| Year | People / Celebrity Name | People / Celebrity Profession | Country |
|---|
| 1053 | Godwin, Earl of Wessex | One of the most powerful lords in England under the Danish king Cnut the Great and his successors | -flag.jpg) United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1220 | Adolf of Altena | Archbishop of Cologne |  Germany |
| 1415 | Manuel Chrysoloras | Pioneer in the introduction of Greek literature to Western Europe during the late middle ages |  Greece |
| 1446 | Filippo Brunelleschi | One of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance |  Italy |
| 1610 | Robert Parsons (Jesuit) | English Jesuit priest | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1632 | George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore | English politician and colonizer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1652 | Patriarch Joseph | Sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia |  Russia |
| 1659 | Simon Dach | German poet | Germany |
| 1704 | Johann van Waveren Hudde | Dutch mathematician |  Netherlands |
| 1719 | Francoise d Aubigne, marquise de Maintenon | The morganatic second wife of King Louis XIV of France |  France |
| 1754 | Jacopo Riccati | Italian mathematician | Italy |
| 1761 | William Oldys | English antiquarian and bibliographer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1761 | Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll | Scottish nobleman, politician, lawyer, businessman and soldier | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1764 | Peder Horrebow | Danish astronomer |  Denmark |
| 1764 | Madame de Pompadour | Mistress of King Louis XV of France | France |
| 1765 | Mikhail Lomonosov | Russian writer and polymath | Russia |
| 1776 | Natalia Alexeievna of Russia | Princess of Russia | Russia |
| 1788 | Giuseppe Bonno | Austrian composer |  Austria |
| 1793 | Ignacije Szentmartony | Croatian Jesuit missionary |  Croatia |
| 1808 | Hubert Robert | French painter | France |
| 1818 | Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet | French sculptor, draftsman and printmaker | France |
| 1854 | Arthur Aikin | English mineralogist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1865 | Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the United States | -flag.jpg) United States(USA) |
| 1888 | Matthew Arnold | British poet | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1889 | Father Damien | Flemish missionary |  Belgium |
| 1892 | Amelia Edwards | English author and Egyptologist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1898 | Kepa Te Rangihiwinui | Maori military commander and noted |  New Zealand |
| 1912 | John Jacob Astor IV | American entrepreneur | United States(USA) |
| 1912 | Benjamin Guggenheim | American businessman | United States(USA) |
| 1912 | Edward J. Smith | English captain of the Titanic | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1912 | Harry Elkins Widener | Businessman and book collector | United States(USA) |
| 1912 | Jack Phillips | British wireless telegraphist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1912 | William Thomas Stead | British journalist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1912 | Henry Tingle Wilde | Chief Officer of the RMS Titanic | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1912 | Isidor Straus | German-American businessman and politician | United States(USA) |
| 1912 | William McMaster Murdoch | Scottish sailor | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1912 | Jacques Heath Futrelle | American journalist and mystery writer | United States(USA) |
| 1912 | John Borland Thayer, Jr. | First-class cricketer | United States(USA) |
| 1913 | Gabdulla Tuqay | Tatar poet | Russia |
| 1927 | Gaston Leroux | French writer | France |
| 1931 | Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa | 2nd Duke of Genoa | Italy |
| 1932 | Julia Lathrop | American social reformer in the area of education | United States(USA) |
| 1938 | Cesar Abraham Vallejo Mendoza | Peruvian poet |  Peru |
| 1938 | Jan Vilímek | Czech illustrator and painter |  Czech Republic |
| 1942 | Robert Musil | Austrian novelist | Austria |
| 1943 | Aristarkh Lentulov | Russian artist | Russia |
| 1944 | Giovanni Gentile | Italian philosopher | Italy |
| 1945 | Hermann Florstedt | Nazi leader |  Switzerland |
| 1948 | Radola Gajda | Czech military commander | Czech Republic |
| 1949 | Wallace Beery | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 1951 | Robert Ritter | German psychologist | Germany |
| 1957 | Pedro Infante | Mexican actor and singer |  Mexico |
| 1962 | Clara Blandick | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 1962 | Arsenio Lacson | Filipino politician and sportswriter |  Philippines |
| 1963 | Edward Carji Greeves | Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League |  Australia |
| 1966 | Manuel Roxas | Philippino politician | Philippines |
| 1967 | Toto | Italian actor and composer | Italy |
| 1968 | Borys Lyatoshynsky | Composer, conductor, teacher |  Ukraine |
| 1969 | Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg | Queen consort of King Alfonso XIII of Spain |  Spain |
| 1970 | Ripper Collins | Major League Baseball player | United States(USA) |
| 1971 | Dan Reeves (NFL owner) | Owner of the Cleveland and Los Angeles Rams | United States(USA) |
| 1974 | Giovanni D Anzi | Italian songwriter | Italy |
| 1975 | Richard Conte | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 1980 | Raymond Bailey | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 1980 | Jean-Paul Sartre | French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic | France |
| 1982 | Arthur Lowe | BAFTA Award winning English actor | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1982 | Celia Johnson | British actress | United States(USA) |
| 1983 | Corrie ten Boom | Dutch author and Holocaust survivor | Netherlands |
| 1983 | John Engstead | American photographer | United States(USA) |
| 1984 | Alexander Trocchi | Scottish writer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1984 | William Empson | English literary critic and poet | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1984 | Tommy Cooper | Anglo-Welsh prop comedian and magician | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1986 | Jean Genet | French writer | France |
| 1988 | Kenneth Williams | English comic actor | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1988 | Youri Egorov | Soviet classical pianist | Russia |
| 1989 | Charles Vanel | French actor and director | France |
| 1989 | Hu Yaobang | Leader of the Peoples Republic of China |  China |
| 1990 | Sundaram Balachander | Prominent Indian veena player |  India |
| 1990 | Greta Garbo | Swedish actress |  Sweden |
| 1992 | Otis Barton | American deep sea diver, inventor and actor | United States(USA) |
| 1993 | Leslie Charteris | British author and screenwriter | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1993 | Robert Westall | Author | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1993 | Robert Westall | British author, teacher and journalist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1993 | John Tuzo Wilson | Canadian geophysicist and geologist |  Canada |
| 1994 | John Curry | British figure skater | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1995 | Harry Shoulberg | American painter | United States(USA) |
| 1998 | Pol Pot | General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea |  Cambodia |
| 1999 | Harvey Postlethwaite | British engineer and Technical Director | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2000 | Edward Gorey | American writer and artist | United States(USA) |
| 2001 | Joey Ramone | Vocalist and songwriter | United States(USA) |
| 2002 | Byron White | American athlete and Supreme Court Justice | United States(USA) |
| 2002 | Damon Knight | American science fiction author, editor, critic and fan | United States(USA) |
| 2003 | Reg Bundy | British dancer, actor and television presenter | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2003 | Erin Fleming | Canadian actress | Canada |
| 2004 | Ray Condo | Canadian rockabilly singer, saxophonist and guitarist | Canada |
| 2004 | Mitsuteru Yokoyama | Famous Japanese manga artist |  Japan |
| 2007 | Brant Parker | American cartoonist | United States(USA) |
| 2008 | Sean Costello | American blues musician | United States(USA) |
| 2008 | Krister Stendahl | Swedish theologian and New Testament scholar | Sweden |
| 2008 | Benoit Lamy | Belgian motion picture writer, director | Belgium |
| 2009 | Sir Clement Freud | British writer, radio personality, and politician | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2009 | Ed Blake | American right handed pitcher in Major League Baseball | United States(USA) |
| 2010 | Benjamin Hooks | American civil rights leader | United States(USA) |
| 2010 | Jack Herer | American cannabis activist and the author | United States(USA) |
| 2012 | Dwayne Kenneth Schintzius | American college and professional basketball player | United States(USA) |
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