- 753 Pirmin [Pirminius], German saint, missionary and monk (founder in a number of monasteries including Reichenau), dies (b. before 700)
- 1254 Johannes III Doukas Vatatzes, Byzantine Emperor (1222-54)/saint, dies
- 1324 Petronilla de Meath, Irish maidservant, first person in Ireland or Great Britain to be burnt at the stake for witchcraft and heresy, at about 24
- 1344 Adolf II de la Marck, Prince-Bishop of Liege (1313-44) forced to sign the Peace of Fexhe, dies at 56
- 1378 Jan II, ruler of Polanen, Leck and Breda, dies
- 1428 Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1388)
- 1456 Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond and patriarch of the Tudor Dynasty, dies of bubonic plague imprisoned in Carmarthen Castle at 26
- 1580 Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (b. 1512)
- 1584 Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal and Archbishop of Milan (1564-84), dies at 46
- 1600 Richard Hooker, English theologian (b. 1554)
- 1639 Martinus de Porres, Peruvian saint (patron of social justice), dies at 59
- 1643 John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1582)
- 1643 Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (Guldinus theorem), dies at 66
- 1652 Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish painter and printmaker nicknamed “Lo Spagnoletto / the Little Spaniard”, dies at 61
- 1708 Henriette Catharina van Nassau, Dutch princess consort of Anhalt-Dessau and daughter of Frederick Henry Prince of Orange, dies at 71
- 1711 Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian Baroque composer, and organist (Vienna Court Chapel, 1690-1711), dies at 60
- 1711 John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian, dies at 45
- 1787 Robert Lowth, British Bishop of the Church of England and grammarian (A Short Introduction to English Grammar), dies at 76
- 1794 François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman, dies at 79
- 1803 Henri Moreau, Flemish composer, dies at 75
- 1808 Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian and clergyman, dies at 85
- 1832 Pietro Generali, Italian composer, dies at 59
- 1845 Johan Gijsbert Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies at 69
- 1864 Antonio Goncalves Dias, Brazilian national poet, dies at sea
Brazilian noblewoman and mistress of Pedro I, dies at 69
- 1867 Pieter J Jong, Dutch Zouave, dies in battle
- 1869 Andreas Kalvos, Greek poet, dies at 77
- 1880 Solon Robinson, American journalist (New York Tribune), writer (Hot Corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated), and agriculturist, dies at 77
- 1890 Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councilor and soldier, dies at 78
- 1891 Louis Lucien Bonaparte, British-French philologist, politician and nephew of Napoleon, dies at 78
- 1904 Gaston Serpette, French composer, dies at 57
- 1911 Salvador Giner y Vidal, Spanish composer, dies at 79
- 1913 Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, Prussian pianist, composer and music director (Royal Theatre of Hanover, 1867-87), dies at 83
- 1914 Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (Totentag), dies of a cocaine overdose at 27
- 1917 Léon Bloy, French novelist and essayist, dies at 71
- 1918 Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (Lyapunov exponent), dies at 61
- 1919 Terauchi Masatake, Japanese soldier and politician (Prime Minister of Japan 1916-18), dies at 67
American sharp shooter (Buffalo Bill’s Wild West), dies of pernicious anemia at 66
German polar researcher and meteorologist (continental drift), dies while on an expedition to Greenland at 50 (date is approximate)
- 1931 Rudolf Wilhelm Canne, Fries playwright (Peaske), dies at 60
French physician, bacteriologist, immunologist who developed the 1st diphtheria vaccine and co-founded the Pasteur Institute, dies at 79
- 1936 Filip Lazar, Romanian composer, dies at 42
- 1937 Winthrop Ames, American theatrical director (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), dies at 66
- 1939 Waldemar Lindgren, Swedish-American Geologist (economic geology, ore classification), dies at 79
- 1942 Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Trousers, Snob), dies at 64
- 1944 Jack Miner, Canadian naturalist and conservationist, dies at 79
- 1945 Alessandro Longo, Italian composer and musicologist, dies at 80
- 1945 James Frederick Wagner, father of Priscilla Presley, dies in a plane crash
- 1949 Solomon R. Guggenheim, American businessman and art collector (Guggenheim Museum New York), dies at 88
- 1952 Louis Verneuil, French playwright, screenwriter and actor (My Life with Caroline, Murder for Sale), dies by suspected suicide at 59 [1] [2]
French painter and sculptor (Dance II), dies at 84
- 1954 Pietro Deiro, Italian-American accordionist (1st president of the American Accordionists Association), and music publisher (Accordion Music Publishing Company (AMPCO)), dies at 66
- 1957 Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-American psychoanalyst (coined term “sexual revolution”, worked with Freud), dies at 60
- 1958 Harry Revel (né Glaser), Latvian-American film score composer (Sitting Pretty; Gay Divorcee), dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at 52
- 1959 Friedrich Niggli, Swiss composer (Buechfinkeliedli; Nach dem Regen), dies at 83
- 1960 Bobby Wallace, Baseball HOF shortstop, pitcher (Temple Cup 1895 Cleveland Spiders) and manager (St. Louis Browns, Cincinnati Reds), dies at 86
- 1960 Harold Spencer Jones, English astronomer and 10th astronomer royal of England whose work led to a more accurate determination of the distance between the Earth and the Sun, dies at 70
- 1960 Paul Willis, American actor (The Little Lumberjack; Little Kaintuck), dies at 59
President of General Motors (1953-58), dies at 69
- 1964 John Henry Barbee, American blues guitarist and singer, dies of a heart attack at 58
- 1966 Eric Spear, British film and TV composer (Coronation Street theme), dies at 58
- 1968 Vern Stephens, American baseball shortstop (8 x MLB All Star; AL HR leader 1945; 3×AL RBI leader; St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox), dies of a heart attack at 48
- 1969 Zeki Rıza Sporel, Turkish soccer striker (16 caps; Fenerbahçe), dies at 71
- 1970 Peter II Karadjordjevic, last King of Yugoslavia (1934-45), dies at 57
- 1971 Étienne Gailly, Belgian long distance runner (famous Olympic bronze finish 1948), dies at 48
- 1973 Arturo de Córdova [Arturo García Rodríguez], Mexican actor (Medal for Benny), dies from a stroke at 66
- 1973 Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
- 1977 Florence Vidor, American actress (Jack Knife Man), dies at 82
- 1977 William Kurelek, Canadian artist and writer (The Maze, Passion of Christ series), dies of cancer at 50
- 1980 Hans Ruin, Finnish Swedish-language historian and philosopher, dies at 89
- 1980 Ludwig Hohl, writer, dies
- 1981 Thérèse Casgrain, French Canadian politician and senator, dies at 85
- 1982 E. H. Carr, English historian (History of Soviet Russia), dies at 90
- 1982 Jack Westland, American politician (US House of Representatives 1953-65) and golfer (US Amateur C’ship 1952), dies at 77
- 1983 Alfredo Antonini, Italian-American Emmy Award-winning conductor (CBS Symphony; Columbia Pan-American Orchestra), and composer (The Great City), dies during heart surgery at 82
- 1983 Bob Scholte, Dutch vocalist, dies at 81
- 1986 E. Cuyler Hammond, American epidemiologist (first to link smoking with lung cancer), dies at 74
- 1986 Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, American jazz saxophonist (Count Basie; Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band), and bandleader dies of Hodgkin’s lymphoma at 64
- 1988 Henri van Praag, Dutch para-psychologist, dies
- 1989 Dorothy Fuldheim, American print and broadcast journalist (The Cleveland Press; WEWS-TV, Cleveland, Ohio), credited as being 1st woman in US to anchor a television news broadcast, dies at 96
- 1990 Sashadhar Mukherjee, Indian film producer (Jagrit), dies at 81
- 1990 Valerie French, British actress (Jubal), dies of leukemia at 62
- 1992 Jean Daskalides, Belgian chocolate factory, dies at 70
- 1992 John H Davis, actor (Our Gang), dies of respiratory failure at 78
- 1993 Aidan Crawley, British journalist and politician (Labour MP 1945-51), dies at 85
- 1993 Duncan Gibbins, director (Fire With Fire), dies in California fire at 41
- 1993 John Lupton, American actor (Tom-Broken Arrow), dies at 65
- 1993 Leon Theremin, Russian-Soviet electronic musical instrument inventor, dies at 97
- 1993 William Lanteau, actor (On Golden Pond), dies at 70
- 1994 Dennis Ott, American actor (Star Trek 3/4), dies of AIDS at 36
- 1994 Ralph Wyckoff, American scientist and pioneer of X-ray crystallography, dies at 97
- 1995 Eddie Pola [Sidney Edward Pollacsek], American radio and TV producer, and lyricist (“The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year”; “I Love The Way You Say Goodnight”), dies at 88
- 1995 Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association, dies at 108
- 1995 Isang Yun, Korean-born German composer, dies at 78
- 1995 John Orchard, British actor (Capone, M*A*S*H), dies at 66
- 1996 Abdullah Çatlı, a Turkish nationalist and neofascist activist (b. 1956)
- 1996 Barry Porter, British lawyer and Conservative Party politician, and Member of Parliament, dies at 57
- 1996 Bernard Frank, French oriental scholar and writer, dies at 69
President (1966-76) and later Emperor (1976-79) of the Central African Republic, dies of a heart attack at 75
- 1997 Wally Bruner, American broadcast journalist (ABC News), and TV host (What’s My Line?, 1968-72), dies at 66
- 1998 Bob Kane, American comic artist and Batman co-creator, dies at 83
- 1998 Martha O’Driscoll, American film actress, dancer and socialite (Young and Willing, Blonde Alibi), dies at 76
- 1999 Ian Bannen, Scottish character actor (Eye of the Needle, Gorky Park), dies in a car crash at 71
- 2000 Robert Sherlaw Johnson, British composer, pianist, music scholar, and campanologist. dies at 68
- 2001 Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-English art historian (The Story of Art), dies at 92
- 2001 Thomas Brasch, German writer and film director, dies at 56
- 2002 (Anthony) “Lonnie” Donegan, British-Scottish singer-songwriter ( as “the King of Skiffle” (“Rock Island Line”; “Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)”), known as the “King of Skiffle”, dies after a heart attack at 71
- 2002 John Habakkuk [Hrothgar Habakkuk], Welsh economic historian (Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University 1973–77), dies at 87
- 2002 Jonathan Harris [Charasuchin], American stage and screen character actor (The Bill Dana Show – “Mr. Phillips”; Lost In Space – “Dr Zachary Smith”), dies at 87
- 2003 Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet (Zhuravli), dies at 80
- 2004 Joe Bushkin, American jazz pianist (Bunny Berigan; Tommy Dorsey; Bing Crosby), composer (“Oh! Look At Me Now”), and TV host (A Couple of Joes), dies of pneumonia at 87
- 2006 Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian soccer forward (11 caps; 5 caps Uruguay; most goals in Copa Libertadores [54] 1960-72), dies of heart failure at 68
- 2006 Marie Rudisill, American author and “Fruitcake Lady” (b. 1911)
- 2006 Paul Mauriat, French easy listening orchestra leader, composer, and arranger (“Love Is Blue”), dies at 81
- 2006 Took Leng How, Malaysian criminal, hanged for the high profile murder of Huang Na at 24
- 2007 Martin Meehan, Irish republican (b. 1945)
- 2008 Alan Ford, American swimmer (world 100m freestyle record 55.4; Olympic silver 1948), dies of emphysema at 84
- 2008 Jean Fournet, French conductor (Rotterdam Philharmonic, 1968-73; Orchestre National de l’Île, 1973-82; Tokyo Metropolitan, 1983-86), dies at 95
- 2009 Francisco Ayala, Spanish novelist (b. 1906)
- 2010 (Cecil) Hotep Idris Galeta, South African jazz pianist, composer, and educator, dies of an asthma attack at 69
- 2010 James “Jim” Clench, Canadian bassist and songwriter (April Wine; Bachman-Turner Overdrive), dies of lung cancer at 61
- 2010 Jerry Bock, American Broadway composer (Fiddler on the Roof), dies of heart failure at 81
- 2010 Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician (Prime Minister of Russia), dies at 72
American MLB baseball pitcher, 1974-1989 (St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros), dies of a thoracic aortic aneurysm at 61
- 2011 Matty Alou, Dominican baseball outfielder (NL batting champion 1966; MLB All-Star 1968-69; Pittsburgh Pirates), dies of diabetes complications at 72
- 2012 Tommy Godwin, British track cyclist (Great Britain coach; 2 x Olympic bronze 1948; President British Cycling Federation), dies at 91
- 2013 Gerard Cieślik, Polish soccer striker (45 caps, 27 goals; Ruch Chorzów 237 games) and manager (Ruch Chorzów), dies at 86
- 2014 Gordon Tullock, American economist (public choice theory), dies at 92
- 2015 Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi politician (supported US 2003 invasion), dies at 71
- 2015 Howard Coble, American politician (Rep-R-NC, 1985-2015), dies at 84
- 2015 Tom Graveney, England cricket batsman (79 Tests; top score 258; 732 first class games), dies of Parkinson’s disease at 88
- 2016 Kay Starr [Katherine Starks], American pop singer (“Wheel of Fortune”), dies at 94
- 2017 Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh, 1991-96, dies at 91
- 2018 Sondra Locke, American actress (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter; Willard), and director (Impulse), dies at 74 of a heart attack while suffering from breast and bone cancer
- 2019 Louis Eppolito, American police officer, hitman for the Mafia and actor (Goodfellas, Lost Highway), dies at 71 [1]
- 2019 Yvette Lundy, French resistance fighter during WWII, dies at 103
- 2020 Don Talbot, Australian swimming coach and sport administrator (coach national swim teams – Canada, United States, Australia), dies from dementia complications at 87
- 2021 Warren Powers, American football running back (Oakland Raiders) and coach (Washington State University 1977, University of Missouri 1978-84), dies from Alzheimers at 80
- 2022 Benoît Dauga, French rugby union lock, #8 (63 caps; Stade Montois), dies at 80
- 2022 Igor Sypniewski, Polish soccer forward (2 caps; ŁKS Łódź, Panathinaikos FC, Halmstads BK), dies from depression, alcoholism issues at 47
- 2022 Ray Guy, American College-Pro Football HOF punter (Southern Miss; Super Bowl 1976, 80, 84; 6×First-team All-Pro; 7×Pro Bowl; Oakland/LA Raiders), dies from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 72
- 2022 Siegfried Stritzl, American soccer midfielder (11 caps; NY Cosmos; NASL Rookie of the Year 1969), dies at 78
- 2022 Wang Tao, Chinese soccer striker (2 caps; Dalian Wanda FC) and executive (founder BSU FC), dies at 52
- 2023 Gary Colson, American college basketball coach (Valdosta State Uni, Pepperdine Uni, Uni of New Mexico, Fresno State University), dies at 89
American jazz trumpeter. composer, arranger, record producer (Michael Jackson; Frank Sinatra; “We Are The World”), and film producer (The Color Purple), dies at 91 [1] [2]
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