| Year | People / Celebrity Name | People / Celebrity Profession | Country |
|---|
| 0314 | Pope Miltiades | Pope |  Italy |
| 0681 | Pope Agatho | Pope | Italy |
| 0976 | John I Tzimiskes | Byzantine Emperor |  Turkey |
| 1094 | Ma ad al-Mustansir Billah | Imploring the Help of God |  Egypt |
| 1242 | Emperor Shijo | 87th emperor of Japan |  Japan |
| 1276 | Pope Gregory X | Pope from 1271 to 1276 in Rome | Italy |
| 1321 | Maria of Brabant | Queen consort of France |  France |
| 1321 | Marie of Brabant | Queen consort of France | France |
| 1567 | Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley | Consort of Mary I of Scotland | -flag.jpg) United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1645 | William Laud | Archbishop of Canterbury | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1654 | Nicholas Culpeper | English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1662 | Honore II, Prince of Monaco | Sovereign Prince of Monaco |  Monaco |
| 1698 | Louis-Sebastien Le Nain de Tillemont | French historian | France |
| 1707 | Philibert de Gramont | French writer | France |
| 1754 | Edward Cave | English editor and publisher | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1761 | Edward Boscawen | British admiral | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1777 | Spranger Barry | Irish actor |  Ireland |
| 1778 | Carolus Linnaeus | Swedish botanist |  Sweden |
| 1794 | Georg Forster | German scientist |  Germany |
| 1811 | Marie-Joseph de Chenier | French poet | France |
| 1824 | Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia | Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia | Italy |
| 1828 | Francois de Neufchateau | French statesman and intellectual figure | France |
| 1829 | Gregorio Funes | Argentine clergyman, educator, historian and lawmaker |  Argentina |
| 1833 | Adrien-Marie Legendre | French mathematician | France |
| 1840 | Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom | 7th child and 3rd daughter of George III of the United Kingdom | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1851 | Karl Freiherr von Muffling | Prussian field marshal | Germany |
| 1855 | Mary Russell Mitford | English novelist and dramatist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1862 | Samuel Colt | American inventor and industrialist | -flag.jpg) United States(USA) |
| 1863 | Lyman Beecher | American Temperance Society co-founder and leader | United States(USA) |
| 1866 | Pyotr Pletnyov | Russian poet and literary critic |  Russia |
| 1882 | Giovanni Dupre | Italian sculptor | Italy |
| 1883 | Samuel Mudd | American physician | United States(USA) |
| 1891 | Laza Lazarevic | Serbian writer and psychiatrist |  Serbia |
| 1895 | Benjamin Godard | French violinist and Romantic composer | France |
| 1895 | Eli Whitney Blake, Jr. | American scientist | United States(USA) |
| 1901 | James Dickson | Australian politician and businessman |  Australia |
| 1904 | Jean-Leon Gerome | French painter and sculptor | France |
| 1905 | Karlis Baumanis | Latvian composer |  Latvia |
| 1917 | William Frederick Buffalo Bill Cody | American soldier, bison hunter and showman | United States(USA) |
| 1921 | Raymond Comstock Thorne | American competition swimmer | United States(USA) |
| 1922 | Frank Tudor | Leader of the Australian Labor Party | Australia |
| 1926 | Eino Leino | Finnish poet |  Finland |
| 1931 | James Milton Carroll | American pastor and author | United States(USA) |
| 1934 | Marinus van der Lubbe | Dutch council communist |  Netherlands |
| 1935 | Edwin Flack | Australian athlete, double Olympic gold medallist in 1896 | Australia |
| 1941 | Sir John Lavery | Irish artist | Ireland |
| 1941 | Frank Bridge | English composer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1941 | Joe Penner | American 1930s era vaudeville, radio and film comedian | United States(USA) |
| 1941 | Issai Schur | Mathematician | Germany |
| 1949 | Erich von Drygalski | German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist | Germany |
| 1949 | Othon Friesz | French artist | France |
| 1949 | Othon Friesz | French artist | France |
| 1951 | Sinclair Lewis | American writer, Nobel Prize Laureate | United States(USA) |
| 1951 | Yoshio Nishina | Japanese physicist | Japan |
| 1952 | Bones Ely | Shortstop in Major League Baseball | United States(USA) |
| 1957 | Gabriela Mistral | Chilean writer, Nobel laureate |  Chile |
| 1960 | Jack Laviolette | Canadian ice hockey player |  Canada |
| 1961 | Dashiell Hammett | American author | United States(USA) |
| 1966 | Nishizo Tsukahara | Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II | Japan |
| 1967 | Radhabinod Pal | Indian jurist |  India |
| 1968 | Basil Sydney | English actor | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1969 | John Brownlee (baritone) | Australian tenor | Australia |
| 1970 | Charles Olson | American poet | United States(USA) |
| 1970 | Pavel Belyayev | Soviet cosmonaut | Russia |
| 1971 | Coco Chanel | French clothing designer | France |
| 1972 | Aksel Larsen | Danish politician |  Denmark |
| 1976 | Howlin Wolf | American musician | United States(USA) |
| 1977 | Ruth Wakefield | Inventor of the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie | United States(USA) |
| 1978 | Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Cardenal | Nicaraguan journalist and publisher |  Nicaragua |
| 1978 | Don Gillis (composer) | US composer, conductor and teacher | United States(USA) |
| 1980 | George Meany | American labor union leader | United States(USA) |
| 1980 | Hughie Critz | American second baseman in Major League Baseball | United States(USA) |
| 1980 | Bo Rein | American football and baseball player and football coach | United States(USA) |
| 1981 | Katherine Alexander | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 1981 | Richard Boone | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 1981 | Fawn M. Brodie | Biographer and professor of history at UCLA | United States(USA) |
| 1982 | Paul Lynde | American comedian and actor | United States(USA) |
| 1984 | Souvanna Phouma | Leader of the neutralist faction and prime minister of the Kingdom of Laos |  Laos |
| 1986 | Jaroslav Seifert | Czech writer, Nobel Prize Laureate |  Czech Republic |
| 1987 | Marion Hutton | American singer | United States(USA) |
| 1987 | David Robinson | British entrepreneur and philanthropist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1989 | Herbert Morrison (announcer) | American radio reporter | United States(USA) |
| 1989 | Colin Winchester | Assistant Commissioner in the Australian Federal Police (AFP) | Australia |
| 1989 | William Joseph Browne | Canadian politician | Canada |
| 1990 | Tochinishiki Kiyotaka | Sumo wrestler | Japan |
| 1992 | Roberto Bonomi | Argentine racing driver | Argentina |
| 1994 | Catharina Isabella Dales | Dutch politician of the Labour Party | Netherlands |
| 1995 | Kathleen Tynan | Canadian-British journalist, author and screenwriter | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1997 | Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd | Scottish chemist, Nobel laureate | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1997 | Sheldon Leonard | Pioneering American film and television producer, director, writer, and actor | United States(USA) |
| 1997 | Elspeth Huxley | Polymath, writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer and government advisor | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1998 | Ken Forssi | American musician | United States(USA) |
| 1999 | Edward Williams (Queensland judge) | Appointed as a judge to the Supreme Court of Queensland | Australia |
| 2000 | Sam Jaffe-producer | American film producer | United States(USA) |
| 2002 | John Buscema | American comic-book artist | United States(USA) |
| 2002 | W. A. Criswell | American pastor, author and a two term elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) | United States(USA) |
| 2004 | Alexandra Ripley | American writer | United States(USA) |
| 2004 | Spalding Gray | American actor, playwright, screenwriter, performance artist and monologist | United States(USA) |
| 2005 | Tommy Fine | American baseball player | United States(USA) |
| 2005 | Josephine-Charlotte | Princess of Belgium |  Belgium |
| 2005 | Gene Baylos | Nightclub comedian | United States(USA) |
| 2005 | James Forman | American Civil Rights leader | United States(USA) |
| 2005 | Kalevi Hamalainen | Former Finnish cross country skier | Finland |
| 2005 | Erwin Hillier | German born cinematographer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2005 | Jack Horner (journalist) | Sports journalist | United States(USA) |
| 2005 | Metropolitan Wasyly | Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (UOCC) |  Ukraine |
| 2007 | Bradford Washburn | American explorer | United States(USA) |
| 2007 | Carlo Ponti | Italian film producer | Italy |
| 2007 | Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr. | American businessman | United States(USA) |
| 2008 | Andres Henestrosa | Mexican writer and politician |  Mexico |
| 2008 | Maila Nurmi | Finnish American actress | Finland |
| 2008 | Christopher Bowman | American figure skater | United States(USA) |
| 2008 | Mikhail Minin | Russian Soviet soldier | Russia |
| 2009 | Bill Stone | British serviceman; one of the last surviving veterans of World War I | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2009 | Jean Pelletier | Canadian politician | Canada |
| 2010 | Mano Solo | French singer | France |
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