| Year | People / Celebrity Name | People / Celebrity Profession | Country |
|---|
| 0710 | Rupert of Salzburg | Saint in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches and a founder of the Austrian city |  Austria |
| 0973 | Hermann Billung | Margrave of Saxony |  Germany |
| 1378 | Pope Gregory XI | He was the last of the Avignon Popes |  Italy |
| 1462 | Vasili II | Grand Prince of Moscow |  Russia |
| 1482 | Mary of Burgundy | Daughter of Charles the Bold and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor |  France |
| 1555 | William Hunter (Protestant martyr) | Marian martyr burnt to death in Brentwood at the age of 19 | -flag.jpg) United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1572 | Girolamo Maggi | Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planner, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician and naturalist | Italy |
| 1615 | Margaret of Valois | Wife of Henry IV | France |
| 1625 | James VI and I | King of Scotland as James VI, and King of England and King of Ireland as James I | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1635 | Robert Naunton | English politician and writer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1676 | Bernardino de Rebolledo | Spanish poet, soldier and diplomat |  Spain |
| 1697 | Simon Bradstreet | Massachusetts Bay colonist | -flag.jpg) United States(USA) |
| 1714 | Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel | Queen-consort of Denmark and Norway |  Denmark |
| 1757 | Johann Stamitz | Czech violinist and composer |  Czech Republic |
| 1770 | Giovanni Battista Tiepolo | Italian painter | Italy |
| 1809 | Joseph-Marie Vien | French painter | France |
| 1812 | Joachim Albertini | Italian-born composer | Italy |
| 1827 | Francois Alexandre Frederic | French social reformer | France |
| 1836 | James Fannin | 19th-century U.S. military figure on the Texas Army and leader during the Texas Revolution | United States(USA) |
| 1843 | Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal | German jurist | Germany |
| 1849 | Archibald Acheson,2nd Earl of Gosford | British politician | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1850 | Wilhelm Beer | Banker and astronomer | Germany |
| 1864 | Jean-Jacques Ampere | French philologist and man of letters | France |
| 1865 | Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp | Dutch classical scholar and critic |  Netherlands |
| 1873 | Amedee Simon Dominique Thierry | French journalist and historian | France |
| 1875 | Edgar Quinet | French historian and intellectual | France |
| 1878 | George Gilbert Scott | English architect of the Victorian Age | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1879 | Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1868 - 1879) | Sixth child of Crown Prince Friedrich | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1889 | John Bright | British Radical and Liberal statesman | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1897 | Andreas Anagnostakis | Greek physician |  Greece |
| 1898 | Sir Syed Ahmad Khan | Indian Muslim intellectual |  India |
| 1910 | Alexander Emanuel Agassiz | American scientist and son of Louis Agassiz | United States(USA) |
| 1918 | Henry Adams | American historian and novelist | United States(USA) |
| 1923 | James Dewar | Scottish chemist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1924 | Walter Parratt | English organist and composer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1924 | Byron Edmund Walker | President of the Canadian Bank of Commerce |  Canada |
| 1926 | Georges Vezina | Canadian ice hockey player | Canada |
| 1927 | Joe Start | American baseball player | United States(USA) |
| 1931 | Arnold Bennett | British novelist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1934 | Francis William Reitz | South African lawyer and politician, 5th State President of the Orange Free State |  South Africa |
| 1938 | Tom Seeberg | Norwegian rifle shooter |  Norway |
| 1940 | Michael Joseph Savage | First Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand |  New Zealand |
| 1967 | Jaroslav Heyrovsky | Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate | Czech Republic |
| 1968 | Yuri Gagarin | Soviet cosmonaut | Russia |
| 1972 | Sharkey Bonano | American musician | United States(USA) |
| 1972 | M. C. Escher | Dutch artist | Netherlands |
| 1977 | Diana Hyland | Emmy Award-winning American actress | United States(USA) |
| 1977 | A. P. Hamann | City manager of San Jose, California | United States(USA) |
| 1977 | Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten | Dutch aircraft captain and flight instructor | Netherlands |
| 1978 | Nat Bailey | Canadian restaurateur | Canada |
| 1979 | Phil Vincent | British motorcycle designer and manufacturer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1981 | Mao Dun | Chinese writer |  China |
| 1982 | Betty Schade | German born American actress | United States(USA) |
| 1982 | Fazlur Rahman Khan | Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect | India |
| 1988 | Renato Salvatori | Italian multi-purpose character actor | Italy |
| 1989 | May Allison | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 1989 | Malcolm Cowley | American literary critic | United States(USA) |
| 1989 | Jack Starrett | American actor and film director | United States(USA) |
| 1990 | Robert B. Meyner | American politician | United States(USA) |
| 1991 | Aldo Ray | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 1991 | Ralph Bates | English film and television actor | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1993 | Elizabeth Holloway Marston | American psychologist | United States(USA) |
| 1993 | Clifford Jordan | Jazz saxophone player | United States(USA) |
| 1993 | Paul Laszla | Hungarian born modern architect and interior designer | United States(USA) |
| 1996 | Howard Wyeth | American drummer and pianist | United States(USA) |
| 1998 | Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche | Austrian technical automobile designer and automaker, entrepreneur | Austria |
| 1998 | David McClelland | American psychological theorist | United States(USA) |
| 1998 | Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche | Austrian technical automobile designer and automaker-entrepreneur |  Hungary |
| 1999 | Mighty Joe Young | American Chicago blues guitarist | United States(USA) |
| 2000 | Ian Dury | English rock and roll singer, songwriter and bandleader | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2002 | Billy Wilder | Austrian-born director | Austria |
| 2002 | Milton Berle | American comedian | United States(USA) |
| 2002 | Dudley Moore | English actor, comedian and composer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2003 | Paul Zindel | American playwright, author and educator | United States(USA) |
| 2003 | Daniel Ceccaldi | French actor | France |
| 2003 | Ricardo Munguia (aid worker) | Salvadoran aid worker |  El Salvador |
| 2004 | Adan Sanchez | Popular Mexican-American singer | United States(USA) |
| 2004 | Art James | American game show host | United States(USA) |
| 2005 | Grant Johannesen | American pianist | United States(USA) |
| 2005 | Ahmad Zaki (actor) | Leading Egyptian film star |  Egypt |
| 2005 | Bob Casey (baseball announcer) | Baseball announcer | United States(USA) |
| 2006 | Lyn Nofziger | American political operative | United States(USA) |
| 2006 | Stanislaw Lem | Polish writer |  Poland |
| 2006 | Rudolf Vrba | Slovak-Canadian professor | Canada |
| 2006 | Ian Hamilton Finlay | Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2006 | Dan Curtis | American director and producer of television and film | United States(USA) |
| 2006 | Ruari McLean | Leading British typographic designer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2007 | Paul Lauterbur | American chemist | United States(USA) |
| 2008 | Jean-Marie Balestre | French auto racing executive, who was president of FISA and FIA | France |
| 2008 | George Pruteanu | Romanian literary critic, university professor and politician |  Romania |
| 2009 | Irving R. Levine | American journalist and longtime correspondent for NBC News | United States(USA) |
| 2009 | Jack Dreyfus | American financial expert and the founder of the Dreyfus Funds | United States(USA) |
| 2010 | Vasily Smyslov | Russian chess grandmaster and was World Chess Champion | Russia |
| 2012 | Warren Albert Stevens | American stage, screen and television actor | United States(USA) |
| 2013 | Fay Kanin | American screenwriter, playwright and producer | United States(USA) |
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