- 589 Saint David, Patron Saint of Wales (b. 500)
- 965 Leo VIII, Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65), dies
- 986 King Lothair of France (b. 941)
- 1131 Stephen II, King of Hungary (1116-31), dies
- 1233 Count Thomas I of Savoy (b. 1178)
- 1244 Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
- 1383 Amadeus VI, (Green Earl), earl 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) (b 1513)
- 1633 George Herbert, English poet, dies at 39
- 1661 Richard Zouch, English jurist (b. 1590)
- 1697 Francesco Redi, Italian physician (b. 1626)
- 1706 Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (b. 1632)
- 1734 Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653)
- 1757 Edward Moore, English writer (b. 1712)
- 1768 Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)
- 1773 Jan Wagenaar, Dutch historian, dies at 63
- 1773 Luigi Vanvitelli, [Louis van Wittel], Italian architect, dies at 72
Leopold II
1792 Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1765-90) and Holy Roman Emperor (1790-92), dies at 44
Leopold II
- 1826 Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect, dies at 59
- 1841 Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (b. 1764)
- 1862 Peter Barlow, English mathematician (b. 1776)
- 1865 Anna Paulowna Romanova, great monarch of Russia, dies at 70
- 1869 Alphonse MLP de Lamartine, Fr poet (History of Girondins), dies at 78
- 1870 Francisco Solano Lopez, President of Paraguay (1862-70), dies at 43
- 1875 Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845)
- 1879 Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1825)
- 1884 Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)
- 1892 Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist, dies at 60
- 1896 Albertone, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
- 1896 Arimondi, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
- 1896 Vittorio Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
- 1898 George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India, author (b. 1825)
- 1899 Gyorgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian MP, dies at 90
- 1906 José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (b. 1833)
- 1911 Jacobus H van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58
- 1914 Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (b. 1845)
- 1920 Joseph Trumpeldor, killed defending Tel-Mai against arab attack
- 1920 John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (b. 1842)
- 1921 Nicholas Petrovic Njegos, King of Montenegro (1910-18), dies at 79
- 1924 Louise MA, princess of Belgium, dies at 66
- 1926 Camilo d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China), dies at 58
- 1929 Royal H. Weller, American politician (b. 1881)
- 1932 Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46
- 1933 Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900)
- 1938 G D'Annunzio, writer, dies at 74
- 1938 Gabrielle d'Annunzio, Italian poet/fascist (Il fuoco), dies at 74
- 1940 Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (Truth and Justice), dies at 62
- 1942 George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain (b. 1882)
- 1947 J Boogaard, nazi collaborator, executed
- 1952 Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (b. 1873)
- 1953 Anton GO Ridder Van Rappard, painter/lithographer/etcher, dies
- 1958 Giacomo Balla, Italian painter, dies at 86
- 1966 Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903)
- 1968 Georg von der Vring, German painter and writer (Camp Lafayette), dies at 78
- 1970 Ed Hoornik, Dutch writer and poet (Na jaren), dies at 59
- 1972 Violet Trefusis, English writer and socialite who had a famous affair with writer Vita Sackville-West, dies at 77
- 1974 Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet (Azuren Holte), dies at 53
- 1979 Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iranian Kurd leader (KDP), dies at 75
- 1983 Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-British writer (Darkness at Noon), commits suicide at 77
- 1989 Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host, dies at 64
- 1990 Claude Spaak, Belgian dramatist, dies
Edwin Land
1991 Edwin Land, American inventor of instant photography and co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation, dies at 81
Edwin Land
- 1993 Luis Kutner, US co-founder (Amnesty International), dies at 84
- 1994 Eliseo Diego, Cuban poet, dies at 74
- 1994 Jacob "Jimmy" Herman Huizinga, journalist/writer, dies at 75
- 1995 Edmund Boyd Fisher, publisher, dies at 56
- 1995 Vladislav Listyev, Russian TV-journalist, murdered at 38
- 1996 Margaret McKay, politician, dies at 85
- 2005 Peter Malkin Israeli secret agent (b. 1927)
- 2006 Harry Browne, American politician and author (b. 1933)
- 2012 Andrew Breitbart, American conservative blogger and 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 for children (The Slave Dancer) and adults, 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 and CEO of Starbucks (2000-05), dies of pancreatic cancer 75
- 2018 Anatoly Lein, Soviet-born American chess Grandmaster (1968), dies at 86