- 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 I, Habsburg nobleman (King of Bohemia, 1306-07; Duke of Austria and Styria 1298-1307), dies of stomach issues at about 26
- 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 (1735-1826)
2nd US President (1797-1801), dies at 90
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
3rd President of the United States (1801-09), dies at 83
James Monroe (1758-1831)
5th US President (1817-25), dies of heart failure and tuberculosis at 73
Karl Ferdinand von Graefe (1787-1840)
German surgeon who helped create modern plastic Immunologist, dies at 53
- 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 Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, Italian WWI general and 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 (1867-1934)
Polish-French scientist who discovered radium and the 1st woman to win a Nobel Prize (1903, 1911), dies at 66
- 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 Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp overseer (b. 1922)
- 1946 Othenio Able, Austrian artist, fossil creator and founder of paleobiology, dies at 71
- 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 abstract expressionist painter (Black Fire I), dies at 65
- 1971 August Derleth, American writer (Judge Peck Mysteries) and editor, dies of a heart attack at 62
- 1971 Thomas C. Hart, U.S. admiral and commander (Pacific Fleet), dies at 94
- 1974 Francis Bull, Norwegian writer (Norsk literature historian), dies at 86
- 1974 Mohammed SA al-Hoesseini, Mufti of Jerusalem/pres Com Palestine, dies
- 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
- 1997 Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Mexican drug lord (Juárez Cartel), dies at 40
- 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 (Senator -D/R-North Carolina, 1973-2003), dies at 86
- 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