- 683 Leo II, Pope (681-83), dies
- 1090 Egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle
- 1570 Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67
- 1642 Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69
- 1672 Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)
- 1704 Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)
- 1749 William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)
- 1778 Anna Maria Pertl Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
- 1795 Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)
- 1795 Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
- 1858 Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
- 1862 William Barksdale, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 40
- 1863 Alonzo Hersford Cushing, US Union lt, dies in battle at about 22
- 1863 Lewis Addison Armistead, Confederate brigadier general Gettysburg/dies in battle at 46
- 1863 Little Crow, [Ta-oya-te-duta], Santee Sioux indian chief, dies
- 1863 Richard Brooke Garnett, US Confederate Brigadier General, dies in battle at 45
- 1863 Samuel Kosciuzko Zook, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 40
- 1863 Richard B. Garnett, Confederate Brigadier General, killed during Pickett's Charge, Battle of Gettysburg at 45
- 1863 George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
- 1863 Elon John Farnsworth, American Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at 25
- 1890 Gilman Marston, American Brigadier General (Union Army) and politician (R-NH), dies at 78
- 1904 Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist/Zionist, dies
- 1904 Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
- 1908 Joel Chandler Harris, American writer, created Uncle Remus, dies at 59
- 1910 Julius Slabbe, Belgian writer, dies
Hetty Green
1916 henrietta (Hetty) Green, (Witch of Wall Street), dies at 81
Hetty Green
Hipólito Yrigoyen
1933 Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (1916-22, 1928-30), dies at 80
Hipólito Yrigoyen
- 1934 Henry WAE, Prince of Netherlands/father of Queen Juliana, dies
- 1935 André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
- 1942 Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (b. 1856)
- 1948 Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch SDAP-politician, dies at 90
- 1954 Siegfried Handloser, German physician (b. 1895)
- 1965 Trigger, horse (Roy Rogers), dies at 25
- 1966 Cornelis "Kees" Boeke, theorist, dies at 81
- 1970 Frances Parkinson Keyes, American novelist (Dinner at Antoine's), dies at 84
- 1974 John C Ransom, US poet (World's Body), dies
- 1977 Mohammed al-Zahaby, Egyptian minister, murdered
- 1983 John Fleming (Jack) Brock, South African nutritional scientist, physician and a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town, dies at 78
- 1984 Raoul Salan, French general/OAS leader (Algeria), dies at 85
- 1989 Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat, dies just short of his 80th birthday
- 1990 Ludi Claire Hugo, entertainer, dies at 70
- 1990 Maurice Girodias, French publisher and founder (Olympia Press), dies at 71
- 1992 Arline Bletcher, entertainer, dies of natural causes at 99
- 1992 Marc Tannenbaum, rabbi (only Jew to attend Vatican II), dies at 66
- 1994 Felix Kelly, New Zealand-born British artist, dies at 80
- 1994 Harry Ebbeling, PC-corrector, dies at 54
- 1994 Pieter Hennipman, Dutch economist, dies at 85
- 1995 Bert Hardy, English photographer (Picture Post), dies at 82
- 1995 Gil Wolman, situationist, dies at 65
- 1998 Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
- 2001 Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931)
- 2003 Gaetano Alibrandi, Papal diplomat (b. 1914)
- 2003 Sir Charles Henderson Tidbury, British brewing executive, former chairman (Whitbread & Company), dies at 77
- 2004 Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1929)
- 2005 Gaylord Nelson, American politician (b. 1916)
- 2006 Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
- 2007 Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (b. 1915)
- 2009 John A. Keel, American Fortean, television scriptwriter, author of The Mothman Prophecies (b. 1930)
- 2015 Boyd K. Packer, LDS church apostle, dies at 90
- 2017 Spencer Johnson, American author (Who Moved My Cheese?), dies of pancreatic cancer at 78