- 749 Saint John of Damascus, Syrian monk, priest and theologian, dies
- 765 Jafar al-Sadiq, Muslim scholar and scientist, dies at 63
- 811 Charles The Younger, King the of Franks, son of the Emperor Charlemagne, dies at about 39
- 1075 Archbishop Anno II of Cologne
- 1123 Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048)
- 1182 Henry, earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies
- 1214 William I "the Lion", King of Scotland (1165-1214)
- 1270 Theobald V of Champagne, King of Navarre
- 1334 Pope John XXII (1316-1334) (b. 1249)
- 1340 Henry Burghersh, English bishop and chancellor (b. 1292)
- 1371 Reinald III, the Fat Duke, duke of Gelre (1343-61), dies at 38
- 1371 Stefanus X Uros V, king of Serbia (1355-71), dies
- 1459 Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401)
- 1514 Richard Hunne, English "heretic", commits suicide(?)
- 1576 Rheticus, mathematician, dies
- 1585 John Willock, Scottish reformer
- 1603 Maarten de Vos, Flemish painter, dies at about 71
- 1642 Armand-Jean Duplessis Richelieu, bishop of Lucon, dies at about 57
- 1649 Outgert Arisz Akersloot, Dutch silversmith, dies at about 73
- 1649 William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet, dies at 63
Thomas Hobbes
1679 Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (Leviathan), dies of a stroke at 91
Thomas Hobbes
Robert Jenkinson
1828 Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Tory: 1812-27), dies of a stroke at 58
Robert Jenkinson
- 1893 Allan Wilson, British/Rhodesian Major, dies in battle against the Ndebeles during First Matabele War
- 1893 John Tyndall, Irish physicist who demonstrated why the sky is blue and proved that the Earth's atmosphere has a greenhouse effect, dies at 73
- 1893 Heinrich Göbel, German-born mechanic and inventor, dies at 75
- 1902 Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (co-founded Dow Jones and 1st editor of Wall St Journal), dies at 51
- 1909 Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter and graphic artist (Elle), dies at 60
- 1926 Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian-born painter (b. 1861)
- 1932 Gustav Meyrink, writer, dies at 64
- 1933 Stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at 65
- 1943 Carlo Mierendorff, German politician and anti-fascist, dies at 46
- 1945 Thomas Hunt Morgan, American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and embryologist (Nobel Prize 1933), dies at 79
- 1948 Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist, dies
- 1951 Pedro Salinas, Spanish writer (Generation of 1927), dies at 61
- 1952 Karen Horney, German-American neo freudian psycho analyst, dies at 67
- 1956 Alexander Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer, dies at 64
- 1959 Rosetta Duncan, (Duncan Sisters), dies in an auto accident at 58
- 1969 Fred Hampton, US Black-Panther leader, murdered
- 1971 Shunryu Suzuki, Zen teacher, founder of San Francisco Zen Center, dies
Hannah Arendt
1975 Hannah Arendt, German-American political theorist and historian (Origins of Totalitarianism), dies of a heart attack at 69
Hannah Arendt
- 1976 W. F. McCoy, Northern Irish politician (b. 1886)
- 1978 Samuel Abraham Goldsmith, Neth/US phycists, dies at 76
- 1980 Francisco Sá Carneiro, 109th Prime Minister of Portugal, dies at 46
- 1984 John Rock, American obstetrician and gynecologist who co-developed the 1st birth control pill, dies at 94
- 1986 Reuben Nakian, US sculptor, dies at 89
- 1988 Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist, dies at 89
- 1993 Frank Sturgis, watergate burglar, dies at 68
- 1993 Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, Dutch medical astrologist and founder (Vakvereniging Medical Astrology), dies at 42
- 1993 Margaret Landon, American author (Anna & the King of Siam), dies at 90
- 1994 Geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer, dies at 73
- 1994 Jacob Kaplan, French Grand Rabbi (1955-81), dies at 99
- 1994 Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Peruvian playwright, dies at 66
- 1994 Robert Jesse Charleston, museum curator, dies at 78
- 1994 Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator, dies at 63
- 1995 Adrianne Jones, killed by David Graham & Diane Zamora, at 16
- 1996 Basil Nield, British judge and politician (Conservative Party), dies at 83
- 1996 Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker, dies at 86
- 1997 David Abell Wood, priest, dies at 72
- 1997 Joseph Wolpe, South African psychotherapist, dies at 82
- 1999 Rose Elizabeth Bird, California Supreme Court Justice (1977-87), dies at 63
- 2000 H. C. Artmann, Austrian writer, dies at 79
- 2005 Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author (b. 1924)
- 2007 Norval Morrisseau, Canadian artist (b. 1932)
- 2007 Chip Reese, American poker player (3 x World Series of Poker bracelets), dies from pneumonia at 56
- 2012 Vasily Belov, Russian author, dies at 80
- 2012 Jack Brooks, American politician, dies at 89
- 2012 Besse Cooper, American supercentenarian and world
- 2017 Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemeni politician and 1st President of Yemen (1990-2012), is killed during the Battle of Sana'a at 75
- 2017 Mary Louise Hancock, American politician and activist, dies at 97