- 1592 Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)
- 1611 Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
- 1615 Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish Armada commander, dies at 64
- 1630 Charles Emanuel I, the Great, Duke of Savoy (Peace of Lyon), dies
- 1680 John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet/courtier, dies
Elena Cornaro Piscopia
1684 Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician and the 1st woman to receive an academic degree from a university, dies of tuberculosis at 38
Elena Cornaro Piscopia
Sam Houston
1863 Sam Houston, 1st President of Republic of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44) who helped bring Texas into the United States as a constituent state, dies at 70
Sam Houston
- 1867 King Otto of Greece (b. 1815)
- 1881 George Borrow, writer, dies
- 1910 Philippus Jacobus Hoedemaker, Dutch theologist, dies at 71
- 1915 James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist (Oxford English Dictionary), dies at 78
- 1916 Sally Louisa Tompkins, American nurse and philanthrophist, only commissioned woman in US Confederate Army, dies at 82
- 1918 Eduard "Mick" Mannock, British WW I flying ace (Victoria Cross), dies at 31
- 1919 Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)
William Jennings Bryan
1925 William Jennings Bryan, American orator and statesman known as "The Great Commoner", dies at 65
William Jennings Bryan
- 1925 Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (Begriffsschrift), dies at 76
- 1934 Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (Little Nemo), dies at 63
- 1937 Gerda Taro (Gerta Pohorylle), German-born war photojournalist, dies covering Spanish Civil War aged 26
- 1941 Benjamin Whorf, anthropologist, dies
- 1941 Marx Dormoy, French socialist, killed by a time bomb
- 1941 Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist (the relation of language to thinking and cognition), dies at 44
- 1941 Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (Lebesgue integration), dies at 66
- 1942 Titus Brandsma [Anno Sjoerd], Dutch Roman Catholic priest and philosopher (Dachau), dies
- 1942 Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (The Seven Madmen), dies at 42
- 1944 Rezā Shāh Pahlavi [Rezā Khan], Shah of Iran (1925-41), dies of a heart ailment at 66
- 1946 Morris Hirshfield, Polish/American painter, dies
- 1953 Nikolaos Plastiras, Greece premier (1945-50, 51-2), dies
- 1954 Hans Lodeizen [Johan Frederik], poet (Travel to Congo), dies at 26
- 1954 Ruth Bryan Owen, American politician (first woman appointed as a U.S. ambassador, Denmark 1933-36), dies at 68
- 1957 Carlos Castillo Armas, Dictator and President of Guatemala (1954-57), assassinated by a palace guard with leftist sympathies at 42
- 1959 Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet and publisher (Amor), dies at 54
- 1960 Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (b. 1879)
- 1960 Cedric Gibbons, American art director (b. 1893)
- 1970 Robert Taschereau, French Canadian lawyer and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1896)
- 1971 Diane Arbus [Nemerov], American photographer (Vogue, Harper's Bazaar), commits suicide at 48 [1]
- 1974 Arthur K Watson, US businessman (IBM), dies at 55
- 1980 Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet, dies at 52
George Gallup
1984 George Gallup, American survey sampling pioneer and inventor of the Gallup poll, dies of a heart attack at 82
George Gallup
Ed Gein
1984 Ed Gein, American serial killer who was the inspiration for the films "Psycho" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", dies of lung cancer at 77
Ed Gein
- 1986 Averell Harriman, statesman, dies in Yorktown Heights, NY at 94
- 1987 Jim Bishop, American journalist and author (The Day Lincoln was Shot), dies at 79
- 1988 Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani modernist scholar, dies at 68
- 1992 Ron Webber, dies of cancer at 60
- 1993 Matthew B Ridgway, US Army Chief of Staff (1953-55), dies at 98
- 1994 Marino Iandioro, canned tomato pioneer, dies at 64
- 1994 Thomas Davis, US movie editor/son of MGM-chief Frank D, dies at 26
- 1995 George Romney, politician, dead Heart attack, dies at 88
- 1995 Raymond Mailloux, Quebec politician (b. 1918)
- 1996 Arthur McDonald, Royal Air Force officer and radar pioneer, dies at 93
- 2000 John Tukey, American statistician (b. 1915)
- 2001 Rex Barber, American WWII aviator (b. 1917)
- 2001 Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913)
- 2002 Jutta Hecker, German writer, dies at 97
- 2005 Alexander Golitzen, American art director (b. 1908)
- 2005 Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (b. 1925)
- 2007 Lars Forssell, Swedish writer, member of the Swedish Academy (b. 1928)
- 2009 Marcey Jacobson, American photographer (b. 1911)
- 2009 Merce Cunningham, American choreographer (Acrobat in Every Soul is a Circus), dies at 90
- 2010 Sivakant Tiwari, senior legal officer of the Singapore Legal Service (b. 1945)
- 2011 Margaret Olley, Australian artist (b.1923)
- 2012 Franz West, Austrian artist, dies at 65
- 2013 Rolf Haufs, German writer, dies at 77
- 2015 Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, dies in a coma at 22
- 2015 Wolfgang Gönnenwein, German choral director and educator, and artistic director (Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, 1972-2004), dies at 82
- 2016 Forrest E. Mars Jr., American Candy Manufacturer (Mars, Inc.), dies at 84
- 2016 Miss Cleo [Youree Dell Harris], American psychic (Psychic Readers Network), dies of colon cancer at 53
- 2018 Simegnew Bekele, Ethiopian dam engineer (Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam), murdered at 53