- 965 Pope Benedict V, Italian Roman Catholic Pope (b. unknown)
- 973 Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop (b. 890)
- 1187 Reinoud van Châtillon, French prince of Antioch, dies
- 1301 Willem II Berthout van Mechelen, bishop of Utrecht, dies in battle
- 1307 Rudolf III, Duke of Austria/King of Bohemia dies
- 1336 Elisabeth van Portugal, queen of Portugal/saint, dies at about 65
- 1498 Filips van Burgundy, admiral-general of Netherlands, dies
- 1541 Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish occupier, dies at about 56
- 1546 Hayreddin Barbarossa, Admiral of the Ottoman Navy (b. 1478)
- 1578 Charles de Berlaymont, baron of Hierges, gov/viceroy of Names, dies
- 1627 Thomas Middleton, English playwright (A Game at Chess), dies at 47
- 1648 Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary and martyr, dies at 47
- 1672 Govert D Camphuysen, (court)painter, dies at about 48
- 1742 Luigi Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician and monk, dies at 70
- 1754 Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist and author, dies at 74
- 1761 Samuel Richardson, English novelist (Pamela), dies at 71
- 1768 Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman and poet (Suicide), dies at 58
- 1780 Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Imperial Army field marshal, dies at 67
- 1787 Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise, Marshal of France, dies at 71
- 1789 Cláudio Manuel da Costa, Brazilian poet, dies at 59
- 1821 Richard Cosway, English portrait painter, dies at 78
John Adams
1826 John Adams, 2nd US President (1797-1801), dies at 90
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
1826 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States(1801-09), dies at 83
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
1831 James Monroe, 5th US President (1817-25), dies of heart failure and tuberculosis at 73
James Monroe
Karl Ferdinand von Graefe
1840 Karl Ferdinand von Graefe, German surgeon who helped create modern plastic surgery dies at 53
Karl Ferdinand von Graefe
- 1848 Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala), dies at 79
- 1850 William Kirby, English entomologist and original member of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society, dies at 90
- 1854 Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist, dies at 72
- 1856 Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor, dies at 64
- 1857 William L. Marcy, American statesman, dies at 70
- 1863 Paul Joseph Revere, American grandson of Paul Revere, Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at 30
- 1881 Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (b. 1806)
- 1888 Theodor Storm, German judge and author (Immensee, Der Schimmelreiter), dies at 70
- 1891 Hannibal Hamlin, American attorney and 15th Vice President of U.S. (1861-65), dies at 81
- 1901 John Fiske [Edmund Fisk Green], American historian and philosopher, dies at 59
- 1901 Julian Scott, American artist and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 55
- 1902 Swami Vivekananda, Indian Hindu spiritual leader and a key figure in the introduction of Yoga to the Western world, dies while meditating at 39
- 1905 Élisée Reclus, French anarchist (b. 1830)
- 1910 Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (discovered canals of Mars), dies at 75
- 1910 Melville Fuller, American 8th Chief Justice of the United States, dies at 77
- 1916 Alan Seeger, American war poet (b. 1888)
- 1917 Johan H C Kern, Dutch linguist (Sanskreet), dies at 84
- 1922 Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot, dies at 27
- 1923 Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw), dies at 67
- 1926 Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Saint (b. 1901)
- 1931 Emanuele F duke of Aosta, Italian WW I-general/fascist, dies at 62
- 1931 Hussein ibn-Ali, sjarif Mecca/king/kalief of Hedzjaz (1917-24), dies
- 1934 Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Jewish poet, dies at 61
Marie Curie
1934 Marie Curie, Polish-French scientist who discovered radium and the 1st woman to win a Nobel Prize (1903, 1911), dies at 66
Marie Curie
- 1938 Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democrat, dies at 56
- 1941 Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
- 1943 Władysław Sikorski, Polish World War II general and Prime Minister of Poland in exile (1939-43), killed in a plane crash at 62
- 1946 Othenio Able, Austrian artist, fossil creator and founder of paleobiology, dies at 71
- 1946 Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp overseer (b. 1922)
- 1948 Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (b. 1882)
- 1958 Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam), dies at 79
- 1963 Bernard Freyberg, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889)
- 1966 Dorothy Aldis, American children's writer, dies at 70
- 1970 Barnett Newman, American artist (b. 1905)
- 1971 Thomas C. Hart, U.S. admiral and commander (Pacific Fleet), dies at 94
- 1971 August Derleth, American writer (Judge Peck Mysteries) and editor, dies of a heart attack at 62
- 1974 Mohammed SA al-Hoesseini, Mufti of Jerusalem/pres Com Palestine, dies
- 1974 Francis Bull, Norwegian writer (Norsk literature historian), dies at 86
- 1975 Georgette Heyer, English novelist (Friday's Child), dies at 71
- 1976 Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet (b. 1895)
- 1976 Yonatan Netanyahu, Israel commander killed freeing Israeli hostages during Operation Entebbe in Uganda, at 30 years
- 1977 Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (b. 1918)
- 1980 Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (b. 1895)
- 1982 Sylvestre A Guzman Fernandez, pres Dominican Rep, commits suicide
- 1982 Terry Higgins, early British AIDS death (b. 1945)
- 1985 John de Quay, Dutch premier (1959-63), dies at 83
- 1986 Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (algebraic geometry), dies at 87
- 1991 Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
- 1993 Felix White, choreographer (Black Vibrations Theatre), dies at 65
- 1994 Arthur Berry, English artist and playwright, dies at 69
- 1994 Juan Gil-Albert, Spanish poet and writer, dies at 90
- 1994 Rupert Davies, English methodist scholar, dies at 84
- 1994 Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies
- 1995 Jacques Berque, French Islamic scholar, dies at 85
- 1996 Leo Avery, abbot of Quarr, dies at 58
- 1999 Leo Garel, American artist and cartoonist (b.1917)
- 2000 Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Polish writer (b. 1919)
- 2002 Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American general (b. 1912)
- 2002 Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian politician (b. 1951)
- 2002 Winnifred Quick, American Titanic survivor (b. 1904)
- 2004 Frank Robinson (Xylophone Man), an eccentric street entertainer in Nottingham, England (b. 1932)
- 2008 Charles Wheeler, British journalist (b. 1923)
- 2008 Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921)
- 2008 Thomas M. Disch, American sci-fi author (b. 1940)
- 2009 Allen Klein, American record label executive (b. 1931)
- 2009 Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, Congolese politician (b.1938)
- 2010 Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-born Lebanese Shiite Muslim cleric and Hezbollah mentor (b. 1935)
- 2011 Otto von Habsburg, last crown prince of Austria-Hungary and MEP (1979-1999), dies at 98