- 956 Hugo the Great, duke of the Franks, count of Paris, (b. about 1598)
- 1246 Lutgardis/Ludgardis, Flemish mystic/saint, dies at about 64
- 1361 John Tauler, German mystic (Gottesfreunde) dies at about 61
- 1397 Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358)
- 1468 Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca. 1395)
- 1492 Jan Coppenhole, Flemish rebel leader, beheaded
- 1575 Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen the Jonghe], medical/historian, dies at 63
- 1620 Carlo Saraceni, [Carlo Veniziano], Italian painter (Judith), dies
- 1622 Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)
- 1623 Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599)
- 1626 Christian the Younger, German Protestant military leader, dies at 26
- 1644 John of Saint Thomas [Juan Poinset], Portuguese theologist, dies at 54
- 1671 Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured & executed in Moscow
- 1707 Marie d'Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625)
- 1722 John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, English general strategist, dies at 72
- 1742 Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Queen consort of Spain, dies at 32
- 1749 Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672)
- 1752 Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal, dies at 88
- 1752 Joseph Butler, English philosopher, dies at 60
- 1777 Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
- 1779 Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
- 1792 Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (b. 1738)
- 1793 Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies
- 1812 Franz Pforr, German painter and cartoonist (Lukasbund), dies at 23
- 1815 Frederik Willem, Duke of Brunswick (1813-15), dies in battle at 43
- 1824 Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (b. 1739)
- 1850 William Lawson explorer of New South Wales, Australia (b. 1774)
- 1855 John Gorrie, American scientist and inventor (cold-air process of refrigeration), dies at 51
- 1858 John Snow, English epidemiologist (b. 1813)
- 1866 Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
- 1869 Charles Sturt, English explorer (Australia), dies at 74
- 1872 Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
- 1878 Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815)
- 1881 Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (b. 1801)
- 1881 Sir Josiah Mason, English manufacturer (b. 1795)
- 1885 Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
- 1892 Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/min of Justice, dies at 80
- 1901 Herman Grimm, German writer, poet and historian, dies at 75
- 1902 Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (algebraic logic), dies at 60
- 1925 Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer, politician and activist (founded Swaraj Party), dies at 55
- 1928 Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools from 1902-1928, dies at 61
- 1929 Bramwell Booth, 2nd General of The Salvation Army, dies at 73
- 1929 Vernon Louis Parrington, American author (Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928), dies at 57
- 1930 Ezra Fitch, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (b. 1866)
- 1930 Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American entrepreneur and inventor (gyrocompass), dies at 69
- 1932 Frederik W Van Oaths, psychiatrist/writer (Blades of Grass), dies
- 1932 Frederik Willem van Eeden, Dutch utopian writer (Walden), dies at 72
- 1936 Leib Malach, Yiddish writer, dies
- 1940 DuBose Heyward, American novelist (Porgy, Star Spangled Virgin), dies
- 1941 Lodo of Hamel, 1st Dutch secret affiliate, dies
- 1944 George Stinney, African-American boy wrongfully convicted of murder, is executed by electric chair at 14
- 1944 Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
- 1944 Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray, Bengali chemist (founder of Bengal Chemicals And Pharmaceuticals), dies at 82
- 1945 Aris Velouchiotis, Greek guerrilla resistance leader (b. 1905)
- 1946 Ludwig Winder, writer, dies
- 1947 Jean-Francois Capart, Belgian egyptologist (Memphis), dies at 86
- 1952 Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist, first to map the entire San Andreas Fault (b. 1861)
- 1953 Margaret Bondfield, English politician and 1st British female cabinet minister (Labour), dies at 80
- 1955 Ozias Leduc, Canadian painter, dies at 90
- 1958 Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (1953-56), dies at 62
- 1961 Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
- 1969 Harold RLG 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, British field marshal, dies at 78
- 1969 John BMR "John" Hanlo, poet (Oote oote boe), dies at 57
- 1970 Elsa Triolet [Ella Kagan], Russian-French writer and Resistance fighter, dies at 73
- 1971 Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (b. 1889)
- 1976 Francis E Meloy Jr, US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped & killed
- 1976 Victor Dalby Lord, fictional character on "One Life to Live", dies at 59
Werner von Braun
1977 Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65 of smoking
Werner von Braun
- 1979 Liselotte Welskopf-Heinrich, writer, dies at 77
- 1979 Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Ghanaian dictator (b. 1931)
- 1981 Humphrey Keervelt, director (Suriname Planning Bureau), murdered
- 1981 John S Knight, American journalist and publisher (Knight Newspapers), dies at 86
- 1981 Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist, dies at 64
- 1983 James Arthur Calata, African National Congress (ANC) leader and Anglican clergyman, dies at 87
- 1994 Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic, dies at 82
- 1996 David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician, dies at 69
- 1997 Dal Stivens, Australian author (b. 1911)
- 2000 Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
- 2003 Pierre Bourgault, French Canadian politician (b. 1934)
- 2003 Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
- 2004 Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1912)
- 2005 Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906)
- 2007 Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, Iranian cleric (b. 1931)
- 2008 Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer, World War II veteran and Nazi concentration camp survivor (b. 1921)
- 2010 Marc Bazin, Haitian politician (b. 1932)
- 2010 Ronald Neame, British director (1st Monday in Oct, Poseidon Adventure), dies at 99
- 2015 Charles Correa, Indian architect (McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT), dies at 84
Helmut Kohl
2017 Helmut Kohl, German chancellor (West Germany, 1982-90, unified Germany, 1990-98), dies at 87
Helmut Kohl