Moctezuma II
1520 Moctezuma II, Aztec emperor (1502-20), killed either by the Spanish or stoned to death by his own people
Moctezuma II
- 1538 Charles of Egmond, Duke of Guelder and Earl of Zutphen, dies at 70
- 1607 Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian, dies at 68
- 1649 Simon Vouet, French painter to the court of Louis XIII, dies at 59
- 1655 Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman and lawyer, dies at 81
- 1660 William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
- 1662 Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck, Dutch portrait painter, buried at about 64
- 1666 Alexander Brome, English Royalist poet (wrote drinking songs against Rump Parliament), dies
- 1670 Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1644)
- 1685 Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 55
- 1704 John Quelch, English pirate, hanged for piracy in Boston at 38
- 1709 Edward Lhuyd, Welsh naturalist (Illustrations of the Figured Stones of Britain) dies (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 Olof Wallin, Swedish poet and archbishop (Dead Angel), dies at 59
- 1857 Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist, dies at 54
- 1862 Richard Griffith, US Confederate brigadier general, dies of wounds from the Battle of Savage's Station at 48
Charles J. Guiteau
1882 Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of US President James A. Garfield, hanged at 40
Charles J. Guiteau
- 1882 Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman, dies at 55
- 1899 Jon Helgason, Icelandic poet (Ur Landsudri), dies
- 1905 John Hay, US politician (secretary of State and private secretary to Abraham Lincoln, dies at 66
- 1914 Bai Long [White Wolf], Chinese Robin Hood/crowd leader, dies
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 and writer (Pypelyntjes), dies at 42
- 1930 Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist known for leadership in the passage of the landmark Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, dies at 85
- 1934 Ernst Röhm, German army officer and chief organizer of Adolf Hitler’s Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung, or SA; Brownshirts), executed at 46
- 1934 Gregor Strasser, German political activist and NSDAP-Reich organization leader, murdered during the Night of the Long Knives at 42
- 1934 Karl Ernst, German SA-leader, murdered during the Night of the Long Knives at 29
- 1934 Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (1932-33), murdered during the Night of the Long Knives at 52
- 1934 Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria killed during 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 Johannes Hubertus Aerts, Dutch bishop of New Guinea, executed at 62
- 1948 Karl Wolfskehl, German Jewish writer, dies at 78
- 1953 Elsa Beskow, Swedish children's author and illustrator, 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 in outer space aboard Soyuz at 38
- 1971 Georgi T Dobrovolsky, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies in outer space aboard Soyuz 11 at 43
- 1971 Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11), dies in outer space aboard Soyuz 11 at 35
- 1973 Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian Bishop and Catholic Martyr, dies under Soviet imprisonment at 70
- 1973 Nancy Mitford, English author (Love in a Cold Climate), one of the Mitford sisters, dies of cancer at 68
- 1974 Alberta King, American mother of Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in church at 69
- 1974 Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
- 1979 Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician, dies at 72
- 1983 Mary Livingstone [Sadye Marks], American comedienne, (Jack Benny), dies at 77
Lillian Hellman
1984 Lillian Hellman, American playwright, (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes), dies at 79
Lillian Hellman
- 1985 James Dewar, Canadian inventor and baker (Twinkie cake), dies at 88
- 1992 Nico Booken, Dutch director (Jewish Labor Social), dies at 72
- 1994 Nicholas Warner, English test Pilot for Airbus, dies in Airbus Industrie A330-321 test flight crash at 51
- 1995 Georgy Beregovoy, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 3), dies at 74
- 1995 Sicco Mansholt, Dutch politician, (President of the Commission of Europe 1972-1973), dies at 86
- 1996 Hugh Henry Home Popham, British aviator, writer and poet, dies at 76
- 1996 Norman Aldridge, English biochemical toxicologist, dies at 76
- 1997 Albus Dumbledore [Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore], fictional character, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, dies at 115
- 1999 Édouard Boubat, French photographer, dies at 75
- 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 (Make Way For Ducklings), dies at 88
- 2004 Jamal Abro, Sindhi writer, dies at 80
- 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)
- 2011 David Loram, British vice-admiral (Supreme Allied Commander), dies at 86
- 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