- 1164 Victor IV [Ottaviano Montecello], Italian antipope (1159-64), dies
- 1176 Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier (b. 1130)
- 1314 Clement V [Bertrand Got], pope (1305-14) moved papacy to Avignon, dies
- 1317 Agnes van Montepulciano, Italian mystic and saint, dies
- 1521 Zhengde, 10th Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, dies at 29
- 1534 Elizabeth Barton [St Magd van Kent], English nun, prophet and only woman whose head was on a spike on London Bridge, hanged for treason
- 1558 Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer, dies at 72
- 1632 Nicolas Antione, converted to Judiasm, burned at the stake
- 1662 Gerard Terborch, the elder, Dutch painter, dies
- 1703 Lancelot Addison, English royal chaplain (b. 1632)
- 1765 Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b. 1674)
- 1769 Pontiac, Ottawa Indian leader, murdered by a Peoria warrior at 48 or 49
- 1786 John Goodricke, English deaf astronomer (first to notice that some variable stars were periodic), dies at 21
George Clinton
1812 George Clinton, American soldier and 4th Vice President (1805-12), dies at 73 and 1st Vice President to die in office
George Clinton
- 1820 Arthur Young, English writer on agriculture (Annals of Agriculture), dies at 78
- 1821 Franz Karl Achard, German physicist and chemist, dies at 67
- 1831 John Abernethy, English surgeon, dies at 67
- 1836 Johan I Jozef, Monarch of Liechtenstein and fieldmarshal, dies at 75
- 1872 Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62
- 1873 William Tite, English architect (The Royal Exchange), dies at 75
- 1874 Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), dies at 56
- 1887 Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman (b. 1826)
- 1899 Joseph Wolf, German artist (b. 1820)
- 1900 Alexandre Falguière, French sculptor and painter, dies at 68
- 1906 Australian wombat; oldest known marsupial, dies in London Zoo at 26 (London, England)
- 1910 Samuel Gibbs French, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 91
Bram Stoker
1912 Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager and writer (Dracula), dies at 64
Bram Stoker
- 1918 Karl Ferdinand Braun, German inventor, co-developed wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909), dies at 67
- 1932 Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and glottologist, dies at 73
- 1935 Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter, dies at 92
- 1935 Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer, dies at 71
- 1941 Barend ter Haar, Dutch lawyer, dies in Buchenwald at 49
- 1947 Christian X, King of Denmark (1912-47), dies at 76
- 1951 Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
- 1953 Erich Weinert, German communist writer, dies at 62
- 1962 Jesse G Vincent, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine, dies at 82
- 1968 Mabel Stark, American tiger trainer "crazy Mabel", found dead after her suicide at 79
- 1973 Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal philosopher and political philosopher, dies at 91
- 1974 Mohammed Ayub Khan, premier/president (Pakistan), dies
- 1974 Richard Huelsenbeck, German Dada writer, dies at 81
- 1977 Sepp Herberger, German football coach and manager (West German National Team), dies at 80
- 1982 Archibald MacLeish, American lawyer and writer (Conquistador), dies at 89
- 1984 Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (b. 1943)
- 1986 Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist, journalist and writer, dies at 73
- 1990 Horst Sinderman, RDA 1st minister (1973-76), dies
- 1991 Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, Mongolian politician (Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural (President), 1974-84; Prime Minister, 1952-74; General Secretary of the Mongolian People's Party, 1940-54), dies at 74
- 1991 Sean O'Faolain [J Whelan], Irish writer (Nest of Simple), dies at 91
Milovan Djilas
1995 Milovan Djilas, Yugoslavian politician and writer (The New Class), dies at 83
Milovan Djilas
- 1995 Sunil Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan wicketkeeper (1979 World Cup), suicide
- 1995 Tessie O'Shea, Welsh stage and screen entertainer, dies at 81
- 1996 Christopher Robin Milne, bookseller, dies at 75
- 1996 Tran Van Tra, soldier, dies at 77
- 1999 Victims and shooters of the Columbine High School massacre
- 1999 Eric Harris, American mass murderer (Columbine High School shooter), dies at 18
- 2003 Bernard Katz, German-born Australian biophysicist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1970), dies at 82
- 2005 Fumio Niwa, Japanese novelist (b. 1904)
- 2006 Anna Svidersky (b. 1988)
- 2007 Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931).
- 2008 Monica Lovinescu, Romanian essayist, literary critic and journalist (b. 1923)
Dorothy Height
2010 Dorothy Height, American civil rights and women's rights activist (National Council of Negro Women), dies at 98
Dorothy Height
- 2011 Tim Hetherington, British-American photojournalist (b. 1970)
- 2011 Chris Hondros, American photographer (b. 1970)
- 2011 Zoltán Sztáray, Hungarian writer, dies at 92
- 2013 Howard Phillips, American politician, dies from dementia and Alzheimer's disease at 72
- 2013 Struther Arnott, Scottish molecular biologist and chemist (cancer research), dies at 78
- 2015 Sir Raymond Carr, English historian and warden (St Antony's College Oxford), dies at 96
- 2015 Aharon Lichtenstein, Orthodox Jewish rabbi, dies at 81
- 2016 Guy Hamilton, British director (Goldfinger), dies at 93
- 2021 Idriss Déby, Chadian politician and military officer (President of Chad, 1990–2021), dies of injuries inflicted on a battlefield at 68