- 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 ornithologist and ichthyologist, dies at 36
- 1704 Sophia Alekseyevna, Regent of Russia (1682-89), dies at 46
- 1741 Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Queen consort of Sardinia (1737-41), dies at 29
- 1749 William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)
- 1775 Colonel Thomas Gardner, American heroic political figure and soldier, dies at 51
- 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)
- 1863 William Barksdale, American Confederate Brigadier General, dies in the Battle of Gettysburg while leading his brigade's attack at 41
- 1863 Alonzo Cushing, American Union officer, dies at the Battle of Gettsburg at about 22
- 1863 Little Crow [Ta-oya-te-duta], Mdewakanton Dakota leader (Treaty of Mendota), shot and killed by settlers at about 53
- 1863 Samuel K. Zook, American Union general-major, dies of his wounds from the Battle of Gettysburg at 40
- 1863 Richard B. Garnett, American Confederate Brigadier General, killed during Pickett's Charge, Battle of Gettysburg at 45
- 1863 George Hull Ward, American general and Union officer in the American Civil War, dies of his wounds at the Battle of Gettysburg at 37
- 1863 Elon John Farnsworth, American Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at the battle of Gettysburg at 25
- 1868 Lafayette Curry Baker, American investigator spy and Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at 41
- 1890 Gilman Marston, American Brigadier General (Union Army) and politician (R-NH), dies at 78
- 1904 Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist and founder (Zionist movement), dies at 44
- 1904 Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
- 1908 Joel Chandler Harris, American writer (created Uncle Remus stories), dies at 59
- 1910 Julius Slabbe, Flemish writer and editor (De Halletoren), dies at 64
- 1912 Robert Hoke, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 75
Hetty Green
1916 Henrietta "Hetty" Green, American businesswoman and financier whose wealth and miserliness saw her known as the "Witch of Wall Street", dies of a stroke at 81
Hetty Green
- 1918 Mehmed V, 35th Ottoman Sultan (1909-18), dies at 73
- 1918 David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda, Welsh coal-mining entrepreneur, dies at 62
- 1920 William Crawford Gorgas, American physician and 22nd Surgeon-General of the U.S. Army (controlled yellow fever during building of the Panama Canal), dies at 65
Hipólito Yrigoyen
1933 Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (1916-22, 1928-30), dies at 80
Hipólito Yrigoyen
- 1934 Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Prince consort of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1901-34), dies at 58
- 1935 André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
- 1942 Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general during WWI, dies at 86
- 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 Kees Boeke, Dutch reformist educator (Cosmic View), dies at 81
- 1970 Frances Parkinson Keyes, American novelist (Dinner at Antoine's), dies at 84
- 1974 John Crowe Ransom, American poet and critic (God Without Thunder), dies at 86
- 1977 Mohammed al-Zahaby, Egyptian minister, murdered by Moslem extremists at 64
- 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 Army general and leader of OAS; Secret Army Organization (Algeria), dies at 85
- 1989 Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician (President of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), dies just short of his 80th birthday
- 1990 Maurice Girodias, French publisher and founder (Olympia Press), dies at 71
- 1992 Marc Tannenbaum, American rabbi (only Jew to attend Vatican II), dies at 66
- 1994 Felix Kelly, New Zealand-born British artist, dies at 80
- 1994 Pieter Hennipman, Dutch economist, dies at 85
- 1995 Bert Hardy, English photographer (Picture Post), dies at 82
- 1995 Gil Wolman, French artist, dies at 65
- 1998 Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
- 2001 Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz), dies at 70
- 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 (Vostok 3), dies at 73
- 2005 Gaylord Nelson, American politician (founder of Earth Day, dies at 89
- 2006 Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (professor of Computer Science at the University of California and University of Oxford), dies at 65
- 2007 Alice Timander, Swedish dentist and red carpet queen, dies at 91
- 2009 John A. Keel, American Fortean, television scriptwriter, author of The Mothman Prophecies (b. 1930)
- 2013 Radu Vasile, Prime Minister of Romania (1998-99), dies at 70
- 2015 Phil Walsh, Australian Rules Football wing, coach (Adelaide Crows), dies - murdered by son at 55
- 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
- 2020 Emily Howell Warner, American pilot, 1st woman to captain a commercial American airline plane, dies at 80