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- 355 Claudius Silvanus, Roman Frankish general who tried to usurp Constantius II, murdered by soldiers
- 1134 Alfonso I de Strijdvaardige, king of Aragon (1104-34), dies
- 1151 Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, conquered Normandy, dies at 38
- 1362 Joan of The Tower, English princess and Queen consort of Scotland, dies at 41
- 1559 Robert Estienne, French printer (b. 1503)
- 1625 Rombout Hogerbeets, Dutch lawyer and City Solicitor of Leiden, dies at 64
- 1644 Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman (b. 1579)
- 1655 Tristan l’Hermite, French dramatist and poet, dies (birth date unknown)
- 1657 Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish count, field marshal and privy councilor (b. 1606)
- 1719 John Harris, English writer (Lexicon Technicum, first English Encyclopedia) (b. c. 1666)
- 1721 Bernhard Albinus, German-Dutch court-physician (Frederick of Prussia), dies at 68
- 1729 William Burnet, British-born American statesman (b. 1688)
- 1731 Yevdokiya Lopukhina, Tsarina of Russia as the first wife of Peter I of Russia, dies at 62
- 1775 Johann Georg Holzbogen, German violinist and composer, dies at 48
- 1799 Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch-English physiologist (discovering photosynthesis) and personal physician of Maria Theresa, dies at 68
- 1799 Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, dies at 82
- 1809 Caroline Schelling [Michaelis], German Romantic poet and critic, dies at 46
- 1809 Rama I [Phra Phutthayotfa Chulalok], King of Thailand (1782-1809) and founder of the Chakri dynasty, dies at 72
- 1819 Jean-Louis Duport, French cellist and composer, dies at 69
- 1820 Court Lambertus van Beyma, Frisian regent and leader of the Frisian patriots, dies at 67
- 1833 Hannah More, English religious writer, poet, and philanthropist (Cheap Repository Tracts), dies at 88
- 1838 Joseph Panny, Austrian violinist and composer, dies at 43
- 1845 Isabella Colbran, wife of Italian composer Gioachino Rossini, dies
- 1863 Lucius Marshall Walker, American Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, dies as the result of a pistol duel at 33
- 1871 Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (revolving gun turret), drowns at 51
- 1871 Mehmed Ali Pasha, Turkish marshal and statesman, dies fighting in Albania at 50
- 1872 Antoni Stolpe, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 21
- 1881 Sidney Lanier, American poet and composer, dies of tuberculosis at 39
- 1891 Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, dies at 71
- 1892 John Greenleaf Whittier, American Quaker poet and advocate for the abolition of slavery, dies at 84
- 1892 Joseph Reid Anderson, American Confederate general and owner of munitions company Tredegar Iron Company, dies at 79
- 1893 Hamilton Fish, American politician (Governor of New York), dies at 85
- 1902 Franz Wüllner, German conductor and composer, dies at 70
- 1907 Sully Prudhomme, French poet and the 1st winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901, dies at 68
- 1909 Eugene Lefebvre, French aviator pioneer (1st stunt pilot and 1st pilot to die flying a plane), dies test piloting a Wright A aircraft at 30
- 1910 William Holman Hunt, English painter (Light of the World), dies at 83
- 1914 Peter O’Brien, Irish lawyer and judge, dies at 73
- 1920 Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician and 12th Premier of Quebec (1900-05), dies at 64
- 1921 Alfred William Rich, English watercolor painter, dies at 65
- 1922 William Stewart Halsted, American pioneering surgeon (introduced anesthesia and antisepsis while addicted to cocaine and opium), dies at 69 [1]
- 1925 John Wesley Work Jr., 1st African-American collector of folk songs and spirituals, dies at 52 or 54
- 1925 René Viviani, French historian and 61st Prime Minister of France (1914-15), dies at 61
British Liberal statesman and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1905-16), dies at 71
- 1939 Kyoka Izumi, Japanese novelist and kabuki playwright, dies at 65
- 1940 Edmund Rumpler, Austrian automotive and airplane builder (1st Tatra car), dies at 68
- 1942 Cecilia Beaux, American portrait painter dies at 87
- 1944 Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, Cuban composer, dies at 70
- 1946 Paul Zech, German writer, dies at 65
- 1948 Henricus Andreas Poels, Dutch Roman Catholic theologist and social foreman, dies at 80
- 1949 José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter of political murals (Epic of Culture in New World), dies at 65
- 1951 John French Sloan, American painter and etcher, dies at 80
- 1951 María Montez [Vidal], Dominican actress known as The Queen of Technicolor (Cobra Woman, Arabian Nights), dies of heart seizure at 39
- 1954 Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (Mutt and Jeff), dies at 69
- 1955 Ernst Rabel, Austrian-American lawyer, human rights activist, and author (The Conflict of Laws: A Comparative Study), dies at 81
- 1956 C. B. Fry, English cricket batsman (26 Tests, 2 x 100s; Sussex, Hampshire), dies at 84
- 1959 Maurice Duplessis, Canadian politician, 16th Premier of Quebec, dies at 69
- 1960 Wilhelm Pieck, German politician (co-founder German Communist Party, President of German DR 1949-60), dies at 84
- 1961 Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy [Gerbrandij], Dutch lawyer, resistance fighter, and Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1940-45), dies at 76
- 1962 Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese historical novelist, dies at 70
- 1962 Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen-Finecke], Danish baroness and writer (Out of Africa), dies at 77
- 1962 Morris Louis, American painter (post painterly abstraction), dies at 49
- 1964 Walter Brown, American basketball and ice hockey executive (founded and owned Boston Celtics, bought Boston Bruins), dies at 59
- 1965 Catherine Dale Owen, American actress (Behind Office Doors), dies at 62
- 1966 Al Kelly, American double talk comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 67
- 1968 Thom Kelling, Dutch singer, guitarist, and bandleader (Programa de Manha), dies at 46
- 1969 Everett Dirksen, American Republican politician and Senate Minority Leader (1959-69), dies at 73
- 1971 Spring Byington, American actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride), dies at 84
- 1972 Jacques Pirenne, Belgian historian and honorary secretary of King Leopold III of Belgium, dies at 81
- 1973 Hans Lorbeer, German writer and politician, dies at 72
- 1976 Daniel F. Galouye, American sci-fi author (Dark Universe, Last Leap), dies at 56
- 1977 Gustave Reese, American musicologist (Music in the Middle Ages; Music in the Renaissance), and teacher, dies at 77
- 1979 Ivor Armstrong Richards, English literary critic (The Meaning of Meaning), dies at 86
- 1982 Ken Boyer, American baseball third baseman (World Series & NL MVP 1964 St. Louis Cardinals; 11 x MLB All Star) and manager (St. Louis Cardinals 1978-80), dies of cancer at 51
- 1983 Hans Münch, Swiss conductor and composer, dies at 90
- 1983 Henry Promnitz, South African cricketer (5-58 on debut for South Africa 1927-28), dies at 79
- 1984 Don Tallon, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (21 Tests, 58 dismissals, 2 x 50s; Queensland CA), dies of heart disease at 68
American Baseball HOF shortstop (7 x MLB All Star), manger (Boston RS, Washington Senators) and executive (AL President 1959-73), dies at 77
- 1985 Frank “Bruiser” Kinard, American College-Pro Football HOF tackle (Ole Miss; 6 × First-team All-Pro; 5 × NFL All-Star; Brooklyn Dodgers/Tigers, Fleet City, NY Yankees), dies from Alzheimer’s disease at 70
- 1986 Omar Ali Saifuddien III, 28th Sultan of Brunei (1950-67), dies at 71
- 1986 Ruth Polsky, American record promoter, dies after being run over by a cab at 30
- 1986 Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov, Russian-Soviet conductor and composer, dies at 83
English historian (The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918, Origins of the Second World War), dies at 84
- 1990 Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force 4-star general during Korean War, dies at 90
- 1991 Archie Menzies, English playwright and composer (Under Your Hat), dies at 87
- 1991 Ben Piazza, American actor (Santa Barbara; The Blues Brothers; Dallas), dies of cancer at 58
- 1991 John Crosby, American columnist and detective writer dies at 79
- 1991 John H. Lawrence, American physician (nuclear medicine pioneer), dies at 87
- 1992 Henry Ephron, American screenwriter (Daddy Long Legs), dies at 81
- 1992 Indra Kamadjojo [Broekveld], Indon/Dutch dancer (Stille Kracht), dies
- 1993 Guy Overton, New Zealand cricket fast bowler (3 Tests, 9 wickets), dies at 74
- 1993 Lefty Dizz [Walter Williams], American Chicago-style blues guitarist and singer, dies of esophageal cancer at 56
- 1994 Dennis Morgan [Stanley], American actor (21 Beacon Street), dies at 85
- 1994 Eric Crozier, British theater producer and librettist (worked with Benjamin Britten), dies at 79
- 1994 Godfrey Quigley, Irish actor (Barry Lyndon, Educating Rita, Rooney), dies at 71
British-American novelist (Tai-Pan; Shogun; Noble House; King Rat), screenwriter (The Fly; The Great Escape), and film director (King Rat; To Sir, with Love), dies of comoplications of a stroke while battling cancer at 72
- 1994 Terence Young, British film director (Dr No, Thunderball), dies of at 79
- 1995 Gordon DeMarco, American writer and activist, dies at 51
- 1996 Joseph F. Biroc, American cinematographer, filmed the liberation of Paris in 1944 and won an Oscar for “The Towering Inferno”, dies at 93
- 1996 Niccolo Castiglioni, Italian pianist and composer, dies at 64
- 1997 Alex Macintosh, British BBC presenter and actor (Hell Fight), dies at 72
- 1997 Bill Strannigan, American all-round athlete and basketball coach (Uni of Wyoming), dies at 78
- 1997 Derek Taylor, Beatles publicist, dies of cancer at 65
- 1997 George Crockett Jr., American attorney (founded 1st racially integrated law firm) and politician (Rep-D-MI, 1980-91), dies at 88
Dictator and President of Zaire (1965-97), dies at 66
- 1998 Edward Robb Ellis, American diarist and journalist who is the most prolific diarist in the history of American letters with an estimated 22 million words, dies from emphysema at 87
- 1998 John Hayes, British Naval Officer and Naval Secretary, dies at 85
- 1999 Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist and author (Black Helicopters Over America, Mass Control), dies after a fall at 49 [1]
- 2001 Billie Lou Watt, American actress (Astro Boy), dies at 77
- 2001 Igor Buketoff, American conductor (Iceland Symphony Orchestra, 1964-65), dies at 86
- 2001 Spede Pasanen, Finnish film director and comedian, dies at 71
- 2002 Erma Franklin, American gospel and R&B singer (“Piece Of My Heart”), dies at 64
- 2002 Katrin Cartlidge, English actress (Career Girls), dies from pneumonia and septicaemia complications at 41
- 2002 Michael Elphick, British stage and screen actor (Gorky Park; Boon), dies of a heart attack at 55
- 2002 Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (Uzi submachine gun), dies at 78
- 2003 Great Antonio [Antonio Barichievich], Croatian-Canadian strongman and eccentric, dies at 77
- 2003 Warren Zevon, American rock singer-songwriter and musician (“Werewolves of London”; “Lawyers, Guns and Money”; “Excitable Boy”), dies of pleural mesothelioma at 56
- 2004 Bob Boyd, American baseball first baseman (NgL All-Star 1947, 48, 49; first black player to sign with Chicago WS), dies at 84
- 2005 Hope Garber, Canadian actress, dies at 81
- 2005 Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer Marianne), dies at 72
- 2006 Julien Schoenaerts, Flemish actor (Daens/Medea), dies at 81
- 2006 Robert Earl Jones, American actor (The Sting, Witness, Sleepaway Camp), dies of natural causes at 96
- 2007 Joseph W. Eschbach, American doctor and kidney specialist, dies at 74
- 2007 Norman Deeley, English soccer forward (FA Cup Final MVP 1960; English Div 1 C’ship 1954, 58, 59 Wolverhampton Wanderers), dies at 73
- 2008 Don Haskins, American College Basketball Hall of Fame coach (Texas El Paso 1961-99; NCAA Tournament 1966), dies at 78
- 2008 Gregory Mcdonald, American mystery writer known for “Fletch”, dies at 71
- 2008 Ilarion Ciobanu, Romanian actor (Ultimul cartus), dies at 76
- 2008 Miljenko “Dino” Dvornik, Croatian singer known as “the Croatian King of Funk”, dies of an overdose at 44
- 2008 Nagi Noda, Japanese pop artist and director, dies after surgery at 34
- 2008 Richard “Popcorn” Wylie, American R&B and soul pianist, bandleader, songwriter, and record producer, dies of congestive heart failure at 69
- 2010 Amar Garibović, Serbian Cross Country Skier (b. 1991)
- 2010 Barbara Holland, American author (The Joy of Drinking, Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend and Lives), dies of lung cancer at 77 [1]
- 2010 Glenn Shadix, American actor (Beetlejuice), dies in a fall at 58
- 2010 John Kluge, American television mogul (Metromedia) and at one time the richest person in the United States, dies at 95
- 2011 Brad McCrimmon, Canadian ice hockey defenseman (Stanley Cup 1989 Calgary Flames; NHL All-Star 1988; Plus-Minus Award +48 1989), dies as head coach KHL Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in plane crash at 52
- 2011 Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey center (World C’ship gold 2005; Carolina Hurricanes), dies in Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster at 30
- 2011 Ruslan Salei, Belarusian ice hockey defenceman (917 NHL games; 48 internationals), dies in Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash at 36
- 2012 Dorothy “Dottie” McGuire, American pop vocalist (McGuire Sisters – “Sincerely”; “Sugartime”), dies at 84
- 2013 Fred Katz, American classical and jazz cellist (Chico Hamilton Quintet), and composer (Roger Corman films), dies at 84
- 2013 Ilja Hurník, Czech composer (Ondráš; Missa Vinea Crucis), dies at 90
- 2015 Dickie Moore, American actor (Oliver Twist, Little Men), dies at 89
- 2016 Cary Blanchard, American NFL kicker (Indianapolis Colts), dies of a heart attack at 47
- 2016 Ken Higgs, English cricket fast bowler (15 Tests, 71 wickets, 1 x 50; Lancashire CCC, Leicestershire CCC), dies at 79
- 2016 Norbert Schemansky, American weightlifter (Olympic gold heavyweight 1952, silver 1948, bronze 1960, 64), dies at 92
- 2017 Gene Michael, American baseball shortstop, and general manger (NY Yankees), dies of a heart attack at 79
- 2017 John Maxwell Geddes, Scottish composer and pedagogue, dies at 76
- 2018 Mac Miller [Malcolm McCormick], American rapper and music producer (Best Day Ever), dies of a drug overdose at 26
- 2018 Mickey Stratton, American National Softball HOF catcher (All World Team 1965; 5 x All American), dies at 80
- 2021 Phil Schaap, American Grammy Award-winning jazz historian, DJ, author and educator, dies of cancer at 70
- 2022 Anne Garrels, American broadcast journalist (ABC; NBC; NPR), dies of lung cancer at 71
- 2022 Bernard Shaw, American television news journalist (CBS, ABC), and 1st anchor of CNN, dies of pneumonia at 82 [1]
- 2022 Marsha Hunt, American actress (Born to the West; Cry ‘Havoc’; Johnny Got His Gun), and human rights and peace activist, dies at 104
- 2022 Piet Schrijvers, Dutch soccer goalkeeper (46 caps; FC Twente, AFC Ajax 269 games), dies at 75
- 2023 Edward Hide, British jockey (1,000 Guineas 1972, 77; Epsom Oaks 1967; Epsom Derby 1973; St Leger Stakes 1959, 78), dies at 86
- 2024 Dan Morgenstern, German-American jazz historian, magazine editor (Metronome; Downbeat), and Grammy Award-winning writer, dies of heart failure at 94
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