| Year | People / Celebrity Name | People / Celebrity Profession | Country |
|---|
| 0311 | Pope Peter of Alexandria | Pope of Alexandria |  Italy |
| 1034 | Malcolm II of Scotland | King of the Scots | -flag.jpg) United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1120 | William Adelin | Son of Henry I of England | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1185 | Pope Lucius III | Pope from September 1, 1181 to his death | Italy |
| 1326 | Prince Koreyasu | Japanese shogun |  Japan |
| 1374 | Philip II, Prince of Taranto | Prince of Achaea and Taranto and titular Emperor of Constantinople | Italy |
| 1456 | Jacques Coeur | French merchant |  France |
| 1560 | Andrea Doria | Italian naval leader | Italy |
| 1626 | Edward Alleyn | English Actor | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1686 | Nicolas Steno | Danish geologist |  Denmark |
| 1694 | Ismael Bullialdus | French astronomer | France |
| 1700 | Stephanus Van Cortlandt | American politician | -flag.jpg) United States(USA) |
| 1748 | Isaac Watts | English hymnwriter | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1755 | Johann Georg Pisendel | German musician |  Germany |
| 1785 | Richard Glover (poet) | English poet | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1865 | Heinrich Barth | German explorer | Germany |
| 1884 | Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe | German chemist | Germany |
| 1885 | Thomas A. Hendricks | 21st Vice President of the United States | United States(USA) |
| 1885 | Alfonso XII | King of Spain |  Spain |
| 1894 | Solomon Caesar Malan | British orientalist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1907 | George Herbert Sheldon | American diver | United States(USA) |
| 1909 | Edward P. Allen | Politician from the U.S. state of Michigan | United States(USA) |
| 1920 | Gaston Chevrolet | French born American race car champion driver and automobile manufacturer | United States(USA) |
| 1921 | Ernest James Myers | English poet, Classicist and author | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1925 | Vajiravudh | King of Thailand
|  Thailand |
| 1944 | Kenesaw Mountain Landis | American judge | United States(USA) |
| 1948 | Kanbun Uechi | Founder of Uechi-ryu | Japan |
| 1949 | Bill Bojangles Robinson | American entertainer | United States(USA) |
| 1950 | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen | Danish Nobel laureate | Denmark |
| 1950 | Gustaf John Ramstedt | Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat |  Sweden |
| 1955 | Louis Lachenal | French climber | France |
| 1956 | Alexander Dovzhenko | Film director and screenwriter |  Russia |
| 1959 | Jean Gremillon | French film director | France |
| 1959 | Gerard Philipe | Prominent French actor | France |
| 1961 | Hubert Van Innis | Belgian archer |  Belgium |
| 1963 | Alexander Marinesko | Soviet sailor and during World War II, the captain of the S-13 submarine, which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff |  Ukraine |
| 1965 | Dame Myra Hess | English pianist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1968 | Paul Siple | American Antarctic explorer | United States(USA) |
| 1970 | Yukio Mishima | Japanese author, poet and playwright | Japan |
| 1970 | Albert Ayler | American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer | United States(USA) |
| 1972 | Henri Coanda | Romanian aerodynamics pioneer |  Romania |
| 1973 | Laurence Harvey | Lithuanian-born British and American film actor | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1974 | U Thant | Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations |  Myanmar |
| 1974 | Nick Drake | English singer, songwriter and musician | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1977 | Richard Carlson | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 1981 | Morris Kirksey | American rugby football player | United States(USA) |
| 1981 | Jack Albertson | American character actor | United States(USA) |
| 1984 | Yashwantrao Chavan | First Chief Minister of Maharashtra |  India |
| 1985 | Ray Jablonski | American third baseman in Major League Baseball | United States(USA) |
| 1985 | Franz Hildebrandt | German born Lutheran and later Methodist, pastor and theologian | Germany |
| 1987 | Harold Washington | American lawyer and politician | United States(USA) |
| 1989 | Alva R. Fitch | Lieutenant general in the United States Army | United States(USA) |
| 1989 | Alva Revista Fitch | Lieutenant general in the United States Army | United States(USA) |
| 1993 | Burgess Whitehead | American baseball player | United States(USA) |
| 1995 | Leon Zitrone | Russian born French journalist and television presenter | France |
| 1995 | Alan Nicholls | English football goalkeeper | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1997 | Cathee Dahmen | American fashion model | United States(USA) |
| 1997 | Hastings Banda | Leader of Malawi and its predecessor state |  Malawi |
| 1998 | Flip Wilson | American comedian and actor | United States(USA) |
| 1998 | Nelson Goodman | American philosopher | United States(USA) |
| 2000 | James Deetz | American anthropologist | United States(USA) |
| 2000 | Hugh Alexander (baseball) | American baseball outfielder | United States(USA) |
| 2000 | James Deetz | American anthropologist | United States(USA) |
| 2001 | Harry Devlin | Artist and a painter | United States(USA) |
| 2002 | Karel Reisz | British film director | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2005 | Richard Burns | British rally driver | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2005 | George Best | Northern Irish professional football player | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2006 | Luciano Bottaro | Italian comic book artist | Italy |
| 2006 | Kenneth M. Taylor | New Army Air Forces Second Lieutenant pilot stationed at Pearl Harbor | United States(USA) |
| 2006 | Valentin Elizalde | Mexican banda music singer |  Mexico |
| 2006 | Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner | American actress, journalist, childrens book publisher, and the co-founder of Beginner Books | United States(USA) |
| 2007 | Kevin DuBrow | American rock singer | United States(USA) |
| 2007 | Peter Lipton | Hans Rausing Professor and Head of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science | United States(USA) |
| 2010 | Peter Christopherson | Musician, video director and designer, and former member of the influential British design agency Hipgnosis | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2010 | Bernard Matthews | Founder of Bernard Matthews Farms Limited | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2010 | Peter Christopherson | Musician, video director and designer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2010 | Alfred Balk | Magazine writer, editor and journalist book author | United States(USA) |
| 2010 | C. Scott Littleton | American anthropologist and academic | United States(USA) |
| 2011 | Henry Lee Shot Williams | American blues singer | United States(USA) |
| 2012 | Earl Carroll (vocalist) | Lead vocalist for the doo wop group The Cadillacs | United States(USA) |
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