- 217 Pope Zephyrinus, Bishop of Rome (199-217)
- 860 King Ethelbald of Wessex
- 910 Alfonso III the Great, King of Leon, Galicia and Asturias, dies
- 1022 Elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (b. 996)
- 1073 Domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies
- 1355 Stefanus IX Uros IV Dusan, king (1331-46)/Serbia (1346-55), dies
- 1494 Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet
- 1524 Thomas Linacre, English scholar and physician
- 1590 Ambroise Paré, French physician (b. 1510)
- 1632 Nicolas Antoine, French cath pastor who converted to Judaism, executed
- 1676 John Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, dies at 76
- 1679 Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies at 75
- 1722 Kangxi Emperor of China, 4th Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, dies at 68
- 1723 Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (b. 1652)
- 1740 Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English military officer and statesman (b. 1675)
- 1749 Pakubuwono II, susuhunan of Mataram Java, dies
- 1768 Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692)
- 1798 Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch engraver/art collector, dies at 72
- 1815 Giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (Buccolica), dies at 75
- 1856 Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (b. 1820)
- 1862 Robert Knox Scottish surgeon, anatomist and zoologist
- 1875 Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75
- 1876 Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US
- 1921 Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German Colonel General, dies at 71
- 1929 Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/president (1899-1906), dies at 90
- 1935 Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (b. 1882)
- 1936 Baron De Borchgrave, Belgian ambassador, murdered in Madrid
Erich Ludendorff
1937 Erich Ludendorff, German general during World War I, dies of liver cancer at 72
Erich Ludendorff
- 1938 Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader, dies at 88
- 1939 Hans Langsdorff, German capt (Graaf Spee), commits suicide
- 1941 Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (b. 1887)
- 1944 Abbas Hilmi II, viceroy of Egypt (1892-1914), dies at 70
- 1953 Henry Horatio Dixon, Irish Biologist (cohesion-tension theory in plants), dies at 84
- 1954 James Hilton, English author (Lost Horizon), dies at 54
- 1956 Ramon Carrillo, Argentine neuroscientist and Public Health minister (b. 1906)
John Steinbeck
1968 John Steinbeck, American author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel Prize 1940, 1962), dies at 66
John Steinbeck
- 1973 Luis Carrero Blanco, PM of Spain (1973), assassinated by ETA
- 1976 Richard J Daley, American politician (38th Mayor-Chicago-D:1955-76), dies of a heart attack at 74
- 1991 Andries D Copier, Dutch glass designer (Guild glass), dies
- 1991 Fop[pe] I Brouwer, biologist (Everything That Lives & Grows), dies
- 1991 Sam Rabin, speaker of house, dies at 88
- 1991 Stephen Birnbaum, US tourism writer, dies at 54
- 1991 Simone Beck, French chef (b. 1904)
- 1993 W Edwards Deming, US economist (helped Japan after WW II), dies at 93
- 1994 Dean Rusk, US Sect of State (1961-69), dies at 85
- 1994 J C "Jody" Bateman, fiddler, dies at 75
- 1995 John Henry Jacques, co-operative retailer, dies at 90
- 1996 Amata Kabua, President of Marshall Islands (1979-96), dies
- 1996 Carl Sagan, American scientist, astronomer, author, (Contact), dies at 62
- 1996 Roger Peacock, English writer (Thursday is missing, dies at 76
- 1997 Denise Levertov, poet, dies at 74
- 1997 Vincent Ciccone, inventor (Blow-Pops candy), dies at 81
- 1998 Chester P. Lyons, Canadian naturalist and author (b. 1915)
- 1998 Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British biophysicist (Nobel 1963), dies at 84
- 2000 Mirza Ghulam Hafiz, Bangladesh statesman, politician, and philanthropist (b. 1920)
- 2000 Adrian Henri, British poet and founder of poetry-rock group (Liverpool Scene), dies at 68
- 2001 Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and 1st President of Senegal (1960-80), dies at 95
- 2005 Maniam Moorthy, Malaysian climber
- 2006 Shi Yuejun, Chinese serial killer
- 2007 Nataline Sarkisyan, American medical patient (b. 1990)
- 2009 Jack Hixon, English football talent scout (b. 1921)
- 2010 Brian Hanrahan, British journalist (b. 1949)
- 2010 James R. Mann, American attorney and politician (b. 1920)
- 2017 Bernard Francis Law, disgraced American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (1982-2002), dies at 86