Mark Antony
30 BC Mark Antony [Marcus Antonius], Roman politician and general, commits suicide after he is defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium at 53
Mark Antony
- 371 St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. c. 283)
- 527 Justin I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies (b. c. 450)
- 1137 Louis VI, "the Fat One," King of France, dies (1108-37)
- 1190 Floris III, Count of Holland, dies
- 1227 Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
- 1402 Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England, dies at 61
- 1457 Laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50
Cosimo de Medici
1464 cosimo de' Medici, Italian banker and de facto ruler of Florence, dies at 74
Cosimo de Medici
- 1541 Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
- 1546 Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (co-founder of Society of Jesus), dies at 39
- 1557 Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
- 1580 Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
- 1589 Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
- 1630 Federico Cesi, Italian naturalist and founder of the first modern scientific society, the Accademia dei Lincei, dies at 45
- 1667 Paul Foot, lawyer/historian, dies at 48
- 1708 Edward Tyson, British Physician and father of comparative anatomy (The Anatomy of a Pygmy, 1698), dies at 57
Anne Stuart
1714 Anne Stuart, Queen of England (1702-14), dies at about 49
Anne Stuart
- 1743 Richard Savage, English poet and playwright, dies at about 46
- 1787 Alfonso Liguori, Italian bishop and theologian, dies at 90
- 1796 Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
- 1798 François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
- 1812 Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763)
- 1834 Robert Morrison, missionary in China/translated bible, dies
- 1837 Walter Geikie, Scottish painter, dies at 41
- 1851 William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
- 1857 Charles Turner, engraver, dies
- 1866 John Ross, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, dies at 75
- 1882 Henry Clarence Kendall, Australian poet (Bell Birds), dies of tuberculosis at 43
- 1883 Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, classic scholar, dies
- 1884 Heinrich Laube, writer, dies
- 1887 Joseph Rainey, American politician, 1st African American in US House of Representatives (1870-1879), dies at 55
- 1892 George Baird Hodge, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 64
- 1895 Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzugs), dies at 77
- 1896 William Robert Grove, Welsh physicist and inventor of the first fuel cell, dies at 85
- 1902 Ludwig Beckmann, painter, dies
Calamity Jane
1903 Calamity Jane [Martha Jane Canary], American frontierswoman, dies at 51
Calamity Jane
- 1911 Konrad Duden, German linguist (Das, grosse Duden Lexicon), dies
- 1917 Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
- 1920 Bal Gangadhar Tilak, early Indian nationalist leader, dies at 64
- 1925 John Pieter Veth, painter/lithographer/etcher/writer, dies at 61
- 1926 Israel Zangwill, Jewish author (Children of The Ghetto) and Zionist leader, dies at 62
- 1935 Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist (patented rayon), dies at 71
- 1943 Ismar Elbogen, German/US learned/rabbi (Jewish Lexicon), dies at 68
Manuel L. Quezon
1944 Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, Second President of Philippines (1935-42), dies of tuberculosis at 65
Manuel L. Quezon
- 1946 Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45
- 1954 Charles-A Cingria, writer, dies
- 1957 Harvey Glatmin, 1st bondage-photo victim, executed [or 8/18/59]
- 1962 Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Niemcy), dies at 62
- 1963 Theodore Roethke, American poet (Praise to the end!), dies at 55
- 1966 Charles Whitman, former marine, kills 16 at U of Texas, shot by cops
- 1970 Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician (Nobel-1931), dies at 86
- 1973 Walter Ulbricht, German politician (Head Of State, German Democratic Republic), dies at 80
- 1974 Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)
Francis Gary Powers
1977 Francis Gary Powers, American spy captured by the USSR after his U-2 spy was shot plane in 1959, dies in a helicopter crash at 47
Francis Gary Powers
- 1985 Joseph Walker, cameraman, dies at 92
- 1986 Willem Klein, variety artist, dies at about 73
- 1986 Robert Wolfgang Schnell, German writer, dies at 70
- 1988 John Dearden, American cardinal (1969-88) and archbishop of Detroit, dies at 80
- 1990 Norbert Elias, German/English/Neth philosopher/sociologist, dies
- 1992 Margarita Aliger, Russian poet (Zoja), dies at 76
- 1993 Alfred Manessier, French painter (glass-in-lead), dies in car crash at 81
- 1993 Anatoli Koretski, Russian major general, murdered
- 1993 Lea Verschuuren-Smulders, Dut author (Kleutertje Luister), dies at 72
- 1993 Viktor Polyanitshko, governor of Kaukasus, murdered
- 1994 Gerard van de Groenekan, furniture maker/designer, dies at 90
- 1996 Mohamed Farrah Aidid, President (ANS-CUS)/Somalia, dies
- 1996 Pierre Lucien Claverie, bishop of Oran, dies at 58
- 1996 Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish/Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 99
- 1996 Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)
- 1997 Ngiratkel Etpison, president of Palau (1989-92), dies
- 1999 Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897)
- 2000 Hugh Hood, Canadian author (White Figure, White Ground), dies at 72
- 2003 Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
- 2004 Philip Abelson, American physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 91
- 2005 Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia (1982-2005), dies at 84
- 2005 Constant [Nieuwenhuys], Dutch painter (Uprising of Homo Ludens), and sculptor, dies at 85
- 2005 WiBo, Dutch cartoonist, dies at 87
- 2006 Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b. 1965)
- 2006 Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (Frank and Ernest), dies at 81
- 2006 Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)
- 2008 Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
Corazon Aquino
2009 Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (1986-92), dies of colon cancer at 76
Corazon Aquino
- 2010 Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican nationalist (b. 1919)
- 2016 Franciszek Macharski, Polish Cardinal, Archbishop of Krakow (1978-2005), dies at 87
- 2016 Queen Anne of Romania [Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma], wife of Michael I King of Romania, dies at 92
- 2020 Rodney H. Pardey, American poker player (2 x World Series of Poker C'ships; World Series of Poker Bracelets 1991, 94), dies of stroke complications at 75