| Year | People / Celebrity Name | People / Celebrity Profession | Country |
|---|
| 0054 | Aurelia Cotta | Mother of Roman dictator Gaius Julius Caesar |  Italy |
| 1396 | William Courtenay | Archbishop of Canterbury | -flag.jpg) United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1508 | Naod | Emperor of Ethiopia |  Ethiopia |
| 1556 | Ignatius of Loyola | Spanish founder of the Jesuit order |  Spain |
| 1653 | Thomas Dudley | English born American colonial magistrate | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1726 | Nicolaus II Bernoulli | Swiss mathematician |  Switzerland |
| 1750 | John V of Portugal | King of Portugal |  Portugal |
| 1762 | Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla | Spanish sailor | Spain |
| 1784 | Denis Diderot | French philosopher and encylopedist |  France |
| 1805 | Dheeran Chinnamalai | Kongu chieftain and Palayakkarar from Tamil Nadu |  India |
| 1849 | Sandor Petofi | Hungarian poet and revolutionary |  Hungary |
| 1854 | Samuel Wilson | Possible namesake of Uncle Sam | -flag.jpg) United States(USA) |
| 1864 | Louis Christophe Francois Hachette | French publisher | France |
| 1875 | Andrew Johnson (President) | 17th President of the United States | United States(USA) |
| 1884 | Kien Phuc | 7th emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty |  Vietnam |
| 1886 | Franz Liszt | Hungarian pianist and composer | Hungary |
| 1895 | Richard Morris Hunt | American educator | United States(USA) |
| 1914 | Jean Jaures | French Socialist leader | France |
| 1917 | Francis Ledwidge | Irish war poet |  Ireland |
| 1917 | Hedd Wyn | Welsh poet | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1920 | Ion Dragoumis | Greek diplomat, writer and revolutionary |  Greece |
| 1939 | Stefanos Thomopoulos | Greek writer and historian | Greece |
| 1940 | Udham Singh | Indian independence activist | India |
| 1942 | Francis Younghusband | British explorer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1943 | Hedley Verity | English cricketer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1944 | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | French writer | France |
| 1952 | Waldemar Bonsels | German writer |  Germany |
| 1953 | Robert Alphonso Taft | U.S. Senator from Ohio | United States(USA) |
| 1953 | Nikolay Zelinsky | Russian and Soviet chemist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of USSR |  Russia |
| 1954 | Onofre Marimon | Racing driver |  Argentina |
| 1963 | Sir Robert Chapman, 1st Baronet | British soldier and Conservative Party politician | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1964 | Jim Reeves | American singer | United States(USA) |
| 1966 | Bud Powell | American Jazz pianist | United States(USA) |
| 1970 | Walter Briggs, Jr. | American sports executive | United States(USA) |
| 1970 | Booker Telleferro Ervin II | American tenor saxophone player | United States(USA) |
| 1972 | Paul-Henri Spaak | Belgian politician |  Belgium |
| 1973 | Azumafuji Kinichi | Japanese sumo wrestler |  Japan |
| 1980 | Pascual Jordan | German physicist | Germany |
| 1980 | Bobby Van (actor) | American singer | United States(USA) |
| 1980 | Mohammed Rafi | Popular Indian playback singer | India |
| 1981 | Omar Torrijos | Panamanian ruler |  Panama |
| 1985 | Murray Chapple | New Zealand cricketer |  New Zealand |
| 1986 | Chiune Sugihara | Japanese diplomat | Japan |
| 1986 | Teddy Wilson | Jazz pianist from the United States | United States(USA) |
| 1987 | Joseph E. Levine | American film producer | United States(USA) |
| 1988 | Trinidad Silva | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 1990 | Albert Leduc | Canadian ice hockey player |  Canada |
| 1992 | Leonard Cheshire | British RAF Pilot | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1993 | Baudouin of Belgium | King of the Belgians | Belgium |
| 1996 | Seagram (rapper) | American rapper | United States(USA) |
| 2000 | William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. | American novelist and editor | United States(USA) |
| 2001 | Francisco da Costa Gomes | 16th President of Portugal | Portugal |
| 2001 | Poul Anderson | American science fiction author who wrote during a Golden Age of the genre | United States(USA) |
| 2001 | Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenb | Heir apparent to the throne of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and a member of the SS | Germany |
| 2002 | Jerome Beatty Jr. | 20th-century author of childrens literature | United States(USA) |
| 2003 | Guido Crepax | Italian comics artist | Italy |
| 2004 | Virginia Grey | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 2004 | Laura Betti | Italian actress | Italy |
| 2005 | Wim Duisenberg | Dutch Politician, Economist and Financier |  Netherlands |
| 2006 | Paul Eells | American sportscaster | United States(USA) |
| 2008 | Lee Young | American jazz drummer and singer | United States(USA) |
| 2009 | Sir Bobby Robson | Former international football player and former manager of several European clubs and the England national football team | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2009 | Harry Alan Towers | British born radio and film producer and screenwriter | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2010 | Mitch Miller | American entertainer | United States(USA) |
| 2012 | Gore Vidal | American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter and political activist | United States(USA) |
Follow @holidayyear