- 480 BC Leonidas, King of Sparta (b. circa 540 BC)
- 353 Magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303)
- 449 Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople
- 897 Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona
- 1171 Louis I, Earl of Wage/Rieneck, dies
- 1180 Guillaume de/Willem van Sens, Fren master builder (Canterbury), dies
- 1183 Christian I, archbishop of Mainz, dies
- 1204 King Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199)
- 1253 Saint Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi and founder of the Order of Poor Ladies (the Poor Clares), dies at 59
- 1394 Jan III, mister of Polanen, dies
- 1456 Janos Hunyadi, Hungarian general strategist, dies at about 49
- 1464 Nicholas van Cusa, philosopher/bishop of Brixen, dies
- 1490 French van Brederode, leader of Hoeksen, dies at about 25
- 1494 Hans Memling, [John Memlinc], Flemish painter (Passietaferelen), dies
- 1519 Johann Tetzel, Dominican monk, dies at about 79
- 1522 Martin Siebenborger, mayor of Vienna, beheaded
- 1578 Pedro Nunes, [Nonius], Port mathematician/astronomer (nonius), dies
- 1589 Maarten Schenck van Nideggen, lt col (80 year war), dies at about 49
- 1596 Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)
- 1614 Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter, dies at 61
- 1656 Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (b. 1599)
- 1774 Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (b. 1722)
- 1778 Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies
- 1813 Henry James Pye, English poet, British Poet Laureate (1790-1813), dies at 68
- 1844 Jernej Kopitar, Slovene philologist and linguist (Slavic Grammatica), dies at 63
- 1851 Lorenz Oken, German naturalist, dies at 72
- 1852 Nicolaas Plomp, Dutch architect (Strugle), dies at 70
- 1854 Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (radiant light), dies at 56
- 1860 James Wilson, politician
- 1868 Thaddeus Stevens, US Radical Republican congressional leader (Rep-R), dies at 76
- 1886 Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b. 1843)
- 1890 John Henry Newman, English cardinal, dies at 89
- 1892 Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)
- 1901 Francesco Crispi, Italian statesman, dies at 82
- 1903 Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (b. 1839)
- 1908 Khudiram Bose, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1889)
Andrew Carnegie
1919 Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American industrialist, steel tycoon, philanthropist and one of the richest Americans ever, dies of bronchial pneumonia at 83
Andrew Carnegie
Edith Wharton
1937 Edith Wharton [-Jones], US Pulitzer prize-winning author (House of Mirth), dies at 75
Edith Wharton
Jackson Pollock
1956 Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton)
Jackson Pollock
- 1968 Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian biblical scholar, dies
- 1972 Max Theiler, South African-American virologist who developed vaccine for Yellow Fever (Nobel Prize 1951), dies at 73
- 1972 Rose Schneiderman, American socialist, feminist, trade union leader and secretary of labor for New York State (1937-44), dies at 90
- 1975 Anthony C McAuliffe, US gen/commandant 101st div (Nuts!), dies at 77
- 1977 John Howard Lawson, American scriptwriter and playwright (Blockade, Algiers, Sahara), dies at 82
- 1980 Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)
- 1984 Alfred A Knopf, American publisher (1966 Alexander Hamilton Medal), dies at 91
- 1987 Clara Peller, commercial spokesperson (Wendy's), dies at 86
- 1988 Pauline Lafont, daughter of Bernadette, dies in hiking accident at 25
- 1991 Jef Contryn, Flemish pioneer puppet theatre, dies at 89
- 1992 Alonzo Church, American Mathematician whose work provided foundation for computer science, dies at 92
- 1994 Gordon Cullen, architect, dies at 80
- 1995 Douglas John Gorman, businessman, dies at 58
- 1995 Kenneth Lo, cookery writer and restaurateur, dies at 81
- 1996 Sigmund Koch, psychologist/philosopher, dies at 79
- 2002 Galen Rowell, American photographer and mountain climber (b. 1940)
- 2003 Diana Mitford, English biographer, famous beauty, wife of Oswald Mosley and one of the Mitford sisters, dies at 93
- 2003 Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923)
- 2010 Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Scottish Conservative politician (1959-2001), dies at 86
- 2018 V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-British writer (Middle Passage), dies at 85