- 808 P'ang Yun [Layman P'ang], Exemplary Zen practitioner, dies in China
- 1387 Olaf V Haakonsson, King of Denmark (1376-87)/Norway (1380-87), dies
- 1460 King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)
- 1527 Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
- 1530 Philibert Chalon, prince of Orange/viceroy of Naples, dies
- 1546 Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect, dies at 62
- 1546 Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer, dies on his 37th birthday
- 1604 Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander
- 1621 Guillaume du Vair, French writer and thinker, dies at 65
- 1667 Francesco Borromini, Italian sculptor and architect, dies at 67
- 1712 Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)
- 1720 Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (b. 1641)
- 1721 Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born British sculptor and woodcarver, dies at 73
- 1761 Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar, dies at 70
- 1773 Stanisław Konarski, Polish political writer and Catholic priest who influenced education reform in Poland, dies at 72
- 1779 Henry Kobell, Dutch painter and cartoonist, dies at 27
- 1780 Etienne B de Condillac, French philosopher (sensualism), dies at 64
Richard Arkwright (1732-1792)
English industrialist and inventor (created the spinning frame, built Cromford Mill), dies at 59
- 1797 Jeffrey Amherst, English army general (commanded British forces in North America) and Royal Governor of Virginia (1759-1768), dies at 80
- 1802 Henry, Prince of Prussia and diplomat (led armies during Silesian Wars and the Seven Years' War), dies at 76
- 1805 Christopher Anstey, English poet (The New Bath Guide), dies at 80
- 1811 Sebastiaan C. Nederburgh, Dutch director-general of East Indies Co, dies at 49
- 1823 Jacob Abraham de Mist, Dutch statesman, dies at 74
- 1833 Stoffel Muller, Dutch sect leader, dies
- 1839 Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (Florentin), dies at 74
- 1857 Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)
- 1867 Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
- 1877 William Butler Ogden, American real estate investor, politician (1st Mayor of Chicago, 1837-38), railroad executive (president of Union Pacific, 1862-63), and philanthropist, dies at 72
- 1879 Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
- 1894 George Inness, American landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap), dies at 69
- 1907 August Saint-Gaudens, Irish/US sculptor (Mrs Henry Adams), dies at 59
- 1910 Nicolas Kinet, Belgian pilot, dies
- 1916 Roger Casement, Irish diplomat, ardent Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916) and poet, hanged after conviction for treason by the British at 51
- 1917 Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (Frobenius–Stickelberger formulae), dies at 67
- 1918 Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (Het Volk), dies at 41
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Polish-English novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness), dies at 66
- 1929 Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
- 1929 Thorstein Veblen, American economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899), dies at 72
- 1938 Alexander Malyschkin, writer, dies
- 1942 Richard Willstätter, German chemist (Nobel 1915), dies at 69
- 1944 Felix Nussbaum, German painter (Widerstandskunst), dies in Auschwitz
- 1944 Felka Platek, wife of painter Felix Nussbaum, dies in Auschwitz
- 1948 Albert Pollard, British historian (Evolution of parliament), dies at 78
- 1955 Lida Durdikova, Czech children's author (Children with extinguished eyes) and publisher (Père Castor), dies at 56
- 1957 John Vernou "Black Jack" Bouvier, father of Jacqueline Kennedy, dies of cancer
- 1964 Flannery O'Connor, writer (Good Man is Hard to Find), dies at 39
- 1968 Constantine Rokossovski, vice-premier of Poland (1952-56), dies at 71
- 1973 Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general (b. 1895)
- 1977 Makarios III [Michail Mouskos], Greek Cypriot clergyman and politician, dies at 63
- 1978 Ezzedin Kalak, Palestinian PLO representative in Paris, murdered
- 1979 Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1899)
- 1981 Roberto Peci, Italian brother of Red Brigade leader, murdered at 25
- 1984 Vladimir Tendryakov, Russian writer (Three, Seven, Ace), dies at 60
- 1986 Beryl Markham (née Clutterbuck), British-Kenyan; racehorse trainer, aviator, and memoirist, dies at 83
- 1986 Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician (CPN) and editor (The Truth), dies at 87
- 1990 Florida Edwards, dies of pneumonia at 79
- 1992 Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Comm Party (1973-76), dies
- 1994 Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter, dies at 77
- 1994 Christy Henrich, US turnster, dies of anorexia nervosa at 22
- 1994 Hidalgo Moya, American architect and designer (Skylon), dies at 74
- 1994 John van Raay [John Oradi], radio-imitator (Paul Flanders)
- 1995 Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933)
- 1995 Marcus Chenault, killer of Martin Luther King Jr's mother, dies at 54
- 1997 Pietro Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian politician (Senator for Repentigny, Quebec, 1976-97), dies at 83
- 1999 Rodney William "Rod" Ansell, Australian bushman and inspiration for "Crocodile Dundee", dies following a shootout with police officers at 44
- 2000 Michael Meyer, English novelist and translator, dies at 79
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
French photographer famous for 'The Decisive Moment', dies at 95
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
Russian writer (Cancer Ward, Nobel Prize for Literature 1970), dies at 89
- 2008 Skip Caray, American TV and radio broadcaster (b. 1939)
- 2013 Farman Fatehpuri [Syed Dildar Ali], Urdu scholar, linguist, critic and author, dies of natural causes at 87
- 2015 Les Munro, New Zealand WWII pilot (Dambusters), dies at 96
- 2015 Robert Conquest, English historian and poet (The Great Terror), dies at 98
- 2017 Theodore "Ted" Stanley, American anesthesiologist and medical entrepreneur (created the fentanyl lollipop), dies at 77
- 2020 John Hume, Northern Irish politician (jointly awarded Nobel Peace Prize for Good Friday Agreement), dies at 83 [1]
- 2020 Ralph Barbieri, American sports radio personality (KNBR San Francisco; 'The Razor and Mr. T' 1996-2012), dies of Parkinson's disease at 74
- 2020 Shirley Ann Grau, American Pulitzer winning author (Keepers of the House), dies at 91
- 2022 Jackie Walorski, American politician (Rep-R-Indiana 2013-22), dies in a car accident at 58 [1]