- 1115 Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (b. 1046)
- 1240 Konrad von Thüringen, fifth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
- 1345 Jacob van Artevelde, statesman, murdered
- 1568 Prince Don Carlos of Spain (b. 1545)
- 1594 John Boste, Catholic saint and martyr (b. 1544)
- 1612 Ottavio M Frangipani, Pope elect, dies
- 1712 Cornelis earl of Nassau, general-major/mister of Woudenberg, dies
- 1756 George Vertue, engraver, dies
- 1758 John Dyer, British poet, dies at 58
- 1768 Nathanial Lardner, English theologian (b. 1684)
- 1837 Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter
- 1842 John Sell Cotman, landscape painter, dies
- 1846 Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, French King of the Netherlands (1806-10), dies at 67
Martin Van Buren
1862 Martin Van Buren, 8th US President (1837-41), dies of heart failure at 79
Martin Van Buren
- 1868 George Cattermole, painter/illustrator, dies
- 1900 Ferdinand Hamet, Dutch missionary in Mongolia, murdered at 59
- 1908 Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet, dies at 41 (b. the same day 1867)
- 1910 Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (b. 1841)
- 1927 Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892)
- 1931 Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of finance, dies at 75
- 1934 Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician, dies at 54
- 1936 Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of German Empire, dies at 78
- 1944 Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49
- 1954 Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90
- 1964 Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, dies
- 1967 Little Billy Rhodes, dies of stroke at 72
- 1969 Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64
- 1970 Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman (b. 1897)
James Chadwick
1974 James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935, discovered neutron), dies at 82
James Chadwick
- 1986 Fritz A Lipman, discoverer (co-enzymes, Nobel 1953), dies at 87
- 1990 Alan Clarke, director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm), dies at 54
- 1991 Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-American yiddish writer (Yentl, Nobel Prize for Literature 1978), dies at 87
- 1991 Karl Ellis, dies at 41
- 1992 Khaled Mahmoud Saeed, asst to Palestine terrorist Abu Nidal, murdered
- 1992 Lillian Oppenheimer, orgamist, dies of a heart attack at 93
- 1992 Sam Berger, Canadian football owner (b. 1900)
- 1993 Ben Polak, Dutch physician, communist and resistance fighter, dies at 79
- 1993 Francis Bouygues, French entrepreneur/billionaire, dies at 70
- 1993 Lonnie D'Orsa, film and TV director, dies at 96
- 1994 Grete Schickedanz, German head mistress, dies at 82
- 1995 Don Richard Carpenter, novelist, dies at 64
- 1997 Andrew Cunanan, serial killer (Gianni Versage), commits suicide
- 1997 Saw Maung, general/president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies
- 1997 William J. Brennan, Jr. American Supreme Court judge (1956-90), dies at 91
- 2000 Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (b. 1925)
- 2005 Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (b. 1912)
- 2007 Albert Ellis, American psychologist, dies at 93
- 2009 E. Lynn Harris, American Author (b. 1955)
- 2009 Marcel van Maele, Belgian poet and playwright, dies at 78
- 2011 Frank Dietrich, German politician (b. 1966)
- 2012 John Atta Mills, Ghanaian President, dies at 68
- 2012 Robert Ledley, American scientist (invented the CT scanner), dies at 86