- 383 Gratian (Flavius Gratianus), Emperor of Rome (375-383), murdered at 25
- 471 Gennadius I, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 458)
- 882 Louis III, King of France (879-82), dies at 19
- 1192 Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142)
- 1270 Louis IX (Saint Louis), King of France (1226-70), dies from plague at 56
- 1282 Thomas Cantilupe, English saint (b. ca 1218)
- 1330 Sir James Douglas, Scottish soldier (b. 1286)
- 1346 Louis of Nevers, Count of Flanders, dies in battle
Margaret of Anjou (1430-1482)
Queen consort of England by marriage to King Henry VI, dies at 52
- 1554 Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English great admiral, dies
- 1556 David Jorisz, Flemish glass blower/sect leader, dies at about 54
- 1580 Frederick Schenk van Toutenburg, last archbishop of Utrecht, dies
- 1632 Thomas Dekker, English pamphleteer and dramatist dies at about 60 [his life was poorly documented, exact birth and death dates are uncertain]
- 1649 Richard Crashaw, English clergyman/poet, dies at about 36
Henry Morgan (c. 1635-1688)
Welsh pirate and privateer who raided Spanish settlements and shipping, dies at 53
David Hume (1711-1776)
Scottish philosopher and historian (A Treatise of Human Nature), dies of abdominal cancer at 65
James Watt (1736-1819)
Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer and chemist (steam engine), dies at 83
William Herschel (1738-1822)
German-British astronomer (discovered Uranus), dies at 83
Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
English scientist discovered electromagnetic induction, invented 1st electric motor, dies at 75
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
German philosopher and philologist (Übermensch and the doctrine of eternal return), dies of a stroke due to syphilis at 55
- 1900 Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese diplomat and politician (2nd Prime Minister of Japan, 1888-1889; President of the Privy Council, 1894-90), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 59
- 1904 William Hall, Canadian Royal Naval sailor (b. 1827)
- 1908 Eyre Massey Shaw, British first chief of London Fire Brigade, dies at 78
Henri Becquerel (1852-1908)
French physicist who discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903), dies at 55
- 1924 Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (b. 1818)
- 1925 Franz Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal, dies at 72
- 1936 Grigory Zinoviev [Hirsch Apfelbaum], Russian revolutionary, dies at 52
- 1938 Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian author (Jama), dies at 67
- 1942 George Edward Alexander Windsor, British nobleman (Duke of Kent), and RAF officer, dies in battle at 39
- 1942 W van Daalen, opposition leader on Celebes, beheaded
- 1943 Johan Petter Johansson, Swedish inventor and industrialist (modern adjustable spanner), dies at 86
- 1944 Krijn van den Helm, Dutch resistance fighter (KP Leeuwarden), shot to death
- 1944 Musa Cälil, Russian-Soviet Tatar poet (The Moabit Notebooks), and resistance fighter, executed by guillotine in Plötzensee Prison, Berlin at 38
- 1945 John Birch, American intelligence officer and missionary (b. 1918)
- 1947 Clark Wissler, American anthropologist (American Indian), dies at 76
- 1947 Franz Cumont, Belgian religious historian and archaeologist (cult of Mithra), dies at 79
- 1956 Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (Kinsey Report), dies from a heart ailment and pneumonia at 62
- 1957 Leo Perutz, Austrian writer and mathematician, dies at 74
- 1967 George Lincoln Rockwell, American far-right political activist. founder and leader of the American Nazi Party, assassinated by former party member John Patler at 49
- 1967 Stanley Bruce, 8th Prime Minister of Australia, dies at 84
- 1975 John R Dunning, US physicist, dies at 67
- 1976 Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist (Return to Ithaca; Nobel Prize for Literature, 1974), dies at 76
- 1984 Andy Varipapa, American ten-pin bowler (BPAA All-Star champion 1947-48), dies at 93
Truman Capote (1924-1984)
American author (Breakfast At Tiffany's; In Cold Blood), dies of liver cancer at 59
- 1988 Price Daniel, American politician (38th Governor of Texas), dies at 77
- 1990 Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (b. 1903)
- 1991 Sergei Ajromeiev, soviet general, commits suicide
- 1992 Jan G Toonder, writer (Castle in Ireland), dies at 78
- 1993 Amy Biehl, US activist in South-Africa, murdered at 26
- 1994 Ramdas Nayak, Indian Hindu leader and politician, murdered at 52
- 1996 Dai Houying, writer, dies at 58
- 1996 Erskine Childers, Irish writer and United Nations civil servant official, dies at 67
- 1997 Clodomiro Almeyda Medina, Chilean external minister (1970-73), dies
- 1997 Robert Pinget, French novelist (The Interrogation) and playwright, dies at 78
- 1998 Lewis F. Powell Jr., American Supreme Court justice (1972-87), dies at 90
- 2000 Carl Barks, American cartoonist (creator of Scrooge McDuck), dies at 99
- 2002 Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (b. 1923)
- 2004 Helen Copley, American newspaper publisher (The San Diego Union-Tribune), dies at 81
- 2005 Peter Glotz, German politician (b. 1939)
- 2008 John Thoday, British geneticist, dies at 91
- 2008 Pavle Kozjek, Slovenian mountaineer (b. 1959)
Ted Kennedy (1932-2009)
American politician (US Senator (D)-Massachusetts, 1962- 2009), dies of brain cancer at 77
Neil Armstrong (1930-2012)
American X-15 pilot and astronaut - 1st man on the Moon (Gemini 8, Apollo 11), dies from heart surgery complications at 82
John McCain (1936-2018)
American war hero and Republican politician (Rep-Arizona, 1983-2018, Presidential nominee 2008), dies of brain cancer at 81