Septimius Severus (146-211 AD)
Emperor of Rome (193-211), dies at 64
- 708 Sisinnius, Greek-Syrian pope (708, 20 days), dies
- 856 Hrabanus Maurus, East France, archbishop of Mainz, dies
- 869 Saint Cyril, Greek missionary to the Slavs (b. 827)
- 1189 Gilbert of Sempringham, English monastery founder/saint, dies
- 1222 William I, earl of Holland (1203-22), dies
- 1505 Joan of France, Queen of France (1498) and Catholic saint who founded several religious orders, dies at 40
- 1508 Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar and manuscript thief, dies at 49
- 1555 John Roger, English religious reformer and translator (Matthew Bible), 1st protestant martyr under Mary I, burnt at the stake at Smithfield, London (b. c. 1500)
- 1615 Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (b. 1552)
- 1615 Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian scholar, polymath and child prodogy (b. 1535)
- 1617 Louis Elsevier, Dutch publisher, dies at about 76
- 1640 Hendrick C Vroom, Dutch seascape painter, dies
- 1694 Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (b. 1651)
- 1714 Duke of Berry, French King Louis XIV's grandson, dies
- 1746 Robert Blair, Scottish poet (The Grave), dies at 46
- 1774 Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)
- 1781 Willem Crul, British admiral (West-Indies), dies in battle during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War at 59
- 1799 Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (b. 1728)
- 1815 Geert Reinders, Dutch cattle breeder and inoculation proponent, dies at 77
- 1815 Jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist and graphic artist, dies at 58
- 1844 Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant/literary, dies at 49
- 1847 Henri Dutrochet, French physiologist (discovered & named process of osmosis), dies at 70
- 1869 Johan Michiel Dautzenberg, Flemish author (Future), dies at 60
James Donnelly (1816-1880)
Irish-Canadian patriarch of the Donnelly family, murdered along with his family in the "Black Donnelly" massacre at 63
- 1885 Sarah Miriam Peale, American portrait painter (General Lafayette, 1825), dies at 84
- 1905 Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor, dies at 63
- 1911 Peter A "Piet" Cronje, South Africa Boer general, dies at about 75
- 1918 Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy, dies at 49
- 1921 Xavier Mellery, Belgian painter and illustrator, dies at 75
- 1928 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Dutch physicist (electromagnetic radiation, Nobel 1902), dies at 74
- 1933 Archibald Sayce, English educator (b. 1846)
- 1936 Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (b. 1895)
- 1939 Edward Sapir, American linguist and cultural anthropologist (North American Indian languages), dies at 55
- 1939 Henri Deterding, Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell), dies at 72
- 1940 Nikolai Yezhov, Head of Soviet NKVD (b. 1895)
- 1941 Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian and archaeologist, dies at 79
- 1944 Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer, dies at 72
- 1946 Margarete Boie, writer, dies
- 1953 Alexander Loudon, Dutch diplomat (League of Nations), dies at 60
- 1956 Leendert Antonie Donker, Dutch Minister of Justice (PvdA), dies at 56
- 1957 Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican illustrator, dies
- 1958 Frederik de Merode, Belgian prince, dies at 46
- 1961 Piet[er] L. Kramer, Influential Dutch architect (Amsterdam School), dies at 79
- 1964 Siegfried T Bok, neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica), dies at 71
- 1965 U C Greyhound, champion trotter (horse), dies at 33
- 1966 Gilbert H. Grosvenor, American geographer and 1st full-time editor of National Geographic Society (1899-1954), dies at 90
- 1967 Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army, dies at 80
- 1968 Gerard den Brabander [Jan G Jofriet], poet (Nothing New), dies at 67
- 1968 Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926)
- 1970 Louise Bogan, American poet (Sleeping Fury) and critic, dies at 72
- 1974 Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (Bose–Einstein statistics), dies at 80
- 1977 Brett Halliday, American writer (Dividend on Death), dies at 72
- 1978 Bergen Evans, American professor of English ($64,000 Question), dies at 73
- 1982 Georg Konrad Morgen, German judge (b. 1909)
- 1987 Carl Rogers, American psychologist (Client-Centered Therapy), dies at 85
- 1992 Fred Slyter, dialogue coach, dies after long illness at 56
- 1994 Han Jansen, Dutch painter, dies at 62
- 1994 Harold Schneider, US producer (5 Easy Pieces, War Games), dies at 55
- 1994 Justinus Darmojuwono, Indonesian archbishop/cardinal, dies at 79
- 1995 Patricia Highsmith [Plangman], American novel writer (Strangers On A Train; The Talented Mr. Ripley; The Price of Salt), dies of lung cancer at 74
- 1997 James Friell, Scottish political cartoonist (Daily Worker), dies at 84
- 2000 Carl Albert, American politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1971-77), dies at 91
- 2003 Benyoucef Ben Khedda, Algerian politician (b. 1920)
Betty Friedan (1921-2006)
American writer and feminist (The Feminine Mystique), dies of congestive heart failure at 85
- 2007 Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian poet and translator (b. 1959)
- 2007 Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
- 2008 Stefan Meller, Polish diplomat and 9th Minister of Foreign Affairs (2005-06), dies at 65
- 2010 Kostas Axelos, Greek-French philosopher, dies at 85
- 2012 Florence Green, last surviving veteran of World War One, dies at 110
- 2012 Istvan Csurka, Hungarian writer and politician, dies at 77
- 2012 Robert Daniel, five term American congressman for Virginia, dies at 75
- 2012 Robert Glaser, American educational psychologist, dies from Alzheimer's disease at 91
- 2013 Theresia van der Pant, Dutch sculptor, dies at 88
- 2016 Edgar Mitchell, American NASA astronaut (Apollo 14), dies at 85
- 2016 Edgar Whitcomb, American politician and Governor of Indiana (1969-73), dies at 98
- 2020 Daniel Arap Moi, Kenya's longest serving President (1978-2002), dies at 95
- 2020 Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Caribbean poet (Born to Slow Horses) and academic, dies at 89