Guy Fawkes (1570-1606)
English Catholic conspirator who was convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot" to blow up the British Parliament, hanged at 35
- 1615 Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit priest (5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus), dies at 71
- 1632 Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)
- 1665 Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1622)
- 1686 Jean Mairet, French dramatist famous for tragedies (Sophonisbe) and comedies, dies at 81
- 1720 Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor (c. 1654)
- 1729 Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch navigator and explorer (1st European to discover Easter Island), dies at 69
- 1736 Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect, dies at 57
- 1790 Thomas Lewis, Irish-American surveyor, lawyer, and a pioneer of early Virginia, dies at 71
- 1794 Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral and naval commander during the American War for Independence, dies at 82 or 83
- 1815 José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan independentist leader (b. 1775)
- 1828 Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter, dies at 35
- 1844 Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general and engineer, dies at 70
- 1856 Khedrup Gyatso, 11th Dalai Lama of Tibet, dies at 17
- 1861 Franciscus J van Vree, Dutch Catholic foreman, dies at 53
- 1864 Hamilton Rowan Gamble, American judge/governor of Missouri (1861-64), dies
- 1888 John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society, dies at 72
- 1891 Ernest Meissonier, French painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 75
- 1892 Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and evangelist, dies at 57
- 1907 Timothy Eaton, Irish-born Canadian department store founder (Eatons), dies at 72
- 1919 Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Estimate), dies at 79
- 1925 George W. Cable, American writer (Northampton Years), dies at 80
- 1933 John Galsworthy, English author (Forsyte Saga-Nobel 1932), dies at 65
- 1940 René "Sascha" Schickele, German writer (Erbe am Rhein), dies at 56
- 1944 Jean Giraudoux, French writer and playwright (The Madwoman of Chaillot), dies at 61
- 1945 Eddie Slovik, 1st US executed for desertion since Civil War at 25
- 1954 Edwin H Armstrong, US radio inventor (FM), commits suicide at 63
- 1955 John Mott, American theologist and founder (YMCA, Nobel 1946), dies at 89
A. A. Milne (1882-1956)
English author of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, dies at 74
- 1967 Otto Dibelius, German theologian/bishop, dies at 86
- 1969 Meher Baba, Indian guru (b. 1894)
- 1971 Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian and linguist, dies at 79
- 1972 Bir Bikram Shah Deva Mahendra, king of Nepal (1955-72), dies at 51
- 1972 Fritiof Nilsson Piraten, Swedish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag), dies at 76
- 1973 Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist (Nobel 1969), dies at 77
- 1974 Paul Haesaerts, Flemish architect/painter (Flandre), dies at 72
- 1976 Ernesto Miranda, American litigant, conviction on kidnapping, rape, and armed robbery charges, stabbed to death at 34
- 1990 Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-born imam (b. 1935)
- 1994 Pierre Boulle, French writer (Executioner), dies at 81
- 1995 George Stibitz, American mathematician and scientist, dies at 90
- 1995 James Johnson, English MP (Labour, 1950..83), dies at 86
- 1996 Gustave Solomon, mathematician, dies at 65
- 1997 John Joseph Scanlan, Irish Catholic prelate (b. 1930)
- 2000 Anne Cox Chambers, American media owner (Cox Enterprises) and US ambassador to Belgium (1977-81), dies at 100
- 2000 Gil Kane, Latvian-born comic book writer (b. 1926)
- 2001 Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian-American sci-fi author (Genetic General), dies at 77
- 2002 Francis Gabreski, American fighter pilot (b. 1919)
- 2003 Michael Ogden, British barrister and judge (Ogden Tables), dies at 76
- 2007 Adelaide Tambo, South African anti-apartheid activist, politician and wife of Oliver Tambo, dies at 77
- 2007 Molly Ivins, American political columnist and author, dies at 62
- 2008 Zeltim Odie Peterson, famous pug (b. 1997)
- 2012 Anthony Bevilacqua, American cardinal, dies at 88
- 2012 Dorothea Tanning, American artist (Nachtmusik, 1943, Night Shadow, 1945), dies at 101
- 2012 Mike Kelley, American artist, commits suicide at 57
- 2012 Tristram Coffin, American folklorist, dies from pneumonia at 89
- 2014 Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian director (The Red and the White), dies at 92
- 2015 Richard von Weizsacker, German politician and 1st president of reunited Germany (1990-94), dies at 94
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