| Year | People / Celebrity Name | People / Celebrity Profession | Country |
|---|
| 0842 | Al-Mutasim | Abbasid caliph |  Iraq |
| 1066 | Edward the Confessor | One of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England | -flag.jpg) United States(USA) |
| 1382 | Philippa Plantagenet | The Countess of Ulster suo jure | -flag.jpg) United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1400 | John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury | English nobleman | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1448 | Christopher of Bavaria | Union king of Denmark |  Denmark |
| 1465 | Charles, Duke of Orleans | French poet |  France |
| 1524 | Marko Marulic | Croatian poet |  Croatia |
| 1527 | Felix Manz | Co-founder of the original Swiss Brethren Anabaptist congregation |  Switzerland |
| 1531 | Babur | Moghul emperor of India |  India |
| 1588 | Qi Jiguang | Chinese general |  China |
| 1589 | Catherine de Medici | Wife of Henry II of France | France |
| 1713 | Jean Chardin | French explorer | France |
| 1740 | Antonio Lotti | Italian composer of classical music |  Italy |
| 1762 | Elizabeth of Russia | Empress of Russia |  Russia |
| 1771 | John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford | British statesman | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1823 | George Johnston (New South Wales) | Briefly Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales |  Australia |
| 1846 | Alfred Thomas Agate | American artist | United States(USA) |
| 1858 | Joseph Radetzky von Radetz | Austrian field marshal |  Austria |
| 1860 | John Neumann | Redemptorist missionary to the United States | United States(USA) |
| 1867 | Alexander Smith (poet) | Scottish poet | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1878 | Alfonso Ferrero la Marmora | Italian general and statesman | Italy |
| 1883 | Charles Tompson | Australian public servant | Australia |
| 1888 | Henri Herz | Austrian pianist, composer | Austria |
| 1891 | Emma Abbott | American soprano | United States(USA) |
| 1904 | George Francis Train | American businessman | United States(USA) |
| 1904 | Karl Alfred von Zittel | German palaeontologist |  Germany |
| 1905 | William Claflin | 27th Governor of Massachusetts | United States(USA) |
| 1910 | Leon Walras | French economist | France |
| 1919 | Sumako Matsui | Japanese actress and singer |  Japan |
| 1922 | Sir Ernest Shackleton | British explorer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1929 | Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov | Grand Duke of Russia | Russia |
| 1933 | Calvin Coolidge | 30th President of the United States | United States(USA) |
| 1933 | Arthur Borton | English soldier | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1937 | Marie Booth | The third daughter of William and Catherine Booth | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1937 | Lou Andreas-Salome | Russian-born author | Russia |
| 1939 | Amelia Earhart | American aviator | United States(USA) |
| 1940 | Humbert Wolfe | Italian-born English poet | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1941 | Amy Johnson | English pilot | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1942 | Tina Modotti | Italian photographer, model, actress and revolutionary political activist | Italy |
| 1942 | Clarence Gagnon | Quebecois painter |  Canada |
| 1943 | George Washington Carver | American botanist | United States(USA) |
| 1946 | Kitty Cheatham | American singer and actress | United States(USA) |
| 1951 | Andrei Platonov | Russian writer | Russia |
| 1952 | Hristo Tatarchev | Bulgarian revolutionary |  Bulgaria |
| 1954 | Rabbit Maranville | American baseball player | United States(USA) |
| 1956 | Mistinguett | French vaudeville performer | France |
| 1957 | Jerome E. Steever | American water polo player | United States(USA) |
| 1957 | Oldrich Duras | Czech chess master |  Czech Republic |
| 1963 | Rogers Hornsby | American baseball player | United States(USA) |
| 1970 | Max Born | German physicist, Nobel laureate | Germany |
| 1970 | Cyril Fagan | Astrologer | United States(USA) |
| 1970 | Robert Gerhard | Spanish Catalan composer and musical scholar and writer |  Spain |
| 1971 | Douglas Shearer | Canadian film sound engineer | Canada |
| 1974 | Lev Oborin | Russian pianist | Russia |
| 1974 | Lev Oborin | Russian pianist | Russia |
| 1976 | John A. Costello | Second Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland |  Ireland |
| 1976 | Mal Evans | The road manager, assistant, and a friend of The Beatles | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1978 | Wyatt Emory Cooper | American author and screenwriter | United States(USA) |
| 1979 | Bruno E. Jacob | Professor at Ripon College in Wisconsin and founder of the National Forensics League | United States(USA) |
| 1979 | Charles Mingus | American jazz bassist, composer, bandleader and occasional pianist | United States(USA) |
| 1979 | Billy Bletcher | American actor, comedian, and voice artist | United States(USA) |
| 1981 | Harold Urey | American physical chemist | United States(USA) |
| 1981 | Lanza del Vasto | Philosopher, poet, artist and nonviolent activist | Spain |
| 1982 | Hans Conried | American comic character actor and voice actor | United States(USA) |
| 1982 | Edmund Herring | Australian Army officer during the Second World War | Australia |
| 1982 | Harvey Lembeck | American comedic actor | United States(USA) |
| 1985 | Robert L. Surtees | American cinematographer | United States(USA) |
| 1987 | Herman Smith-Johannsen | Norwegian-Canadian supercentenarian | Canada |
| 1987 | Margaret Laurence | Canadian novelist and short story writer | Canada |
| 1987 | Helenka Pantaleoni | American silent film actress and humanitarian | United States(USA) |
| 1988 | Pete Maravich | American basketball player | United States(USA) |
| 1990 | Arthur Kennedy | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 1991 | Vasko Popa | Serbian poet of Romanian descent |  Serbia |
| 1994 | Tip O Neill | 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | United States(USA) |
| 1994 | Brian Johnston | Cricket commentator | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1995 | Doug McClure | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 1996 | Lincoln Kirstein | American impresario | United States(USA) |
| 1996 | Yahya Ayyash | Chief bombmaker of Hamas and the leader of the West Bank battalion |  Palestine |
| 1997 | Andre Franquin | Belgian cartoonist (Gaston Lagaffe) |  Belgium |
| 1997 | Burton Lane | American composer and lyricist | United States(USA) |
| 1998 | Sonny Bono | American record producer, singer, actor, and politician | United States(USA) |
| 1998 | David Bairstow | English cricketer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2000 | Goseki Kojima | Japanese manga artist | Japan |
| 2001 | Nancy Parsons | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 2003 | Roy Jenkins | British politician | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2003 | Massimo Girotti | Italian film actor | Italy |
| 2003 | Jean Kerr | American author and playwright | United States(USA) |
| 2003 | Doreen Carwithen | British composer of classical and film music | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2004 | Charles Dumas | American high jumper | United States(USA) |
| 2004 | Tug McGraw | Major League Baseball relief pitcher | United States(USA) |
| 2004 | Norman Heatley | Member of the team of Oxford University scientists who developed penicillin | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2005 | Danny Sugerman | Second manager of the Los Angeles-based rock band The Doors | United States(USA) |
| 2006 | Ken Mosdell | Canadian ice hockey player | Canada |
| 2006 | Merlyn Rees | British Labour party Member of Parliament | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2006 | Alex St. Clair | American musician | United States(USA) |
| 2007 | Bo Yibo | Chinese politician | China |
| 2007 | Momofuku Ando | Taiwanese-Japanese businessman | Japan |
| 2007 | Chih Ree Sun | Chinese American physicist | United States(USA) |
| 2009 | Ned Tanen | American movie studio executive behind films | United States(USA) |
| 2010 | Kenneth Noland | American painter | United States(USA) |
| 2010 | Murray Saltzman | Reform Jewish rabbi and civil rights leader | United States(USA) |
| 2010 | Willie Mitchell (musician) | American soul, R&B, rock and roll, pop and funk record producer and arranger | United States(USA) |
| 2013 | Solomon Yurick | American novelist | United States(USA) |
| 2013 | Jeffrey Scott Lewis | American football quarterback and coach | United States(USA) |
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