- 587 St. Radegund, Frankish princess, wife of Clotaire I, and founder of the Convent of Our Lady of Poitiers, dies at about 66 [birth date uncertain]
- 662 Maximus Confessor, Greek theologian and court secretary to the Emperor, dies soon after his conviction for heresy when his hand and tongue were cut off (b. c. 580)
- 900 Zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29
- 1134 Irene of Hungary [Piroska], Byzantine empress, dies at 46
- 1191 Philips I, Archbishop of Cologne, dies during an epidemic on campaign in Naples
- 1278 Daikaku, Zen teacher Rinzai line/head of Kenchoji, dies in Japan at 65
- 1382 Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile, dies giving birth to her third child at 24
- 1523 Gerard David, Flemish painter
- 1617 Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant Calvinist clergyman, and theologian, dies at 76
- 1637 Dirck Bas, Dutch merchant, regent, government leader (OIC), dies
- 1667 Jeremy Taylor, Irish author and bishop (b. 1613)
- 1674 Lasse Lucidor [Lars Johnstown], Swedish poet, dies in a tavern brawl at 35
- 1686 Louis Maimbourg, French-born historian (b. 1610)
- 1717 Nicolas Perrot, French fur trader, diplomat and negotiator for New France, dies at about 73 [1]
- 1721 Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer, dies at 56
- 1744 John Cruger, Dutch-born Mayor of New York (b. 1678)
- 1749 Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and dramatic poet, dies at 30
- 1762 John Alberti, Dutch theologian and philologist, dies at 64
- 1787 Isaac de Pinto, Dutch merchant (Dutch East India Company), and scholar, dies at 70
- 1808 Henri Hardouin, French composer, dies at 81
- 1826 René Laënnec, French physician who invented the stethoscope, dies of tuberculosis at 46
- 1841 Bernhard Romberg, German cellist, composer and royal chaplain bandmaster, dies at 73
- 1860 Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies
- 1863 Eugène Delacroix, French painter and etcher (Journal), dies at 65
- 1865 Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician who discovered the cause of puerperal (childbed) fever and introduced antisepsis into medical practice, dies at 47
- 1886 Adolf von Doss, German composer, dies at 62
- 1895 Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies at 79
- 1896 John Everett Millais, English painter (Order of Release), dies at 67
- 1897 Antonius von der Linde, Dutch-German librarian and historian (history of chess), dies at 63
British nurse who revolutionized nursing during the Crimean War, dies at 90
French opera composer (Werther; Manon), dies of abdominal cancer at 70
- 1912 Octavia Hill, British reformer, leader of open-space movement, dies of cancer at 73
- 1913 August Bebel, German socialist politician (one of the founders of the Social Democratic Worker’s Party of Germany), dies at 73
- 1916 Fritz Steinbach, German conductor and composer, dies at 61
- 1917 Eduard Buchner, German chemist and winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, dies at 57 of wounds received in combat during World War I [1]
- 1918 Luther Gulick, American Basketball Hall of Fame contributor (basketball pioneer; international official), dies at 53
- 1924 Julian Aguirre, Argentine composer and pianist, dies at 56
- 1927 James Oliver Curwood, American journalist and writer (Valley of Silent Men), dies at 49
- 1928 Fernand de La Tombelle, French organist and composer, dies at 74
- 1931 Lester Lonergan, Irish-American stage and screen actor and director (Seven Faces), dies at 62
- 1933 Paul Hillemacher, French classical pianist, and composer, dies at 80
- 1934 Mary Austin, American nature writer and early feminist (Land of Little Rain), dies at 65
- 1937 Arthur Plunkett, English civil engineer (designed Sydney Harbour Bridge) (b. 1890)
- 1940 George C. Pearce, American actor (The Shadow Sinister, British Agent, Valiant), dies at 75
- 1946 Valery Zhelobinsky, Russian composer, dies at 33
- 1947 Tobias Norlind, Swedish musicologist, dies at 68
- 1948 Edwin Maxwell, Irish actor (Taming of the Shrew), dies at 62
- 1948 Elaine Hammerstein, American stage and silent film actress, dies in a Tijuana car crash at 51
- 1953 Dmitri Arakishvili, Soviet and Georgian composer, dies at 80
- 1954 Hermann W. S. Waltershausen, German musicologist and composer, dies at 71
- 1956 Harry Donnan, Australian cricketer (5 Tests for Australia 1891-96), dies at 91
- 1958 Otto Witte, acrobat and, purportedly, King of Albania (b. 1868)
- 1959 Henri Garat [Garascu], French actor (Congress Dances), and singer (“Les dieux s’amusent”), dies at 57
- 1961 Adeline De Walt Reynolds, American actress (Son of Dracula), dies at 78
- 1964 Peter Anthony Allen is the last person executed (for murder) in England and the United Kingdom at Walton Prison, Liverpool
- 1965 Ikeda Hayato, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan (1960-64), dies at 65
- 1967 Jane Darwell, American actress (The Grapes of Wrath), dies of a heart attack at 87
- 1970 Viktor Trambitsky, Russian composer, dies at 75
- 1971 King Curtis [Ousley], American Grammy Award-winning R&B, rock, jazz, and session saxophonist bandleader (“Memphis Soul Stew”; Aretha Franklin; John Lennon), murdered during an argument with a vagrant outside of his NYC home at 37
American Baseball Hall of Fame executive (NY Yankees GM 1947-60, 7 x World Series; NY Mets President 1961-66), dies at 78
- 1973 Ben van Eysselsteijn, Dutch writer and playwright (Arid Earth), dies at 75
- 1974 (Harold) “Tina” Brooks, American hard-bop jazz saxophonist, and composer (“True Blue”), dies of liver failure at 42
- 1974 Hugo Yarnold, English cricketer (Umpire in 3 Tests for England), dies at 57
- 1974 Kate O’Brien, Irish writer (Pray for the Wanderer), dies at 76
- 1977 Henry Williamson, English author (Tarka the Otter), dies at 81
- 1978 Muhammad Siddiq Khan, Bangladeshi educationist, librarian at the University of Dhaka (1956-72), and pioneer of library science in Bangladesh, dies at 68 [1]
- 1982 Adam Ważyk [Ajzyk Wagman], Polish poet and author (Eyes & Mouth), dies at 76
- 1982 Charles Walters, American actor, choreographer and director (Lili, Easter parade), dies of lung cancer at 70
- 1982 Joe E. Ross, American comedian (Toody-Car 54, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 68
- 1982 Joe Tex [Joseph Arrington Jr.], American soul musician (“Hold What You’ve Got”; “I Gotcha”), dies at 49
- 1984 Clyde Cook, actor (Dawn Patrol, Jazz Heaven), dies in his sleep at 92
- 1984 Tigran Petrosian, Soviet Armenian World Chess Champion (1963-69), dies of stomach cancer at 55
- 1985 J. Willard Marriott, American entrepreneur and hotelier (founder of Marriott Corporation), dies at 84
- 1985 Marion Martin, American actress (Dakota Lil, Queen of Burlesque), dies at 67
- 1986 Caterina Jarboro, African-American opera singer and 1st black female performer to sing on opera stage in US, dies at 88
- 1986 Helen Mack, American actress (Son of Kong, Milky Way), dies of cancer at 72
- 1987 Vincent Persichetti, American composer (Sibyl), dies at 72
- 1988 Edward Bennett Williams, American lawyer, team owner (Washington Redskins, Baltimore Orioles), dies of colon cancer at 68
- 1988 Otto Passman, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana (1947-77), dies at 88
- 1989 Larkin Smith, American politician (Rep-R-Mississippi 1989), dies in a plane crash at 45
- 1989 Tim Richmond, American race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS at 34
- 1990 Jimmy Starr, American screenwriter, actor (The Corpse Came C.O.D.), and gossip columnist, dies at 86
- 1991 Jack Ryan, American toy designer, inventor, and engineer at Mattel (Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels, Chatty Cathy) dies at 65
- 1992 Bill Elverman, American playwright and actor (After Hours), dies at 40
- 1992 Clifford Allison, American stock-car racer, dies in a practice race at 27
- 1992 David Kaplan, American news producer (ABC), shot and killed reporting in Sarajevo Yugoslavia at 44 or 45
- 1992 Jan Elburg, Dutch poet (Through the Night), dies at 72
- 1994 Manfred Wörner, German general and Secretary-General of NATO (1988-94), dies at 59
- 1994 Raymond Gallois-Montbrun, French violinist and composer, dies at 75
- 1995 Alison Hargreaves, British mountaineer and 1st woman to climb Mount Everest alone without bottled oxygen (1995), dies in a storm on top of K2 summit, Pakistan at 33
- 1995 Jan Křesadlo, Czech-British psychologist and writer, dies at 68
- 1995 Per-Jakez Helias, French Breton writer (Le Cheval d’orgueil) and actor, dies at 81
- 1996 António de SpÃnola, Portuguese general and conservative President of Portugal (1974), dies of a pulmonary embolism at 86
- 1996 Christopher John Gray, English Anglican priest, murdered in front of his own vicarage in Liverpool at 32 [1] [2]
- 1996 David Randall, British priest and founder of AIDS/HIV center Cara, dies of AIDS at 49
- 1996 David Tudor, American pianist and composer, dies at 70
- 1996 Louise Talma, American composer (Summer Sounds), dies at 89
- 1996 Tom Mees, American ESPN sports anchor (NHL), drowns at 46
- 1996 W. Gordon Smith, Scottish playwright (Jock), dies at 67
- 1997 Emil ‘Bus’ Mosbacher, American yachtsman (America’s Cup 1962 [Weatherly], 1967 [Intrepid]), dies at 75
- 1998 Julien Green, American-French writer (Frere Francois), dies at 97
- 1998 Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer and composer (Mirza, Cornichons), dies at 63
- 1998 Philip von Schantz, Swedish painter, dies at 70
- 1999 Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian, murdered at 38
- 1999 Sulo Nurmela, Finish skier (Olympic gold 1936), dies at 91
- 2000 Antony Duff, British WWII submarine commander, diplomat, (1946-80), intelligence officer (Director of MI5, 1985-88), and advocate for the homeless, dies at 80
- 2000 Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist known as “Queen of Pop” in South Asia, dies of lung cancer at 35
- 2001 Jimmy Knapp, British trade unionist (National Union of Railwaymen), dies at 60
- 2001 Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver, dies at 54
- 2003 Ed Townsend, American doo-wop singer, songwriter, and producer (“For Your Love”; Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On”), dies at 73
- 2004 Julia Child, American chef, author and television personality (The French Chef), dies at 91
- 2006 Payao Poontarat, Thai Olympic boxer (b. 1957)
- 2006 Tony Jay, British-American stage, screen, and voice actor (Twins; The Hunchback of Notre Dame – “Frollo”), dies at 73
- 2007 Brian Adams, aka Demolition Crush, American professional wrestler (b. 1964)
- 2007 Brooke Astor, American philanthropist and socialite, dies at 105
American Baseball HOF shortstop (5 x MLB All-Star; 7 x World Series; AL MVP 1950; NY Yankees) and broadcaster (WCBS radio, WPIX-TV), dies at 89
- 2007 Tudor Jarda, Romanian composer, music director (Romanian Opera, 1975-81), and pedagogue, dies at 85
- 2007 Yone Minagawa, Japanese supercentenarian who was the world’s oldest living person from 29 January 2007 until her death, dies at 114 [1]
- 2008 Bill Gwatney, American political figure, assassinated at 48
- 2008 Dino Toso, Italian Dutch Formula-1 engineer, dies of cancer at 39
- 2008 Henri Cartan, French Mathematician, dies at 104
- 2008 Jack Weil, American oldest working CEO (Rockmount Ranch Wear), dies at 107
- 2008 Roy Prosser, Australian rugby union prop (25 caps; Northern Suburbs), dies at 66
- 2008 Sandy Allen, American second-tallest woman in the world at 7 feet 7 inches (231 cm), dies at 53
- 2010 Edwin Newman, American broadcast journalist (b. 1919)
- 2010 Esteban “Steve” Jordan, American conjunto, Tejano, rock and jazz accordion player, dies of liver cancer at 71
- 2010 Lance Cade, American pro wrestler who was WWE Tag Team Champion (with Trevor Murdoch) 2005, dies from accidental drug overdose at 29
- 2011 Topi Sorsakoski [Pekka Tammilehto], Finnish blues singer, and guitarist, dies of lung cancer at 58
- 2012 Helen Gurley Brown, American author and publisher, dies at 90
- 2012 Johnny Pesky [Paveskovich], American baseball infielder (1942, 46-54 Boston Red Sox), manager (Boston Red Sox 1963-64, 80) and broadcaster, dies at 92
- 2013 Jon Brookes, English drummer (The Charlatans), dies of cancer at 44
- 2013 Tompall Glaser, American country music singer (Tompall & the Glaser Brothers – “Lovin’ Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again)”, “Put Another Log on the Fire”), dies at 79
- 2014 Frans Brüggen, Dutch flautist, recorder player, and conductor (Orchestra of the 18th Century), dies at 79
- 2016 Françoise Mallet-Joris, Belgian writer (Signs & Wonders), dies at 86
- 2016 Kenny Baker, English actor (R2-D2 in Star Wars; Time Bandits), dies at 81
- 2016 Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian Hindu spiritual leader (BAPS), dies at 94
- 2017 Joseph Bologna, American actor (Citizen Cohn, My Favorite Year), dies at 82
- 2018 Jim “the Anvil” Neidhart, American professional wrestler (WWF/WCW/NJPW/CWFI/Calgary), dies at 63
- 2018 Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader, dies at 89
- 2019 Kip Addotta, American stand-up comic, dies at 75
- 2020 Eric Hughes, English rugby league utility back (10 Tests England, 8 Great Britain; Widnes 481 games), dies from cancer at 73
- 2021 Charlie Johnson, American football defensive tackle (Pro Bowl 1979-81; All Pro 1980; Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings), dies at 69
- 2021 Nanci Griffith, American singer (“From A Distance”), and songwriter (“Once in a Very Blue Moon”; “Love at the Five and Dime”), dies at 68
- 2022 Piero Angela, Italian science journalist and television host (Quark), dies at 93
- 2024 George Leotsakos, Greek composer and musicologist, dies at 89
- 2024 Greg Kihn, American pop musician (“The Break-Up Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)”; “Jeopardy”), radio personality (KFOX, 1996-2012), and novelist, dies of complications from Alzheimer’s disease at 75 [1]
- 2024 Wally Amos, American cookie entrepreneur (Famous Amos), television personality, adult literacy advocate, and motivational speaker, dies of complications of dementia at 88 [1]
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