Selim II (1524-1574)
11th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1566-74), dies of head injury after a fall at 50
- 1576 Joachim Hopperus, Frisian lawyer and politician, dies at 53
- 1598 Philip van Marnix, Flemish ruler of St Aldegonde/poet, dies at 58
- 1621 Charles d'Albert, duc of Luynes, French courtier, favourite of Louis XIII and Constable of France, dies at 43
- 1626 Adriaen de Vries, Dutch sculptor/painter, dies at about 70
- 1673 Margaret Cavendish, English poet, playwright and philosopher (early science fiction work The Blazing World), dies at about 50
Jan Vermeer (1632-1675)
Dutch painter (Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Astronomer), dies at 43
- 1683 Izaak Walton, English biographer and author (The Compleat Angler), dies at 90
- 1688 Gaspar Fagel, Dutch lawyer, Netherlands grand pensionary (1672-88), dies at 54
- 1699 Henrik A van Reede tot Drakenstein, Dutch botanist, dies at about 63
- 1712 Sidney 1st earl of Godolphine, English minister of Finance, dies at 67
- 1715 George Hickes, English linguist (Old German Philology), dies at 73
- 1753 Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English Palladian architect (Burlington House), dies at 59
Anthony Wayne (1745-1796)
American Military Leader (Legion of the United States), dies of gout at 51
- 1816 Charles Stanhope, 3rd earl Stanhope, English radical politician and scientist, dies at 63
- 1817 Maria Walewska [Leszczinska], Polish lover of Emperor Napoleon I, dies at 31
- 1826 William Browser, American slave, executed in NYC for participating in the murder of two ship's officers during a slave revolt on board the Decatur
- 1831 Paulus Roelof Cantz'laar, Dutch naval officer and colonial governor, dies at 60
- 1839 Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish court-painter, dies at 66
- 1855 Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (b. 1803)
- 1880 Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Justice, dies at 76
- 1885 Ferdinand II, German prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry and King of Portugal (1837-53), dies at 69
- 1885 Robert Toombs, American lawyer and 1st Confederate States Secretary of State, dies at 75
Sitting Bull (c. 1831-1890)
Hunkpapa-Sioux chief who helped led his people to victory in the Battle of the Little Big Horn, killed by US Police aged 58 or 59
- 1896 John GR Acquoy, Dutch theologian and church historian, dies at 67
- 1924 T. Frank Appleby, American politician (U.S. House of Representatives - (R) New Jersey, 1921-23), dies at 60
- 1934 Maggie L. Walker, African-American teacher and businesswoman (1st female Bank President), dies at 69
- 1946 Konrad Haebler, German historian (Hundert Kalenderinkunabeln), dies at 89
- 1947 Arthur Machen, Welsh author (b. 1863)
Sardar Patel (1875-1950)
Indian freedom fighter and statesman, dies at 75
- 1951 Eric Drummond, British 1st Secretary-General of the League of Nations (1919-33), dies at 75
- 1952 Potti Sreeramulu, Indian revolutionary known as the Father of Andhra for conducting a 56 day hunger strike in support of a separate Telugu-speaking state, fasts to death at 51, sparking rioting and 3 days later Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to declare an intention to form Andhra Pradesh state
- 1958 Wolfgang Pauli, Swiss-American theoretical physicist (Pauli inhibition, Nobel 1945), dies at 58
- 1968 Antonio J. Barrette, French Canadian politician, premier of Quebec, dies at 69
- 1971 Paul Pierre Lévy, French mathematician (b. 1886)
- 1977 Wilfred Kitching, English, 7th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1893)
- 1980 Rudolph Cleveringa, Dutch anti-nazi lawyer and professor of Law at Leiden University, dies at 86
- 1984 Frank Spedding, Canadian chemist whose uranium extraction process helped make possible the first atomic bomb, dies at 82
- 1985 Forrest C. Shaklee, American chiropractor and founder (Shaklee Products), dies at 91
- 1987 Septima Poinsette Clark, American educator and civil rights activist, dies at 89
- 1994 Henry Phelps Brown, British historian and economist, dies at 88
- 1995 Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado, Deputy Prime Minister of Spain (1976-81) and Minister of Defense (1977-79), dies at 83
- 1996 Gerald Moverley, first Bishop of the Diocese of Hallam in Yorkshire, dies at 74
- 1996 Guiseppe Dossetti, Italian politician (drafted Italian constitution) and priest, dies at 83
- 1996 Harry Kemelman, American detective author (rabbi-omnibus), dies at 88
- 1997 Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis, Middle Eastern scholar, dies at 69
- 2003 George Fisher, American political cartoonist (b. 1923)
- 2004 Pauline Gore, mother of Al Gore (b. 1912)
- 2005 Heinrich Gross, Austrian physician (b. 1914)
- 2005 William Proxmire, American politician (Sen-D-WI, 1957-88), dies at 90
- 2007 Julia Carson, American politician (Rep Indiana (D) 1997-2007), dies of lung cancer at 69 [1]
- 2008 Geraldine McCullough, American painter and sculptor (Phoenix), dies at 91
- 2008 León Febres Cordero, Ecuadorian politician (President of Ecuador 1984-88), dies at 77
- 2009 Oral Roberts, American television evangelist and author (b. 1918)
- 2010 Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, American political scientist (b. 1940)
Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)
English author and journalist (Vanity Fair, New Statesman), dies of oesophageal cancer aged 62
- 2013 Harold Camping, American evangelist and founder of Family Radio, dies at 92
- 2017 Don Hogan Charles, American photographer and first African-American photographer hired by The New York Times, dies at 79
- 2021 Bell Hooks [Gloria Jean Watkins], American author, feminist, educator, and social activist, dies of kidney failure at 69
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