- 1183 Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (b. 1155)
- 1216 Henry of Flanders, Emperor of the Latin Empire
- 1249 Adelheid van Schaarbeek, Flemish mystic/saint, dies
- 1479 Johannes a San Facundo, Spanish Augustine saint, dies
- 1488 James III, King of Scots (1460-88), killed in battle or assassinated soon after at Milltown near Bannockburn at 36
- 1557 John III, King of Portugal and the Algarves (1521-57), dies at 55
- 1560 Marie Guise, Queen consort of Scotland upon her marriage to King James V of Scotland in 1538, dies at 44
- 1665 Kenelm Digby, English philosopher and diplomat, dies at 61
- 1666 Cornelis Evertsen the Elder, Dutch-Swiss vice-admiral, dies in battle at 55
- 1674 Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns, dies at 52
- 1695 André Félibien, French architect (b. 1619)
- 1698 Balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Enchanted World), dies at 64
- 1712 Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme, Marshal of France (b. 1654)
- 1766 Elisabeth Farnese, Princess of Parma and Queen of Spain (1714-24), dies at 73
- 1796 Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and Member of Parliament, dies at 75
- 1796 Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (6th President of the Confederation Congress), dies at 58
- 1811 Charles Frederick, liberal ruler of Baden, dies at 82
- 1825 Daniel D. Tompkins, American politician, 6th US Vice President (1817-25), dies at 50
- 1828 Dugald Stewart, Scottish philosopher and mathematician (Scottish common sense), dies at 74
- 1847 John Franklin, English rear admiral and explorer (Arctic), dies at 61
- 1852 Karl Briullov, Russian painter, dies at 52
- 1856 Friedrich H von der Hagen, German germanist, dies at 76
- 1858 Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (b. 1773)
- 1879 Willem, (crown)prince of Orange, dies of bronchitis or murder at 39
- 1882 Louis Désiré Maigret, French Catholic prelate, dies at 77
- 1886 Antonio C G Crespo, Brazilian/Portuguese poet, dies at 40
- 1903 King Alexander I and Queen Draga of Serbia are assassinated by a group of army officers as part of a coup
- 1903 Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician, dies at 65
- 1906 Heinrich Hart, German writer (Das Lied der Menschheit), dies at 50
- 1907 John Tyler Morgan, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 82
- 1908 Georg Adler, Polish state economist, dies at 45
- 1911 James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist, dies at 96
- 1912 Leon Dierx, French poet (Amants), dies at 74
- 1913 Machmud Shevket Pasha, Turks grand vizier, murdered
- 1914 Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1848)
- 1924 Alexander de Savornin Lohman, Dutch minister and party leader (CHU), dies at 87
- 1929 Gyula Andrássy, Jr., Hungarian politician (Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (1918-20)), dies at 68
- 1930 Henry Clay Folger, American CEO of Standard Oil and founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library, dies at 72
- 1934 Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (b. 1896)
- 1936 Robert E. Howard, American pulp fiction author (Conan the Barbarian), commits suicide aged 30
- 1936 Julius Nieuwland, Belgian-American chemist (inventor of neoprene), dies at 58
- 1937 R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer (b. 1895)
- 1941 Daniel Carter Beard, American author, social reformer and founder of the Boy Scouts of America, dies at 91
- 1947 David I. Walsh, 46th Governor of Massachusetts, dies at 74
- 1949 Koci Xoxe, Albanian vice-premier, executed
- 1949 Oton Zupanic, Slavs poet (Zimzelen pod snegom), dies at 71
- 1955 Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, French industrialist, murdered
- 1956 Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Poesie grigio-verdi), dies at 61
- 1963 Thích Quảng Đức, Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a street in Saigon at the age of 65-66
- 1964 Frank D. Smith, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame administrator (Beaches/Greater Toronto Hockey League), dies at 70
- 1965 José Mendes Cabeçadas, 95th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th President of Portugal (b. 1883)
- 1965 Vernon Johns, American civil rights activist, dies at 73
- 1969 John L. Lewis, American labour leader, formed Congress of Industrial Organizations, dies at 89
- 1970 Aleksander Kerensky, Minister-Chairman of the Russian Provisional Government (1917), dies at 89
- 1970 Frank Laubach, Benton Pa, taught reading through phonetics, dies
- 1970 William 'Billy Batts' Devino, American crime figure (b. 1921)
- 1974 Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (b. 1898)
- 1974 Eurico Gaspar Dutra, President of Brazil (b. 1883)
- 1981 Eppo Doeve, Dutch cartoonist and painter, dies at 73
- 1984 Enrico Berlinguer, Italian National Secreatary of Italian Communist Party (PCI) , dies at 62
- 1985 Karen Ann Quinlan, comatose patient, dies in Morris Plains NJ at 31
- 1986 Chesley Bonestell, American-born engineer, architect, and artist (b. 1888)
- 1988 Giuseppe Saragat, 5th President of Italy (1964-71), dies at 89
- 1992 Marjorie Newell Robb, oldest living survivor of Titanic, dies at 103
- 1992 Marlene Hazlett, entertainer, dies of cancer
- 1993 Muriel C. Bradbrook, English writer (Rise of Common Player), dies at 84
- 1994 Kitty Muggeridge, British author and translator, dies at 90
- 1995 Luigi Innocenti, designer, dies at 71
- 1996 Kevin Meadows, gay rights activist, dies at 21
- 1997 Thalassa Cruso, English-American gardening expert (The Mike Douglas Show, The Tonight Show), dies of Alzheimer's at 88
- 1998 Catherine Cookson, English novelist (Bannaman Legacy), dies at 91
- 2001 Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist, executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing aged 33
- 2004 Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer, dies at 57
- 2004 Xenophon Zolotas, Greek politician (b. 1904)
- 2005 VVasco Gonçalves, Portuguese army officer and 103rd Prime Minister of Portugal (1974-75), dies at 84
- 2006 Bruce Shand, father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (b. 1917)
- 2006 Michael Bartosh, computer expert and author (b. 1977)
- 2007 Imre Friedmann, American scientist (b. 1921)
- 2008 Võ Văn Kiệt, former prime minister of Vietnam (b. 1922)
- 2010 Zenani Mandela, Nelson Mandela's great granddaughter (b. 1997)
- 2012 Norman F Lent, American republican Congressman, dies from cancer at 81
- 2013 Robert Fogel, American economic historian (Nobel Prize 1993), dies at 86
- 2014 Ruby Dee, American actress (A Raisin in the Sun, American Gangster), dies at 91
- 2019 Martin Feldstein, American economist (1977 John Bates Clark Medal), chief economic adviser to President Reagan, dies at 79