- 1165 Malcolm IV of Scotland, nicknamed Virgo "the Maiden", King of Scots (1153-65), dies of poor health at 24
- 1292 Sa'di, great Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden), dies
- 1437 Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1410-37), dies at 70
- 1544 Teofilo Folengo, Italian macaronic poet, dies at 53
- 1565 Pius IV [Gianangelo de' Medici], Italian lawyer and Pope (1559-65), dies at 66
- 1603 William Watson, English conspirator (b. 1559)
- 1625 Ubbo Emmius [van Embden], Dutch-Frisian humanist and historian, dies at 78
- 1636 Giovanni B Aleotti, Italian writer/theater architect, dies at about 90
- 1636 Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (b. 1566)
- 1640 Pierre Fourier, Roman Catholic saint and French priest (b.1565)
- 1641 Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter, dies at 42
- 1669 Clement IX [Giulio Rospigliosi], Italian Pope (238th: 1667-69), dies allegedly of broken heart at 69
- 1674 Edward Hyde 1st earl of Clarendon, English PM (1660-67), dies at 65
- 1706 Pedro II, King of Portugal (1683-1706), dies at 58
- 1718 Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopedist, dies at 68
- 1767 Benedetto Alfieri, Italian architect (San Giovanni Battista), dies
- 1793 Yolande de Polastron, Duchess de Polignac, French aristocrat, dies at 44
- 1798 Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (naturalist on James Cook's second Pacific voyage), dies at 69
- 1819 Ann C Coleman, fiancee of President Buchanan, commits suicide
- 1830 Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy (research work in malacology), dies at 73
- 1854 Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (b. 1799)
- 1858 Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
- 1887 Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and military leader
- 1908 William Harvey Carney, American Civil War soldier (first African-American to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor), dies of injuries sustained in an elevator accident at 68
- 1916 P Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, French economist (Economist France), dies at 73
- 1916 Natsume Sōseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867)
- 1935 Walter Liggett, American crusading newspaper editor and muckraker (b. 1886)
Gustaf Dalén
1937 [Nils] Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and industrialist (AGA, Nobel Prize in Physics 1912), dies at 68
Gustaf Dalén
- 1938 Johannes van Laar, Dutch chemist (thermodynamics), dies at 78
- 1940 Maletti, Italian general, dies in battle
- 1941 Leonard "Leo" Polak, Dutch philosopher, dies in Sachsenhausen at 61
- 1941 Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher (b. 1865)
- 1955 Hermann Weyl, German mathematician and philosopher, dies at 70
- 1959 Walter Compton, news anchor (DuMont Evening News), dies at 47
- 1964 Edith Sitwell, English poet and author (Wheels), dies at 77
- 1967 Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and President of the European Court of Justice (b. 1898)
- 1970 Artem Mikoyan, Russian aircraft designer (MIG), dies at 65
- 1970 Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893)
Ralph Bunche
1971 Ralph Bunche, American UN delegate, first person of color to win Nobel Peace Prize winner (1950), dies at 67
Ralph Bunche
- 1971 Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor, dies at 97
- 1972 Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist, dies at 91
- 1975 William A Wellman, American director (Ox Bow Incident), dies at 79
- 1975 Esdras Minville, Quebec writer, economist and sociologist, dies at 79
- 1977 Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (Laços de Família), dies at 56
- 1981 Daniel Faulkner, Philadelphia police officer (b. 1955)
- 1982 Fritz Usinger, German writer (Song against Death), dies at 87
- 1982 Leon Jaworski, American Watergate scandal special prosecutor, dies at 77
- 1993 Muhammad Reza Golpayegani, ayatollah of Iran, dies
- 1994 Max Bill, Swiss painter/sculptor/politician, dies at 85
- 1995 Benny Lee, entertainer, dies at 84
- 1995 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, American aviator, dies at 88
- 1995 Hugh Armstrong Clegg, English industrial relations academic, dies at 75
- 1995 Vitali Viktorovich Savitsky, biologist/politician, dies at 40
- 1996 Alain Poher, French politician and President of the European Parliament (1966-69), dies at 87
- 1996 Anne Bolt, photo-journalist and trade unionist, dies at 84
- 1996 Ivor Roberts-Jones, British sculptor (known for sculpted heads of Yehudi Menuhin and George Thomas), dies at 83
- 1996 Mary Leakey, British archaeologist and anthropologist, discovered earliest human footprints (3.6 million years old), dies at 83
- 1996 Raphael Samuel, British Marxist historian, dies at 61
- 1998 Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
- 2001 Michael Carver, British soldier (b. 1915)
- 2002 Ian Hornak, American Painter, Draughtsman and Sculptor (b. 1944)
- 2002 Stan Rice, American painter, educator, and poet (b. 1942)
- 2003 Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (b. 1928)
- 2004 David Brudnoy, American radio personality (b. 1940)
- 2005 Robert Sheckley, American sci-fi author (10th Victim, Mindswap), dies at 77
- 2007 Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer, dies at 76
- 2008 Yury Glazkov, Soviet Air Force officer and cosmonaut (Soyuz 24), dies at 69
- 2010 Dov Shilansky, Israeli politician (b. 1924)
- 2010 John du Pont, American member of the Du Pont family and convicted murderer (b. 1938)
- 2012 Sir Patrick Moore, English amateur astronomer and author, dies from an infection at 89
- 2012 Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor (barcode), dies at 91
- 2018 Riccardo Giacconi, Italian American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize for Physics 2002 for X-ray astronomy, dies at 87