Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635)
French explorer (Lake Champlain) and founder of Quebec City, dies of a stroke at 61
- 1676 Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1609)
- 1676 William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English aristocrat and Royalist general in the English Civil War, dies at 83
- 1683 Kara Mustafa Pasha Turkish grand-vizier (1676-83) and Ottoman general (siege of Vienna), executed by strangulation (b. 1634)
- 1758 James Hervey, English clergyman (b. 1714)
- 1765 Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist, dies at 67
- 1784 Yosa Buson, Japanese painter (b. 1716)
- 1824 Barbara Juliane, baroness von Krüdener, Baltic German religious mystic, author, and Pietist Lutheran theologian, dies at 60
- 1868 Linus Yale Jr., American portrait painter and inventor (Yale cylinder lock), dies at 47
- 1878 Anna Claypoole Peale, American painter of miniatures, dies at 87
- 1880 Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councillor, dies at 52
- 1895 Raul Pompeia, Brazilian writer (O Ateneu), dies at 32
- 1916 Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic Saint, dies at 71
- 1925 Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst, dies at 48
- 1925 Sergei Yesenin, Russian lyric poet, dies at 30
- 1926 Yoshihito [Taishō], 123rd Emperor of Japan (1912-26), dies at 47
- 1927 Sergei D Sazonov, Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at 66
- 1933 Francesc Macià, Catalonian statesman (b. 1859)
- 1935 Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic, dies at 83
- 1938 Karel Čapek, Czech author, playwright and critic (R.U.R.), coined term "robot", dies of pneumonia at 48
- 1947 Gaspar G. Bacon, was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1886)
- 1950 Neil Francis Hawkins, British fascist (b. 1903)
- 1950 Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nostalgia de la muerte), dies at 47
- 1951 Harry T Moore, American educator, civil rights activist and Florida NAACP official, assassinated by a bombing of his home at 46
- 1953 Lee Shubert, American theatre producer (theatres in NY & LA named after him), dies at about 80
- 1954 Liberty Hyde Bailey, US botanist (Plantbreeding), dies at 96
- 1956 Robert Walser, Swiss writer, dies at 78
- 1957 Frederick Law Olmsted Jr, American landscape architect and advocate for wildlife conservation, dies at 87
- 1961 Otto Loewi, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
- 1961 Owen Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maine (b. 1888)
- 1961 Rheinhold Rudenberg, inventor of electron microscope, dies
- 1963 Tristan Tzara [Samuel Rosenfeld] Romanian-French poet (Approximate Man), dies at 67
- 1972 C. Rajagopalachari, India's freedom fighter and the first Governor General of independent India, dies at 94
- 1973 Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer and luxury automobile manufacturer, dies at 93
- 1973 İsmet İnönü, Turkish military officer and statesman (President of Turkey, 1938-50; Prime Minister, 1923-37 and 1961-65), dies at 89
- 1975 Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (Librairie Gallimard), dies at 94
- 1979 Jordi Bonet, Quebec muralist and sculptor (b. 1932)
- 1983 Joan Miro, Spanish painter and sculptor, dies at his home in Majorca at 90
- 1988 Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (b. 1920)
- 1988 Ooka Shohei, Japanese novelist (b. 1909)
- 1989 Barrel Regtien, student leader, dies
- 1989 Elena Ceausescu, wife of Romania's Communist dictator Nicolae, executed at 73
Nicolae Ceausescu (1918-1989)
Communist dictator of Romania (1967-89), executed at 71
- 1989 Ton Regtien, Dutch student leader, dies at 51
- 1990 Marguerite N Wittenberg, entertainer, dies of cancer at 77
- 1991 Sal Provenza, entertainer, dies of lymphoma at 45
- 1992 Garrison H Davidson, US lt-gen commandant (West Point), dies
- 1992 Helen Joseph, South African anti-apartheid activist, dies at 87
- 1992 Monica Dickens, English/American journalist/author, dies at 77
- 1992 Richard H Ichord, US leader of House Un-American Activities Committee, dies at 66
- 1993 Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)
- 1994 Pierre Dreyfus, French director of Renault (1955-75), dies at 87
- 1994 Zail Singh, Indian politician, (7th President of India 1982-87), dies of injuries from a motor accident at 78
- 1995 Emmanuel Levinas, Lithuanian-French Jewish philosopher, dies at 89
- 1996 Bill Osmanski, American College Football HOF fullback (Holy Cross; NFL C'ship 1940, 41, 43, 46; 3 × Pro Bowl; First-team All-Pro 1939; Chicago Bears), dies at 80
- 1996 Rupert John, gov-gen of Grenadines (1970-76), dies
- 1997 Anatoli Boukreev, mountaineer, dies at 39
- 1997 Laurence Gower, academic, dies at 84
- 1998 Hugh Martell, British Vice Admiral, dies at 86
- 2000 Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, dies at 92
- 2003 Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (Rep-D-MA, 1979-93), dies at 74
- 2004 Gennadi Strekalov, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-8, T-11, TM-21), dies at 64
- 2005 Robert Barbers, Philippine senator (b. 1944)
- 2006 Hiroaki Hidaka, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
- 2010 Carlos Andrés Pérez, President of Venezuela (1974-79, 89-94), dies at 88
- 2012 Frank Calabrese Sr [Frankie Breeze], American mafia hitman, dies at 75
- 2014 Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident, dies at 80
- 2014 Mary Lyon, English geneticist (X-chromosome inactivation), dies at 89
- 2018 Nancy Roman, American, NASA's first chief of astronomy 'Mother of the Hubble', dies at 93
- 2021 Janice Long (née Chegwin), British radio host (Crash FM; BBC), dies of pneumonia at 66
- 2021 Thomas Lovejoy, American conservation biologist who coined the term "biodiversity", dies at 80
- 2022 Fabián O'Neill, Uruguayan soccer midfielder (19 caps; Nacional, Cagliari, Juventus), dies from chronic liver disease at 49
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