- 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 (calculated planetary table), 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, dies at 43
- 1605 Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, Italian composer, dies at 54
- 1620 Roemer P Visscher, poet, buried in Amsterdam
- 1622 Sir Henry Savile, English scholar and educator, translated the New Testament into English, dies at 72
- 1653 Luigi Rossi, Italian early baroque composer, dies at about 55
- 1663 Adam Adami, German bishop and diplomat (b. 1603)
- 1672 Charles Chauncy, American clergyman and President of Harvard College (1654-72), dies at 79
- 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 Krumpholtz, Czech composer, dies at 47
- 1799 Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor, dies at 65
- 1806 Elizabeth Carter, English poet, bluestocking and translator (All the Works of Epictetus Which Are Now Extant), dies at 88
- 1815 Leonhard von Call, Austrian composer, dies at 47
- 1822 Jeronymo Francisco de Lima, Portuguese composer, dies at 78
- 1837 Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813)
- 1858 Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 78
- 1864 William Edwin Baldwin, US Confederate brigadier general, dies
- 1871 John B. Magruder, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 63
- 1873 Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary, dies at 35
- 1875 Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76
- 1878 Charles-François Daubigny, French painter of the Barbizon school, dies at 61
- 1880 Constantino Brumidi, Greek-Italian-American historical artist (Myrtle Murdock), dies at 74
- 1887 Multatuli [Eduard Douwes Dekker], Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66
- 1892 Monty Bowden, English cricket wicketkeeper and captain (2 Tests; youngest England captain at 23 years, 144 days), dies of epilepsy at 26
- 1894 Ernesto Camillo Sivori, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 78
- 1897 Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician (theory of functions), dies at 81
- 1902 Thomas F. Toon, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 61
- 1915 Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Indian social reformer and leader of Indian Independence Movement, dies at 48
- 1916 Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist, dies at 78
- 1923 Gerónimo Giménez, Spanish composer, dies at 68
- 1927 Georg Brandes [Cohen], Danish literary-historian and critic, dies at 85
- 1927 Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer, and teacher (Vienna Conservatory, 1875-1912), dies at 80
- 1933 Arnold Mendelssohn, German composer, dies at 77
- 1936 Charles Harding Firth, British historian (b. 1857)
- 1938 Leopoldo Lugones, Argentine poet (Las montañas del oro), dies at 63
- 1941 Alexander Josiah Webbe, English cricket wicket-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
- 1952 Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer (Nobel Prize in Literature 1920), dies at 92
- 1952 Lawrence Grant [Percy Reginald], British actor (Bulldog Drummond), dies at 82
- 1957 Maurice Garin, Italian-born French road bicycle racer (winner of Tour de France in 1903), dies at 85
- 1962 Albert Elkus, American composer, dies at 77
- 1962 Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear (b. 1883)
- 1962 James Barton, American actor (Tobacco Road, Iceman Cometh), dies at 71
- 1963 Bartolomé "Beny" Moré, Cuban guaracha and mambo singer, guitarist, songwriter, and bandleader, dies of liver cirrhosis at 43
- 1965 Forrest Taylor, actor (This is Life, Man Without a Gun), dies at 81
- 1965 Gheorge Gheorghiu-Dej, Romanian communist politician (President of the State Council 1961-65), dies at 63
- 1967 Wilmer King, 1st causality 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 (Drifters), dies at 73
- 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
- 1980 (Clarence) "Shorty" Cherock, American swing jazz and big band trumpeter (Jimmy Dorsey; Gene Krupa; Nelson Riddle), dies at 64
- 1981 Frank Merrick, English 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
- 1984 Claude Hopkins, American jazz stride pianist, arranger, bandleader, and musical director (Josephine Baker), dies at 80
- 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 Eastland, American politician (Sen-D-Miss 1943-78), dies at 81
- 1986 Paul Stewart, American actor (Citizen Kane, Kiss Me Deadly), dies from a heart attack at 77
- 1988 André F. Cournand, French physician and physiologist (Nobel 1956), dies at 92
- 1988 René Char, French poet and painter, dies at 80
- 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, American 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
- 1994 Fausto Bara, Mexican-American actor (The Renegades - "Gaucho"), dies of AIDS at 42
- 1995 Calder Willingham, American novelist and scriptwriter (End as a Man), dies at 72
- 1995 Ian Ball, newspaper 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 "Charlie O" Finley, American sports entrepreneur (MLB's Kansas City/Oakland A's: NHL's California Golden Seals), dies at 77
- 1996 Grant Sawyer, US politician, dies at 76
- 1996 Madhaviah Krishnan, Indian naturalist and wildlife photographer, dies at 83
- 1996 Dorothy Maynor, American soprano and founder (Harlem School of Arts), dies at 85
- 1996 Antonio Creus, Spanish racecar driver, dies at 71
Deng Xiaoping
1997 Deng Xiaoping, Chinese revolutionary and paramount leader of China (1978-92), dies of a lung infection and Parkinson's disease at 92
- 1997 Leo Rosten, American writer and humourist (Joys of Yiddish), dies at 88
- 1997 Stan Pearson, English soccer inside forward (8 caps; Manchester United, Bury, Chester), dies at 76
- 1998 (Louis) "Grandpa", American country music singer and banjo wizard (Hee Haw), dies at 84
- 1999 Mohammad al-Sadr, Iraqi Shiite cleric and leader who called for government reform, assassinated in an ambush in Najaf, Iraq at 55 [1]
- 2000 Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian-born New Zealand artist, dies at 71
- 2000 Marin Goleminov, Bulgarian violinist, composer, and pedagogue, dies at 91
- 2001 Priscilla Davis, American socialite (b. 1942)
- 2001 Stanley Kramer, American producer/director (Inherit the Wind), dies at 87
- 2001 Charles Trenet, French pop singer and songwriter ("Boum!"; "La Mer"), dies at 87
- 2002 Sylvia Rivera, American gay liberation and transgender activist and drag queen, dies of liver cancer at 50
- 2003 Johnny Paycheck [Donald Lytle], American country singer (Take This Job and Shove It), dies after contracting emphysema and asthma at 64
- 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, Canadian ballet dancer, founder of National Ballet of Canada, dies at 85
- 2008 Lydia Shum, Hong Kong comedian and actress (b. 1945)
- 2008 Yegor Letov, Russian songwriter and singer (b. 1964)
- 2008 Natalia Bessmertnova, Soviet ballerina (Bolshoi, Lenin Prize 1970), dies at 66
- 2008 (Attilio) "Teo" Macero, American jazz saxophonist, composer and record producer (Miles Davis - "Bitches Brew"; Dave Brubeck -"Time Out"), dies at 82
- 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, Pro/College Football Hall of Fame halfback (First-team All-Pro 1952, 54–59; Pro Bowl 1952, 54–58; NFL 1950s All Decade Team), dies of dementia at 80
- 2012 John Hogan, American research chemist, dies at 92
- 2012 Steve Kordek, American pinball machine designer, dies at 100
- 2013 Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist (Nobel 1996), dies at 75
- 2013 Donald Richie, American-born author and (Japanese) film critic, dies at 88
- 2013 Manfred Niehaus, German composer, dies at 79
- 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
- 2015 Ward Swingle, American vocalist, jazz musician, composer, arranger, and conductor (The Swingle Singers - Jazz Sebastian Bach), dies at 87
- 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
- 2017 Larry Coryell, American jazz guitarist (11th House), dies at 73
- 2017 Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician, dies at 93
- 2018 Yury Tyukalov, Soviet rower (Olympic 1952,56 Gold), dies at 87
- 2019 Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (Fendi, Chanel), dies at 85 (age disputed)
- 2019 Don Newcombe, American baseball pitcher (4-time MLB All Star), dies at 92
- 2020 Heather Couper, British astronomer and presenter (The Sky at Night), dies at 70
- 2020 Jens Nygaard Knudsen, Danish Lego designer of the minifigure, dies at 78
- 2020 Pop Smoke [Bashar Barakah Jackson], American rapper and singer-songwriter (Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon), shot and killed in a home invasion at 20
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