- 190 Seimu, 13th Emperor of Japan according to legend (131-90), dies at about 106 (b. circa 84) [dates disputed]
- 578 Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa and saint, established Syriac Orthodox Church, dies of an illness at 77 or 78
- 579 Benedict I, Italian Pope (575-79), dies
- 983 Benedict IV, Italian Pope (974-83), dies at about 63 (birth date uncertain, c. 840)
- 1516 Johan V Nassau, earl of Nassau-Vianden/Dietz, dies
- 1526 Garcia Jofre de Loaísa, Spanish explorer (led expedition that discovered Cape Horn, Marshall Islands), dies at sea at about 36
- 1528 Jacopo d’antonio Negreti Palma, Italian painter, dies at about 48
- 1540 Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
- 1540 Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)
- 1550 Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
- 1566 Guillaume Rondelet, French naturalist famous for his study of marine animals, dies at 58
- 1652 Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)
- 1652 John Cloppenburg, Dutch Calvinist theologian, dies at 68
- 1655 Sigmund Theophil Staden, German composer, dies at 47
- 1680 Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
queen of Louis XIV of France, dies at 44
- 1691 Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)
English Philosopher, Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania (No cross, no crown), dies at 73
- 1741 Wierich PL count von DauWirich Philipp von Daun, Austrian nobleman and field marshal, Viceroy of Naples, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands, dies at 71
- 1771 Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard), dies at 54
- 1781 Augustin Ullinger, German composer, dies at 35
- 1796 Nicolas de Pigage, French classical architect, dies at 72
Spanish Catholic priest, and leader Mexican independence, executed at 58
- 1832 Jean-A-C Chaptal, French chemist/Internal minister, dies
- 1849 Jacob Perkins, American inventor (father of the refrigerator), dies at 83
- 1863 George Crockett Strong, US Union gen-mjr, dies of injuries at 29
- 1865 George Wright, US Union brigadier general, dies at 61
- 1870 Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet and journalist (Travel Memories from Norway 1860), dies from stomach cancer at 52
- 1875 George Pickett, American Major General in the Confederate Army (Civil War), dies at 50
- 1889 Charles Absolom, English cricketer (Test for England), dies in a port accident at 43
- 1894 Walter Pater, English aesthete and writer (Plato & Platonism), dies of rheumatic fever at 54
- 1900 Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, dies at 55
- 1901 Herbert Baxter Adams, American historian (American Historical Association), dies at 51
- 1903 Servas Daems [Peeter Klein], Flem writer (Wheelbarrows), dies at 65
- 1914 Albert Trott, cricketer (3 Tests for Aus, 2 for Eng), commits suicide
- 1914 Jean Jaurès, leading socialist, assassinated in Paris
- 1916 Albert Neisser, German physician who discovered the bacteria that cause gonorrhea and leprosy, dies of septicemia at 61
- 1918 Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi of Brisk, talmudic scholar, dies
American poet (Trees), dies at 31
- 1927 James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, Ghanaian-American missionary, educator and scholar, dies of meningococcal meningitis at 51
- 1927 Robert de Flers, French writer and playwright (Monsieur Bretonneau), dies at 54
- 1930 Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona, dies at 52
- 1936 Adolf Philipp, German-American Broadway composer (Adele), dies at 72
- 1941 Hugo Becker, German cellist, teacher (Berlin Hochschule für Musik, 1909-29). and composer, dies at 78
- 1941 Mickey Welch, American Baseball HOF pitcher (third to 300 career wins; Troy Trojans, New York Giants), dies from complications of gangrene of the foot at 82
- 1943 Benjamin Dale, British composer (Before the Paling of the Stars; The Flowing Tide), and educator (Royal Academy), dies at 58
- 1943 Owen Nares [Ramsay], British actor and manager (Maiden Erleigh), dies from a heart attack at 54
- 1947 George Challenor, West Indian cricketer (played in 1st WI Test side 1928), dies at 59
- 1947 Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia, dies at 86
- 1948 Sophonisba Breckenridge, American professor, teacher and social activist (1st woman to graduate from Chicago Uni Law School), dies at 82 [1]
- 1956 Maude Royden, English suffragist and preacher, dies at 79
- 1957 Sem Dresden, Dutch composer and conductor, dies at 76
- 1958 Alexander Albrecht, Slovak composer, dies at 72
- 1962 Myron McCormick, American actor (China Girl, Jigsaw), dies of cancer at 54
- 1963 Patrick J. Hurley, American diplomat and United States Secretary of War under Hoover (1929-33), dies at 80
- 1965 Alan Washbond, American 2-man bobsledder (Olympic gold 1932), dies at 65
- 1965 Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (Key), dies at 79
- 1966 Edward Gordon Craig, British modernist actor, director and theorist (On the art of theatre), dies at 94
- 1967 Alfried Krupp [né von Bohlen und Halbach], German arms manufacturer, convicted war criminal, and Olympic yacht competitor (1936), dies at 59
- 1967 John Macchia, American actor (Beach Blanket Bingo, Beach Party), dies of stroke at 35
- 1968 Jon Leifs, composer, dies at 69
- 1969 Oda Blinder [Yolanda Corsen], Curaçao-Dutch poet (Doorstep), dies at 50
- 1970 George Szell, Hungarian-born American conductor (Cleveland Orchestra, 1946-70), dies at 73
- 1970 Louis Lomax, African-American author and journalist, dies in a car accident 47
- 1970 Maud Lewis (née Dowley), Canadian folk artist and painter, dies from pneumonia at 67
- 1971 Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)
- 1973 Erich Katz, German-born American composer and musicologist, dies at 72
- 1973 Guy Middleton, British actor (Oh! What a Lovely War, Laughter in Paradise), dies following a heart attack at 66
- 1974 Lev Knipper, Russian-Soviet composer (Poem of the Komsomol Fighter; Tales of a Plaster God), and secret agent, dies at 75
- 1976 Emil Solomon “Solly” Sachs, South African socialist, dies in London
- 1977 Jorgen Ponto, West German banker, murdered
- 1978 Aasan Ferit Alnar, Turkish classical composer, dies at 72
- 1978 Umberto Nobile, Italian aviator and polar explorer (designed and flew 1st airship across the polar air cap), dies at 93
- 1979 Beppie Nooij, Dutch actress and director (Red Sien, Zeemansvrouwen), dies at 60
- 1980 Charles McGraw [Butters], American actor (Spartacus, The Birds, The Killers, Smith Family), dies after falling through a glass shower door at 66
- 1980 Norman Lloyd, American pianist, author and composer, dies at 70
- 1981 Daisy Kennedy, Australian concert violinist, dies at 88
- 1982 Frank Nicholson, South African cricket wicket-keeper (1935-36), dies
- 1982 Roberta Pedon, American glamour model, dies at 28
- 1983 Howard Dietz, American lyricist and librettist (“Dancing In The Dark”; “I Guess I’ll Have To Change My Plans”), and MGM executive, dies of Parkinson’s disease at 86
- 1983 Lynn Fontanne, British Emmy Award-winning stage, screen, and radio actress, dies of pneumonia at 95
- 1983 Vasantrao Deshpande, Indian Hindustani vocalist, dies at 63
- 1983 Yuri Aleksandrovich Letunov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 56
- 1984 Maurice Tremlett, cricketer (England pace bowler 1948-49), dies
- 1985 Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
- 1985 Peter Knight, English musical arranger, conductor, and composer, dies at 68
- 1987 Mary Spinell, actress (Last Horror Film), dies
- 1987 Ramón González Barrón, Spanish composer, dies at 89
- 1989 Lane Frost, American bull rider, dies from injuries sustained by being gored by a bull at 25
- 1990 Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered
- 1990 Karl Weber, dies of heart failure at 74
- 1991 Ed Hall, American character actor (Medical Center; Mannix; Baby… I’m Back!), dies at 60
- 1991 Leonardus S van Egerat, travel expert, dies at 68
- 1991 William Ball, American actor, director and founder of the American Conservatory Theatre (ACT), dies at 60
- 1992 Brenda Marshall [Ardis Ankerson], American actress (The Sea Hawk, Paris After Dark), dies of throat cancer at 76
- 1992 Joe Shuster, Canadian-American cartoonist (co-creator, with Jerry Siegel, of “Superman”), dies of congestive heart failure at 78
- 1993 Donald Myrick, American saxophonist (“If Leaving Me Is Easy, One More Night), is fatally shot by police during a narcotics investigation at 53
- 1993 Edward Bernard Raczyński, Polish President-in-exile (1979-86), dies at 101
- 1993 Frank L. Howley, American general (Commander of American sector of Berlin after WWII), dies at 90
- 1993 Jay Scott [Jeffrey Scott Beaven], American-Canadian movie critic, dies at 43
- 1993 John Castrios, 1st murder in Washington NH in 200 years, killed at 45
- 1994 Enid Balint-Edmonds, British psychoanalyst, dies at 90
- 1994 Theo van Scheltinga, skater, dies at 80
- 1995 Biggie Tembo [Rodwell Marasha], Zimbabwean musician (Bhundu Boys), takes his own life at 36
- 1995 Charles Dunn, British scholar and professor of Japanese studies, dies at 80
- 1995 Harry Shorto, British philologist and linguist (A Dictionary of the Mon Inscriptions), dies at 75
- 1996 Father Alan Cheales, British Dominican priest (served 33 years at St Dominic’s priory, London), dies at 83
- 1996 Magda Schneider, actress (Going Gay, Be Mine Tonight), dies at 87
Vietnamese emperor and chief of state (Annam 1926-1945; State of Vietnam, 1949-1955), dies at 85
- 1998 Buffalo Bob Smith [Robert Emil Schmidt], American TV host (Howdy Doody), dies of cancer at 80
- 1998 David Hunt, British diplomat winner of the BBC’s Mastermind television quiz (1977), dies at 84
- 1998 Laila Schou Nilsen, Norwegian alpine skier (Olympic bronze combined; won non-medal downhill 1936) and speed skater (unofficial World C’ship gold 1935, 37, 38; 5 x WR), dies at 79
- 2000 Max Showalter (sometimes known as Casey Adams), American actor (Kansas; Niagara: Hello Dolly!; 10), pianist and composer, dies of cancer at 83
- 2000 Nan Leslie [Nan Coppage], American actress (Kings Row, The Californians), dies of pneumonia at 74
- 2003 Sam Phillips, American record producer and founder of Sun Records and Sun Studios, dies at 80
- 2004 Andre Noble, Canadian actor (b. 1979)
- 2004 Jan Hanus, Czech composer, dies at 89
- 2005 (Eli) “Lucky” Thompson, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist (Stan Kenton – Cuban Fire!; Milt Jackson; Miles Davis – Walkin’), dies of Alzheimer’s disease at 81
- 2005 Anthony Walker, English hate crime murder victim (b. 1987)
- 2005 John Garang, Sudanese vice-president and revolutionary, led the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, dies in a helicopter crash at 60
- 2006 Al Balding, Canadian golfer (first Canadian to win PGA Tour event in US, 4-time winner), dies of cancer at 82
- 2006 Anthony Galla-Rini, American concert accordionist, and arranger, dies at 102
- 2006 Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
- 2007 Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (Red Dessert, Blowup), dies at 94
- 2007 Sir Nigel Althaus, British stockbroker, UK Government Broker, dies at 77
- 2007 Teoctist, Ex-Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (b. 1915)
- 2007 William Balchin, English geographer, dies at 91
- 2008 Anne Armstrong U.S. ambassador to Britain and first female counsel to the President, dies at 80
- 2009 Peter Zadek, German theatre director (b. 1926)
- 2010 Otto Joachim, German-Canadian composer, dies at 99
- 2010 Zlatko Pibernik, Croatian composer and music teacher, dies at 83
- 2012 Maeve Binchy [Snell], Irish novelist (Light a Penny Candle), dies at 72
- 2014 Dick Wagner, American rock guitarist, songwriter (The Frost; Alice Cooper), and session player (KISS), dies at 71
- 2015 Lynn Anderson, American country singer (I Never Promised you a Rose Garden), dies of a heart attack at 67
- 2016 Gloria DeHaven, American musical actress (Step Lively), dies at 91
- 2018 Ron Dellums, American politician (D-House representative from California, 1971-1998), dies of cancer at 82
- 2019 Nick Buoniconti, American NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins) and sportscaster (NBC), dies at 78
- 2020 Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese statesman (Taiwan’s 1st popularly elected President 1988–2000), dies at 97 [1]
- 2021 Jacob Desvarieux, French zouk singer, and guitarist (Kassav’), dies of COVID-19 at 65
- 2022 Archie Roach, Aboriginal Australian blues singer-songwriter (Took The Children Away), dies at 66
- 2022 Pat Carroll, American comedienne and Emmy Award-winning actress (The Little Mermaid – “Ursula”; Make Room for Daddy), dies at 95
- 2022 [Grace] Nichelle Nichols, American actress (Star Trek – “Lt. Uhura”) and singer (Down To Earth; “Fly Me To The Moon”), dies at 89
- 2023 Conrad Klapheck, German surrealist and pop-art painter and graphic artist (typewriters), dies at 88
- 2023 Jorge Domínguez, Argentine soccer striker (3 caps; CA Boca Juniors, OGC Nice, SC Toulon, Nîmes), dies at 64
- 2024 Fuad Shukr [al-Hajj Mohsen] Lebanese commander and co-founder of Hezbollah, killed by Israeli airstrike (b. 1961 or 1962)
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