Richard the Lionheart (1157-1199)
King of England (1189-99) known as Richard the Lion Hearted, dies as the result of a wound at 41
- 1252 Saint Peter of Verona, Italian inquisitor, assassinated at 45
- 1348 Petrarch's Laura, dies of plague
- 1362 Jacques de Bourbon, count of Marche, killed in battle
- 1472 Pieter Bladelin, Belgian land owner (Middelburg castle), dies
- 1489 Hans Waldmann, Swiss military/mayor (Zurich), beheaded
- 1490 Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary and Croatia (1458-1490) created the Bibliotheca Corviniana, dies at 47
Raphael (1483-1520)
Italian painter and master builder (Sistine Madonna, School of Athens), dies on his 37th birthday
- 1528 Albrecht Dürer, German Renaissance painter and printmaker (Adam and Eve), dies at 56
- 1551 Joachim Vadian [Vadianus] Swiss humanist, scholar and protestant reformer, dies at 66
- 1571 John Hamilton, Scottish prelate (Archbishop of St Andrews, 1547-71), and politician, dies at 59
- 1590 Francis Walsingham, English secretary of state, dies at about 57
- 1593 Henry Barrow, English puritian/Congressionalist, hanged
- 1593 John Greenwood, English Congressionalist, hanged
- 1605 John Stow, English historian (Survey of London), dies
- 1655 David Blondel, French Protestant clergyman (b. 1591)
- 1661 John Webster, colonial Governor of Connecticut (Fundamental Orders of Connecticut), dies at about 71
- 1686 Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman, dies at 71
- 1707 Willem Van de Velde, the Younger, Dutch seascape painter, dies at 73
- 1755 Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian (b. 1690)
- 1825 Vladimir Borovikovsky [Vоlоdymyr Borovyk], Russian painter, died at 67
- 1829 Niels H Able, Norwegian mathematician (infinite series), dies at 26
- 1833 Adamántios Koraïs, Greek humanist scholar, dies at 84
- 1838 José Bonifácio de Andrada, Brazilian statesman, dies at 74
- 1854 William Strickland, US architect, dies
- 1862 Adley H. Gladden, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 51
- 1862 Albert Sidney Johnston, US Confederate general, dies in battle at 59
- 1865 Colonel Reuben B Boston, US Confederate cavalry, killed in action during Battle of High Bridge in Farmville, Virginia at 30
- 1865 John Austin Wharton, American lawyer and Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 36
- 1883 Benjamin Wright Raymond, American politician (b. 1801)
- 1884 Emanuel Geibel, writer, dies at 68
- 1888 Thomas Green Clemson, American politician and founder of Clemson University, dies at 80
- 1902 Gleb Uspensky, Russian author (Power of the Soil), dies at 58
- 1906 Alexander Lange Kielland, Norwegian writer (Gist; Fortuna; St. Hans Fest), and politician (mayor; governor), dies at 57
- 1918 John Q. A. Brackett, American politician, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (1890-91), dies at 75
- 1926 Giovanni Amendola, Italian anti-fascist and editor-in-chief (Il Mondo), dies at 43
- 1933 Elizabeth Bacon Custer, American author, public speaker and wife of George Armstrong Custer, dies at 90
- 1935 Edward Arlington Robinson, American poet, dies
- 1939 Robert Courtneidge, British theater producer, dies
- 1947 Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture), dies at 50
- 1953 Idris Davies, Welsh poet (b. 1905)
- 1961 Jules Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist (syphillis, Nobel 1919), dies at 90
- 1962 J C Heldring, Dutch businessman, dies at 74
- 1963 Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1897)
- 1968 Robert "Bobby" Hutton, American Black Panther leader and treasurer, shot to death by Oakland police at 17
- 1970 Sam Sheppard, American accused murderer (b. 1923)
Hudson Fysh (1895-1974)
Australian aviator, businessman and co-founder of QANTAS, dies at 79
- 1974 Ronald Russell, British journalist, author and Conservative politician, dies at 69
- 1974 Willem Dudok, Dutch architect (Hilversum Town Hall; Beehive Rotterdam), dies at 89
Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975)
Chinese political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China (1928-1975), dies at 87
- 1976 Ruth Plumly Thomson, American children's writer (Oz series), dies at 84
- 1976 Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (b. 1903)
- 1981 Ray C. Bliss, American Republican party figure (Chairman Republican National Committee 1965-69), dies at 73
- 1982 Paul Wiens, German writer and Stasi informant, dies at 59
- 1983 Ana Maria, Salvador guerilla leader, murdered
- 1990 Nancy Hawkes, (1946 best dressed woman), dies at 73
- 1990 Ronald E Evans, American astronaut (Apollo 17), dies of a heart attack at 57
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
Russian scientist and sci-fi writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy), dies from kidney failure at 72
Juvénal Habyarimana (1937-1994)
Rwandan General, Dictator and President of Rwanda (1973-94), assassinated by missile strike on his plane over Kigali, Rwanda at 57
- 1994 Theo Bosch, Dutch humanist and architect (Amsterdam), dies of cardiac arrest at 54
- 1995 Vieno J Sukselainen, Prime Minister of Finland (1959-61), dies
- 1996 Gordon Clough, English journalist (BBC Radio 4), dies at 61
- 1997 Stephan Hermlin, German writer, dies at 81
- 2000 Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian statesman, 1st President of Tunisia (1957-87), dies at 96
- 2003 David Bloom, American reporter (b. 1963)
- 2003 Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, Canadian religious figure (b. 1912)
- 2004 Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (b. 1929)
Rainier III (1923-2005)
Prince of Monaco (1949-2005), dies at 81
- 2006 Francis L. Kellogg, U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite, dies at 89
- 2010 Lorraine Chargin, American boxing promoter (IBHOF; Bobby Chacon, Tony "The Tiger" Lopez, Loreto Garza), dies from cancer at 79
- 2010 Wilma Mankiller, Native American activist, 1st woman chief of the Cherokee Nation, dies of cancer at 64
- 2011 Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Pakistani Sindhi scholar (compiled first Sindhi-English dictionary), dies at 93 [1]
- 2012 Bingu wa Mutharika, President of Malawi, dies from heart attack at 78
- 2012 Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist/dissident, dies at 76
- 2012 Thomas Kinkade, American artist, dies from acute intoxication at 54
- 2015 Dave Ulliott, English poker player (World Series of Poker bracelet 1997; World Poker Open 2003), dies of colon cancer at 61
- 2018 Daniel Akaka, American educator and politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii), dies at 93
- 2018 Julien Van Remoortere [Piet Mortelman], Flemish writer (Fist), dies at 87
- 2019 Richard Green, American sexologist, lawyer, and author who advocated for gay and transexual rights, dies of oesophageal cancer at 82