- 1161 Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 71
- 1504 Filippino Lippi, Italian renaissance painter, dies at ~52
- 1530 Francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at ~43
- 1552 John Leland, English poet & antiquarian, dies at 49
- 1556 Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61
- 1558 Roxelana, wife of Otttoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, dies at ~54
- 1567 Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer, dies at 63
- 1587 John Foxe, English historian (Book of Martyrs), dies
- 1610 Robert Parsons, English jesuit (A Letter Disclosure), dies at 63
- 1612 Emanuel Van Meteren, Flemish merchant & historian, dies at 76
- 1636 Julius Caesar, English lawyer & judge, dies at 78
- 1650 Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian, dies at 47
- 1674 John Graunt, English statistician & founder of science of demography, dies at 53
- 1679 Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, German poet, dies at 62
- 1684 Gonzales Coques, Flemish painter, dies at 69
- 1689 George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, Welsh judge, dies at 43
- 1690 Charles V, Duke of Lorraine & Austrian field marshal, dies at 47
- 1732 Louis Feuillée, French explorer, dies at 72
- 1794 Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, dies at 80
- 1796 Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist, dies at 63
- 1800 Pieter Fouquet, Dutch art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies at 71
- 1802 Erasmus Darwin, English physician writer & botanist (grandfather of Charles Darwin), dies at 70
- 1803 Louis François Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (Du calcul des derivations), dies at 43
- 1818 Quint Ondaatje, Dutch jurist & politician, dies at 59
- 1845 Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, Swiss chemist, dies at 77
- 1853 William R. King, American politician (Vice President 1853), dies at 67 one month after his inauguration
- 1855 Jean-Baptiste Isabey, French painter, dies at 88
- 1867 Robert Smirke, English architect, dies at 86
- 1871 Omar Pasha [Michael Lats], Croatian governor, dies at 64
- 1873 Justus von Liebig, German agricultural & biological chemist who is considered the founder of organic chemistry, dies at 69
- 1879 Anthony Pannizi, Italian-born British librarian (British Museum), dies at 81
- 1882 Henry Cole, English inventor & civil servant, 1st director of the V&A Museum, promoter of 1851 Great Exhibition, dies at 73
- 1888 Roscoe Conkling, American politician (U.S. Senator from New York 1867-81), dies at 58
- 1898 Gustave Moureau, French illustrator, dies at 72
- 1906 Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus, dies at 59
- 1917 Moritz von Bissing, Prussian general, dies at 73
- 1917 Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist, dies at 59
- 1935 Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist & archaeologist, dies at 90
- 1935 Panait Istrati, Romanian writer, dies at 50
- 1940 Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, English historian & politician, dies after being hit by a car during London blackout at 75
- 1941 Alexandros Koryzis, Prime Minister of Greece in 1941, commits suicide at about 65 as German troops closed in on Athens
- 1942 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor & art patron (founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art NYC), dies at 67
Isoroku Yamamoto
1943 Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese WWII Marshall Admiral & Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese fleet who led the attack on Pearl Harbor, killed in action at 59 by a US ambush after the "Magic" code-breaking team intercepted and decoded his flight plan
Isoroku Yamamoto
- 1945 John Ambrose Fleming, English electrical engineer & physicist, dies at 95
- 1945 Ernie Pyle, American journalist and war correspondent during WW II (Pulitzer Prize 1944), dies at 44
- 1947 Jozef Tiso, Slovak politician (President of the First Slovak Republic), dies at 59
- 1949 Leonard Bloomfield, American linguist, dies at 62
- 1951 António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal & 11th President of Portugal, dies at 81
- 1955 Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher & scholar, dies in Germany at 70
Albert Einstein
1955 Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist & Nobel laureate (theory of relativity), dies of an abdominal aortic aneurysm at 76
Albert Einstein
- 1958 Maurice-Gustave Gamelin, French general (WW1; WW2), dies at 85
- 1958 Richard B. Goldschmidt, German-American zoologist (butterflies), dies at 80
- 1958 Maurice Gamelin, French general (unable to stop the German assault on France, May 1940), dies at 85
- 1963 Meyer Jacobstein, American politician, dies at 83
- 1964 Ben Hecht, American playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71
- 1965 Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor, dies at 48
- 1976 Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization engineer, dies at 65
- 1981 James H. Schmitz, American sci-fi author (Lion Game), dies at 69
- 1984 Arvi Kivimaa, Finnish writer (Groenende Cross), dies at 79
- 1986 Marcel Dassault [Bloch], French airplane builder, dies at 94
- 1993 Dame Elisabeth Frink, English sculptor & printmaker, dies of cancer aged 62
- 1994 Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32
- 1995 Arturo Frondizi, 35th President of Argentina (1958-62), dies at 86
- 1996 Kalim Siddiqui, Pakistani-British writer & Islamic activist, dies at 62
- 1996 Piet Hein, Danish polymath, dies at 80
- 1997 Edward Barker, English cartoonist, dies at 46
- 1998 Terry Sanford, American politician, dies at 80
- 1999 Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born American mathematician & philosopher, dies at 66
Thor Heyerdahl
2002 Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian anthropologist & explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku), dies of a brain tumor at 87
Thor Heyerdahl
- 2003 Edgar F. Codd, English-American computer scientist who contributed to the theory and practice of database management systems, dies at 79 [1]
- 2004 Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji & President of Fiji, dies at 83
- 2007 Iccho Itoh, mayor of Nagasaki, dies at 61
- 2011 William Donald Schaefer, American politician (Gov-D-Md), dies at 89
- 2015 Joseph Lechleider, American electrical engineer (invented DSL/high speed internet technology), dies at 82
- 2019 Lyra McKee, Northern Irish journalist, shot by the New IRA in a terrorist attack at 29
Lorraine Warren
2019 Lorraine Warren, American paranormal investigator (Amityville haunting), dies in her sleep at 92
Lorraine Warren
- 2020 Takuo Aoyagi, Japanese engineer who invented the pulse oximeter, dies at 84
- 2021 Iain Watson Gallaway QSO MBE, New Zealand sports broadcaster (Radio Sport; Halberg Award) and author ("Not a Cloud in the Sky"), dies at 98