- 1045 Emperor Go-Suzaku, 69th Emperor of Japan (1036-45), dies at 37
- 1317 Robert, Count of Clermont, French founder of the House of Bourbon (b. 1256)
- 1560 Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1493)
- 1593 Jacques Amyot, French humanist, translator and Abbot of Bellozanne, dies at 79
- 1609 Ferdinand I, cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies
- 1626 William V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548)
- 1642 William Bedell, English clergyman (b. 1571)
- 1690 William Morice, English royalist statesman
- 1693 Paul Pellisson, French writer, dies at 68
- 1736 Stephen Gray, English astronomer and scientist (b. 1666)
- 1799 Qianlong, Emperor of China, 6th Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, dies at 87
- 1801 Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (b. 1726)
- 1823 Ann Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist (The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Romance of the Forest), dies at 58
- 1839 Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (b. 1799)
- 1857 Félix de Merode, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War and Finance, dies at 65
- 1865 John Henry Winder, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army) and provost marshal, dies at 64
- 1873 Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (The House by the Churchyard), dies at 58
- 1878 Pius IX, "Pio Nono" [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78), dies at 85
- 1881 Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73
- 1897 Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist and electrical engineer, dies at 49
- 1919 William Halford, American naval officer and Medal of Honor recipient who survived 31 days at sea in a small boat to seek help for the shipwrecked USS Saginaw, dies at 77
- 1920 Alexander Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian Imperial Navy Admiral, polar explorer, and anti-communist leader, dies at 45
- 1933 Albert Apponyi, Hungarian politician (Minister of Religion and Education of Hungary), dies at 86
- 1937 Elihu Root, US min of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel 1912), dies at 91
Harvey S. Firestone (1868-1938)
American manufacturer and founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, dies at 69
- 1939 Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (b. 1886)
- 1942 Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator, dies at 65
- 1958 Betty MacDonald [nee Bard], American humor writer (The Egg and I), dies of cancer at 50
- 1959 Daniel François Malan, Prime Minister of South Africa (1948-54) who began the implementation of apartheid, dies at 84
- 1960 Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, dies at 57
- 1962 Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (b. 1886)
- 1964 Hermann A. J. Kees, German egyptologist (Problems of Egyptology), dies at 77
- 1967 Henry Morgenthau Jr., US Secretary of Treasury (1934-45) who helped design the New Deal and Lend Lease programs, dies at 74
- 1977 Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher/lawyer, dies at 82
- 1979 Josef Mengele, concentration camp doctor, drowns
- 1980 Secondo Campini, Italian jet engine pioneer, dies at 75
- 1985 Albert Dondeyne, Belgian philosopher/theologist, dies at 83
- 1986 Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian (b. 1923)
- 1988 Lin[wood V] Carter, American sci-fi writer (Lost World of Time), dies at 57
- 1990 Alfredo M. Santos, First Four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War II hero (b. 1905)
- 1990 Dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies
- 1990 Nathan Wartels, publisher (Crown), dies at 88 of pneumonia
- 1991 Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier (b. 1920)
- 1991 Gladys LaVerne, dies of heart problems at 87
- 1991 Jean-Paul Mousseau, Quebec painter, member of Les Automatistes (b. 1927)
- 1991 John Steinbeck IV, American author and journalist
- 1992 Jeanne Gerson, dies of cancer & pneumonia at 87
- 1993 W Sybout A Colenbrander, Dutch historian/journalist, dies at 82
- 1994 Maarten Vrolijk, Dutch soc-dem minister (CRM 1965-66), dies at 74
- 1994 Richard Bissell, US under director of CIA (Pig's Bay), dies at 84
- 1995 Helen Wallis, cartographer/Librarian, dies at 70
- 1995 Massimo Pallottino, Italian archaeologist (Etruscologia), dies at 86
- 1996 George Trevelyan, British educational pioneer and a founding father of the New Age movement, dies at 89
- 1996 Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, writer, dies at 88
- 1996 Phillip Davidson, US Army general (b. 1915)
- 1998 Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)
- 1999 Hussein ibn Talal, King of Jordan (1952-99), dies at 63
- 1999 José Silva, author of Silva Method and the Silva UltraMind ESP System (b. 1914)
- 1999 King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
- 2000 Doug Henning, Canadian magician, dies at 52
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001)
American author and aviator (Gift from the Sea), dies of a stroke at 94
- 2003 Augusto Monterroso, Guatemalan author (b. 1921)
- 2003 John Reading, Mayor of Oakland, California (b. 1917)
- 2006 Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (b. 1914)
- 2012 Florence Holway, American rape victim and activist, dies at 96
- 2012 Patricia Stephens Due, African-American civil rights activist (FAMU jail-in), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 72
- 2015 Joseph M. Gaydos, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania), dies at 88
- 2015 Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron, English publisher and multi-millionaire (St Ives Group), dies of a heart attack at 84
- 2019 John Dingell, American politician (D-Michigan, 1955-2015), dies at 92
- 2020 Harold Strachan, South African writer, anti-apartheid activist, and explosives expert, dies of liver disease complications at 94
- 2020 Li Wenliang, Chinese doctor who tried to raise the alarm over COVID-19, dies of COVID-19 in Wuhan at 34
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