- 1187 Gregory VIII [Alberto de Morra], Italian Pope (1187), dies
- 1195 Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)
- 1213 Jean de Matha, French saint, dies at 53
- 1273 Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet, scholar and mystic dies aged 65 or 66
- 1471 Isabella of Portugal, duchess of Burgundy, dies
- 1663 Nzinga Mbandi, Queen of Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms (1626 -1663) (modern Angola), dies at about 82
- 1679 Don Juan, ruler of Spain, dies
- 1711 Arnold Moonen, Dutch vicar and linguist (Defeated German Spraekkunst), dies at 67
- 1721 Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1640)
- 1751 Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Czech master builder, dies at 62
Simón Bolívar
1830 Simón Bolívar, South American revolutionary and president (Colombia), dies at 47 in Santa Marta, Colombia
Simón Bolívar
- 1833 Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe (who claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell), murdered at 21
- 1847 Marie-Louise of Austria, Duchess of Parma and second wife of Napoleon, dies at 56
- 1857 Francis Beaufort, Irish admiral and hydrographer (Beaufort wind force scale), dies at 83
- 1860 Désirée Clary, Queen of Sweden and Norway (1818-44), dies at 83
- 1874 William Barker Cushing, American naval officer (best known for sinking the CSS Albemarle during a daring nighttime raid on 27 October 1864), dies at 32
- 1881 Lewis H Morgan, US ethnologist (Iroquois-indians), dies at 62
- 1891 Msiri, ruler of the Garanganze Kingdom, Congo (Katanga), dies in battle against Belgian funded expedition
- 1891 Omer Bodson, Belgian captain, dies in battle against Msiri, ruler of Garanganze Kingdom in the Congo
- 1892 George Brayton, American engineer who developed the Brayton Cycle combustion engine, dies at 62
- 1893 Levinus T Keuchenius, Dutch min of Colonies (1888-90), dies at 71
- 1899 Frederick "Freddy" Roberts, son of British field marshal, dies in battle
William Thomson
1907 William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish mathematical physicist (Kelvin Scale) and engineer (transatlantic telegraph), dies of a chill at 83
William Thomson
- 1909 Leopold II, King of Belgium (1865-1909), dies at 74
- 1917 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1st qualified woman physician in Britain, first woman mayor (Aldeburgh), dies at 81
- 1927 Hubert Harrison, West Indian-American writer and freedom fighter, dies at 44
- 1933 Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Side-Studies), dies at 81
- 1933 Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama, dies at 57
- 1937 Gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72
- 1940 Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician, dies at 80
- 1944 Pieter A. Roodenburgh, student and resistance fighter, dies at 26
- 1946 Constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84
- 1957 Dorothy L. Sayers, English novelist (The Nine Tailors), dies at 66
- 1961 Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53
- 1964 Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883)
- 1967 Harold Holt, Australian prime minister (Liberal, 1966-67), presumed to have drowned at 59
- 1967 [Francis] Barry Byrne, American architect, dies at 83
- 1969 Arturo da Costa e Silva, 27th President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67
- 1973 Charles Greeley Abbot, American astronomer (Solar Constant), dies at 101
- 1981 Edwin Erich Dwinger, German writer (General Vlassov), dies at 83
- 1982 Leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58
- 1982 Homer S. Ferguson, American politician (b. 1889)
- 1985 Otto Gotsche, writer, dies
- 1986 Ron Kass, record co pres (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer
- 1987 Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, archbishop of Utrecht Neth, dies at 87
- 1987 Marguerite Yourcenar, French-American novelist (Memoirs of Hadrian, The Abyss), dies at 84
- 1987 Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Dutch cardinal of Utrecht Netherlands, dies at 87
- 1991 John Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80
- 1991 Armand Frappier, French-Canadian physician and microbiologist, dies at 87
- 1992 Günther Anders, German Jewish philosopher, dies at 90
- 1995 Lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63
- 1996 Elizabeth Hill, Russian-English teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96
- 1996 Stanko Todorov, Bulgarian communist politician, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1971-81), dies at 76
- 1997 Reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at 86
- 2003 Brian Lee, father of Wikipedia user, James Lee (b. 1948)
- 2004 Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist (b. 1931)
- 2005 Jack Anderson, American journalist (b. 1922)
Kim Jong-il
2011 Kim Jong-il, supreme leader of North Korea (DPRK) 1994-2011, dies of a suspected heart attack at 70
Kim Jong-il
- 2012 Colin Spedding, British biologist and animal welfare advocate, dies at 87
- 2012 Daniel K. Inouye, American politician (US Senator, 1963-2012), dies from respiratory complications at 88
- 2014 Fritz Rudolf Fries, German writer and informant, dies at 79
- 2016 Henry Heimlich, American surgeon and inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, dies at 96
- 2017 Robert G Wilmers, American banker (M&T Bank), billionaire and philanthropist, dies at 83