- 616 King Ethelbert of Kent, 1st English king to convert to Christianity
- 1525 Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier
- 1563 Francois Guise, French general/duke, assassinated at 44
- 1588 Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist
- 1666 Nicholas Lanier, composer, dies at 77
- 1674 Matthias Weckmann, German composer (b. 1616)
- 1685 Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English politician and military leader (b. 1629)
- 1686 Ferdinando Tacca, Italian painter/son of Pietro Tacca, dies at 66
- 1692 Antimo Liberati, Italian composer, dies at 74
- 1704 Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music), dies
- 1714 Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (b. 1637)
- 1721 John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648)
- 1732 Colonel Francis Charteris, known as "The Rape-Master General". (b. 1675)
- 1735 Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, German composer, dies at 56
- 1777 Joseph, King of Portugal (1750-77), dies at 62
- 1779 Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (b. 1704)
- 1781 Edward Capell, English critic, dies at 67
- 1784 Anton Laube, Bohemian composer, dies at 65
- 1785 Carlo Buonaparte, Corsican attorney and father of emperor Napoleon, dies at 39
- 1799 Broerius Brorius, theologist (Pensive Christian), dies at about 41
- 1799 Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, dies at 56
- 1806 John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81
- 1810 Henry Cavendish, British physicist and chemist (discovery of hydrogen), dies at 78
- 1812 Hugo Kollataj, Polish teacher/minister, dies at 61
- 1812 Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist (Polarization of light), dies at 36
Robert Fulton
1815 Robert Fulton, American inventor and engineer (first commercial steamboat), dies of tuberculosis at 49
Robert Fulton
- 1822 Thomas Coutts, Anglo-Scottish banker (Coutts & Co.), dies at 86
- 1825 Thomas Bowdler, British physician and writer (Family Shakespeare), dies at 70
- 1829 Auguste Chouteau, St Louis co-founder, dies
- 1862 Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at 72
- 1865 Edmund John Armstrong, Irish poet, dies at 23
- 1874 Anselmo Clave, composer, dies at 49
- 1876 Jan Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67
- 1876 Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (b. 1809)
- 1895 Ignaz Lachner, German composer, dies at 87
- 1907 Otto Goldschmidt, German composer, dies at 77
- 1908 Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, Ukrainian composer, dies at 66
- 1914 Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg
- 1915 Amanda Smith, American former slave, singer and evangelist, dies at 78
- 1919 Josephine McGill, composer, dies at 41
- 1922 Dmitri B. Shostakovich, father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies
- 1924 Edmond Picard, Fren/Belgium writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87
- 1925 Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860)
- 1926 Eddie Plank, pitcher (won 327 games in 17 years), dies at 51
- 1929 Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer, dies at 75
- 1930 Jacobus of Looy, Dutch writer and painter (Death of My Cat), dies at 74
- 1933 Spottiswoode Aitken, Scottish actor (The Birth of a Nation, The Avenging Conscience), dies at 65
- 1941 Oskar Loerke, German writer (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56
- 1945 Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
- 1953 Karl R G von Rundstedt, German gen-field marshal (Ardennes), dies at 77
- 1958 Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne], French poet, dies at 86
- 1960 Jean Binet, composer, dies at 66
- 1964 Alexander Archipenko, Ukr sculptor/water colors painter, dies at 76
- 1964 Frank Conroy, British actor (Midnight Mary, Threat), dies at 73
- 1967 Franz Waxman, German composer (Day at the races), dies at 60
- 1969 Kenneth Green, actor (Penrod), dies of heart attack at 61
- 1970 Conrad Nagel, American actor (All That Heaven Allows, Celebrity Time), dies at 72
- 1973 Art Smith, actor (Quicksand), dies of heart attack at 73
- 1975 Nikolai A Bulganin, marshal/premier of USSR (1955-58), dies at 79
- 1976 Charles Wilfred Orr, English pianist and composer (settings of A.E. Housman poems), dies at 82
- 1976 H Allen Smith, TV host (Armchair Detective), dies at 69
- 1976 Julian Rivero, American actor (Son of Oklahoma, Via Pony Express), dies at 85
- 1982 Virginia Bruce, actress (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield), dies at 71
- 1983 Herbert Norman Howells, composer, dies at 90
- 1984 Uwe Johnson, writer, dies at 59
- 1984 Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (Sociology of Sex), dies at 71
Tommy Douglas
1986 Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician and "Father of Medicare", dies of cancer at 81
Tommy Douglas
- 1987 Jim Connors, American Legendary Radio personality, dies in a car crash at 46
- 1988 Irwan Chanin, US theater builder, dies at 96
- 1988 Memphis Slim [John Len Chatman] American blues musician ("Every Day I Have the Blues"), dies at 72
- 1989 Sparky Adams, American baseball player (b. 1894)
- 1990 Johnnie Ray, American singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61
Malcolm Forbes
1990 Malcolm Forbes, American publisher of Forbes Magazine, dies of a heart attack at 70
Malcolm Forbes
- 1990 Sandro Pertini, 7th President of Italy (1978-85), dies at 93
- 1990 Tony Conigliaro, baseball player (Red Sox), dies of pneumonia at 45
- 1991 George Gobel, Chicago, comedian (George Gobel Show), dies at 71
- 1991 Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74
- 1991 Marcella Markham, dies of breast cancer at 68
- 1991 Webb Pierce, US country singer (Bye Bye Love), dies of cancer at 64
- 1992 Kay Loring, dies after long illness
- 1993 Bobby Moore, English footballer, team captain (World Cup 1966), dies at 51
- 1993 Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster, dies at 75
- 1994 Dinah Shore, singer (Chevrolet), dies of cancer at 76
- 1994 Donald Phillips, pianist/composer, dies at 80
- 1994 Jean Sablon, French singer-songwriter, dies at 87
- 1994 Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative, dies at 83
- 1994 Lores Bonney, Australian aviator, 1st female solo flight Australia to UK, dies at 96
- 1994 Eduard Pavlovich Kugno, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 58
- 1995 Richard Nicholson, musician, dies at 89
- 1996 Anna Larina, revolutionary, dies at 82
- 1996 Gene Mitchell, museum director, dies on 70th birthday
- 1996 James Runcieman Sutherland, academic, dies at 95
- 1996 Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist, dies at 71
- 1997 Isabelle Harriet Lucas, Canadian-born British actress and singer (Outland, Comics), dies at 69
- 1998 Henny Youngman, American comedian and violinist (Take my wife ... please), dies at 91
- 1998 Antonio Prohias, Cuban-born cartoonist (b. 1921)
- 1999 Andre Dubus, American writer (b. 1936)
- 1999 Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (b. 1916)
- 2001 Claude E. Shannon, American information theorist (b. 1916)
- 2002 Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (b. 1932)
- 2002 Leo Ornstein, Russian-American composer and pianist, (born about 1893)
- 2003 John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian (b. 1912)
- 2003 Bernard Loiseau, French chef (b. 1951)
- 2003 Walter Scharf, American film composer, dies at 92
- 2004 John Randolph [Emanuel Hirsch Cohen], American actor (King Kong, Lucan, Lucas Tanner, Angie), dies at 88
- 2006 Octavia Butler, American author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow (b. 1947)
- 2006 Don Knotts, American actor (Andy Griffth Show, 3's Company), died of lung cancer at 81
- 2006 John Martin, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1947)
- 2006 Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (b. 1925)
- 2006 Dennis Weaver, American actor (Chester-Gunsmoke, Duel, Battered), dies at 81
- 2007 Bruce Bennett, American actor (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), dies from complications of a broken hip at 100
- 2007 Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (b. 1932)
- 2007 Lamar Lundy, American football player (b. 1935)
- 2007 Damien Nash, American football player (b. 1982)
- 2008 Larry Norman, American musician and pioneer of Christian rock music (Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?), dies at 60
- 2011 Anant Pai, Indian educationalist and creator of comics (b. 1929)
- 2012 Jan Berenstain [Janice Marian Grant], American author (The Berenstain Bears), dies from a stroke at 88
- 2012 Istvan Anhalt, Hungarian-Canadian composer, dies at 92
- 2012 Kenneth Price, American ceramic artist and print maker, dies from cancer at 77
- 2012 Benedict Freedman, American novelist and mathematician, dies at 92
- 2014 Harold Ramis, American actor & director, dies from vasculitis at 69
- 2016 Nabil Maleh, Syrian film director and writer, dies at 79
- 2017 Faye Glenn Abdellah, American pioneer in nursing research and US government official (health services), dies at 97
Sridevi Kapoor
2018 Sridevi Kapoor [Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan], Indian actress and film producer referred to as Indian cinema's "first female superstar" (Himmatwala, Solva Sawan), drowns at 54
Sridevi Kapoor