- 296 Pope Caius, Bishop of Rome (283-296), dies at 51
- 536 St. Agapetus I, Bishop of Rome (535-36), dies at 46
- 1253 Elias van Cortona, Italian general (1232-39), dies at ~53
- 1355 Eleonora Plantagenet, daughter of King Edward II, dies at 36
- 1462 Gilbert de Lannoy, Flemish traveller & diplomat, dies at 76
- 1521 Juan de Padilla, Spanish Roman Catholic missionary, killed at 52
- 1592 Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor & architect, dies at 80
Miguel de Cervantes
1616 Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra, Spanish author (Don Quixote), dies of a cirrhosis at 68
Miguel de Cervantes
- 1648 Catharina Belgian van Nassau, daughter of Willem, dies at 69
- 1662 John Tradescant, English botanist & gardener, dies at 53
- 1672 Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish scholar & poet often known as "father of Swedish poetry" (Hercules), dies at 73
- 1699 Hans A baron von Abschatz, Silesian poet, dies at 53
- 1758 Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist, dies at 71
- 1778 James Hargreaves, British inventor (spinning jenny), dies at 57
Anne Bonny
1782 Anne Bonny, Irish pirate, dies in prison at 85
Anne Bonny
- 1788 Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch poet, dies at 46
- 1806 Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral, killed at 42
- 1821 John Crome, [Old Crome], English landscape painter & etcher, dies at 52
- 1827 Thomas Rowlandson, English artist & caricaturist, dies at 70
- 1830 Knud Lyne Rahbek, Danish literary historian, dies at 69
- 1833 Richard Trevithick, English inventor (steam locomotive), dies at 62
- 1839 Denis Davydov, Russian general & poet, dies at 54
- 1854 Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician & soldier, dies at 67
- 1864 Joseph Gilbert Totten, US Union general-major, dies at 75
- 1865 Francis Washburn, US Union colonel/gen major, dies of injuries
- 1865 William McKean, American naval officer (Union Navy), dies at 64
- 1877 James P. Kirkwood, American civil engineer, dies at 70
- 1890 Magnus Huss, Swedish physician who coined the word alcoholism and was the first to define it as a disease, dies at 82
- 1893 Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian inventor & academic, dies at 67
- 1896 Thomas Meik, Scottish civil engineer, dies at 84
- 1901 William Stubbs, English historian & Anglican bishop of Oxford, dies at 74
- 1903 Alexander Ramsey, American politician (1st Governor of Minnesota Territory), dies at 87
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
1908 Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British Prime Minister (Liberal: 1905-08), dies at 71
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
- 1908 Ellison Capers, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 70
- 1929 Henry Lerolle, French painter, dies at 80
- 1930 Jeppe Aakjær, Danish poet & novelist (Bondens Søn), dies at 63
- 1933 Henry Royce, English industrialist & automobile founder (Rolls-Royce), dies at 70
- 1945 Kathe Kollwitz, German graphic artist, dies at 77
- 1946 Harlan F. Stone, American lawyer & jurist (SCOTUS, 1941-46), dies at 73
- 1950 Charles Hamilton Houston, American lawyer & architect of NAACP legal campaign, dies at 54
- 1951 Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist, dies at 81
- 1953 Top Naeff [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N], Dutch writer, dies at 75
- 1957 Roy Campbell, South African poet (Garcia Lorca), dies at 54
- 1961 Maria Radulphus [Adrian Hermus], Curacao school inspector, dies at 91
- 1968 Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive, dies at 57
- 1974 Tjalie Robinson [Jan Boon], Dutch East Indies writer & journalist (Tong Tong), dies at 63
- 1982 Melville Bell Grosvenor, American photographer & president of National Geographic Society, dies at 80
Ansel Adams
1984 Ansel Adams, American photographer, dies at 82
Ansel Adams
Emilio G. Segrè
1989 Emilio G. Segrè, Italian physicist & Nobel laureate (discovered the elements technetium, astatine and the sub-atomic antiparticle antiproton), dies at 84 of a heart attack
Emilio G. Segrè
Cesar Chavez
1993 Cesar Chavez, American farm labor leader (United Farm Workers), dies of natural causes at 66
Cesar Chavez
- 1994 Denis Pitts, English journalist, dies at 64
Richard Nixon
1994 Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (1969-75), dies of a stroke at 81
Richard Nixon
- 1994 Hans Burkhardt, Swiss-American artist, dies at 89
- 1995 Maggie Kuhn, American activist & co-founder (Gray Panthers), dies at 89
- 1996 Hiteswar Saikia, Indian politician & Chief Minister of Assam (1983-85, 1991-96), dies at 61
- 1999 Chan Canasta, Polish-born magician & mindreader, dies at 79
- 2000 Alexander H. Cohen, Broadway producer (Beyond the Fringe), dies at 79
- 2003 Martha Griffiths, U.S. Congresswoman, dies at 91
- 2004 Jason L. Dunham, American Corporal in the United States Marine Corps and Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 22
- 2005 Erika Fuchs, German translator, dies at 98
- 2005 Philip Morrison, American physicist, dies at 89
- 2007 Juanita Millender-McDonald, American congresswoman from southern California, dies at 68
- 2016 Isabelle Dinoire, French recipient of world's 1st partial face transplant, dies from surgical complications at 49