Roman emperor (306-312), drowns at the Battle of Milvian Bridge at 34
- 1138 Boleslaw III Wrymouth [scheefmond], Duke of Poland, dies at 52
- 1225 Jien, Japanese poet and historian, dies at 70
- 1312 Elisabeth of Tirol, German queen
- 1412 Margaret I of Denmark, wife of Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1353)
- 1468 Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan (1450-68), dies at 43
- 1520 Pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian pirate and freedom fighter
- 1568 Ashikaga Yoshihide, 14th Japanese shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate (1564-8), dies at 30 (b. 1538)
- 1627 Jahangir, 4th Mughal Emperor of India (1605-27), dies at 58
- 1637 Foppe van Aitzema, Dutch diplomat, dies at about 57
- 1639 Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587)
- 1646 William Dobson, English portrait painter, dies at about 35 (b. 1610)
- 1649 Blanche Arundell, English noblewoman (led defense of Wardour Castle during English Civil War), dies at 65 or 66 [1]
- 1661 Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (b. 1518)
- 1676 Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
English mathematician and cryptographer who introduced ∞ as a symbol for infinity, dies at 86
English empiricist philosopher; influential Enlightenment thinker and “Father of Liberalism” (Two Treatises of Government), dies at 72
- 1708 Prince George of Denmark, Prince Consort of Anne of England, dies at 55
- 1716 Stephen Fox, English politician, dies at 89
- 1740 Anna Ivanova, Empress of Russia (1730-40), dies of a kidney stone at 47
- 1754 Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (Versuch einiger Poem), dies at 46
- 1755 Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer, dies at 65
- 1763 Heinrich von Brühl, German statesman, dies at 63
- 1768 Michel Blavet, French court flautist/composer, dies at 68
- 1779 Raphael Weiss, German composer and priest, dies at 66
- 1792 John Smeaton, British civil engineer, dies at 68
- 1792 Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist, died at 82
- 1800 Artemas Ward, American politician and soldier (major general during the American Revolutionary War), dies at 72
- 1806 Charlotte Turner Smith, British poet and novelist (b. 1749)
- 1812 Joseph Beer, Bohemian military trumpeter, clarinet virtuoso, and composer who revolutionized the clarinet by adding a fifth flap, dies at 78
- 1841 Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist who discovered the element lithium, dies at 49 [1]
- 1852 Gerhard Moritz Roentgen, Dutch industrialist (founder of Fijenoord dockyard), dies at 57
- 1854 James P Carrell, composer, dies at 67
- 1857 Louis Eugène Cavaignac, French soldier and politician (b. 1802)
- 1875 William Howard Glover, English composer, dies at 56
- 1877 Johann Herbeck, Austrian composer and conductor (conducted premiere of Franz Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony”), dies at 45
- 1877 Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)
- 1879 Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer (b. 1799)
- 1890 Charles Edward Mudie, English book publisher, founder of Mudie’s Lending Library which dominated the UK circulation library movement, dies at 72
- 1893 Carter Harrison III, American politician, Mayor of Chicago (1879-87, 1893), assassinated by a disgruntled supporter at 68
- 1897 Hercules Robinson, British colonial administrator (Ceylon, Fiji, New Zealand, South Africa), dies at 72
- 1899 Grant Allen, Canadian writer (Woman Who Did), dies at 51
- 1899 Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American inventor who invented the linotype machine that revolutionized printing, dies of tuberculosis at 45
- 1900 Max Müller, German-born British orientalist, dies at 76
- 1905 Alphonse Allais, French humorist and author (Le chat noir), dies at 51
- 1914 Adelgunde of Bavaria, German princess and wife of Duke of Modena, dies at 91
- 1914 Richard Heuberger, Austrian opera composer, dies at 64
- 1916 Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (Father of Weather Bureau), dies at 77
- 1916 Oswald Boelcke, German World War I pilot and author of the first manual of air combat (Dicta Boelcke), dies in an air collision at 25 [1]
- 1917 Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1831)
- 1918 Edward Bouchet, American Physicist, 1st African American to receive US Ph.D, dies at 66
- 1918 Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (Fondamenti per la teorica delle funzioni di variabili reali), dies at 72
- 1919 Ted Wainwright, English cricket all-rounder (5 Tests; Yorkshire CCC), dies at 54
- 1922 Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer and poet (Flemish Motion), dies at 81
- 1927 (Joseph) Eaton Faning, British organist and composer (The Vikings; Mock Turtles), dies at 77
Chancellor of the German Empire (1900-09), dies at 80
- 1929 Hermann Ungar, Moravian writer, dies while undergoing an appendectomy at 36
- 1939 Alice Brady, American silent and talkie film actress (My Man Godfrey; The Gay Divorcee; Zenobia), dies of cancer at 46
- 1940 Andrea d’ Angeli, Italian composer, dies at 71
- 1944 Helen Magill White, American educator and 1st woman to earn a Ph.D. in the U.S., dies at 90
- 1944 Iman Jacob van den Bosch, Dutch WWII resistance fighter, shot and executed at Westerbork Transit camp at 53
- 1952 Billy Hughes, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (Labor, Nationalist: 1915-23), dies at 90
- 1957 Tony Morabito, American football executive who founded and co-owned the San Francisco 49ers, dies of a heart attack at 47
- 1959 Abe Waddington, English cricket fast bowler (2 Tests, 1 wicket; Yorkshire CCC), dies at 66
- 1959 Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)
- 1959 Egon Kornauth, Austrian classical pianist, composer, and teacher, dies at 68
- 1962 Pierre Froidebise, Belgian organist, composer, and musicologist, dies at 48
- 1963 Mart Saar, Estonian composer, dies at 81
- 1964 Reginald Horace Blyth, Zen teacher/scholar, dies in Japan at 66
- 1965 Ben Barka, Moroccan opposition leader, kidnapped & murdered in Paris
- 1965 Earl Bostic, American jazz alto saxophonist (“Flamingo”; “Temptation”), dies at 52
- 1968 Henricus W. J. M. Keuls, Dutch lawyer and poet (Dancing Lamp), dies at 85
- 1969 Constance Dowling, actress (Blind Spot), dies of cardiac arrest at 49
- 1970 Baby Huey [James Ramey], American rock and soul singer (Baby Huey & Babysitters), dies of a drug-related heart attack at 26
- 1970 Eduardo López-Chávarri y Marco, Spanish composer, music critic and lawyer, dies at 99
- 1971 Yves de La Casiniere, French composer, dies at 74
- 1973 Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883)
- 1973 Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)
- 1975 Georges Carpentier, French boxer (world light heavyweight champion 1920-22; 1st $1m gate v J Dempsey), dies of a heart attack at 81
- 1975 Oliver Nelson, American saxophonist, jazz and soundtrack composer, arranger, bandleader, and record producer (The Blues and the Abstract Truth; The Six Million Dollar Man), dies of a heart attack at 43
- 1977 Kaj Birket-Smith, Danish philologist and anthropologist (studied Inuit and Eyak), dies at 84
- 1978 Geoffrey Unsworth, British cinematographer (Superman, Cabaret), dies of a heart attack at 64
- 1980 Leon Janney (Ramon), American actor (Charly, Stolen Paradise, Hawk), dies of cancer at 63
- 1984 Giuseppe Savagnone, Italian composer, dies at 81
- 1984 Knut Nordahl, Swedish soccer midfielder (26 caps; AS Roma; Olympic gold 1948), dies at 64
- 1986 Eddie Waring, British rugby league broadcaster (BBC 1958-81), dies from dementia at 76
- 1986 John Braine, English novelist (Life at the Top), dies at 64
- 1986 Marga Klompé, Dutch 1st female minister (CRM), dies at 74
- 1987 Andre Masson, French surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91
- 1989 Darel Dieringer, American auto racer (181 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races for 7 wins and 79 top 10 finishes), dies at 63
- 1989 Henry Hall, British bandleader (BBC Dance Orchestra), dies at 91
- 1990 Frankie Masters [Masterman], American banjo player, guitarist, vocalist, and big band bandleader (“Scatter-Brain”), dies at 86
- 1990 Nobutaka Shikanai, Japanese media CEO (Fujisankei Communications Group), dies of liver failure at 78 [1]
- 1991 Dudley McConnell, American space scientist, headed NASA’s Earth Science Division, dies at 55
- 1991 George Treweeke, Australian Rugby League second rower (7 Tests, South Sydney), dies at 86
- 1991 Lydia Hodson Copeland, America’s Jr Miss (1972), dies at 37
- 1991 Sylvia Fine (Kaye), American lyricist (“Knock on Wood”, “The Five Pennies”), composer, Peabody Award and Emmy Award television producer (Musical Comedy Tonight), and wife of Danny Kaye, dies of emphysema at 78
- 1991 [Lawrence] G. L. Vitto American DJ and TV host, dies at 69
- 1992 Joan Maloney Rio, dancer, dies of cancer at 57
- 1993 Carmino Baelen, Belgian sleder, dies at 22
- 1993 Doris Duke, American heiress (American Tobacco Company), philanthropist (Independent Aid; Doris Duke Foundation), and socialite, dies of cardiac arrest following a stroke at 80
- 1994 Sjlomo Goren, Polish/Israeli supreme rabbi, dies
- 1995 Allan Leslie Merson, historian, dies at 79
- 1995 Katsumasa Sakioka, Japanese-American property tycoon, dies at 96 [1]
- 1996 (Moritz) “Morey” Amsterdam, American comedian, cellist, and actor (The Dick Van Dyke Show – “Buddy”), dies at 87
- 1996 Jack Tinker, British theater critic for the Daily Mail, dies of a heart attack at 58
- 1996 William Downie Forrest, Scottish foreign correspondent (Spanish Civil War, WWII), dies at 94 [1]
- 1997 Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
- 1997 Toni Carabillo, writer (Feminist Chronicles), dies of lymphoma at 71
- 1998 Ghulam Ahmed, Indian cricket spin bowler (22 Tests, 68 wickets, BB 7/49, 1 x 50; Hyderabad), dies at 76
- 1998 James Goldman, American screenwriter and playwright (The Lion in Winter), dies of a heart attack at 71
English Poet and translator (British Poet Laureate 1984-98), dies at 68
- 1999 Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet (El hombre deshabitado, one of the Generation of 27), dies at 96 [1]
- 1999 Robert Linn, American classical composer and educator, dies at 74
- 2000 Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (b. 1912)
- 2000 Lída Baarová [Ludmila Babková], Czech actress (Die Fledermaus, Virginity), dies after a long illness at 86
- 2001 Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer (b. 1910)
- 2002 Erling Persson, Swedish entrepreneur (H&M stores), dies at 85
- 2002 Margaret Booth, American film editor MGM’s first official film editor (Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 104
- 2004 Gil Mellé, American jazz saxophonist and composer, dies at 72
- 2004 Jimmy McLarnin, Irish boxer (NYSAC, NBA, The Ring welterweight world champion 1933-35; International Boxing HOF), dies at 96
- 2005 Bob Broeg, American sportswriter (St. Louis Cardinals for St. Louis Post-Dispatch; National Sportscasters and Sportswriters HOF), dies at 87
- 2005 Eugene K. Bird, German prison director (b. 1926)
- 2005 Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean singer and musician (b. 1922)
- 2005 Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor (b. 1929)
- 2005 Raymond Hains, French artist (b. 1926)
- 2005 Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
- 2006 Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter (“One Day at a Time”; “Long Black Veil”), dies of heart disease at 86
American Basketball HOF coach (9xNBA C’ship; NBA Coach of the Year 1965 Boston Celtics; 11×NBA All-Star Game HC) and executive (President Boston Celtics 7× NBA C’ship), dies of a heart attack at 89
Jamaican boxer (WBC heavyweight champion 1986), dies from blows to the head by his nephew at 52
- 2007 Porter Wagoner, American country singer, discovered Dolly Parton (“Y’All Come”; “A Satisfied Mind”), dies of lung cancer at 80
- 2008 George Sopkin, American cellist (Fine Arts Quartet, 1941-79), and teacher, dies at 94
- 2010 Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist (b. 1934)
- 2010 Gerard Kelly, Scottish actor (b. 1959)
- 2010 James MacArthur, American actor (Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0), dies at 72
- 2010 Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlander statesman (b. 1938)
- 2010 Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist (b. 1932)
- 2010 Michael Sharvell-Martin, British stage and screen character actor (Dave Allen At Large), dies of esophageal cancer at 66
- 2011 Beryl Davis, British-American cabaret and big band singer (Quintette du Hot Club de France, Glenn Miller’s US Army Air Force Orchestra), dies of complications from Alzheimer’s disease at 87
- 2012 Jack Dellal, British property investor and multi-millionaire (Allied Commercial Holdings), dies from natural causes at 83
- 2013 Ike Skelton, American politician, dies from pneumonia at 81
- 2013 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, 1st Prime Minister of Poland (1989-90), dies at 86
- 2013 Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese Baseball HOF first baseman (JBL MVP 1941, 51, 55 Tokyo Kyojin/Yomiuri Giants) and manager (11×Japan Series C’ship; Yomiuri Giants), dies at 93
- 2014 Galway Kinnell, American author, dies from leukemia at 87
- 2014 Michael Sata, Zambian politician often referred to as “King Cobra” and the fifth President of Zambia (2011-14), dies at 77 after suffering from an undisclosed illness [1]
- 2018 Richard James Gill, Australian conductor and music educator, dies from cancer at 76
- 2019 Al Bianchi, American basketball guard (Syracuse Nationals / Philadelphia 76ers), ABA Coach of the Year 1971 and NY Knicks general manager (1987-91), dies from heart failure at 87
- 2019 Zoltán Jeney, Hungarian composer and educator (Franz Liszt Academy, 1995-2019), dies at 76
- 2020 Billy Joe Shaver, American country singer-songwriter (“When I Get My Wings”), dies of a stroke at 81
- 2020 Bobby Ball [Harper], British comic, actor, singer and television host (Cannon and Ball; The Last of Summer Wine), dies at 76
- 2020 Leanza Cornett, American TV host and Miss America winner, dies at 49
- 2020 Miguel Ángel Castellini, Argentine boxer (WBA, lineal light middleweight titles 1976-77), dies from COVID-19 at 73
- 2021 David C. Johnson, American composer, flautist, educator, and electronic music performer (Stockhausen), dies at 81
- 2021 Dick Szymanski, American football center (Pro Bowl 1955, 62, 64; Baltimore Colts) and executive (GM Baltimore Colts 1977-82), dies at 89
- 2022 D. H. Peligro [Darren Henley], American punk rock drummer (Dead Kennedys, Red Hot Chili Peppers,1988), dies from head injury after a fall at 63
- 2022 Ian Jack, British journalist, writer and editor of Granta, dies at 77
- 2022 Vince Dooley, American College Football HOF coach (NCAA C’ship, AFCA Coach of the Year, Eddie Robinson COY; AD University of Georgia 1979-2004), dies at 90
- 2023 Audrey Schuh, American operatic soprano, dies at 92
Canadian-American actor (Chandler Bing in “Friends”), drowns after a cardiac arrest in a jacuzzi, attributed to acute ketamine anti-depressant build-up at 54 [1]
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