- 882 King Louis III of France (b. 863)
- 1063 Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd
- 1157 Dirk VI, Count of Holland, dies
- 1364 Emperor Kogon of Japan (b. 1313)
- 1579 Stanislaus Hosius, Polish Catholic cardinal (b. 1504)
- 1610 Alonso García de Ramón, Spanish soldier and twice Royal Governor of Chile
- 1644 J Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61
- 1743 John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English statesman and writer (b. 1696)
- 1778 Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703)
Frederick North
1792 Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of Great Britain (Tory: 1770-82), "who lost America", dies at 60
Frederick North
- 1799 Richard Howe, British admiral, dies at 73
- 1834 Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp, Dutch count and Minister of Foreign affairs (1813-14), dies at 71
- 1852 Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czech slavist/poet, dies at 53
- 1862 Thomas Williams, US Union brigadier general, dies in battle at 47
- 1864 Griffin A Stedman, American Brigadier General (Union Army), dies in battle at 26
- 1868 Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (b. 1788)
- 1877 Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden, dies at 77
- 1880 Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician (b. 1816)
- 1889 Willem Ruys J Dz, ship owner, dies at 80
- 1895 Friedrich English, German textile manufacturer/marxist, dies
- 1895 Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher (Communism), dies at 74
- 1900 James Augustine Healy, African American Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80
- 1901 Victoria, Emperor of Germany/Queen of Prussia, dies at 60
- 1923 Vatroslav Jagić, Croatian slavist (b. 1835)
- 1929 Millicent Fawcett, English suffragist, dies at 82
- 1932 Israel Querido, writer (Jordan), dies
- 1940 Frederick A Cook, American explorer, claimed to have 1st discovered North Pole, dies at 75
- 1943 Adam Kuckhoff, German writer and resistance fighter, is executed during WWII at 55
- 1946 Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
- 1947 Joannes D M Cornelissen, historian (Johann de White), dies
- 1950 Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist and biochemist, dies at 73
- 1952 Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (b. 1917)
- 1957 Heinrich O Wieland, German chemist (Nobel 1927), dies at 80
- 1959 Edgar Guest, US poet/newspaperman, dies at 77
Arthur Meighen
1960 Arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada, dies at 86
Arthur Meighen
- 1961 Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand (National: 1949-57), dies at 67
- 1964 Moa Martinson, Swedish writer (My Mother Gets Married), dies at 73
- 1972 Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the British House of Commons (b. 1905)
- 1976 Adrian Roland Holst, poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88
- 1980 Harold Runnels, American politician (b. 1924)
- 1984 R Hagelstange, writer, dies
- 1985 Theodore Sturgeon, American sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67
- 1990 Herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies
- 1991 Soichiro Hondo, CEO & founder (Honda), dies of liver cancer at 84
Robert Muldoon
1992 Robert Muldoon, New Zealand politician (Prime Minister, 1975-1984), dies at 70
Robert Muldoon
- 1994 Audrey Langford, sInging teacher, dies at 82
- 1994 Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot, dies at 84
- 1995 Agha Hasan Abedi, banker, dies at 73
- 1995 Anthony Barber Doncaster, bookseller, dies at 81
- 1996 Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, politician, dies at 72
- 1996 Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic, dies at 68
- 1997 Don Steele, LA radio personality (KRTH), dies of cancer at 61
- 1998 Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian dictator (b. 1911)
- 1998 Otto Kretschmer, German U-boat commander (b. 1912)
- 2000 Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian writer and ecological activist, dies at 80
- 2001 Otema Allimadi, Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1929)
- 2002 Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (b. 1916)
- 2002 Franco Lucentini, Italian writer (b. 1920)
- 2005 Raul Roco, Philippine senator (b. 1941)
- 2006 Susan Butcher, American sled dog champion (b. 1954)
- 2006 Edward "Ed" Thrasher, American art director and photographer (Come & Gone), dies of cancer at 74
- 2007 Florian Pittiş, Romanian artist (b. 1943)
- 2007 Jean-Marie Lustiger, Cardinal of France
- 2011 Andrzej Lepper, former Polish Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1954)
- 2014 Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, 11th US Surgeon General (1969-73), dies at 87
- 2014 Chapman Pincher, British journalist and author (about secret service), dies at 100