- 872 Adrian II, Italian Pope (867-72) the last married pope, dies at about 80
- 1077 Agnes of Poitou, German empress/wife of emperor Henry III, dies
- 1136 Harald IV, "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered
- 1417 John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged & burned
- 1460 Guarino da Verona (b. 1370)
Vlad the Impaler
1476 vlad III the Impaler, Wallachian prince, killed in battle at 45
Vlad the Impaler
- 1510 Duke Friedrich of Saxony, 36th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (1498-1510), dies at 37
- 1542 James V, King of Scotland (1513-42), dies at 30
- 1553 Hanibal Lucić, Croatian writer (b. 1485)
- 1591 John of the Cross, [Juan de Yepes y Álvarez], Spanish Carmelite friar, poet and saint, dies at 49
- 1624 Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)
- 1651 Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582)
- 1713 Thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641)
- 1715 Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636)
- 1732 Johann Philipp Fortsch, composer, dies at 80
- 1734 Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist, dies at 44
- 1735 Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674)
- 1741 Charles Rollin, French historian, dies at 80
- 1754 Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1730-54) who fought Austria & Russia, dies at 58
- 1760 Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies
- 1788 Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74
- 1788 Carlos III, King of Naples/Spain (1759-88), dies at 72
George Washington
1799 George Washington, first President of the United States (1789-97), dies at 66
George Washington
- 1823 Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53
- 1829 Luigi Marchesi, composer, dies at 74
- 1838 Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (b. 1806)
- 1849 Conradin Kreutzer, composer, dies at 69
- 1861 Albert, Prince consort of England and husband of Queen Victoria, dies at 42
George Hamilton-Gordon
1861 George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Peelite: 1852-55) and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dies at 76
George Hamilton-Gordon
- 1861 Heinrich August Marschner, composer, dies at 66
- 1862 George Dashiell Bayard, Union Brigadier General, dies at 27
- 1865 Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794)
- 1873 J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist), dies
- 1878 Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse, dies at 35
- 1886 Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer, dies at 27
- 1893 Karolina Pawlowa, writer, dies at 86
- 1900 Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46
- 1903 William Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair
- 1906 John A C Oudemans, Dutch geographer/astronomer, dies at 78
- 1909 Leopold II, king of Belgium, dies
- 1912 Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, British Army lieutenant (b. 1887)
- 1914 Giovanni Sgambati, composer, dies at 73
- 1918 Sidonio Pais, prince of Portugal, murdered
- 1920 George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)
- 1923 Giuseppi Gallignani, composer, dies at 72
- 1926 Theo van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter (pointillism), dies at 64
- 1927 Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (b. 1842)
- 1928 Theodore Roberts, American actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments), dies at 77
- 1935 Stanley G. Weinbaum, American sci-fi writer (Martian Odyssey), dies at 33
- 1938 Marie FM Emmanuel, French composer/musicologist (Salamine), dies at 76
- 1938 Maurice Emmanuel, French composer and musicologist (Salamine), dies at 76
- 1942 Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 61
- 1945 Constantino Gaito, Argentinian composer, dies at 67
- 1945 Forrester Harvey, Irish actor (Rebecca, Tarzan, Chump at Oxford), dies at 61
- 1945 Henry van Goudoever, Dutch lawyer/judge, dies on his 69th birthday
- 1945 Josef Kramer, known as "The Beast of Belsen," & 10 others, hanged
- 1947 Franz Zorell, German RC lexicographer, dies at 84
Stanley Baldwin
1947 Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37), dies at 80
Stanley Baldwin
- 1947 Edward Higgins, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864)
- 1948 R O Morris [Reginald Owen], British composer and music teacher, dies at 62
- 1950 Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer (Heroische Fahrt), dies at 65
- 1956 Juho Kusti Paasikivi, president of Finland (b. 1870)
- 1959 Lizzy Ansingh, Dutch painter (Cast Off), dies at 84
- 1960 Gregory Ratoff, Russian producer, director and actor (Exodus, Skyscraper Souls, Corsican Brothers), dies of leukemia at 63
- 1963 Dinah Washington, American singer (What a Difference a Day Makes), dies of sleeping pill overdose at 39
- 1963 Erich Ollenhauer, German politician, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (1952-63), dies at 62
- 1964 William Bendix, American actor (Lifeboat, Babe Ruth Story, Life of Riley), dies from lobar pneumonia at 58
- 1965 Hermann Sandby, composer, dies at 84
- 1966 Emma Dunn, actress (You Can't Fool Your Wife), dies at 91
- 1966 Richard Whorf, American actor and director (Yankee Doodle Dandy, Keeper of Flame), dies from a heart attack at 60
- 1966 Verna Felton, actress (Hilda-December Bride), dies at 76
- 1967 Frank Moran, American heavyweight boxer and film actor, dies of a heart attack at 80
- 1970 Franz Schlegelberger, German Nazi politician (b. 1876)
- 1971 Dick Tiger, Nigerian-born boxer (b. 1929)
- 1973 Yitzhak Edel, composer, dies at 77
Walter Lippmann
1974 Walter Lippmann, American journalist (Public Opinion), dies at 85
Walter Lippmann
- 1975 Arthur Treacher, English TV announcer (Merv Griffin Show), dies at 81
- 1978 Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo, Spanish writer (Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards) and diplomat, dies at 92
- 1979 Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, cricketer (2 Tests for India, avg 205), dies
- 1980 Elston Howard, MVP catcher (NY Yankees), dies at 59
- 1984 Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer and Nobel laureate (b. 1898)
Roger Maris
1985 Roger Maris, American baseball right fielder (7-time MLB All Star, 61 HRs 1961), dies of cancer at 51
Roger Maris
Andrei Sakharov
1989 Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68
Andrei Sakharov
- 1989 Jock Mahoney [Jacques Joseph O'Mahoney], American actor and stuntman (Dallas, Yancy Derringer, Day of Fury), dies of a stroke at 70
- 1989 Pattie Santos, American singer (It's a Beautiful Day), dies in a car accident at 40
- 1990 Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer, dies of heart failure at 69
- 1990 Hope Sansberry, actress (Rats are Coming), dies at 94
- 1990 Johannes von Thurn und Taxis, prince in Germany, dies at 64
- 1991 John Arlott, British cricket commentator & writer (BBC), dies of emphysema at 77
- 1991 Robert Eddison, British actor (Uncle Silas), dies at 83
- 1994 Mary Ann McCall, American singer, dies at 75
- 1994 Petrus HJ van Doorne, bus manufacturer/owner (BOVA), dies at 58
- 1994 Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (b. 1910)
- 1995 Don Anthony, bandleader/songwriter, dies at 85
- 1995 Rob Harris, sky surfer, dies while skydiving at 28
- 1996 Alan Hargreaves, climber, dies at 92
- 1996 Norman Hackforth, broadcaster, dies at 88
- 1997 Owen Barfield, British philosopher of language, dies at 99
- 1997 Robert Sutton, electronics engineer, dies at 82
- 1997 Stubby Kaye [Bernard Solomon Kotzin], American actor (Guys & Dolls, Lil' Abner, Cat Ballou), dies of lung cancer at 79
- 1997 Kurt Winter, Canadian musician (The Guess Who), dies of kidney failure at 51
- 1998 Annette Strauss, American philanthropist (b. 1924)
- 1998 Norman Fell, American actor (Three's Company, The End, Graduate), dies of bone marrow cancer at 74
- 1998 Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American civil rights activist and author (b. 1928)
- 2001 W. G. Sebald, German writer (b. 1944)
- 2002 Ruth Kobart [Kahn], American actor and singer (King's Quest VII, Forum), dies at 78
- 2003 Blas Ople, foreign minister of the Philippines (b. 1927)
- 2003 Jeanne Crain, American actress (Man Without a Star, Pinky), dies at 78
- 2004 Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (b. 1934)
- 2004 Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino actor and presidential candidate (b. 1939)
- 2005 Trevanian, American author (b. 1931)
- 2006 Anton Balasingham, chief political strategist of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1938)
- 2006 Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish-American businessman and co-founder of Atlantic Records, dies at 83
- 2006 Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949)
- 2006 Otmar Macha, Czech composer (Quattro Group), dies at 84
- 2008 Ramon Barce, Spanish composer, dies at 80
- 2009 Alan A'Court, English footballer (b. 1934)
- 2010 Timothy Davlin, American politician (b. 1957)
- 2010 Dale Roberts, English footballer (b. 1986)
- 2010 Neva Patterson, American actress (The Seven Year Itch, Taxi, Nichols), dies rom complications from a broken hip at 90
- 2011 Boris Chertok, prominent Soviet and Russian rocket engineer, dies at 99
- 2012 Klaus Köste, German gymnast, dies at 69
- 2012 Kenneth Kendall, British broadcaster (BBC News, Treasure Hunt), dies from a stroke at 88
- 2013 Peter O'Toole, Irish actor, dies at 81
- 2014 Bess Myerson, 1st Jewish Miss America (1945), dies at 90
- 2015 Lillian Vernon, founder and CEO of the Lillian Vernon Corporation (first company listed on US stock exchange started by a woman), dies at 88
- 2017 Lones Wigger, American competitive rifle shooter (Olympic gold/silver-1964, 72), dies at 80
- 2017 Yú Guāngzhōng [Yu Kwang-chung], Taiwanese poet, essayist, and translator (Nostalgia), dies from respiratory failure at 89