch politician |  Netherlands |
| 2013 | Carmelo Imbriani | Italian footballer | Italy |
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