- 413 BC Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57
- 19 Germanicus Julius Caesar, Roman politician and army commander, dies at 34
- 644 Paulinus of York, Italian missionary to Britain, 1st Bishop of York, dies (b. c. 584)
- 680 Hazrat Hussein ibn Ali (RA), Muhammad's (SAW) grandson (b. 626) beheaded
- 732 Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Arab Tihamite Governor of Andalusia, killed in combat at the Battle of Tours
- 1359 King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
- 1473 Giorgio da Sebenico, Venetian sculptor and architect (Cathedral of St James in Šibenik)
- 1616 Maria van Nassau, Dutch countess of Buren, dies at 60
- 1617 Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician and writer, dies at 64
- 1651 Philippus Rovenius, Dutch vicar who led the Catholic church in the Netherlands, dies at 77
Dutch seafarer and explorer (1st European to sight Tasmania, New Zealand and Fiji), dies around the age of 55
- 1691 Isaac de Benserade, French poet, dies at 77
- 1708 David Gregory, Scottish mathematician and astronomer (Astronomiae, physicae & geometricae elementa), dies at 49
- 1714 Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (b. 1646)
- 1720 Antoine Coysevox, French Baroque sculptor (Palace of Versailles), dies at 80
- 1723 William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1665)
- 1725 Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (b. 1643)
- 1747 John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1674)
- 1759 Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)
- 1765 Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, dies at 77
- 1791 C F D Schubart, writer, dies
- 1795 Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian, dies at 81
- 1797 Carter Braxton, American plantation owner and signer of the US Declaration of Independence, dies at 61
- 1827 Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet (Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis), dies at 49
- 1834 Thomas Say, American naturalist and father of descriptive entomology, dies from typhoid fever at 47
- 1836 Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson the 3rd President of the U.S., dies at 64
- 1837 Charles Fourier, French philosopher and early Socialist (credited with inventing term 'feminism'), dies at 65
- 1857 Thomas Crawford, American sculptor (Statue of Freedom on dome of US Capitol), dies of cancer at 43
- 1858 Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, German biographer, diplomat and soldier (Die Sterner), dies at 73
- 1864 David Bullock Harris, US Confederate colonel, dies of yellow fever
- 1873 Hermann Kurz, German poet and novelist (Schillers Heimatjahre), dies at 59
- 1875 Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (Prince Serebrenni), dies of morphine toxicity at 58
- 1876 Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
- 1877 Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist, dies at 76
- 1885 John McCloskey, 1st American cardinal and Archbishop of New York, dies at 75
- 1886 David L Yule, 1st Jewish US senator, dies
- 1901 Lorenzo Snow, 5th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), dies at 87
- 1910 Willem Maris, Dutch painter (Hague School), dies at 66
- 1913 Adolphus Busch, German-born American brewer (Anheuser-Busch), dies at 74
- 1913 Katsura Taro, Japanese general and politician (Prime Minister of Japan 1901-1906, 1908-1911, 1912-1913), dies of cancer at 65
- 1914 Carol I, King of Romania (1881-1914), dies at 75
- 1914 Gijsbert van Tienhoven, Dutch politician (Mayor of Amsterdam, Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1891-1894), dies at 73
- 1914 Karol I, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, King of Romania (1881-1914), dies
- 1927 Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
Canadian-American inventor (57 patents), dies at 86
- 1930 Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
- 1931 Carl von Bach, German mechanical engineer, dies at 84
- 1935 Arthur Henderson, British Labour minister (Nobel Peace Prize 1934), dies at 72
- 1942 Richard von Schaukal, Moravian-Austria poet and writer (Schlemihle), dies at 68
- 1943 Charlotte Salomon, German-Jewish artist gassed at Auschwitz aged 26
- 1957 Karl Genzken, Nazi physician, Chief of the Medical Office of the Waffen-SS, dies at 72
- 1959 Prince Friedrich Aloys Johannes Maria, Prince of Liechtenstein, dies at 88
- 1963 Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer, dies at 70
- 1964 Konrad Bayer, Ausrian writer, commits suicide at 31
- 1970 Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime (1956-68), dies at 60
72nd Prime Minister of France (1933, 1934 and 1938-40) and PM at the start of World War II, dies at 86
- 1970 Marcel Minnaert, Belgian-Dutch astronomer, and writer (Light and colour in the open air), dies at 77
- 1971 John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
- 1973 Albe [Renaut A. Joostens], Flemish writer (Paradise Bird), dies at 71
- 1973 Ludwig von Mises, Austrian-American Economist (The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality), dies at 92
Soviet sniper during World War II known as 'Lady Death' - the most successful female sniper in history with 309 confirmed kills, dies of a stroke at 58
- 1974 Marie Luise Kaschnitz, German writer, dies at 73
- 1977 Jean Duvieusart, 36th Prime Minister of Belgium, dies at 77
- 1978 Gesina Van der Molen, Dutch WWII resistance fighter/lawyer, dies at 86
- 1979 Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
- 1982 Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
- 1986 Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist, dies at 86
- 1988 Juan Pujol Garcia, Spanish double agent (spied for Britain, codename Garbo, pretended to spy for Nazi Germany codename Arabel), dies at 76
- 1990 Irene Mayer Selznick, American socialite and theatrical producer (Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire"), dies at 83
- 1990 Michael A Salcido, dies at 39
- 1990 Tom Murton, American penologist (b. 1928)
- 1991 Stephen J Falat, dies after long illness at 34
- 1993 Djillali Belkhenchir, Algerian doctor, murdered at 52
- 1993 Owen Saunders, English mathematician and mechanical engineer, dies at 89
- 1994 Anna Hauptmann, wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno, dies at 95
- 1994 Chaim Raphael, English Jewish scholar and writer, dies at 86
- 1994 Richard John Copeland Atkinson, archaeologist, dies at 74
- 1995 Jimmy Nash, record company owner, dies at 47
- 1995 John Rodolph, wheelchair-race world record holder, hit by truck at 31
- 1995 Michelle Francis Bird, campaigner, dies at 30
- 1995 Paolo Gucci, entrepreneur/accessories designer, dies at 64
- 1995 Robert Finch, American politician (8th U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare), dies at 70
- 1996 David Viscott, American psychiatrist and media personality, dies at 58
- 1996 Dick Pickering, British trade unionist, dies of a heart attack at 54
- 1996 Hugh Stirling Mackenzie, British Royal Navy officer, dies at 83
- 1996 John Hillaby, English writer and traveller, dies at 79
- 1996 Siddig El Nigoumi, ceramicist, dies at 65
- 1998 Clark M. Clifford, American lawyer and presidential advisor (US Secretary of Defense 1968-69), dies at 91
- 1998 Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957)
- 1999 John Hadfield, British author and publisher (Love on a Branch Line), dies at 92
- 2000 Bruce F. Vento, American politician (Rep-D-Minnesota, 1977-2000), dies of cancer at 60
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1960-65, 1970-77 and 1994-2000) and 1st female head of state, dies of a heart attack at 84
- 2001 Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer, dies at 90
- 2001 Vasily Mishin, Soviet rocket designer (b. 1917)
- 2004 Arthur H. Robinson, American cartographer (b. 1915)
- 2004 Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (Season of the Jew), dies at 72
- 2005 Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
- 2005 Wayne Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921)
- 2006 Francis Berry, British poet and academic (Shakespearean scholar), dies at 91
- 2006 Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
- 2006 Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
- 2007 Mehmed Uzun, Contemporary Kurdish writer and novelist. (b. 1953)
- 2008 Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (b. 1947)
- 2012 Kyaw Zaw, Burmese politician and soldier, dies at 92
- 2012 Sam Gibbons, American politician (Rep-D-FL, 1963-97), dies at 92
American astronaut (Mercury 7-Aurora 7), dies from complications from a stroke at 88
- 2015 Hilla Becher (née Wobeser), German artist, worked collaboratively with husband Bernd Becher, dies at 81
- 2016 Graham Carleton Greene, British publisher (Jonathon Cape), dies at 80
- 2018 Mary Midgley, British-American philosopher (Animals and Why They Matter), dies at 99
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