December 30th Events in History | |
| 2006 | Saddam Hussein is hanged in Baghdad |
| 1997 | An abandoned building collapses on New York's 42nd St, no one hurt |
| 1995 | Carquest Bowl 6: North Carolina beats Arkansas, 20-10 |
| 1993 | Candles, Snow, and Mistletoe closes at Palace New York City after 7 performances |
| 1993 | Singer Deni Hines (22) weds INXS guitarist Kirk Pengilly (35) |
| 1993 | Vatican recognizes Israel |
| 1992 | Last day of Test Cricket for Michael Whitney |
| 1992 | Shane Warne takes 7-52 to lead Australian MCG win vs. West Indies |
| 1990 | Miser closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 93 performances |
| 1990 | 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000 |
| 1989 | 10th United Negro College Fund raises $12,000,000 |
| 1989 | Dmitri Volkov swims world record 50m freestyle (27.15 sec) |
| 1988 | Canadian Senate OK's free trade pact; with US |
| 1988 | Former Soviet President Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery) |
| 1988 | Mercedes-Benz pays $20.2-M fine failed to meet '86 government fuel standard |
| 1988 | North subpoenas Reagan and Bush as defense witnesses for upcoming trial |
| 1987 | Australia hang on for draw vs. New Zealand at MCG, 1 wkt left 17 runs short |
| 1987 | Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe |
| 1985 | IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released |
| 1985 | Pakistan restores constitution |
| 1984 | Miss Elizabeth (Hulette) and Macho Man Randy Savage (Poffo) wed |
| 1982 | Anthony Shaffers "Whodunnit," premieres in New York City |
| 1982 | England defeat Australia by three runs at cricket MCG |
| 1982 | U.S. Assay Office in New York City, New York closes |
| 1981 | Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record of 50 goals by 39th game of season |
| 1980 | Wonderful World of Disney, last performance on NBC-TV |
| 1979 | Rock group, Emerson, Lake and Palmer break up |
| 1979 | Togo adopts constitution |
| 1978 | King and I closes at Uris Theater New York City after 719 performances |
| 1978 | Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach |
| 1977 | Carter holds 1st news conference by U.S. President in Eastern Europe (Warsaw) |
| 1976 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1975 | Boccaccio closes at Edison Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| 1975 | Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force |
| 1974 | Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought) |
| 1973 | 1st picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab) |
| 1973 | Miami Dolphins beat Oakland Raiders 27-10 in AFC championship game |
| 1973 | Minnesota Vikings beat Dallas Cowboys 27-10 in NFC championship game |
| 1972 | Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam and announces peace talks |
| 1971 | Long Island NHL franchise purchased (New York Islanders) |
| 1971 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1970 | Paul McCartney sues his bandmates to dissolve the Beatles |
| 1969 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1968 | -48 degrees F (-44 degrees C), Mazama and Winthrop, Washington (state record) |
| 1967 | Beatles' "Hello Goodbye," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks |
| 1967 | Great Western Forum opens in LA |
| 1965 | Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated as president of the Phillipines |
| 1964 | Edward Albee's "Tiny Alice," premieres in New York City |
| 1963 | Let's Make A Deal, debuts on NBC-TV |
| 1963 | Congress authorizes Kennedy half dollar |
| 1963 | Green Bay Packers win NFL championship |
| 1962 | Green Bay Packers beat New York Giants 16-7 in NFL championship game |
| 1961 | Moscow: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 4th Symphony (out 1936) |
| 1959 | George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned |
| 1958 | French franc devalued |
| 1957 | Israeli government of Ben-Gurion, resigns |
| 1957 | New York Giants win NFL championship |
| 1956 | New York Giants beat Chicago Bears 47-7 in NFL championship game |
| 1954 | House of Flowers opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 165 performances |
| 1954 | 1st use of 24-sec shot clock in pro basketball (Rochester vs Boston) |
| 1954 | Harold Arlen/Truman Capotes musical premieres in New York City |
| 1952 | Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US |
| 1950 | Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia become Independent states in France Union |
| 1949 | India recognizes People's Republic of China |
| 1948 | Kiss Me, Kate opens at New Century Theater New York City for 1077 performances |
| 1947 | 36th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1) |
| 1947 | King Michael of Romania, forced by communists abdicates his throne |
| 1947 | Romanian republic proclaimed |
| 1944 | King George II of Greece, abdicates his throne |
| 1943 | Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps and cash |
| 1941 | Al Capone's son Sonny marries in Miami Beach |
| 1941 | Nazibezetters oblige artsen member to become of Artsenkamer |
| 1941 | Nazis require Dutch physicians to join Nazi organization |
| 1941 | Winston Churchill addresses Canadian parliament |
| 1940 | California's 1st freeway, (Arroyo Seco Parkway), opens |
| 1939 | Bradman scores 267 SA vs. Vic, world record 34th double cricket century |
| 1939 | O'Reilly takes 14-45 (8-23 and 6-22) as NSW crush Qld in 2 days |
| 1938 | Electronic television system patented by V. K. Zworykin |
| 1936 | United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant |
| 1935 | Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia |
| 1933 | -50 degrees F (-46 degrees C) in Bloomfield, Vermont (state record) |
| 1933 | Government disallows NSB-membership for civil service |
| 1933 | Jack Badcock scores 274 vs. Victoria, Tasmania's 1st double-ton |
| 1932 | Bradman out for a duck vs. England at cricket MCG |
| 1929 | Cole Porter's musical "Wake Up and Dream," premieres in New York City |
| 1929 | Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates |
| 1927 | Japan dedicates 1st subway in Orient (route under 2 miles long) |
| 1926 | Paul Eliot Greens "In Abraham's Bosom," premieres in New York City |
| 1926 | Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substaniated) |
| 1925 | NSW score 705 against Victoria, go from 8-475 to 9-701 |
| 1924 | Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems |
| 1922 | Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR |
| 1918 | John E Hoover decides to be called J Edgar Hoover |
| 1917 | -32 degrees F (-36 degrees C) in Mountain City, Tennessee (state record) |
| 1917 | -37 degrees F (-38 degrees C) in Lewisburg, WV (state record) |
| 1915 | Cromarty Harbour, Scot-British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die |
| 1913 | Barnes takes 17 wickets vs South Africa (8-56 and 9-103) |
| 1911 | Crickets S F Barnes takes 5-6 in 1st 11 overs vs. Australia at MCG |
| 1911 | Sun Yat-sen elected 1st President of Republic of China |
| 1908 | Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers outscore Edmonton, 13-10 in 2 game set |
| 1907 | Abraham Mills' commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball |
| 1906 | Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy |
| 1903 | American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans |
| 1903 | Fire at Chicago's Iriquois Theater kills 602 |
| 1897 | Province of Zululand annexed to Natal colony |
| 1896 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-5 |
| 1893 | Russia signs military accord with France |
| 1892 | Dr. Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal |
| 1888 | Belgium: king Leopold II installs Order of African Star |
| 1884 | Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony in E, premieres in Leipzig |
| 1879 | Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance," premieres |
| 1877 | Johnannes Brahms' 2nd Symphony in D, premieres in Vienna |
| 1875 | Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms |
| 1873 | American Metrological Society forms (New York City) weights, measures and money |
| 1869 | Philadelphia Knights of Labor forms |
| 1861 | US, banks stops payments in gold |
| 1854 | Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in U.S., incorporated in New York City |
| 1853 | Gadsden Purchase 45,000 mi (120,000 km) by Gila River from Mexico for $10 million, area is now southern Arizona and New Mexico |
| 1844 | Opera "Stradella" after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg) |
| 1836 | Lehman-theater in St. Petersburg catches fire; 100s die |
| 1835 | After gold discovery in Ga, Cherokees forced to move across Miss R |
| 1835 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin sail from New Zealand to Sydney |
| 1817 | 1st coffee planted in Hawaii (Kona) |
| 1813 | Danzig surrenders to allied armies |
| 1809 | Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston |
| 1794 | French troops conquer Grave, Netherlands |
| 1731 | 1st U.S. music concert (Peter Pelham's great room in Boston) |
| 1703 | Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die |
| 1689 | Henry Purcell and Tates opera "Dido and Aeneas," premieres in Chesea |
| 1685 | Don Francisco de Agurto installed as land guardian of S Netherlands |
| 1672 | Baron Karl Rabenhaupt occupies Coevorden, Netherlands |
| 1666 | Abraham Crijnssen departs to Suriname |
| 1665 | Messiah Sjabtai Tswi departs to Constantinople |
| 1621 | English king James I cracks Protestation of Parliament |
| 1317 | Pontifical degree "Sancta Romania" against spiritualists |
| 987 | French King Hugo Capet crowns his son Robert the compassionate king |
| 274 | St. Felix I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
December 30th Birthdays in History | |
| 1984 | LeBron James, American Athlete |
| 1983 | Rachel and Ross Trudeau, twins of Jane Pauley and Gerry Trudeau |
| 1982 | Kristin Kreuk, Canadian Actress |
| 1980 | Eliza Dushku, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, This Boy's Life, True Lies, Journey |
| 1976 | Rhoshii Wells, born in Austin, Texas, middleweight boxer 1996 Olympics bronze |
| 1976 | Solveig Lilja Gudmundsdottir, Miss Iceland Universe 1997 |
| 1975 | Tiger Woods, born in Cypress, California, pro golfer, highest paid pro athlete, most successful golfer of all time |
| 1973 | Don Reid, NBA guard and forward, Detroit Pistons |
| 1973 | Robert Walker, Australian rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Ato Boldon, born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, athlete, world's fastest human sprinter, 4-time World Champion and Olympic medalist |
| 1973 | Jason Behr, American Actor |
| 1972 | Kerry Collins, NFL quarterback for the Carolina Panthers |
| 1972 | Loren Meyer, NBA center, Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks |
| 1972 | Maureen Flannigan, actress, Evie-Out of This World |
| 1971 | Scotty Lewis, WLAF defensive end for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1971 | Steve Hardin, NFL/WLAF offensive tackle, Ind Colts, Rhein Fire |
| 1971 | Sylvester Wright, NFL linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1971 | Thomas Strzalkowski, Krakow Poland, U.S. fencer-sabre 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Grant Carter, CFL defensive end for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers |
| 1970 | Gus Nketia, Auckland New Zealand, 100m sprint 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Kevin Salvadori, NBA center for the Sacramento Kings |
| 1970 | Robert Hall, WLAF wide reciever for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1969 | Anthuan Maybank, Georgetown, South Carolina, 200m/400m runner |
| 1969 | Jeff Thomason, NFL tight end, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31 |
| 1969 | Michelle McGann, West Palm Beach, Florida, golfer, 1995 Sara Lee Classic |
| 1969 | Jay Kay, English Musician |
| 1968 | Kevin Dahl, Regina, NHL defenseman for the Calgary Flames |
| 1968 | Sean Higgins, NBA guard and forward, Philadelphia 76ers, Portland Trailblazers |
| 1967 | Colleen Miller, Winnipeg Manitoba, rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1965 | Brad McNamara, cricketer, NSW all-rounder |
| 1965 | David Baker, Sheffield England, U.K. cyclist |
| 1965 | Tony Jones, WLAF receiver, Amsterdam Admirals, Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1964 | Kimberly Taylor, Cindy, model/Penthouse Pet 1990 |
| 1964 | Kris Tschetter, born in Detroit, Michigan, LPGA golfer, 1992 Northgate Computer |
| 1963 | Alessandra Mussolini, Naples Italy, actress, Ferragosto OK |
| 1963 | Johnny van 't Schip, Dutch soccer star, Ajax, Genua |
| 1963 | Milan Srejber, Czechoslovakia, tennis star |
| 1963 | Robert Jenkins, NFL tackle for the Oakland Raiders |
| 1962 | Paul Crowder, rocker, The Adventures-Sea of Love |
| 1961 | Sue Malaxos, Australian marathoner 1996 Olympics |
| 1961 | Sean Hannity, American Writer |
| 1961 | Douglas Coupland, Canadian Writer |
| 1960 | Addy Bucek, Australian 470 class yachter, Olympics-9-92, 96 |
| 1960 | Heather Wilson, American Politician |
| 1959 | Tracey Ullman, born in Slough, England, singer and actress, Tracey Ullman Show |
| 1958 | Brandon Clark, New York City, actor, Sean-The Fitzpatricks |
| 1958 | Steven L Smith, Phoenix Arizona, astronaut, STS-68, 82 |
| 1957 | Matt Lauer, TV host, Today Show |
| 1957 | Patricia Kalember, Schnectady, New York, actress, Georgie Whitsig-Sisters |
| 1957 | Margaret Spellings, American Public Servant |
| 1956 | Cherie Samba, Mbimba N'zinga, Zaire painter, Pitie la prostituee |
| 1956 | Patricia Kalember, actress, Sisters |
| 1956 | Sheryl Lee Ralph, actress, Moesia, Designing Women |
| 1956 | Suzy Bogguss, born in Aledo, Illinois, singer, I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart |
| 1953 | Daniel T Barry, Norwalk, Connecticut, PhD/MD/astronaut, STS-72 |
| 1952 | Larry Bartlett, photographic printer |
| 1952 | Somtow Sucharitkul, SP Somtow, Thailand, science fiction author, Utopia Hunters |
| 1951 | Nancy LaMott, born in New York City, New York, singer, cabaret genre, album 'Ask Me Again' ranked 12th in Billboard Magazine's Top Jazz Albums chart, performed twice for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton |
| 1950 | Yunus I Mahomed, South African attorney/leader, UDF |
| 1950 | Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish Scientist |
| 1949 | Bruce Davidson, equestrian 3-day, 1996 Olympics silver |
| 1948 | Surinder Amarnath, cricketer, son of Lala 124 on debut vs. New Zealand 1976 |
| 1947 | Jeff Lynne, rocker, ELO-Telephone Line, Travelling Wilburys |
| 1947 | Michael Burns, Mineola LI, actor, Barnaby West-Wagon Train |
| 1947 | Stephanus S "Tian" van Merwe, leader, South Africa Democratic Party |
| 1945 | Davy Jones, born in Manchester, England, singer, Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville |
| 1945 | John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot |
| 1945 | Preston Andrew Trombly, composer |
| 1945 | Lloyd Kaufman, American Director |
| 1943 | Rolf Gehlhaar, born in Breslau, Poland, composer, known for computer-controlled composition, sound installations using Sound Space system |
| 1942 | Fred Ward, SD California, actor, Chain Reaction, Thunderheart, Equinox |
| 1942 | Michael Nesmith, born in Houston, rocker, Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville |
| 1942 | Robert Quine, born in Akron, Ohio, guitarist, guitar soloist, worked with Matthew Sweet, Marianne Faithfull, style combines jazz, rock, blues |
| 1940 | James Burrows, TV producer/director, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cheers |
| 1939 | Doeke Eisma, sociologist/Dutch MP, D66 |
| 1939 | Kim Weston, American Musician |
| 1938 | Joseph Bologna, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Citizen Cohn, My Favorite Year |
| 1937 | John Hartford, born in New York City, country singer, Gentle on My Mind |
| 1937 | Paul Stookey, singer/musician, Peter, Paul, and Mary |
| 1937 | Gordon Banks, English Athlete |
| 1935 | Bruno Canino, born in Naples, Italy, composer, pianist, chamber musician, accompanist, studied with Vincenzo Vitale, and in Milan with Bruno Bettinelli, music director of Biennale di Venezia, recordings include Bach Goldberg Variations |
| 1935 | Sandy Koufax, Dodger pitcher, Cy Young 1963, 1965, 1966, perfect-1967 |
| 1935 | Omar Bongo, born in Lewai, French Equatorial Africa, now Bongoville, Gabon, El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba, Albert-Bernard Bongo, statesman, Gabonese Democratic Party, President of Gabon at age 31 |
| 1934 | Barry Briggs, New Zealand auto maker, World Champion 1957, 58, 64, 66 |
| 1934 | Russ Tamblyn, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Win Place or Steal, Twin Peaks |
| 1934 | Del Shannon, American Musician |
| 1932 | John Hillerman, Denison, Texas, actor, Magnum PI, Blazing Saddles |
| 1931 | Charles A. Bassett II, Dayton Ohio, Captain USAF/astronaut |
| 1931 | Skeeter Davis, Mary Penick, Dry Ridge, Kentucky, singer, End of World |
| 1930 | Jerome Theisen, benedictine |
| 1929 | Barbara Nichols, Jamaica, New York, actress, Dear Heart, Disorderly Orderly |
| 1929 | Bob Bouma, Dutch TV host, For a Postcard in the Front Row |
| 1928 | Bo Diddley, born in Mississippi, acclaimed as a founder of American rock and roll, singer, guitarist, songwriter |
| 1928 | Jack Lord, New York City, actor, Steve McGarrett-Hawaii 5-0, God's Little Acre |
| 1927 | Bernard Barrow, New York City, actor, Ryan's Hope, Louie Slavinsky-Loving |
| 1927 | M Lawrence Antouin, college president, Emeritis |
| 1926 | Stanley Tracey, composer |
| 1923 | Sara A. Lidman, Swedish author, Jag Och Min Son, Samtal in Hanoi |
| 1921 | Michael Hollings, catholic priest/crusader |
| 1921 | Rashid Karami, Lebanon, 10 time PM: 1955..87 of Lebanon |
| 1920 | Aad de Haas, Dutch religious painter/graphic artist/cartoonist |
| 1920 | Michael Allinson, born in London, England, George Washington |
| 1919 | David Valentine Willcocks, composer |
| 1919 | Dick Spooner, England, cricket wicketkeeper, Godfrey Evans' shadow |
| 1919 | Jo Van Fleet, Oakland, actress, Gunfight at OK Corral, East of Eden |
| 1918 | W. Eugene Smith, U.S. photographer, Saipan, Walk to Paradise Garden |
| 1918 | Al Purdy, Canadian Poet |
| 1917 | Nancy Coleman, Everett, Washington, actress, Edge of Darkness |
| 1914 | Bert Parks, Jacobson, born in Atlanta, Georgia, TV host, Miss America |
| 1913 | Svend Simon Schultz, composer |
| 1911 | Jeanette Nolan, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Richard Boone Show, Virginian |
| 1910 | Dennis Morgan, actor, Cattle Town, Canyon Pass, Waterfront |
| 1910 | Herman van der Horst, Dutch cinematographer, Faja Lobbi |
| 1910 | Paul Frederic Bowles, U.S. composer/writer, Shelting Sky |
| 1910 | Paul Bowles, American Composer |
| 1907 | Christina E "Christine" Auwen, Dutch model/singer, Haghezangers |
| 1907 | Robert Grant Grant-Ferris, politician |
| 1906 | Carol Reed, motion picture director, 3rd Man |
| 1906 | Johan A earl von Kielmansegg, German general/commandant NATO-Europe |
| 1905 | Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher |
| 1904 | Dmitri B Kabalevsky, St. Petersburg Russia, composer, In the Fire, |
| 1899 | Helge Ingstad, Norwegian Explorer |
| 1898 | Vincent Lopez, born in Brooklyn, New York, orchestra leader, Welcome Aboard |
| 1896 | Tom Keene, born in Rochester, New York, actor, Our Daily Bread |
| 1895 | August De Boodt, Belgian politician |
| 1892 | Jaromir Fiala, composer |
| 1892 | John Litel, Albany WI, actor, Virginia City, My Hero |
| 1891 | Antoine Pinay, French premier, 1952, minister of Foreign affairs |
| 1889 | Georg von der Vring, German painter/writer, Soldier Suhren |
| 1887 | Henry George Ley, composer |
| 1884 | Karl Heinrich David, composer |
| 1884 | Tojo Hideki, Japanese Prime Minister during WW II |
| 1883 | Lester Patrick, NHL pioneer |
| 1883 | Mary Forbes, Hornsey England, actress, Terror by Night |
| 1880 | Alfred Einstein, German/U.S. musicologist/nephew of Albert Einstein |
| 1879 | Sri Ramana Maharshi, Hindu philosopher/yogi, Maharshi Research Inst |
| 1873 | Alfred E. Smith, American Politician |
| 1872 | William A. Larned, tennis champ, U.S. Open-1901 |
| 1869 | Adolphe Max, Belgian Rep, Lib |
| 1869 | Stephen Leacock, Canada, economist/humorist/professor |
| 1867 | Simon Guggenheim, philanthropist, died aboard Titanic |
| 1865 | Rudyard Kipling, Bombay, author, Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907 |
| 1864 | Alessandro Longo, composer |
| 1859 | Josef Bohuslav Foerster, composer |
| 1855 | Heinrich Hart, German writer, Song of Humanity |
| 1853 | Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer |
| 1851 | Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola |
| 1848 | Mary Frances Allitsen, composer |
| 1847 | John Peter Altgeld, German/U.S., Gov-Ill, pardoned Haymarket-anarchists |
| 1828 | Mark Perrin Lowrey, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1819 | John White Geary, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1819 | Theodor Fontane, German writer, Effi Briest |
| 1818 | James Cantey, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1816 | William Alexander Henry, Canadian Lawyer |
| 1784 | Dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven |
| 1775 | Heinrich Carl Ebell, composer |
| 1756 | Pavel Vranicky, composer |
| 1741 | Bartolomeo Giacometti, composer |
| 1678 | William Croft, composer |
| 1676 | John Philips, English Poet |
| 1644 | Philips van Almonde, Dutch Zeeuws lt-admiral |
| 1569 | Georg Quitschreiber, composer |
| 1566 | Alessandro Piccinini, composer |
| 39 | Titus, 10th Roman emperor, 79-81, conqueror of Jerusalem |
December 30th Deaths in History | |
| 2004 | Artie Shaw, clarinetist/bandleader, dies at 93 |
| 2003 | Anita Mui, singer/actress, dies at 40 |
| 2003 | John Gregory Dunne, writer, True Confessions, dies at 71 |
| 1999 | Sarah Clark Knauss, oldest person 1999, dies at 119 |
| 1998 | Johnny Roventini, pitchman, Phillip Morris radio and TV ads, dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Jack Nance, actor (Meatballs 4, Whore, Voodoo), murdered at 53 |
| 1996 | Lew Ayres, screen actor (Salem's Lot, State Fair), dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Robert Grant-Ferris, politician, dies at 89 |
| 1995 | Heiner Muller, dramatist, dies at 66 |
| 1995 | Roger W. Suddards, solicitor, dies at 65 |
| 1994 | Lloyd James Austin, french Scholar, dies at 79 |
| 1993 | Mack David, U.S. songwriter (Bachelor in Paradise), dies at 81 |
| 1993 | [Irving Paul] "Swifty" Lazar, superagent, dies of kidney failure at 86 |
| 1992 | Cesar [Caesar] Domela, painter/son of Ferdinand D Nieuwenhuis, dies |
| 1992 | Ling-Ling, 1st panda China gave U.S., dies at 23 |
| 1989 | Madoline Thomas, actress (Girl in the Canal), dies |
| 1979 | Richard Rodgers, composer, Rogers and Hammerstein, dies at 77 |
| 1973 | Henri-Paul Busser, composer, dies at 101 |
| 1971 | Dorothy Comingore, actress (Citizen Kane), dies after illness at 58 |
| 1967 | Bert Berns, U.S. songwriter/producer (Twist and Shout), dies at about 38 |
| 1966 | Christian A Herter, U.S. Minister of Foreign affairs (1959-61), dies at 71 |
| 1966 | Trygve Halvdan Lie, 1st United Nations Secretary-General (1946-53), dies at 72 |
| 1961 | Jacobus "Ko" van den Bosch, Dutch actor (Amsterdamned)/dir, dies at 53 |
| 1959 | Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator, dies at 76 |
| 1952 | Ivan Olbracht, writer, dies |
| 1951 | Jozef E Stokvis, Dutch MP (SDAP), dies at 76 |
| 1947 | Han [Henricus A] van Meegeren, Dutch painter/art forger, dies at 58 |
| 1947 | Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician |
| 1946 | Charles Wakefield Cadman, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1944 | Romain Roland, French writer/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78 |
| 1943 | Hobart Bosworth, actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade), dies at 76 |
| 1941 | El Lissitzky, Russian Artist |
| 1940 | Fritz Volbach, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1931 | Tyrone Power Sr, actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at 62 |
| 1912 | Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister, dies at 60 |
| 1899 | James Paget, English surgeon (disease of Paget), dies at 85 |
| 1895 | LP Hartley, British writer, dies |
| 1894 | Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist (Bloomers named for her), dies at 76 |
| 1893 | Samuel White Baker, English explorer, dies at 72 |
| 1870 | ... Prim, Spanish general, murdered |
| 1832 | Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies |
| 1828 | Waldemar Thrane, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1825 | Peter Gronland, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1821 | Angelo Maria Benincori, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1796 | Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1788 | Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher, dies at 86 |
| 1777 | Maximilian III Jozef, elector of Bayern (1745-77), dies at 50 |
| 1635 | Jan Baptista Van Helmont, physician/alchemist, dies |
| 1591 | Innocent IX, Giovanni Facchinetti, Pope, (1591 62 days), dies at 72 |
| 1572 | Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (Palazza Marino, Milan), dies at 60 |
| 1525 | Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant, dies at 66 |
| 273 | Felix I, Italian Bishop of Rome, dies (or 274) |
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