- 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 writer (b. 1700)
- 1779 Henry Kobell, Dutch painter and cartoonist, dies at 27
- 1780 Etienne B de Condillac, French philosopher (sensualism), dies at 64
Richard Arkwright
1792 Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (created the spinning frame), dies at 59
Richard Arkwright
- 1797 Jeffrey Amherst, English gov-gen of America, dies at 80
- 1802 Henry DFL, prince of Prussia/general/diplomat, dies
- 1805 Christopher Anstey, English poet (The New Bath Guide), dies at 80
- 1811 Sebastiaan C Nederburgh, Dutch dir-gen 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)
- 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 Sir Roger Casement, an Ulster Protestant and ardent Irish nationalist, executed 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
1924 Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), dies at 66
Joseph Conrad
- 1929 Thorstein Veblen, American economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899), dies at 72
- 1929 Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
- 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 F Pollard, British historian (Evolution of parliament), dies at 78
- 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 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 Marcus Chenault, killer of Martin Luther King Jr's mother, dies at 54
- 1995 Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933)
- 1997 Pietro Rizzuto, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
- 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
2004 Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer, dies at 95
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
2008 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize for Literature 1970, dies at 89
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- 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