| Year | People / Celebrity Name | People / Celebrity Profession | Country |
|---|
| 0607 | Pope Boniface III | Pope |  Italy |
| 1035 | Cnut the Great | Viking king of Denmark |  Denmark |
| 1094 | Duncan II of Scotland | King of Scots | -flag.jpg) United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1434 | Louis III of Naples | Titular King of Naples | Italy |
| 1555 | Stephen Gardiner | English Roman Catholic bishop and politician | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1567 | Anne de Montmorency | Constable of France |  France |
| 1595 | John Hawkins | English shipbuilder, naval administrator and commander, merchant, navigator and slave trader | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1667 | Hans Nansen | Danish statesman | Denmark |
| 1671 | Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron | English Civil War general | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1720 | Peder Tordenskjold | Norwegian naval hero |  Norway |
| 1742 | Friedrich Hoffmann | German physician and chemist |  Germany |
| 1793 | Jean Sylvain Bailly | French astronomer and orator | France |
| 1836 | Juan Ramon Balcarce | Argentine military leader and politician |  Argentina |
| 1857 | Manuel Oribe | Uruguayan political figure |  Uruguay |
| 1865 | Preston King | U.S. Senator from New York | -flag.jpg) United States(USA) |
| 1865 | Elizabeth Gaskell | British novelist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1898 | Nakahama Manjiro | First Japanese people to visit the United States |  Japan |
| 1900 | Marcus Daly | American mining tycoon | United States(USA) |
| 1902 | William Henry Barlow | English civil engineer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1916 | Percival Lowell | American astronomer | United States(USA) |
| 1926 | Joseph Gurney Cannon | United States politician | United States(USA) |
| 1933 | F. Holland Day | American photographer and publisher | United States(USA) |
| 1936 | Stefan Grabinski | Polish writer |  Poland |
| 1939 | Norman Bethune | Canadian doctor and humanitarian |  Canada |
| 1941 | Abe Reles | New York mobster | United States(USA) |
| 1944 | Otto Blumenthal | German mathematician | Germany |
| 1945 | Jaro Furth | Austrian stage and film actor |  Austria |
| 1946 | Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya | Indian founder of Banaras Hindu University |  India |
| 1947 | Baroness Emma Orczy | British novelist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1948 | Umberto Giordano | Italian composer | Italy |
| 1950 | Julia Marlowe | English actress | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1950 | Lesley Ashburner | American athlete | United States(USA) |
| 1955 | Tin Ujevic | Croatian poet |  Croatia |
| 1955 | Alfred Hajos | Hungarian swimmer |  Hungary |
| 1956 | Juan Negrin | Spanish Prime Minister |  Spain |
| 1958 | James Michael Curley | 53rd Governor of Massachusetts | United States(USA) |
| 1958 | Gustaf Soderstrom | Swedish athlete |  Sweden |
| 1960 | Lord Buckley | American monologist | United States(USA) |
| 1965 | Syedna Taher Saifuddin | Bohra spiritual leader | India |
| 1969 | Iskander Mirza | First President of Pakistan |  Pakistan |
| 1969 | Liu Shaoqi | Chinese revolutionary, statesman and theorist |  China |
| 1972 | Rudolf Friml | American composer | United States(USA) |
| 1974 | Porbergur Poroarson | Icelandic author |  Iceland |
| 1976 | Walter Piston | American composer | United States(USA) |
| 1976 | Mikhail Gurevich | Russian aircraft designer |  Russia |
| 1976 | Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich | Soviet aircraft designer | Russia |
| 1981 | William Holden | Academy Award-winning American film actor | United States(USA) |
| 1984 | Chester Himes | American writer | United States(USA) |
| 1988 | Primo Conti | Italian Futurist artist | Italy |
| 1989 | Dolores Ibarruri | Spanish Republican leader | Spain |
| 1990 | Eve Arden | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 1993 | Bill Dickey | Major League Baseball player and manager | United States(USA) |
| 1993 | H. R. Haldeman | American political aide and businessman | United States(USA) |
| 1994 | Wilma Rudolph | American athlete | United States(USA) |
| 1997 | Carlos Surinach | Catalan Spanish-born composer and conductor | Spain |
| 1998 | Kenny Kirkland | American pianist/keyboardist | United States(USA) |
| 2000 | Leah Rabin | Wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin |  Israel |
| 2000 | Franck Pourcel | French easy listening musician | France |
| 2001 | Carrie Donovan | Style editor for The New York Times Magazine | United States(USA) |
| 2001 | Tony Miles | English chess Grandmaster | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2001 | Albert Hague | German-born songwriter, composer and actor | United States(USA) |
| 2003 | Jonathan Brandis | American actor, director and screenwriter | United States(USA) |
| 2003 | Cameron Duncan | Writer and director |  New Zealand |
| 2003 | Kay E. Kuter | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 2003 | Penny Singleton | American film actress | United States(USA) |
| 2003 | Tony Thompson | Session drummer | United States(USA) |
| 2005 | William G. Adams | Former Mayor for St. Johns and Member of House Assembly | Canada |
| 2006 | Jacob E. Smart | U.S. Army Air Force leader in World War II and Cold War era Air Force general | United States(USA) |
| 2007 | Ira Levin | American author, dramatist and songwriter | United States(USA) |
| 2007 | Khanmohammad Ibrahim | Former Indian cricketer | India |
| 2008 | Mitch Mitchell | English drummer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2008 | Catherine Baker Knoll | American politician and member of the Democratic Party | United States(USA) |
| 2010 | Henryk Gorecki | Polish composer of classical music | Poland |
| 2010 | Karl Plutus | Estonian jurist |  Estonia |
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