- 296 Pope Caius, Bishop of Rome (283-296), dies at 51
- 536 St. Agapetus I, Bishop of Rome (535-36), dies at 46
- 835 Kūkai, Japanese Buddhist monk and poet (founded Shingon school of Buddhism), dies at 60
- 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
- 1627 Ahmad Baba, Islamic jurist and writer from Timbuktu (biographical dictionary of the Mālikī), dies at 70
- 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 Erasmus Aßmann Abschatz, German poet and nobleman, dies at 53
- 1758 Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist, dies at 71
- 1778 James Hargreaves, British inventor (spinning jenny), dies at 57
Anne Bonny (1702-1782)
Irish Caribbean pirate and lover of Calico Jack [date of death is approximate], dies in prison at 85
- 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
- 1908 Ellison Capers, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 70
Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836-1908)
British Prime Minister (Liberal: 1905-08), dies at 71
Henry Royce (1863-1933)
English industrialist and 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
- 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 (1902-1984)
American landscape photographer and environmentalist (Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980), dies at 82
Emilio G. Segrè (1905-1989)
Italian physicist & Nobel laureate (discovered the elements technetium, astatine and the sub-atomic antiparticle antiproton), dies at 84 of a heart attack
Cesar Chavez (1927-1993)
American farm labor leader (United Farm Workers), dies of natural causes at 66
- 1994 Denis Pitts, English journalist, dies at 64
- 1994 Hans Burkhardt, Swiss-American abstract artist, dies at 89
Richard Nixon (1913-1994)
American politician (37th US President (Republican 1969-74; Vice-President, 1953-61; US Senator from California, 1950-53) and navy veteran, dies of a stroke at 81
- 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
- 2000 Toon Hermans, Dutch poet (Kolderliedjes), dies at 83
- 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 Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish sculptor and pop art pioneer (mosaics Tottenham Court Rd tube), dies at 81
- 2005 Erika Fuchs, German translator, dies at 98
- 2005 Philip Morrison, American physicist, dies at 89
- 2007 (Raymond) "Bill" Hoffenberg, South African-British endocrinologist and college president (Wolfson at Oxford, 1985-93), dies at 84
- 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
- 2022 Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan economist and politician (President of Kenya, 2002-13), dies at 90