| December 27th Events in History | |
| 2007 | Benazir Bhutto is assassinated by a bomb blast in Rawalpindi, Pakistan |
| 1996 | Carquest Bowl 7: Miami beats Virginia, 31-21 |
| 1995 | Boon completes his 21st Test Cricket century (110 vs. SL, MCG) |
| 1993 | Candles, Snow, and Mistletoe opens at Palace Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| 1993 | Actress Teri Garr weds John O'Neil |
| 1993 | Dow-Jones hits record 3792.93 |
| 1992 | 3 From Brooklyn closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 45 performances |
| 1992 | Les Miserables opens at Ostregaswerks, Copenhagen |
| 1992 | Tommy Tune Tonite! Song and Dance Act opens at Gershwin New York City for 10 per |
| 1992 | 13th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000 |
| 1992 | Harry Connick, Jr. is caught with 9mm gun in New York's JFK airport |
| 1992 | Nancy Sheehan wins LPGA Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge Golf Tournament |
| 1991 | Carol Burnett Show last airs on CBS-TV |
| 1991 | Bengals hire Dave Shula as youngest NFL coach (32) |
| 1991 | Chuck Knox retires as Seattle Seahawks coach |
| 1989 | Oregon begins taking bids on NBA games |
| 1988 | Bulgaria stops jamming Radio Free Europe after more than 3 decades |
| 1987 | Steve Largent sets all-time NFL record for career catches when he catches his 752nd pass |
| 1987 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1986 | Les Miserables opens at Kennedy Center, Washington D.C. |
| 1986 | 10th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Young and Restless wins |
| 1985 | Terrorists kill 20 and wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome and Vienna airports, President Reagan blames Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi |
| 1984 | Padres' free agent pitcher Ed Whitson signs with New York Yankees |
| 1983 | Pope John Paul II pardons man who shot him (Mehmet Ali Agca) |
| 1983 | Propane gas fire devastated 16 blocks of Buffalo |
| 1982 | Imran Khan 8-60 to bring innings victory vs. India at Karachi |
| 1981 | Lillee becomes the leading wicket-taker in Test Crickets with 310 |
| 1981 | Oiler Wayne Gretzky becomes fastest NHLer to get 100 pts (38th game) |
| 1981 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1980 | Calvin Murphy (Rockets) begins longest NBA free throw streak of 78 |
| 1979 | Knots Landing, premieres on CBS-TV |
| 1979 | Red Army beats New York Rangers 5-2 at MSG |
| 1979 | Soviet troops invade Afghanistan, President Hafizullah Amin overthrown |
| 1978 | King Juan Carlos ratifies Spain's 1st democratic constitution |
| 1976 | Albania constitution goes into effect |
| 1975 | Explosion at Chasnala Colliery collapses drowning 350 (Dhanbad India) |
| 1974 | 40th Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB) |
| 1974 | Dear Abby show ends run on CBS radio after 11 years |
| 1974 | FSLN seizes government hostages at a private Managua party |
| 1974 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1973 | Los Angeles Dodgers announce night games will start at 7:30 instead of 8 |
| 1972 | Purlie opens at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 14 performances |
| 1972 | Belgium recognizes East Germany |
| 1972 | Los Angeles Kings start Islanders on 12 game losing streak |
| 1972 | New North Korean constitution comes into effect |
| 1970 | Hello, Dolly! closes at St. James Theater New York City after 2844 performances |
| 1968 | Apollo 8 returns to Earth |
| 1968 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1966 | At the Drop of Another Hat opens at Booth Theater New York City for 105 performances |
| 1964 | Cleveland Browns beat Baltimore Colts 27-0 in NFL championship game |
| 1962 | 28th Heisman Trophy Award: Terry Baker, Oregon State (quarterback) |
| 1961 | Subways Are for Sleeping opens at St. James Theater New York City for 205 performances |
| 1961 | Belgium and Congo resume diplomatic relations |
| 1961 | Styne/Comden/Green's musical "Subways are for Sleeping," premieres |
| 1960 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1959 | Baltimore Colts beat New York Giants 31-16 in NFL championship game |
| 1956 | 45th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Adelaide (5-0) |
| 1956 | Bill Sharman (Boston) ends NBA free throw streak of 55 games |
| 1954 | Saint of Bleecker Street opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 92 performances |
| 1954 | Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Saint," premieres in New York City |
| 1953 | Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-16 in NFL championship game |
| 1951 | 40th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Sydney (3-2) |
| 1949 | Queen Juliana (Netherlands) grants sovereignty to Indonesia |
| 1949 | United States of Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands |
| 1947 | 1st "Howdy Doody Show," (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC |
| 1945 | Arthur Laurent's "Home of the Brave," premieres in New York City |
| 1945 | International Monetary Fund established - World Bank founded |
| 1944 | Greece: British premier Churchill flies back to London |
| 1943 | France transfers most of her powers in Lebanon to Lebanese government |
| 1943 | German warship "Scharnhorst" sinks in Barents Sea |
| 1943 | Montgomery discusses Overlord with Eisenhower and Bedell Smith |
| 1942 | 1st Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use |
| 1942 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFL All-Stars beats Washington 17-14 |
| 1941 | Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city" |
| 1941 | Siberia: Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 7th Symphony |
| 1939 | 1st American skimobiles, North Conway, New Hampshire |
| 1939 | Between 20,000 and 40,000 die in magnitude 8 quake (Erzincam Turkey) |
| 1939 | Earthquake in Turkey, about 50,000 die |
| 1937 | Bradman scores 246 SA vs. Queensland, 364 minutes, 20 fours |
| 1937 | German immigration officials with no explanation bar Juan Carlos Zabala (Arg), 1932 Olympic marathon champion, from entering Germany |
| 1937 | Mae West performs Adam and Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio |
| 1934 | 1st youth hostel in U.S. opens (Northfield, Mass) |
| 1934 | Shah of Persia declares Persia now Iran |
| 1934 | Vernon Duke and James Hanley's musical premieres in New York City |
| 1932 | Radio City Music Hall opens (New York City) |
| 1927 | Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II's "Show Boat," premieres in New York City |
| 1927 | Philip Barry's "Paris Bound," premieres in New York City |
| 1927 | Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in U.S.S.R., Trotsky expelled |
| 1926 | Depot Square in Bronx renamed Botanical Square |
| 1926 | Latkin Square in Bronx named for 1st U.S. Jewish soldier to die in WW I |
| 1923 | Unsuccessful attempt on prince-regent Hirohito of Japan |
| 1919 | Red Sox owner Harry Frazee announces they will deal any player except Harry Hooper, Hooper is sent to the White Sox after 1920 season |
| 1906 | 1st annual meeting of American Sociological Society, Providence, RI |
| 1905 | M A Noble scores 281 (369 minutes, 21 fours) NSW vs. Victoria |
| 1904 | Duke of York Theatre opens in London (1st musical Peter Pan) |
| 1904 | W B Yeats/Lady Gregory's "On Baile's Strand," premieres in Dublin |
| 1903 | Sweet Adaline, a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung |
| 1900 | Carrie Nation's 1st public smashing of a bar (Carey Hotel, Wichita KS) |
| 1897 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias beat Ottawa Capitals, 15-2 |
| 1892 | Foundation Stone of Cathedral of St. John laid (New York City) |
| 1892 | N C Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black college football game |
| 1887 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blue Carbuncle" |
| 1884 | Netherlands recognizes king Leopold II's Congo Free State |
| 1871 | World's 1st cat show (Crystal Palace, London) |
| 1867 | Ontario and Quebec legislatures hold 1st meeting |
| 1862 | Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, MS (Chickasaw Bayou) |
| 1862 | Battle of Elizabethtown, Kentucky |
| 1850 | Hawaiian Fire Department established |
| 1845 | Ether 1st used in childbirth in U.S., Jefferson, Ga |
| 1836 | Worst English avalanche kills 8 of 15 buried (Lewes Sussex) |
| 1831 | Darwin begins his voyage on board HMS Beagle |
| 1831 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin depart England for South America |
| 1825 | 1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England |
| 1741 | Prussian forces took Olmutz, Czechoslovakia |
| 1703 | England and Portugal sign Methuen-Asiento-trade agreement |
| 1679 | Dutch troops capture Madurees prince Trunudjojo in Java |
| 1503 | Battle at Garigliano, Spanish army under G Cordoba beats France |
| 1437 | Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Bohemia |
| 537 | St. Sofia-church in Constantinople, initiated |
| 418 | [Etalius] begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| December 27th Birthdays in History | |
| 1977 | Kate Nelson, Evanston, Illinois, rhythmic gymnast 1996 Olympics |
| 1975 | Heather O'Rourke, born in San Diego, California, actress, Happy Days, Poltergeist |
| 1975 | Patrick Paauwe, Dutch soccer player, PSV, Graafschap |
| 1973 | Bill Clay, Yokosuka Japan, U.S. sprint cyclist 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Wilson Cruz, actor, My So Called Life, Ally McBeal |
| 1972 | Charles Way, NFL fullback for the New York Giants |
| 1972 | Dewayne Washington, NFL cornerback for the Minnesota Vikings |
| 1972 | Thomas Wilson Brown, actor, Jason-Knots Landing |
| 1971 | Bryan Smolinski, born in Toledo, Ohio, NHL forward, Team USA, Pitts Penguins |
| 1971 | James Stewart, NFL running back for the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| 1970 | Frank Messmer, WLAF defensive end for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1970 | Lorenzo Neal, NFL fullback, NO Saints, New York Jets |
| 1970 | Mike Salmon, NFL/WLAF safety, Houston Oilers, Rhein Fire, San Francisco 49ers |
| 1970 | Steve Hoyem, WLAF offensive tackle for the Rhein Fire |
| 1969 | Chris Humbert, Modesto California, water polo 2m offense 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Suzanne Paxton, born in Baltimore, Maryland, fencer-foil 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Sarah Vowell, American Author |
| 1968 | Dean Palmer, Tallahassee, Florida, infielder for the Texas Rangers |
| 1967 | Niels Meijer, Dutch rock keyboardist, Bob Color |
| 1966 | Bill Goldberg, American Athlete |
| 1965 | Gamini Wickremasinghe, cricketer, Sri Lanka wicket-keeper |
| 1964 | David Tikolo, Kenyan cricket batsman, 1996 World Cup |
| 1964 | Randy Kirk, NFL outside linebacker, AZ Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers |
| 1964 | Steve Wallace, NFL tackle, San Francisco 49ers, Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1964 | Kevin Patterson, Canadian Writer |
| 1963 | Dana Chladek, Decin Czechoslovakia, U.S. slalom Kayak, Olympics-br/silver-92, 96 |
| 1963 | Jim Leyritz, Lakewood, Ohio, catcher, New York Yankees |
| 1963 | Mark Pike, NFL defensive end for the Buffalo Bills |
| 1962 | Barbara Crampton, Levittown, New York, actress, Body Double, Young and Restless |
| 1962 | Sherri Steinhauer, Madison WI, LPGA golfer, 1992 du Maurier Ltd |
| 1962 | Timothy Hacker, Milwaukee Wisconsin, 10k runner |
| 1961 | Caroline Gowan, Greenville, South Carolina, LPGA golfer, South Carolina Women's Amat-1981, 83 |
| 1960 | Maryam D'Abo, London, actress, Living Daylights, Xtro, Until Sept |
| 1960 | Terry Price, Rockhampton QLD, Australasia golfer |
| 1959 | Andre Tippett, NFL linebacker for the New England Patriots |
| 1959 | Mary Holland, born in San Diego, California, WPVA volleyballer |
| 1958 | Steven Glen Jones, Artesia, New Mexico, PGA golfer, 1988 AT&T Pebble Beach |
| 1957 | Connie Chillemi, Eglin AFB, Florida, golfer, 1994 Standard Register-13th |
| 1957 | James Sanford, U.S. runner, world record 50m indoor |
| 1956 | Doina Melinte, Romanian running star, world record 1500 m/mile indoor |
| 1956 | Karen Hughes, American Politician |
| 1953 | Arthur Kent, newscaster [Scud Stud], NBC-Gulf War coverage |
| 1953 | Kevin Wright, cricketer, Australian wicket-keeper 1979 |
| 1952 | Karla Bonoff, rock singer, New World, Restless Nights |
| 1952 | David Knopfler, British Musician |
| 1951 | William Waldorf 4th viscount Astor/English large landowner |
| 1950 | Jack van Gelder, Dutch TV host |
| 1950 | Terry Bozzio, rock drummer, Missing Persons-Hello I Love You |
| 1948 | Gerard Depardieu, France, actor, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, Danton |
| 1948 | Larry Byrom, rocker, Steppenwolf-Hour of the World |
| 1948 | Tovah Feldshuh, New York City, actress, Idolmaker, Terror out of the Sky |
| 1947 | Peter Criss, rocker, Kiss-Beth |
| 1946 | Janet Street-Porter, British TV personality, Youth |
| 1946 | Polly Toynbee, English Journalist |
| 1944 | Mick Jones, rock guitarist, Foreigner-Want to Know What Love is |
| 1944 | Tracy Nelson, Madison Wisconsin, singer and actress, Square Pegs |
| 1944 | Bob Brown, Australian Politician |
| 1943 | Cokie Roberts, newscaster, ABC-TV |
| 1943 | Dave Rowberry, Newcastle, rocker, Animals |
| 1942 | Mike Heron, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, born James Michael Heron, singer, songwriter, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, member of The Incredible String Band |
| 1942 | Thomas Menino, American Politician |
| 1941 | Leslie Maguire, rocker, Gerry and Pacemakers-Ferry Crossed the Mersey |
| 1941 | Michael Pinder, rocker, Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin |
| 1940 | Jerry Lambert, jockey, rode Native Diver |
| 1939 | John Amos, Newark, New Jersey, actor, Good Times, Coming to America |
| 1936 | Phil Sharpe, cricketer, England middle order batsman during 60's |
| 1935 | Norma Rae Beatty Ashby, broadcaster/TV producer |
| 1934 | Larissa Latynina, Ukraine, gymnast, Gold Medals 1956, 1960, 1964 Olympics |
| 1931 | Scotty Moore, guitarist, for Elvis |
| 1930 | Jacqueline Fontijn, Flemish composer |
| 1930 | Meg Greenfield, U.S. politician |
| 1930 | Wilfrid Sheed, England, writer, Boys of Winter, Hack |
| 1926 | Jerome Courtland, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, actor, Tonka, Tharus |
| 1925 | Michel Piccoli, Paris, France, actor, Topaz, Peril, May Fools |
| 1924 | James A. McClure, born in Payette, Idaho, Senator-R-Idaho 1973 - 1991, Representative-R-Idaho 1967 - 1973 |
| 1924 | Mokta Ould Daddah, president Mauritania, 1961-78 |
| 1924 | Wouter Eijkelemboom, Dutch architect, Holy-hospital, Vlaardingen |
| 1922 | Larry Osborne, navigator air traffic controller/supply specialist |
| 1917 | Earl of Inchcape, English large landowner/industrialist, P&O |
| 1915 | Mary Kornman, Idaho Falls ID, actress, Queen of the Jungle |
| 1915 | William Howell Masters, sex author/physician |
| 1914 | Giuseppe Berto, Italian writer, Heaven Sees Red |
| 1914 | Ivan Sutton, British concert promoter |
| 1911 | Anna Russell, born in London, England, possibly born in London, Ontario, birth name Maida Vale, Anna Claudia Russell-Brown, composer, singer, comedian, recording artist |
| 1910 | Jack Massey, groundsman |
| 1910 | Neville Crump, racehorse trainer |
| 1910 | Charles Olson, American Poet |
| 1909 | Johan[nes B] Schmitz, Dutch actor/reciter, Lucifer, MacBeth |
| 1908 | Louis JHCA de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet, Black Banners |
| 1907 | Emile de Strijker, Belgian philosopher |
| 1907 | Jan Willem van Otterloo, Dutch composer |
| 1907 | Nils-Eric Ringbom, composer |
| 1907 | Willem Van Otterloo, Winterwijk Holland, conductor, Melbourne 1967-71 |
| 1906 | Ivan Brkanovic, composer |
| 1906 | Ivan Mark Waller, mountaineer |
| 1906 | Oscar Levant, Pittsburgh, actor, American in Paris, Dance of Life |
| 1902 | Ferenc Szabo, composer |
| 1901 | Irene Handl, born in London, England, actress, Riding High, Morgan |
| 1901 | Marlene Dietrich, Berlin Germany, singer and actress, Blue Angel |
| 1899 | Paul Costello, U.S., double sculls, Gold Medals 1920, 1924, 1928 Olympics |
| 1897 | Iwan S. Konew, Russian marshal/supreme commander pact of Warsaw |
| 1896 | Arch Ward, sportswriter, proposed baseball's all-star game |
| 1896 | Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/U.S. playwright |
| 1896 | Ewan Calague, economist/statistician, Social Security Board |
| 1896 | Louis Bromfield, Mansfield Ohio, writer, Early Autumn, Pulitzer-1926 |
| 1895 | Sig Arno, Hamburg, Germany, actor, Holiday in Havana |
| 1892 | Feliks Roderyk Labunski, composer |
| 1890 | Maurice Schoemaker, composer |
| 1884 | Bernard van Dieren, composer |
| 1879 | Robert Greig, Australia, actor, Horse Feathers |
| 1879 | Sydney Greenstreet, born in Sandwich, England, actor, Maltese Falcon |
| 1869 | Aurelien FM Lugne-Poe, French actor/stage manager, La Parade |
| 1859 | William Henry Hadow, composer |
| 1856 | Andre Gedalge, composer |
| 1855 | Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist |
| 1852 | Dom Joao G da Camara, Portuguese journalist/songwriter |
| 1845 | Augusto de Oliviera Machado, composer |
| 1836 | Henricus Oort, Dutch theologist, Leidse translation |
| 1831 | Lucius Fairchild, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1829 | James Clay Rice, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1825 | Reinhold Finsterbusch, composer |
| 1822 | John Roberts, composer |
| 1822 | Louis Pasteur, Dole France, bacteriologist, pasturization |
| 1816 | Eliakim Parker Scammon, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1814 | James Henry Carleton, Major General Union Army |
| 1803 | John ACA van Nispen Sevenaer, Member of Dutch 2nd parliament, 1848-75 |
| 1802 | Thomas Fearnley, Norway, landscape painter |
| 1801 | Guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies, 1848-49 |
| 1800 | John Goss, born in Fareham, England, composer, organist, wrote hymn 'Praise my Soul, the King of Heaven' |
| 1773 | George Cayley, England, found science of aerodynamics |
| 1761 | Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Scot/Russian minister of War |
| 1755 | Antons Klemens Theodor, king of Saksen, 1827-36 |
| 1752 | Johann Georg Anton Mederitsch-Gallus, composer |
| 1748 | William Marshall, composer |
| 1727 | Arthur Murphy, Irish Writer |
| 1721 | Franciscus "French" Hemsterhuis, Frisian philosopher |
| 1709 | Pieter de Swart, Dutch architect, Royal Palace, Hague |
| 1654 | Jean/Jacobus Bernouilli, Swiss mathematician |
| 1645 | Giovanni Adb Viscardi, Swiss architect, baptized |
| 1571 | Johann Kepler, born in Wurttemberg, Germany, astronomer, elliptical orbits |
| 1571 | Johannes Kepler, German Scientist |
| 1555 | Johann Arndt, German Lutherian theologist |
| December 27th Deaths in History | |
| 2007 | Benazir Bhutto, dies in Punjab, Pakistan, assassinated by Al-Quaeda, at 54 |
| 2003 | Alan Bates, actor, King of Hearts, dies at 69 |
| 2001 | Millicent Carey McIntosh, American Educator |
| 1999 | Dick Peabody, actor, Combat, dies at 74 |
| 1999 | Leonard Goldenson, TV executive, dies at 94 |
| 1997 | Brendan Gill, writer, film critic, author, wrote film critiques for Film Comment, wrote articles for The New Yorker, and a book about his time at The New Yorker magazine, dies at 83 |
| 1997 | Dorothy Stroud, garden historian, dies at 87 |
| 1997 | Ewart G. Abner, Jr., president (Motown Records), dies at 74 |
| 1997 | Tom Hudson, artist/teacher, dies at 75 |
| 1995 | Jeremy John Beadle, writer/broadcaster, dies at 39 |
| 1995 | Peter Refn, Danish journalist/director (Violets are Blue), dies at 54 |
| 1995 | Shura Cherkassky, pianist, dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Hans Berghuis, author and poet (Kleitabletten), dies at 70 |
| 1994 | Karl AF Schiller, West German economist/SPD-minister, dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Peter Barker Howard May, cricket (4537 runs-England 1951-61), dies at 64 |
| 1994 | Sadi de Gorter, Dutch author/diplomat (Abscess), dies at 82 |
| 1993 | Blandine Ebinger, Loeser, actress (Madchen in Uniform), dies at 94 |
| 1993 | Youssef Sebti, Algerian scholar/poet, murdered at 50 |
| 1992 | Cardew "the Cad" [Douglas] Robinson, English comedian (Alfie), dies at 75 |
| 1992 | Jan Peeters, Dutch watercolorist/monument artist, dies |
| 1992 | Stephen Albert, composer, Pulitzer Prize winner 1985, for symphony 'RiverRun', won Grammy Award 1995 for 'Cello Concerto', killed in an automobile accident in Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
| 1991 | Edward M Love, choreographer/dancer, dies of AIDS at 43 |
| 1991 | John Morgan Evans, actor, dies after lengthy illness at 49 |
| 1991 | W Hudson, U.S. "strongest man to the world" (540 kg), dies |
| 1988 | Fox Harris, actor (Alienator, Warlords, Sid and Nancy), dies |
| 1988 | Hall Ashby, U.S. director (Shampoo, 8 Million Ways to Die), dies at 59 |
| 1987 | Priscilla Dean, actress (Outside the Law), dies of injuries at 91 |
| 1987 | Rewi Alley, New Zealand author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing |
| 1986 | Cliff Burton, bass player (Metallica), dies in a bus crash at 24 |
| 1986 | Lars-Eric Vilner Larsson, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1985 | Dian Fossey, U.S. naturalist (Gorillas in Mist), found dead in Rwanda |
| 1983 | Walter Scott, rocker, dies |
| 1982 | John Leonard Swigert, Jr., astronaut (Apollo 13), dies of cancer at 51 |
| 1981 | Hoagy Carmichael, U.S. actor/songwriter (Stardust), dies at 82 |
| 1979 | Hafizullah Amin, president of Afghanistan (1979), murdered |
| 1978 | Bob de Lange, Dutch actor and director (Daniel), dies at 62 |
| 1978 | Chris Bell, rock guitarist (Big Star), dies at 27 in car crash |
| 1978 | Houari Boumediene, Algerian president, dies after 40 days in a coma at 53 |
| 1974 | Amy Vanderbilt, U.S. author (Complete book of etiquette), dies at 66 |
| 1974 | Raymond Glenn, actor (Raisin in the Sun, Carmen Jones), dies at 76 |
| 1972 | Lester B. Pearson, 14th Canadian Prime Minister, Nobel 1957, dies at 75 |
| 1972 | Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Politician |
| 1959 | Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet, historian and diplomat, dies at 70 |
| 1957 | Alan Bridge, actor (Hail the Conquering Hero), dies at 66 |
| 1952 | Henri G Winkelman, Dutch supreme commander army/navy 1940, dies at 76 |
| 1950 | Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist, dies at 66 |
| 1944 | Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1944 | Amy Marcy Beach, American Musician |
| 1938 | Emile Vandervelde, Belgian Secretary of State (BWP), dies at 72 |
| 1938 | O Mandelstam, writer, dies |
| 1936 | Hans von Seeckt, German Gen/advisor of Chiang Kai-shek, dies at 70 |
| 1931 | Peter Christian Lutkin, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1931 | Walter Courvoisier, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1930 | William Courtleigh, actor (Madame X, Eyes of Youth), dies at 63 |
| 1925 | Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/literary (Assault!), dies at 44 |
| 1925 | Sergei Yesenin, Russian Poet |
| 1924 | William Archer, Scottish critic and playwright (Green Goddess), dies at 68 |
| 1919 | Achilles Alferaki, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1919 | Theodoor H de Meester, Dutch lib premier (1905-08), dies at 68 |
| 1916 | Nikolay Feopemptovich Solov'yov, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1900 | William G Armstrong, of Cragside, British const (hydr crane), dies at 90 |
| 1880 | Alessandro Nini, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1877 | Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet (Metshty into Zvuki), dies at 56 |
| 1858 | Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1853 | William Jay, English Clergyman |
| 1836 | Stephen Fuller Austin, founder of state of Texas, dies at 43 |
| 1805 | Belle van Zuylen, Netherlands/Swiss writer (Trois Femmes), dies at 65 |
| 1800 | Hugh Blair, Scottish Theologian |
| 1641 | Francois van d'Aerssen, ruler of Sommelsdijk/diplomat, dies at 69 |
| 1631 | John Pijnas, Dutch painter, buried at about 47 |
| 1603 | Thomas Cartwright, English Presbyterian publicist, dies at about 68 |
| 1595 | Pietro Pontio, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1590 | Emmanuel-Philibert of Lalaing, marquis of Renty, dies at 33 |
| 1065 | Ferdinand I, the Great, king of Castilie, dies |
| 975 | Balderik, bishop of Utrecht (918-75), dies |
| 418 | Zosimus, Greek Pope (417-8), dies |
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