Aurelia Cotta (120-54 BC)
mother of Julius Caesar, dies at 66
- 450 Petrus Chrysologus, Emilia-Romagnan priest (1st archbishop of Ravenna, 433-50), Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint, dies at about 44 [birthdate uncertain]
- 855 Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Muslim Jurisprudent (b. 780)
- 1358 Etienne Marcel, French textile merchant/reformer/Boer leader, dies
- 1396 William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1342)
- 1508 Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1494)
- 1556 Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish knight from a Basque noble family, hermit, priest, theologian and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit) religious order, dies in Rome at about 65
- 1566 Bartholome de Casas, Spanish historian/bishop of Chiapa, dies at 92
- 1638 Sybilla Schwarz, German baroque poet, dies at 17
- 1648 Benedictus J van Haeften, poet (Regia thru Crucis), dies at about 60
- 1653 Thomas Dudley, British colonial governor of Massachusetts, dies at 76
- 1693 Willem Kalf, Dutch 'Golden Age' painter (Still life with nautilus beaker and porcelain lidded bowl), dies at 73 or 74 [exact birthday in 1619, unknown]
- 1726 Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
- 1750 John V, King of Portugal (1706-50), dies at 60
- 1763 James Kent, Fredericksburgh NY, legal scholar (Columbia), dies
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
French enlightenment philosopher (Encyclopédie), dies at 70
- 1795 Basílio da Gama, Portuguese poet (O Uraguai), dies at 54
- 1805 Dheera Chinnamalai, Indian Polygar (governor) and freedom fighter, executed by the British at 49
- 1849 Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet (A virágnak megtiltani nem lehet - You Cannot Forbid the Flower), and revolutionary, last seen alive at the Battle of Segesvár (Transylvania), presumed killed in action at 26
- 1854 Samuel Wilson, American meat packer and possible namesake of Uncle Sam, dies at 87
- 1864 Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (Librairie Hachette), dies at 64
- 1871 Phoebe Cary, American poet (Poems of Alice & Phoebe Cary), dies at 46
Andrew Johnson (1808-1875)
17th US President (Unionist: 1865-69), dies of a stroke at 66
- 1891 Jean-Baptist Capronnier, French-Belgian glass painter, dies at 77
- 1895 Richard Morris Hunt, American architect and educator, dies at 67
- 1913 John Milne, British geologist (developed the first modern seismograph), dies of Bright's disease at 62
- 1914 A J Jean Jaurès, French socialist (L'Humanité/Les Preuves), murdered=
- 1917 Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (b. 1881)
- 1917 Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (b. 1887)
Charles E. Hires (1851-1937)
American pharmacist, inventor and manufacturer of the Hires Root Beer beverage, dies at 85
- 1940 Whitey Krakow [or Krakower], American gangster and hitman (Murder Inc), murdered by "Bugsy" Siegel
- 1942 Francis Younghusband, British journalist and explorer (1904 British expedition to Tibet), dies at 79
- 1944 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer, poet and pioneering aviator (The Little Prince), dies during a reconnaissance mission at 44
- 1951 J. Van Oudshoorn [Jan Koos Feylbrief], Dutch writer (Maze of Sentences), dies at 74
- 1953 Robert A. Taft, American politician (U.S. Senator from Ohio), dies at 63
- 1958 Eino Kaila, Finnish psychologist and philosopher, dies at 67
- 1966 Alex von Falkenhausen, German general (China, WW II), dies at 87
- 1967 Margaret Kennedy, English novelist (The Constant Nymph), dies at 71
- 1967 Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist (Nobel 1938-work on carotenoids and vitamins), dies at 66
- 1972 Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician (Prime Minister of Belgium, Secretary-General of NATO, 1957-61), dies at 73
- 1977 Stacy Moskowitz, shot to death by Son of Sam, at 20
- 1981 Gen Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, dies in plane crash
- 1985 Eugene Carson Blake, US Secretary-General of World Council of Churches (1966-72), dies at 78
- 1986 Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
- 1990 Fernando Sancho, dies after operation for malignant tumor at 72
- 1992 G Harold Carswell, supreme court justice candidate 1970, dies at 72
- 1992 Sjoerd de Free, reporter (Radio Herrijzend Netherland), dies
- 1993 Baudouin I, King of Belgium (1951-93), dies from heart issues at 62
- 1993 George Keyt, Sri Lankan painter, dies at 92
- 1993 Paul Henry, US Republicans Congressional leader, dies at 51
- 1994 Caitlin Thomas (née Macnamara), British author (Leftover Life to Kill) and the wife of the poet and writer Dylan Thomas, dies at 80
- 1994 G de Ru, chairman of Dutch Reformed Synode, dies
- 1994 Pieter C Buitendijk, co-founder (Free Netherlands), dies at 92
- 1996 Joan Warburton, Scottish painter, dies at 76
- 1996 Michael Jinks, child care pioneer, dies at 59
- 1997 Edith Fore, pitchwoman (I've fallen and I can't get up!), dies at 81
- 1997 Ulrich Ernst Simon, German-Jewish Anglican theologian, dies at 63
- 1998 Serge Golovine, French ballet choreographer (Death of Narcissus), dies at 73
- 2000 Hendrik Christoffel Van de Hulst, Dutch astronomer (correctly predicted the existence of the 21 cm hyper-fine line of neutral atomic hydrogen in interstellar space), dies at 81
- 2001 Fanny Leys, Flemish author (Ontwijding), dies at 95
- 2001 Francisco da Costa Gomes, President of Portugal’s ruling military junta (1974-76), dies at 87
- 2001 Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1910)
- 2001 Poul Anderson, American science-fiction and fantasy author, winner of 7 Hugo and 3 Nebula Awards (The Sharing of Flesh; Mirkheim; After Doomsday), dies of prostate cancer at 74
- 2002 Jerome Beatty Jr., American author of children's literature (Matthew and Maria Looney books), dies at 85
- 2003 Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (b. 1933)
- 2005 Wim Duisenberg, Dutch banker (b. 1935)
- 2010 Mitch Miller, American oboist and recording producer (Sing Along with Mitch), dies at 99
- 2012 Gore Vidal, American author (Myra Breckinridge; Lincoln), dies from pneumonia at 86
- 2016 Seymour Papert, South African mathematician, dies at 88
- 2019 V. G. Siddhartha, Indian coffee entrepreneur (Café Coffee Day), found dead at 60
- 2020 Alan Parker, English director (Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express), dies at 76 [1]
- 2022 Fidel V. Ramos, Filipino general and 12th President of the Philippines (1992-98), dies at 94
- 2022 Mo Ostin [Ostrofsky], American record company executive (Verve; Reprise; Warner Bros,; Dreamworks), dies at 95