- 907 Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria
- 943 Taejo of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (b. 877)
- 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, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1601)
- 1672 Govert D Camphuysen, (court)painter, dies at about 48
- 1742 Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (b. 1671)
- 1754 Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist and author, dies at 74
- 1761 Samuel Richardson, English writer (b. 1689)
- 1768 Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman and poet (Suicide), dies at 58
- 1780 Charles Alexander, Duke of Lotharingen South Neth, dies at 67
- 1787 Charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71
- 1821 Richard Cosway, English artist (b. 1742)
John Adams
1826 John Adams, 2nd US President (1797-1801), dies at 90
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
1826 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President (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
- 1845 Pierre P Royer-Collard, French philosopher/Council of 500, dies
- 1848 Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala)/diplomat, dies
- 1850 William Kirby, English entomologist (b. 1759)
- 1854 Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian, dies at 72
- 1856 Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor, dies at 64
- 1857 William L. Marcy, American statesman (b. 1786)
- 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/author (Schimmelreiter), dies at 70
- 1891 Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Vice President (b. 1809)
- 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 (b. 1894)
- 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 Skłodowska-Curie, French-Polish Physicist/Chemist, 1st woman to win Nobel Prize (1903, 1911) dies at 66 of radiation poisoning
Marie Curie
- 1934 Marie Curie, Polish-French scientist who discovered radium (Nobel 1903, 1911), dies at 66
- 1938 Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democrat, dies at 56
- 1938 Suzanne Lenglen, 6 time Wimbledon champ, dies at 39 of anemia
- 1941 Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
- 1943 Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/PM of Poland in exile (1939-43), dies at 62
- 1946 Othenio Able, Austria paleontology, 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 Harold Vanderbilt, America Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85
- 1970 Barnett Newman, American artist (b. 1905)
- 1971 Thomas C Hart, US admiral/commander (Pacific Fleet), dies at 94
- 1971 August Derleth, American writer and editor (b. 1909)
- 1973 Leonid Stein, Russian chess player, dies at about 39
- 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 (b. 1899)
- 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 Bob Ross, artist, dies at 52
- 1995 Jacques Berque, 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 Lasse Strömstedt, Swedish writer (b. 1935)
- 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) (b. 1912)