- 589 Saint David, Patron Saint of Wales, dies at ~90
- 965 Leo VIII, Roman prelate who claimed the Holy See (963-65), dies at ~50
- 986 Lothair of France, Carolingian king of West Francia, dies at 44
- 1131 Stephen II, King of Hungary (1116-31), dies at 42
- 1233 Thomas, Count of Savoy, dies at 55
- 1244 Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Welsh leader Llywelyn the Great, dies trying to escape from the Tower of London (b. 1200)
- 1383 Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy, dies at 49
- 1510 Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier, explorer and 1st Viceroy of India dies at Table Bay, Africa at about 59
- 1535 Bernardo Accolti [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia), dies at 70
- 1546 George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer, martyred at 33
- 1633 George Herbert, English poet, dies at 39
- 1661 Richard Zouch, English jurist, dies at 71
- 1697 Francesco Redi, Italian physician, dies at 71
- 1706 Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin, dies at 73
- 1734 Roger North, English biographer, dies at 82
- 1757 Edward Moore, English writer & dramatist (The Gamester), dies at 44
Leopold II (1747-1792)
Grand Duke of Tuscany (1765-90) and Holy Roman Emperor (1790-92), dies at 44
- 1822 Jack Jouett, American politician & patriot (warn Thomas Jefferson of British attack), dies at 67
- 1826 Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect, dies at 59
- 1827 Christopher Gore, American lawyer & politician (8th Governor of Massachusetts), dies at 68
- 1841 Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, French marshal, dies at 76
- 1862 Peter Barlow, English mathematician, dies at 85
- 1865 Anna Pavlovna, Russian queen consort of the William II of the Netherlands, dies at 70
- 1869 Alphonse MLP de Lamartine, French poet (History of Girondins), dies at 78
Francisco Solano López (1826-1870)
President and Dictator of Paraguay (1862-70), shouts "¡Muero con mi patria!" (I die with my nation) and dies in a struggle with Brazilian soldiers attempting to disarm him at 43
- 1875 Tristan Corbière, French poet, dies at 29
- 1879 Joachim Heer, Swiss politician, dies at 54
- 1884 Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician, dies at 63
- 1892 Archibald Scott Couper, Scottish chemist, dies at 60
- 1895 Pauline Musters, Dutch world's smallest woman at 24 inches (61 cm), dies at 19
- 1896 Giuseppe Arimondi, Italian general who fought in the Italo-Ethiopian War, dies in the Battle of Adwa at 49
- 1896 Vittorio Dabormida, Italian general who fought in the Italo-Ethiopian War, dies in the Battle of Adwa at 53
- 1898 George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India and author, dies at 72
- 1899 Gyorgy Apponyi, Hungarian politician, dies at 90
- 1906 José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist, dies at 73
- 1906 Moritz Heyne, German germanist (Beowulf), dies at 68
- 1911 Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist & physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58
- 1912 Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Danish politician (Council President of Denmark), dies at 72
- 1914 Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, dies at 63
- 1920 John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator from Alabama, dies at 77
- 1920 Joseph Trumpeldor, Zionist activist, killed defending Tel-Mai against arab attack
- 1921 Nicholas Petrovic Njegos, King of Montenegro (1910-18), dies at 79
- 1923 Ruy Barbosa, Brazilian polymath, writer and politician, dies at 73
- 1924 Princess Louise of Belgium, eldest daughter of Leopold II, dies at 66
- 1925 Homer Plessy, American Creole shoemaker and civil rights pioneer (plaintiff in landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson 1896), dies at 61
- 1926 Camilo Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China), dies at 58
- 1929 Royal H. Weller, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), dies at 47
- 1932 Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46
- 1933 Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet, dies at 32
- 1938 Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, writer (Il fuoco, Intruder), playwright and military hero as part of the elite Arditi storm troops, dies of a stroke at 74
- 1940 Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (Truth and Justice), dies at 62
- 1942 George S. Rentz, U.S. Navy Chaplain (awarded the Navy Cross during WW II), dies at 59
- 1950 Alfred Korzybski, Polish-American scientist & philosopher, dies at 70
- 1952 Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (The Flies, The Bosses), dies at 79
- 1958 Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (Dog at a Rope), dies at 86
- 1966 Fritz Houtermans, Dutch-Austrian physicist, dies at 63
- 1968 Georg von der Vring, German painter & writer (Camp Lafayette), dies at 78
- 1970 Ed Hoornik, Dutch writer & poet (Na jaren), dies at 59
- 1972 Violet Trefusis, English writer & socialite who had a famous affair with writer Vita Sackville-West, dies at 77
- 1974 Jos de Haes, Flemish philologist & poet (Azuren Holte), dies at 53
- 1979 Mustafa al-Barzani, Kurdish leader (KDP), dies at 75
- 1980 Wilhelmina Cooper, Dutch-American model and founder of Wilhelmina Models, dies at 40
- 1983 Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-British writer (Darkness at Noon), commits suicide at 77
- 1989 Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch journalist & VARA radio host, dies at 64
Edwin Land (1909-1991)
American inventor of instant photography & co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation, dies at 81
- 1993 Luis Kutner, American co-founder (Amnesty International), dies at 84
- 1994 Eliseo Diego, Cuban poet, dies at 74
- 1995 Earl Blackwell, American society impresario (Celebrity Register), dies at 85
- 1995 Edmund Boyd Fisher, British publisher, dies at 56
- 1995 Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist, murdered at 38
- 1996 Margaret McKay, British politician, dies at 85
- 2001 Henry Wade, American lawyer (Dallas County District Attorney 1951-87), dies at 86
- 2005 Peter Malkin Israeli secret agent, dies at 77
- 2006 Harry Browne, American politician and author, dies at 72
- 2011 John M. Lounge, American engineer & astronaut (STS 51-I, STS 26, STS 35), dies at 64
- 2012 Andrew Breitbart, American conservative blogger & publisher, dies at 43
- 2014 Alain Resnais, French director (Muriel, Hiroshima mon amour), dies at 91
- 2016 Jim Kimsey, American co-founder of AOL, dies at 76
- 2017 Paula Fox, American writer (The Slave Dancer), dies at 92
- 2018 Bender [Alexander Buchanan], Canadian underground hip hop artist (Flight Distance, King of the Dot), dies at 37
- 2018 Orin C Smith, American businessman & CEO of Starbucks (2000-05), dies of pancreatic cancer 75
- 2019 Kevin Roche, Irish architect (Pritzker Prize winner, 1982), dies at 96
- 2019 Zhores Alferov, Soviet/Russian physicist (2000 Nobel Prize in Physics), dies at 88
- 2020 Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan Catholic priest, politician, poet, and writer, dies from ongoing heart and kidney issues at 95
Jack Welch (1935-2020)
American businessman & CEO of General Electric (GE), dies of renal failure at 84
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