| 1898 February 12 | Death | Henry Lindfield | Died as a result of shock when having his leg amputated after a car crash near Croydon in England. This was the first recorded fatality of a car accident. |
| 1901 April 3 | Death | Richard d'Oyly Carte | English Impressario behind Gilbert and Sullivan and builder of the Savoy Theatre. |
| 1904 May 8 | Death | Eadweard Muybridge | English Photographer (Horse Trot) |
| 1910 May 6 | Death | Edward VII | King of England. |
| 1924 June 3 | Death | Franz Kafka | Czech Author. |
| 1941 June 4 | Death | Wilhelm II von Hohenzollern, Emperor | Germany (1888-1918) |
| 1945 April 12 | Death | President Franklin D. Roosevelt | of a brain Haemorrage less than a month before the Germans surrender to the allies. |
| 1945 April 30 | Death | Adolf Hitler | Shoots himself in his underground bunker. |
| 1945 March 12 | Death | Anne Frank | Notable World War II Diarist is killed in Auschwitz. |
| 1947 April 7 | Death | Henry Ford | Manufacturer of Cars |
| 1950 April 8 | Death | Vaslav Nijinsky - Dancer | After many years of Insanity |
| 1955 April 18 | Death | Albert Einstein | Physicist E=MC2 |
| 1960 April 17 | Death | Eddy Cochran | Rock Musician at 21 years old in a car crash. |
| 1963 June 3 | Death | Pope John XXIII | (Angelo G Roncalli) |
| 1964 April 5 | Death | General Douglas MacArthur US. | Pacific Theatre WWII |
| 1964 April 7 | Death | Jim Clark, Racing Driver | Killed in a crash at Hockenheim, Germany |
| 1964 January | Death | John F. Kennedy | Shot from the grassy knoll? |
| 1967 August 9 | Death | Joe Orton | Writer
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| 1967 June 10 | Death | Spencer Tracey | Actor |
| 1967 June 29 | Death | Jayne Mansfield | Film actress
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| 1968 April 4 | Death | Martin Luther King, Civil Rights Leader | Shot dead in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray. |
| 1972 May 22 | Death | Margaret Rutherford | Actress |
| 1973 April 8 | Death | Pablo Picasso - Painter | Aged 91 a painter and sculpter who pioneered the style of cunism. |
| 1974 May 24 | Death | Duke Ellington | Blues Singer. |
| 1975 April 23 | Death | William Hartnell - Actor | Doctor Who Fame dies at 67. |
| 1975 November 29 | Death | Graham Hill | British F1 driver - plane crash, Elstree airfield.
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| 1976 April 5 | Death | Howard Hughes, reclusive Billionaire | Dies aged 72 |
| 1976 June 6 | Death | John Paul Getty | Billionaire oil magnate. |
| 1977 May 10 | Death | Joan Crawford | Actress. |
| 1979 June 11 | Death | John Wayne | Actor |
| 1979 May 4 | Death | Audrey Hepburn | Actress. |
| 1980 April 15 | Death | John Paul Sartre | Exitentialist (Nobel 1964) |
| 1980 April 29 | Death | Alfred Hitchcock | Film Director. |
| 1980 December 8 | Death | John Winston Lennon | Ex-Beatle, shot outside his New York apartment by Mark Chapman
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| 1980 February 17 | Death | Graham Sutherland | Artist died aged 76
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| 1980 January 3 | Death | Joy Adamson | Austrian-born author of "Born Free" murdered
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| 1980 July 24 | Death | Peter Sellers | British actor
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| 1980 June 7 | Death | Henry Miller | American author aged 89
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| 1980 May 4 | Death | Marshall Tito | President of Yugoslavia.
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| 1980 November 7 | Death | Steve McQueen | US actor died from cancer
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| 1981 May 4 | Death | Bobby Sands | Irish IRA Terrorist dies after a hunger strike. |
| 1983 November 15 | Death | John le Mesurier | British actor
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| 1984 April 15 | Death | Tommy Cooper | Comedian, does at 61 on Stage. |
| 1984 May 28 | Death | Erich Morecombe | English Comedian (Morecombe and Wise) |
| 1985 May 29 | Death | Heysel Stadium Disaster | 39 Liverpool fans die at Stadium before the match starts. |
| 1986 June 3 | Death | Anna Neagle | Actress at 81. |
| 1988 April 15 | Death | Kenneth Williams | Actor of "Carry On" Films |
| 1988 December 6 | Death | Roy Orbison | American singer/songwriter
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| 1988 May 11 | Death | Kim Philby | English Spy
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| 1989 April 12 | Death | Sugar Ray Robinson | Heavyweight Champion. |
| 1989 October 6 | Death | Bette Davis | American film actress
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| 1990 April 15 | Death | Greta Garbo | Actress. |
| 1990 May 22 | Death | Max Wall | Actor |
| 1990 May 22 | Death | Rocky Graziano | Boxer
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| 1991 April 3 | Death | Graham Green | Novellist, at Vevey in Switzerland aged 86 Years. |
| 1992 April 19 | Death | Frankie Howerd | Actor, Carry on Films, Up Pompei |
| 1992 April 20 | Death | Benny Hill | Comedian at 67 of a heart attack. |
| 1992 April 6 | Death | Issac Asimov | Science Fiction Author |
| 1993 February 24 | Death | Bobby Moore | England football captain
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| 1993 June 15 | Death | James Hunt | British F1 World Champion - heart attack aged 45
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| 1994 April 15 | Death | John Curry | English Olympic Figure Skater (Oly-Gold-76) |
| 1994 May 1 | Death | Ayrton Senna | F1 driver killed at San Marino GP
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| 1994 May 12 | Death | John Smith MP | Leader of the British Labour Party. |
| 1995 March 17 | Death | Ronnie Kray | One half of the notable Kray Brothers, English Gangsters, dies at the age of 61. |
| 1996 April 6 | Death | Greer Garson | Actress |
| 2000 August 5 | Death | Alec Guinness | British actor
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| 2000 May 22 | Death | John Gielgud | British actor
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| 2001 December 26 | Death | Nigel Hawthorne | British actor
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| 2001 June 3 | Death | Anthony Quinn | Film actor
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| 2002 February 27 | Death | Spike Milligan | |
| 2002 July 9 | Death | Rod Steiger | American film actor
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| 2002 March 27 | Death | Dudley Moore | British actor
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| 2002 March 30 | Death | Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother | Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon |