- 364 Jovian (Flavius Jovianus), Christian emperor of Rome (363-64), dies at about 32
- 440 St. Mesrop Mashtots, Armenian monk, theologian and linguist known for inventing the Armenian alphabet in c. 405 AD, dies b. 361/362)
- 1339 Otto, Duke of Austria and Styria, dies at 37
- 1371 Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
- 1596 Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (b. 1536)
- 1600 Giordano Bruno, Italian friar and scholar, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at the stake at 51 or 52
- 1609 Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, dies at 59
- 1612 Ernest of Bavaria, Prince-elector-archbishop of the Archbishopric of Cologne, dies at 57
- 1612 Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartoonist/mathematician, dies at 48
- 1624 Juan de Mariana, Spanish historian (b. 1536)
- 1659 Abel Servien, French diplomat (b. 1593)
- 1673 Molière, [Jean Baptiste Poquelin], French playwright (The Misanthrope), dies of pulmonary tuberculosis at 51
- 1680 Jan Swammerdam, Dutch anatomist and entomologist (Bible of Nature), dies at 43
- 1680 Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer, dies at 81
- 1688 Rev James Renwick, hanged in Scotland for being a Presbyterian
- 1715 Antoine Galland, French orientalist and archaeologist, dies at 68
- 1768 Arthur Onslow, English politician (Speaker of the House of Commons 1728-61), dies at 76
- 1780 Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian, dies at 73
- 1796 James Macpherson, Scottish writer and poet, dies at 59
- 1827 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educator (Leonard & Gertrude), dies at 81
- 1847 William Collins, landscape painter, dies
- 1852 Micha Joseph Levenson, Hebrew poet, dies
- 1854 Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, French Catholic priest and writer (L'avenir), dies at 71
- 1854 John Martin, English painter and engraver, dies at 64
- 1874 Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician and sociologist (body mass index scale), dies at 77
- 1875 Luis NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet, dies at 33
- 1878 José Amador de los Ríos, Spanish historian and poet, dies at 59
- 1883 Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian independence activist and revolutionary, dies at 37
- 1890 Christopher Latham Sholes, American newspaper man, politician and inventor of the typewriter, dies at 71
- 1905 Serge Alexandrovich, gov-gen Moscow, murdered
- 1907 Henry Steel Olcott, American military officer and co-founder of the Theosophical Society, dies at 74
Wilfrid Laurier
1918 Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (Liberal: 1896-1911), dies of a stroke at 76
Wilfrid Laurier
Henry Bacon
1924 Henry Bacon, American architect (Lincoln Memorial), dies at 57
Henry Bacon
- 1932 Franz Gailliard, Belgian painter and graphic artist (Egina), dies at 70
- 1934 Albert I, King of Belgium (1909-34), dies at 58
- 1936 Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theozentrische), dies at 74
- 1943 Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (b. 1872)
- 1944 Fausto Agnelli, Swiss painter, dies at 64
- 1954 Evert Gorter, children artist (Kindergeneeskunde), dies at 72
- 1958 Hugh McCrae, Australian writer and poet (Satyrs and Sunlight: Sylvarum Libri), dies at 81
- 1966 Hans Hofmann, German/American painter (Search for the Real), dies at 85
- 1970 Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Jewish writer (Nobel Prize for Literature 1966), dies at 81
- 1977 Janani Luwum, Ugandan Archbishop (b. 1922)
- 1980 Graham Sutherland, English artist (official WWII war artist), dies at 76
- 1986 Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (Kingdom Happiness), dies at 90
- 1990 Frans Kellendonk, Dutch writer (Good for Nothing), dies at 39
- 1991 Enrique Bermudez, commandant (Contra), dies
- 1993 Alfredo de Leon, leader (Philippines Red Scorpio Gang), killed
- 1994 Randy Shilts, American journalist (& the band played on), dies of AIDs at 41
- 1995 Thelma Hulbert, English painter (Le Sacre du Printemps), dies at 81
- 1995 Timothy Hugh Brown, theatre critic, dies at 52
- 1996 Bentley Bridgewater, British Museum secretary, dies at 84
- 1996 Jean Writer-Pierre Herve Bazin, dies at 84
- 1996 Michel Pablo [Michalis N. Raptis], Chilean-Greek writer and Trotskyist revolutionary (Fourth International), dies at 84
- 1996 Hervé Bazin, French writer (Head Against the Wall), dies at 84
- 1997 Zein Isa, Palestinian militant imprisoned in the United States for the honor killing of his daughter
- 1998 Ernst Jünger, German author and entomologist (Storm of Steel), dies at 102
- 2001 Khalid Abdul Muhammed, American Nation of Islam spokesman (b. 1948)
- 2003 Frank Thistlethwaite, English academic and Vice Chancellor (University of East Anglia), dies at 87
- 2004 José López Portillo, President of Mexico (b. 1920)
- 2007 Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Lithuanian writer (b. 1961)
- 2007 Maurice Papon, French Nazi collaborator (b. 1910)
- 2009 Conchita Cintrón, Chilean bullfighter (b. 1922)
- 2012 Ulric Neisser, American psychologist, dies at 83
- 2018 Arno Motulsky, German-born founder of medical genetics, known as the "father of pharmacogenomics," dies at 94