- 350 Nepotianus, Roman usurper
- 1109 Alfonso VI, (imperator totius Hispaniae), king of Leon, dies
- 1181 Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
- 1224 Adolf of Osnabrück, Saint Adolf (b. 1185)
- 1347 John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English politician and the last Warenne earl of Surrey, dies at 61
- 1364 Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)
Moctezuma II
1520 Moctezuma II, Aztec emperor (1502-20), killed either by the Spanish or stoned by his own people
Moctezuma II
- 1538 Charles of Egmond, Duke of Guelder and Earl of Zutphen, dies at 70
- 1579 Mehmed Pasha Sokolović, Turkish Janissary
- 1607 Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian, dies at 68
- 1649 Simon Vouet, French painter
- 1655 Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman and lawyer, dies at 81
- 1660 William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
- 1662 Johannes C Verspronck, portrait painter, buried at about 64
- 1666 Alexander Brome, English poet
- 1670 Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1644)
- 1685 Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 55
- 1704 John Quelch, a pirate was hanged (b. 1665)
- 1709 Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660)
- 1785 James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
- 1796 Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman, dies at 71
- 1817 Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist
- 1839 Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/archbishop (Dead Angel), dies
- 1857 Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist, dies at 54
- 1862 Richard Griffith, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 48
Charles J. Guiteau
1882 Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of US President James A. Garfield, hanged at 40
Charles J. Guiteau
John William Strutt
1919 John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and discoverer of argon (Nobel Prize 1904), dies at 76
John William Strutt
- 1920 Lena Christ, German writer (The Rumplhanni), commits suicide at 38
- 1924 Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet/writer (Pypelyntjes), dies at 42
- 1934 Ernst Rohm, German staff member, executed at 46
- 1934 Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-leader, murdered at 42
- 1934 Karl Ernst, German SA-leader, murdered
- 1934 Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (1932-33), murdered at 52
- 1934 Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria killed in the Night of the Long Knives murders (b. 1862)
- 1934 Erich Klausener, Catholic politician killed in the Night of the Long Knives murders (b. 1885)
- 1938 Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Nove Pesme), dies at 61
- 1942 Arnoldus J H Aerts, Dutch bishop of New-Guinea, executed at 62
- 1948 Karl Wolfskehl, writer, dies at 78
- 1953 Elsa Beskow, (Maartman), Swedish author (children's book), dies at 79
- 1953 Charles William Miller, father of football in Brazil (b. 1874)
- 1959 José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
- 1961 Lee de Forest, American inventor (Electron Tube), dies at 87
- 1962 Caspar Neher, Austrian-German set designer and librettist, dies at 65
- 1971 Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies at 38
- 1971 Georgi T Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-land accident), dies at 43
- 1971 Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11), dies at 35
- 1973 Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen, died
- 1973 Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R Bishop and Martyr (b. 1903)
- 1973 Nancy Mitford, English author (Love in a Cold Climate), one of the Mitford sisters, dies of cancer at 68
- 1974 Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in church
- 1974 Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
- 1979 Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician, dies at 72
- 1983 Mary Livingstone, [Sadye Marks] Comedienne, (Jack Benny), dies at 77
- 1984 Lillian Hellman, playwright, (Little Foxes), dies at 79
- 1985 James Dewar, inventor (Twinkie), dies
- 1992 Doug Delauder, entertainer, dies
- 1992 Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social), dies
- 1994 Nicholas Warner, test Pilot, dies at 51
- 1995 Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3), dies at 74
- 1995 Sicco Mansholt, pres Commission of Europe (1972-1973), dies
- 1996 Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet, dies at 76
- 1996 Michael Parkin, journalist, dies at 74
- 1996 Norman Aldridge, biochemical toxicologist, dies at 76
- 2002 Chico Xavier, popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement (b. 1910)
- 2003 Buddy Hackett, American comic (b. 1924)
- 2003 Robert McCloskey, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1915)
- 2004 Jamal Abro, Sindhi writer (b. 1924)
- 2005 Christopher Fry, English playwright (The Lady's Not for Burning), dies at 97
- 2006 Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)
- 2007 Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)
- 2009 Pina Bausch, German choreographer (b. 1940)
- 2012 Yitzḥak Shamir, Israeli Prime Minister (1983–84, 1986–1992), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 96
- 2014 Bob Hastings, American actor, dies from prostate cancer at 89
- 2016 Geoffrey Hill, English poet, dies at 84