- 197 D Clodius Septimus Albinus, Roman bequest in England, dies in battle
- 440 Mesrop Mashtots, Armenian monk, theologian and linguist (b. 361/362)
- 1133 Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus (b. 1066)
- 1260 Boniface, of Lausanne, Belgian bishop/saint, dies
- 1401 William Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London
- 1414 Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury/chancellor of England, dies
- 1545 Pierre Brully, [Peter Brulius], calvinist minister, burned to death
- 1553 Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41
- 1568 Miles Coverdale, translator (1st complete English Bible), dies at 80
- 1589 Saint Philothei, Orthodox martyr and Patron of Athens (b. 1522)
- 1596 Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer, dies at 72
- 1602 Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (b. 1558)
- 1605 Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer, dies at 54
- 1620 Roemer P Visscher, poet, buried in Amsterdam
- 1622 Sir Henry Savile, English educator (b. 1549)
- 1653 Luigi Rossi, composer, dies
- 1663 Adam Adami, German bishop and diplomat (b. 1603)
- 1672 Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (b. 1592)
- 1709 Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (b. 1646)
- 1716 Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (b. 1634)
- 1785 Johann Christoph Richter, composer, dies at 84
- 1789 Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware, dies at 50
- 1790 Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz, composer, dies at 47
- 1799 Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (b. 1733)
- 1806 Elizabeth Carter, English poet, bluestocking and translator (All the Works of Epictetus Which Are Now Extant), dies at 88
- 1815 Leonhard von Call, composer, dies at 47
- 1822 Jeronymo Francisco de Lima, composer, dies at 78
- 1837 Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813)
- 1858 Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer, dies at 78
- 1864 William Edwin Baldwin, US Confederate brigadier general, dies
- 1873 Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1837)
- 1875 Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76
- 1878 Charles F Daubigny, French restaurateur/painter, dies at 61
- 1887 Multatuli [Eduard Douwes Dekker], Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66
- 1892 Monty Bowden, cricket captain (England v South Africa 1889), dies at 26
- 1894 Ernesto Camillo Sivori, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 78
- 1897 Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician (theory of functions), dies at 81
- 1915 Gopal Krishna Gokhale, India's social reformer/politician, dies
- 1916 Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist, dies at 78
- 1923 Jeronimo Gimenez y Bellido, composer, dies at 68
- 1927 Georg Brandes, [Cohen], Danish literary-historian and critic, dies at 85
- 1927 Robert Fuchs, composer, dies at 80
- 1933 Arnold Mendelssohn, German composer, dies at 77
- 1936 Charles Harding Firth, British historian (b. 1857)
- 1941 Alexander Josiah Webbe, English cricket keeper (v Aus 1879), dies
- 1941 Hamilton Harty, Irish composer and conductor called "the prince of accompanists", dies at 61
- 1942 Frank Abbandando, American gangster (executed) (b. 1910)
- 1943 Lynne Overman, American actor (Reap the Wild Wind), dies from a heart attack at 55
- 1944 Siegfried Garibaldi Kallenberg, German composer, dies at 76
- 1945 Wim Speelman, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at 26
- 1945 John Basilone, American Marine (Medal of Honor at the Battle for Henderson Field), is killed in action at Iwo Jima at 26
- 1949 Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer, dies at 83
- 1950 Edyth Walker, American opera singer, dies at 82
André Gide
1951 Andre Gide, French writer (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947), dies of pneumonia at 81
André Gide
- 1952 Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 92
- 1952 Lawrence Grant [Percy Reginald], British actor (Bulldog Drummond), dies at 82
- 1957 Maurice Garin, French cyclist (b. 1871)
- 1962 Albert Israel Elkus, composer, dies at 77
- 1962 Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear (b. 1883)
- 1965 Forrest Taylor, actor (This is Life, Man Without a Gun), dies at 81
- 1965 Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romanian president, dies at 63
- 1967 Wilmer King, 1st casuality on Tappan Zee Bridge NY, dies
- 1968 Ralph Dunn, actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65
- 1968 Georg Hackenschmidt, Estonian professional wrestler (b. 1878)
- 1969 Madge Blake, American actress (b. 1899)
- 1970 Ralph Edward Flanders, (Sen-VT), dies at 89
- 1972 John Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker (b. 1898)
- 1972 Tedd Pierce, American animator (b. 1906)
- 1975 Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian 12-tone composer, dies at 71
- 1977 Mike González, Cuban baseball player, dies at 86
- 1977 Anthony Crosland, British politician (b. 1918)
- 1980 Bon Scott [Ronald Belford Scott], Australian rock musician (lead singer and lyricist of AC/DC), dies at 33
- 1981 Frank Merrik, composer, dies at 94
- 1983 Alice White, actress (Employees' Entrance), dies at 78 of a stroke
- 1984 Ina Ray Hutton, American orchestra leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show), dies at 66
- 1985 Elizabeth Julesberg, author (Dick & Jane), dies
- 1985 George Holmes, actor (Man in the Trunk), dies at 66
- 1986 Adolfo Celi, Italian film actor and director (Next Man, Murders in Rue Morgue), dies at 63
- 1986 James O Eastland, (Sen-D-Miss), dies at 81
- 1986 Paul Stewart, American actor (Citizen Kane, Kiss Me Deadly), dies from a heart attack at 77
- 1988 André Frédéric Cournand, French-born physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
- 1989 Jaap van de Merwe, Dutch journalist/cabareter (Hadjememaar), dies
- 1990 Michael Powell, English director (Life & Death of Col Blimp), dies at 84
- 1991 Peggy Mondo, actress (Who's Minding the Store), dies at 50
- 1992 Chet Leaming, dies after brief illness at 66
- 1993 Gerhard Gesell, judge (Pentagon Papers), dies of liver cancer at 82
- 1993 Michael Morrison, actor (Caleb-As the World Turns), dies at 33
- 1994 Derek Jarman, actor and director (Tempest), dies of AIDS at 52
- 1994 Georges Watin, Algerian/French officer (OAS), dies at 71
- 1994 Renske Vellinga, Dutch speed-skater, dies in auto-accident at 19
- 1995 Calder Willingham, American novelist and scriptwriter (End as a Man), dies at 72
- 1995 Ian Ball, photographer, dies at 80
- 1995 Shlomo Averbach, Israeli ultra-orthodox rabbi, dies at 84
- 1995 John Howard, American actor (The Philadelphia Story, My Three Sons), dies of heart failure at 81
- 1996 Brenda Bruce, actress (December Bride, Nightmare), dies at 77
- 1996 Charles O Finley, baseball owner (Oakland A's), dies at 76
- 1996 Grant Sawyer, US politician, dies at 76
- 1996 Madhaviah Krishnan, naturalist, dies at 83
Deng Xiaoping
1997 Deng Xiaoping, Chinese revolutionary and paramount leader of China (1978-92), dies at 92
Deng Xiaoping
- 1997 Leo Rosten, American writer and humourist (Joys of Yiddish), dies at 88
- 1997 Stanley Pearson, footballer, dies at 76
- 1998 Grandpa Jones, country comic/banjo wizard (Hee Haw), dies at 84
- 1999 Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, Iraqi Shiite leader (assassinated)
- 2000 Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (b. 1928)
- 2001 Priscilla Davis, American socialite (b. 1942)
- 2001 Stanley Kramer, American producer/director (Inherit the Wind), dies at 87
- 2001 Charles Trenet, French singer (b. 1913)
- 2002 Sylvia Rivera, American gay liberation and transgender activist and drag queen, dies of liver cancer at 50
- 2003 Johnny PayCheck, American country singer/songwriter (b. 1938)
- 2007 Janet Blair [Martha Janet Lafferty], American singer and actress (Leave it to the Girls, Smith Family), dies of pneumonia at 85
- 2007 Celia Franca, founder of National Ballet of Canada (b. 1921)
- 2008 Lydia Shum, Hong Kong comedian and actress (b. 1945)
- 2008 Yegor Letov, Russian song writer and singer (b. 1964)
- 2009 Kelly Groucutt, Bass guitarist and singer for the band Electric Light Orchestra (b.1945)
- 2009 Miika Tenkula, Finnish guitarist for the band Sentenced (b.1974)
- 2010 Laura Spurr, Tribal Chairperson, Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (b. 1945)
- 2011 Ollie Matson, American Football Running Back (b. 1930)
- 2012 John Hogan, American research chemist, dies at 92
- 2012 Steve Kordek, American pinball machine designer, dies at 100
- 2014 Dale Gardner, American astronaut, dies from a brain aneurysm at 65
- 2014 Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 79
- 2014 Imre Olsvik, Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist, dies at 82
- 2016 Umberto Eco, Italian philosopher and writer (Name of the Rose), dies at 84
Harper Lee
2016 [Nelle] Harper Lee, American author (To Kill a Mockingbird), dies at 89
Harper Lee