- 68 Mark the Evangelist, Saint Mark, first Pope of Alexandria and the founder of Christianity in Africa, dies at about 56 [Feast Day - exact date of death unknown]
- 974 Ratherius of Verona/Liege, bishop/abbot, dies at about 84
- 1264 Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English crusader, dies at about 69 [birthdate uncertain c. 1195]
- 1271 Master Gerhard, first master mason of Cologne Cathedral, falls to his death from scaffolding during the building of the cathedral (b. c. 1210)
- 1295 Sancho IV, the Brave, scholar/king of Castile/Leon, dies
- 1342 Benedict XII [Jacques Fournier], Pope (1334-42), dies
- 1362 Muhammad VI, ruler of Granada (1360-62), killed with a lance by Peter I of Castile (b. 1333) or 27 April
- 1472 Leon B. Alberti, Italian Renaissance humanist and architect (Tempio Malatestiano; Palazzo Rucellai; Santa Maria Novella), dies at 68
- 1472 Leon Battista degli Alberti, scupltor/musician (Dinner Pieces), dies
- 1516 John Yonge, English diplomat (b. 1467)
- 1566 Diane de Poitiers, French mistress of French King Henry II, dies at 66
- 1566 Louise Labé, French poet
- 1595 Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (Gerusalemme liberata), dies at 51
- 1605 Naresuan, King of Siam (b. 1555)
- 1607 Don Juan Alvarez, Spanish Admiral (Gibraltar), dies in battle
- 1607 Jacob van Heemskerck, Dutch Admiral (Nova Zambia), dies in battle
- 1635 Alessandro Tassoni, Italian political writer (Rape of Bucket), dies at 69
- 1647 Matthias Gallas, Austrian earl of Campo and Duke of Lucerna, dies at 62
- 1660 Henry Hammond, English churchman, dies at 54
- 1663 Heinrich Pape, German composer and organist, dies at 53
- 1690 David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter (Pictorium), dies at 79
- 1728 John Woodward, geologist/physician, dies
- 1740 Shrimant Baji Rao Vishwanath Bhat, also known as Baji Rao I, a general and Peshwa (b. 1699)
Anders Celsius (1701-1744)
Swedish astronomer (proposed the Celsius temperature scale), dies at 42
- 1770 Jean-Antoine Nollet, French clergyman and physicist (discovery of osmosis), dies at 69
- 1792 Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, German composer, dies at 54
- 1792 Nicolas J Pelletier, French highwayman, 1st person guillotined
- 1800 William Cowper, English pre-romantic poet (Olney Hymns), dies at 68
- 1805 Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, French classical scholar and ancient manuscript hunter (discovered 10th-century manuscript of the Iliad— codex Venetus), dies at 55
- 1808 Luigi Tomasini, Italian violinist and composer (head of Prince Esterházy's court orchestra), dies at 66
- 1828 Johannes Goldberg, Dutch politician and civil servant (undertook 1st economic survey of Batavian Republic), dies at 64
- 1840 Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (Poisson distribution) and physicist, dies at 58
- 1845 Thomas Duncan, Scottish painter, dies at 37
William Beaumont (1785-1853)
American surgeon and father of gastric physiology, dies at 67
- 1862 Charles Ferguson Smith, US Union Gen-Maj, dies of infection at 55
- 1873 Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (VP: Imperial Academy of Arts 1828-68), dies at 90
- 1875 Trinley Gyatso, 12th Dalai Lama of Tibet, dies at 18
- 1878 Anna Sewell, English author (Black Beauty), dies at 58
- 1891 Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811)
- 1892 Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (b. 1840)
- 1905 Jacob Olie, Dutch photographer, dies at about 70
- 1906 John Knowles Paine, American composer (Symphony No. 2 - In Spring), dies at 67
- 1911 Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist (b. 1862)
- 1915 Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1830)
- 1915 Nicola d' Arienzo, Italian composer, and pedagogue, dies at 72
- 1923 Louis-Olivier Taillon, French Canadian politician, dies at 82
- 1925 George Stephănescu, Romanian composer, dies at 81
- 1926 Ellen Key, Swedish author and feminist (Courageous Woman), dies at 76
- 1928 Pyotr Nikolayevich, Baron Wrangel, Russian baron general (White Armies, WW II), dies at 49
- 1931 Bert Hopkins, Australian cricketer (20 Tests for Aust, 509 runs), dies at 56
- 1937 Clem Sohn, air show performer dies at 26 when his chute fails to open
- 1937 Michał Drzymała, Polish peasant rebel (Drzymała's wagon), dies at 79
- 1939 John Foulds, British cellist, musicologist, and composer (World Requiem; Three Mantras), dies in Calcutta of cholera at 58
- 1942 Paul Kornfeld, writer, dies at 52
- 1943 Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, playwright/director, dies
- 1944 Tony Mullane, Irish-American baseball player, dies at 85
- 1946 Albert Knight, cricketer (3 Tests for England on 1903-04 tour), dies
- 1946 Joseph Vine, cricketer (batted in two Tests Eng v Aust 1911-12), dies
- 1949 Jankel Adler, Polish painter and printmaker, dies at 53
- 1951 Jerzy Fitelberg, Polish composer, dies at 47
- 1954 Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist (Java Head), dies
- 1955 Constance Collier, actress (Perils of Pauline), dies at 77
- 1955 Paul Basilius Barth, Swiss painter and lithographer, dies at 73
- 1958 Herman Hickman, American College Football Hall of Fame guard, coach and broadcaster (Army, Yale), dies at 46
- 1960 Amanullah Khan, Emir and King of Afghanistan (1919-28), dies at 67
- 1960 Hope Emerson, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn), dies at 62
- 1960 Ilmari Krohn, Finnish composer, dies at 92
- 1961 Hans F Blunck, writer, dies
- 1966 Maurice Roelants, Flemish novelist and poet (Komen en gaan, Prayer for a Good End), dies at 70
- 1968 John Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
- 1969 Margarita Xirgu, Catalan stage actress, director and political radical (Bloody Wedding, Mariana Pineda), dies at 80
- 1970 Anita Louise, American actress (The Little Princess; Gorilla; My Friend Flicka), dies from a stroke at 55
- 1971 Max Drischner, German organist, harpsichordist, kantor, and composer, dies at 80
- 1972 George Sanders, Russian actor (All About Eve-Academy Award 1950), commits suicide at 65
- 1974 Jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (My Golden Road from Samarkand), dies at 69
- 1974 Pamela Courson, American artist and long-term companion of Jim Morrison, dies of a heroin overdose at 27
- 1975 Mike Brant, Israeli pop singer ("Laisse-moi t'aimer" ("Let Me Love You")), commits suicide at 28
- 1976 Alexander Brailowsky, Russian-French pianist (Chopin specialist), dies at 80
- 1976 Carol Reed, English film director (Agony & Ecstasy, Oliver!), dies at 69
- 1976 Margaret Bannerman, actress (Great Defender), dies at 79
- 1978 Lee Kim Lai, Singaporean police officer (b. 1960)
- 1980 Katia Mann, German actress and wife of German writer Thomas Mann, dies at 96
- 1982 Celia Johnson, English actress (Brief Encounter, Happy Breed), dies at 73
- 1982 Don Wilson, American radio and TV announcer (Jack Benny Show), dies at 81
- 1982 John Cody, US cardinal/archbishop of Chicago (1965-82), dies at 74
- 1982 Paul de Vree, Flemish author (Round Table), dies at 72
- 1982 W. R. Burnett, American writer (Asphalt Jungle), dies at 82
- 1984 Richard Benedict, actor (Okinawa), dies at 64 of a heart attack
- 1985 Murray Matheson, actor (Felix-Banacek), dies at 72
- 1985 Richard Haydn, British actor (The Sound of Music; Alice in Wonderland), dies from a heart attack at 80
- 1988 Boris Kremenliev, Bulgarian-American composer (The Tell-Tale Heart), educator (UCLA, 1947-78), and ethno-musicologist (Bulgarian-Macedonian Folk Music),r, dies at 76
- 1988 Carolyn Franklin, American singer-songwriter, sister of Aretha, dies of cancer at 43
- 1988 Clifford D. Simak, American sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station), dies at 83
- 1988 Lanny Ross, American radio singer (Show Boat, The Swift Show), dies at 82
- 1988 Valerie Solanas, American radical feminist and author of SCUM Manifesto who attempted to assassinate Andy Warhol in 1968, dies of pneumonia at 52
- 1989 George Coulouris, British actor (Runaway Bus), dies at 85
- 1990 Dexter Gordon, American jazz tenor saxophonist Go!; The Other Side of 'Round Midnight), and actor ('Round Midnight), dies of kidney failure at 67
- 1991 Frank Hamilton, Canadian-American actor (Subterraneans), dies at 66
- 1991 Theo Laseroms [Tank], Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord), dies
- 1992 Brian MacLeod, Canadian rock guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist (Chilliwack), dies of cancer at 39
- 1992 Dany Tuijnman, Dutch politician (Minister of Transport and Water Management), dies at 77
- 1992 Panos Christi, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 54
- 1992 Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese pop musician dies of pulmonary edema at 26
- 1993 Rosita Moreno, actress (Walls of Gold), dies of a heart attack at 85
- 1994 David Langton [Basil Muir Langton-Dodds], Scottish actor (The Avengers, Quintet, St Joan, Abandon Ship), dies of a heart attack at 82
- 1994 George Gennimatas, Greek minister of National Economy, dies at 55
- 1994 Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Muslim leader, shot dead at 32
- 1995 Art Fleming [Fazzin], American actor, and TV game show host (Jeopardy, 1964-75, 1978-79), dies of pancreatic cancer at 70
Ginger Rogers (1911-1995)
American vaudeville, stage and screen dancer, singer (Top Hat), and Academy Award-winning actress (Kitty Foyle; Stage Door), dies at 83
- 1995 Iosif Kheifits [Joseph Heifitz], Belarusian-Soviet film director (Baltic Days), dies at 89
- 1996 John Eustace Theodore Brancker, Barbadian lawyer, civil rights activist and parliamentarian, dies at 87
- 1996 John Lorne Campbell, Scottish folklorist, dies at 90
- 1996 Saul Bass, American graphic designer of logos and film titles (Psycho), dies at 75
- 1998 Wright Morris, American writer (b. 1910)
- 1999 Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, MBE, TD, Irish journalist, author, sports official (6th President International Olympic Committee 1972-80), dies at 84
- 1999 Roger Troutman, American funk musician (Zapp), dies during his brother's apparent murder-suicide at 47
- 2000 David Merrick, American theatrical producer (Hello Dolly), dies at 88
- 2000 Lucien le Cam, French mathematician (b. 1924)
- 2000 Neils Viggo Bentzon, Danish pianist and composer (The Tempered Piano), dies at 80
- 2001 Michele Alboreto, Italian race car driver (b. 1956)
- 2002 Indra Devi, yoga teacher (b. 1899)
- 2002 Michael Bryant, British actor (Sakharov, Girly), dies at 74
- 2003 Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (b. 1966)
- 2004 Albert Paulsen, Ecuadorian-American actor (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Doctors' Hospital), dies at 78
- 2004 Thom Gunn, British poet (The Wound), dies at 74
- 2005 John Love, Zimbabwean auto racer (British Saloon Car C'ship 1962; 6 x South African F1 C'ship 1964-69), dies at 80
- 2005 Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk (b. 1908)
- 2006 Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian author and urbanologist (The Death and Life of Great American Cities), dies at 89
- 2007 Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)
- 2007 Arthur Milton, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1928)
- 2007 Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer-songwriter ("Monster Mash"), dies from leukemia at 69
- 2007 Les Jackson, English cricket fast bowler (2 Tests, 7 wickets; Derbyshire), dies at 86
- 2008 Humphrey Lyttelton, British jazz trumpeter and bandleader ("Bad Penny Blues"), and broadcaster (BBC2 - Best Of Jazz, 1967-2007; BBC4 - I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, 1972-2008), dies at 86
- 2009 Bea Arthur [Bernice Frankel], American Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress (Mame; Maude; The Golden Girls), and singer, dies of lung cancer at 86
- 2009 John J. Marchi, American politician (NY Senate 1957-2006), dies at 87
- 2010 Alan Sillitoe, English writer (Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner), dies at 82
- 2010 Dorothy Provine, American actress (The Roaring 20's; That Darn Cat: Who's Minding The Mint?), and singer, dies of emphysema at 75
- 2011 (Fletcher) Joe Perry, American AAFC/NFL Hall of Fame fullback, 1948-63, 3X Pro Bowl (San Francisco 49ers; Baltimore Colts), and US Navy veteran, dies of complications from dementia at 84
- 2013 Jacob Avshalomov, Russian-American composer (Symphony of Songs; The Oregon), conductor (Portland Youth Philharmonic, 1954-91), and pedagogue, dies at 94
- 2013 Rick Camp, American MLB pitcher, dies of natural causes at 59
- 2013 Virginia Gibson, American actress, dies at 88
- 2014 Earl Morrall, American NFL quarterback (Super Bowl 1970, 72, 73; Pro Bowl 1957, 68; First-team All-Pro 1968, 72; NFL MVP 1968; Detroit Lions, Miami Dolphins), dies from Parkinson's disease at 79
- 2016 Mei Baojiu, Chinese opera performer and director (Mei Lanfang Peking Opera), dies at 82
John Havlicek (1940-2019)
American College/Basketball Hall of Fame small forward (8 x NBA C'ship Boston Celtics; 13 x NBA All Star; 4 x All-NBA First Team), dies of Parkinson's disease at 79
- 2019 Manuel Lujan Jr., American politician (Rep-R-NM, 1969-89), dies at 90
- 2020 Marino H. Casem, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (Alabama State, Alcorn State, Southern) and athletic administrator (Alcorn State, Southern), dies at 85
- 2020 Per Olov Enquist, Swedish writer (Hour of the Lynx, The Royal Physician’s Visit), dies at 85
- 2020 Richard Divila, Brazilian motorsports designer (Fittipaldi Automotive; Ligier, Nissan), dies at 74
- 2021 John Konrads, Australian swimmer (Olympic gold 1500m freestyle, bronze 400m freestyle, 4x200m freestyle 1960; 26 individual world records), dies at 78
- 2021 Rajan Mishra, Indian classical music vocalist, dies of COVID-19 complications at 69
- 2022 J. Roy Rowland, American politician (Rep-D-GA, 1983-95), dies at 96
Harry Belafonte (1927-2023)
Jr], Jamaican-American Grammy, Tony, and Emmy Award-winning calypso singer ("Banana Boat Song"), actor (Buck & the Preacher), and human rights activist, dies of congestive heart failure at 96 [1]
- 2023 Vera Krepkina, Russian athlete (Olympic gold USSR long jump 1960; WR 4×100m relay 1956, tied WR 100m 11.3s 1958), dies at 90
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