- 555 Vigilius, Italian Pope (537-55), dies
Robert the Bruce
1329 Robert the Bruce, King of Scots (1306-1329) and national hero, dies at 54
Robert the Bruce
- 1337 Willem III the Good, earl of Holland/Zealand, dies at about 49
- 1358 Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
- 1394 Anne of Bohemia, Queen of England and wife of Richard II, dies at 28
- 1492 Kazimierz IV, King of Poland (1447-92), dies at 64
- 1549 Eelke Fouckens, Frisian anabaptist, beheaded
- 1555 Maarten van Rossum, Dutch army leader, dies at about 76
- 1618 Thomas West, 3rd & 12th Baron De La Warr, English Jamestown colonist and Governor of Virginia, dies at 40
- 1624 Anne of Saint Bartolomaeus, Flemish nun/monk/saint, dies at 74
- 1626 Anne of Saint Bartholomew, Flemish Roman Catholic nun, dies at 75
- 1667 Thomas de Keyser, Amsterdam master builder/painter, buried
- 1672 Willem J van Gendt, admiral/governor of Breda, dies at about 37
- 1676 Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606)
- 1711 Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b. 1641)
- 1754 Nikolaj Eigtved, Danish, architect (Amalienborg Square), dies at 52
- 1779 William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698)
- 1800 Willem A Alting, governor-genl of Neth-Indies (1780-97), dies at 75
- 1810 Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
- 1814 Robert Jasper van der de Capellen, mister of Marsch, dies at 71
- 1821 Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion-leader (b. cca. 1780)
- 1826 Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
- 1840 Frederik Willem III, King of Prussia (1797-1840), dies at 69
- 1847 Adolph Gopel, German mathematician, dies at 35
- 1854 Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
- 1859 David Cox, English artist (b. 1783)
- 1862 William B. Mumford, 1st US citizen hanged for treason, at 42
- 1866 Chief Seattle, Native American leader
- 1871 Thomas Jackson Rodman, American military inventor of the rodman gun and perforated-cake gunpowder, dies on duty at 54
- 1877 Winand Staring, Dutch geologist (Bottom of Netherlands), dies at 68
- 1896 Wyatt Eaton, Canadian American artist, dies from tuberculosis at 47
- 1899 Augustin Daly, American playwright and theatrical manager, dies at 60
- 1906 Johan P. Van de Kellen, stamp cutter/lithographer, dies at 74
- 1911 Maurice Rouvier, French statesman and Prime Minister of France (1905-06), dies at 69
- 1916 Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
- 1925 Camille Flammarion, French astronomer, Mars researcher and popularizer of astronomy, dies at 83
- 1927 Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered
- 1927 Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
- 1928 Chiang Tsolin, Chinese warlord of North-China, murdered
- 1935 Ivan V Mitsjoerin, Russian botanist, dies
- 1936 Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
- 1937 Jean Harlow, actress (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26
- 1938 Norbert Fonteyne, Flemish writer (How Flemings Came Late), dies
- 1942 Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer, dies at 38
- 1945 Nishida Kitaro, scholar/philosopher/Zen practitioner, dies at 74
- 1951 Bobel, Braune, Naumann, Ohlendorf, Pohl, Schallenmair & Otto Schmidt, Nazi war criminals, hanged
Alan Turing
1954 Alan Turing, British mathematician and computer scientist pioneer (Turing Machine), commits suicide at 41 (b. 1912)
Alan Turing
- 1956 Julien Benda, Fren philosopher/writer (La trahison des clercs), dies
- 1957 Elizabeth S Kingsley, double-Crostic puzzle creator, dies
- 1961 Robert Griffith, producer of Pajama Game, dies
- 1965 Richard Billinger, Austria poet/writer (Bauernpassion), dies
- 1966 Jean Arp [Hans Arp], French-Swiss sculptor, artist and poet, dies at 78
Dorothy Parker
1967 Dorothy Parker, American writer (Enough Rope), dies at 73
Dorothy Parker
- 1967 Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
E. M. Forster
1970 E. M. Forster, English writer and novelist (Maurice, Passage to India), dies at 91
E. M. Forster
- 1973 Christine Lavant, Austrian poet and writer (Das Kind), dies at 57
- 1974 Émilie Charmy, French avant-garde artist, dies at 96
- 1978 Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate 1967, dies at 80
- 1979 Forrest [Asa Earl] Carter, American author and segregationist speech writer, dies at 53
- 1980 Henry Miller, American writer (Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn), dies of circulatory complications at 88
- 1980 Elizabeth Craig, British writer (b. 1883)
- 1983 Charles von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Belgium prince, buried
- 1987 John Blofeld, writer/translator/Zen practitioner, dies at 73
- 1989 Milton van Embricqs, Suriname/Dutch publicist, dies
- 1991 Antoine Blondin, French writer (L'Europe buissonnière), dies at 69
- 1994 Joseph Ruzindana, Rwandian bishop of Bjumba, murdered
- 1994 Stuart Havelock Hollingdale, anthropologist, dies at 42
- 1994 Vincent Nsengijumva, Rwandan archbishop of Kigali, murdered
- 1994 Dennis Christopher George Potter, British dramatist (The Singing Detective, Karaoke, Midnight Movie), dies of cancer at 59
- 1995 Hsuan Hua, influential Buddhist master in the United States (b. 1918)
- 1996 José María Valverde, Spanish philosopher, poet and translator (La espera, Historia de la literatura universal),dies at 70
- 1996 Noel Walton Bott, engineer, dies at 88
- 1996 [Francis] Max Factor Jr, makeup inventor, dies at 91
- 1996 Percy Edwards, English entertainer (known for his animal impressions), dies at 88
- 1998 Thomas Narcejac, French writer (Vertigo), dies at 89
- 1999 Paco Stanley, Mexican TV entertainer (b. 1942)
- 2001 Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
- 2002 Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b. 1916)
- 2004 William Cramond, Scottish psychiatrist and vice-chancellor (Stirling University), dies at 83
- 2006 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian-born Mujahid (b. 1966)
- 2010 Omar Rayo, Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. (b. 1928)
- 2012 Phillip Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist and three time Nobel Prize nominee (hominid fossil sites), dies at 86
- 2013 Pierre Mauroy, French Prime Minister, dies from lung cancer at 84
- 2015 Michael Oliver, British cardiologist (linked cholesterol with coronary artery disease), dies at 89
- 2018 Peter Stringfellow, English nightclub owner (Stringfellows), dies at 77
- 2018 David Douglas Duncan, American photo-journalist best known for his war photography, dies at 102