| Year | People / Celebrity Name | People / Celebrity Profession | Country |
|---|
| 1181 | Emperor Takakura | 80th emperor of Japan |  Japan |
| 1181 | Emperor Takakura | 80th emperor of japan | Japan |
| 1230 | Pelagio Galvani | Leonese Cardinal and canon lawyer |  Italy |
| 1384 | Louis II of Flanders | Count of Flanders |  Belgium |
| 1574 | Damiao de Gois | Portuguese philosopher |  Portugal |
| 1606 | Everard Digby | English conspirator | -flag.jpg) United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1644 | William Chillingworth | English religious leader | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1649 | Charles I of England | King of England | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1652 | Georges de La Tour | French artist |  France |
| 1730 | Peter II of Russia | Emperor of Russia |  Russia |
| 1757 | Osman III | Ottoman Sultan |  Turkey |
| 1774 | Frantisek Tuma | Czech composer |  Czech Republic |
| 1806 | Vicente Martín y Soler | Spanish composer |  Spain |
| 1820 | Josepha Barbara Auernhammer | Austrian pianist and composer |  Austria |
| 1836 | Betsy Ross | American seamstress | -flag.jpg) United States(USA) |
| 1847 | Virginia Clemm Poe | Wife of Edgar Allan Poe | United States(USA) |
| 1849 | Jonathan Alder | American pioneer and the first white settler in Madison County | United States(USA) |
| 1858 | Coenraad Jacob Temminck | Dutch zoologist |  Netherlands |
| 1867 | Emperor Komei | 121st emperor of Japan | Japan |
| 1869 | William Carleton | Irish novelist |  Ireland |
| 1888 | Asa Gray | American botanist of the 19th century | United States(USA) |
| 1889 | Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria | Crown Prince of Austria | Austria |
| 1906 | Reinhold Sadler | American politician | United States(USA) |
| 1926 | Barbara La Marr | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 1928 | Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger | Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |  Denmark |
| 1929 | La Goulue | French can can dancer | France |
| 1934 | Frank Nelson Doubleday | American publisher | United States(USA) |
| 1938 | James Basevi Ord | US Army Lieutenant Colonel killed in an air crash at Camp John Hay, Philippines | United States(USA) |
| 1948 | Orville Wright | American aviation pioneer | United States(USA) |
| 1948 | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | Indian politician and spiritual leader |  India |
| 1951 | Ferdinand Porsche | Austrian automotive engineer | Austria |
| 1956 | Charles E. Taylor | First aircraft maintenance professional | United States(USA) |
| 1958 | Jean Crotti | Swiss artist |  Switzerland |
| 1958 | Ernst Heinkel | German aircraft designer |  Germany |
| 1962 | Manuel de Abreu | Brazilian physician |  Brazil |
| 1963 | Pelham Warner | English cricketer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1963 | Francis Poulenc | French composer | France |
| 1967 | Eddie Tolan | American athlete and sprinter | United States(USA) |
| 1968 | Pandit Makhanlal Chaturvedi | Indian poet, writer, essayist, playwright and a journalist | India |
| 1969 | Georges Pire | Belgian Dominican friar | Belgium |
| 1976 | Mance Lipscomb | American blues singer, guitarist and songster | United States(USA) |
| 1980 | Professor Longhair | American blues musician | United States(USA) |
| 1982 | Stanley Holloway | Celebrated English stage and film actor, comedian and singer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1982 | Lightnin Hopkins | Country blues guitarist | United States(USA) |
| 1983 | Alan Gordon Cunningham | British army officer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1984 | Luke Kelly | Irish singer and folk musician | Ireland |
| 1989 | Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cadiz | Grandson of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and a legitimist claimant to the throne of France | France |
| 1991 | John McIntire | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 1991 | John Bardeen | American physicist, Nobel laureate | United States(USA) |
| 1991 | Clifton C. Edom | American photojournalism educator | United States(USA) |
| 1993 | Alexandra of Yugoslavia | Queen consort of Yugoslavia |  Greece |
| 1994 | Pierre Boulle | French author | France |
| 1995 | Gerald Durrell | Naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author, and television presenter | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1998 | Richard Cassilly | One of his generations leading tenors | United States(USA) |
| 1998 | Lesslie Newbigin | English theologian and bishop | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1998 | Tamara Wilcox | Costume designer, actress and theatrical producer and director | United States(USA) |
| 1999 | Huntz Hall | American radio, theatrical and motion picture performer | United States(USA) |
| 2001 | Johnnie Johnson (RAF officer) | British fighter pilot | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2001 | Joseph Ransohoff | American neurosurgeon | United States(USA) |
| 2001 | Jean-Pierre Aumont | French actor | France |
| 2004 | Frank Mantooth | American jazz pianist and arranger | United States(USA) |
| 2005 | Martyn Bennett | Scottish musician | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2006 | Coretta Scott King | American author, activist and civil rights leader | United States(USA) |
| 2006 | Wendy Wasserstein | American playwright | United States(USA) |
| 2006 | Seth Fisher | American comic book artist and penciller | United States(USA) |
| 2007 | Sidney Sheldon | Academy Award-winning American writer | United States(USA) |
| 2008 | Jeremy Beadle | English television presenter, writer and producer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2008 | Roland Selmeczi | Hungarian actor |  Hungary |
| 2009 | Ingemar Johansson | Swedish boxer and former heavyweight champion of the world |  Sweden |
| 2009 | Marie Knight | American gospel and R&B singer | United States(USA) |
| 2009 | Bernard Arcand | French-Canadian anthropologist, author and communicator | France |
| 2010 | Lucienne Day | British textile designer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2011 | John Barry (Composer) | English conductor and composer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2013 | Jose Enrique Gutierrez Cardona | Professional footballer |  Honduras |
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