- 483 Simplicius, Italian Pope (468-83), dies
- 1291 Arghun, 4th Mongul ruler of Ilkhanate dynasty
- 1391 Tvrtko I first king of Bosnia (b. 1338)
- 1510 Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (b. 1445)
- 1513 John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander (b. 1443)
- 1546 Thomas Elyot, English diplomat (Boke named the Governor), dies at 46
- 1584 Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532)
- 1585 Rembert Dodoens, [Rembertus Dodonaeus], physician/botanist, dies at 67
- 1588 Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (b. 1533)
- 1592 Michiel Coxcie, Flemish (court)painter/carpet designer, dies
- 1597 Petrus Forestus, Dutch physician (Willem of Orange), dies
- 1669 John Denham, English poet (b. 1615)
- 1670 Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (b. 1604)
- 1735 Dirk T van Cloon, Dutch lawyer/gov-gen of E Indies, dies at about 46
- 1776 Élie Catherine Fréron, French critic (b. 1719)
- 1776 Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (b. 1701)
- 1792 John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute/English premier (1760-63), dies at 78
- 1819 Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, writer, dies
- 1826 Johan VI M L J, King of Portugal (1816-26), dies at 56
- 1861 Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet and painter, dies at 47
- 1864 Maximilian II Jozef, King of Bayern (1848-64), dies at 52
- 1865 William Henry "Little Billy" Chase Whiting, Confed gen-maj, dies at 48
- 1872 Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Giovane Italy), dies at 66
- 1892 Otto van Raised, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1884-88), dies at 69
- 1895 Charles Frederick Worth, English fashion designer (House of Worth), dies at 69
- 1906 Eugen Richter, German MP (Liberal), dies at 67
- 1910 Karl Lueger, Austrian anti-semite/mayor of Vienna, dies at 65
- 1919 Amelia E. Barr, British-born American writer (Remember the Alamo), dies at 87
- 1925 John Fillmore Hayford, American Geodesist (theory of isostasy, geodesy science), dies at 56
- 1937 Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (b. 1884)
- 1940 Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)
- 1942 William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
- 1944 David Vogel, Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz at 52
- 1948 Jan Masaryk, Czech Foreign minister, commits suicide or is murdered
- 1948 Zelda Fitzgerald, American artist, wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1900)
- 1951 Kijūrō Shidehara, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1872)
- 1953 Charles Gordon Curtis, American inventor (Curtis-steam turbine), dies at 92
- 1966 Frederik "Frits" Zernike, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1953), dies at 77
- 1966 Mari Sandoz, US author (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 64
- 1973 Richard Sharples, governor of Bermuda, assassinated
- 1973 Eugene 'Bull' Connor, American segregationist (b. 1897)
- 1977 Pieter Jan Bouman, Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at 74
- 1977 Willem Schermerhorn, Dutch premier (1945-46), dies at 82
- 1980 Herman Tarnower, doctor (Scarsdale Diet), killed by Jean Harris
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1985 Konstantin Chernenko, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1984-85), dies of Emphysema at 73
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- 1990 Michael Stewart, UK Sect of State (1965-66, 68-70), dies
- 1992 Roy Holmer Wallack, dies of pneumonia at 64
- 1993 C Northcote Parkinson, English historian/sociologist (Law of P), dies
- 1993 David Gunn, abortion doctor, killed by Michael Griffin at 47
- 1994 Cecil Rolph Hewitt, English journalist and policeman, dies at 92
- 1994 Robert Shea, author, dies of cancer
- 1995 Alexander Hyatt-King, Mozart scholar, dies at 84
- 1995 Carel Birnie, ballet producer, dies at 69
- 1995 Richard Baerlein, racing writer, dies at 84
- 1996 Lucius E Burch Jr, US civil rights leader, dies at 84
- 1999 Oswaldo Guayasamin, Ecuadorian paintor and sculptor (b. 1919)
- 2001 Michael Woodruff, English surgeon and scientist (organ transplantation), dies at 89
- 2008 Richard Fran Biegenwald, an American serial killer (b. 1940)
- 2012 Jean Giraud, French comic artist (Alien, Tron), dies at 73
- 2012 Mykola Plaviuk, Ukrainian president (1978-81), dies at 86
- 2012 Frank Rowland, American Nobel laureate in chemistry, dies from Parkinson's disease at 84
- 2016 Anita Brookner, English novelist (Hotel du Lac) and art historian, dies at 87
- 2017 Robert James Waller, American author (Bridges of Madison County), dies at 77
- 2018 Count Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer (Audrey Hepburn's LBD) and founder of Givenchy (1952), dies at 91