Ibn Khaldūn (1332-1406)
North African Islamic scholar, philosopher and historian (Muqaddimah), dies at 73
- 1556 Lieven van der Maude [Ammonius], South Netherlands poet, dies at 70
- 1623 Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)
- 1635 Pieter Christiaensz Bor, Dutch historian, dies
- 1637 Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman, dies at 66
- 1638 Paul Moreelse, Dutch painter/master builder, dies at about 66
- 1649 Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
- 1683 Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1612)
- 1687 René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, French explorer (Louisiana), killed by his men at 43
- 1717 John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist
- 1721 Clement XI [Giovanni F Albani], Italian pope (ruled 1700-21), dies at 71
- 1796 Hugh Palliser, British naval officer and administrator (b. 1722)
- 1816 Philip Mazzei, Italian physician (b. 1730)
- 1862 Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari), dies at 73
- 1869 Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (Triangulatie of Belgium), dies at 64
- 1871 Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (b. 1795)
- 1897 Antoine T. d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), dies at 87
- 1898 João da Cruz, Brazilian poet, dies at 26
- 1900 John Bingham, American politician and lawyer, dies at 85
- 1907 Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American editor and writer (The Story of a Bad Boy), dies at 70
- 1914 Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)
- 1915 Antonio Agliardi, Italian diplomat and Roman Catholic cardinal, dies at 82
- 1916 Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
- 1918 Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/liberal politician, dies at 73
Arthur Balfour (1848-1930)
British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1902-05) and Foreign Secretary (Balfour Declaration), dies of unremitting circulatory trouble at 81
- 1934 Anthony J Block, lawyer (Dutch strafproces), dies at 66
- 1937 Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer (Anaconda, El Crimen del Otro), commits suicide at 58
- 1939 Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist
- 1940 Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs, dies at 54
- 1942 Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist and ornithologist, dies at 86
- 1943 Frank Nitti, American gangster (b. 1883)
- 1944 William Hale Thompson, American mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
- 1945 Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed
- 1946 Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Buah Rindu), dies at 35
- 1950 Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74
- 1950 Sir Walter Norman Haworth, British chemist (Nobel Prize, 1937), dies of a heart attack on his 67th birthday [1]
- 1962 Samuel Cate Prescott, American food scientist and microbiologist, dies at 89
- 1967 Alfred Judson Force Moody, US Army Brigadier General, WWII veteran dies of a heart attack at 49; 1st US Army General to die in Vietnam
- 1971 Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist (Last Things), dies at 82
- 1971 Mary Dorna [Mary Jeanette Tenkink-Stoppelman], Dutch author, dies at 79
- 1974 Anne Klein, American fashion designer (Anne Klein II), dies at 50
- 1974 Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist/daughter of Otto K, dies at 70
- 1975 John A DeMott, dies at 63
- 1978 Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b. 1893)
- 1984 Garry Winogrand, American photographer, dies of cancer at 56
- 1987 Arch Oboler, American director, screen and radio writer, and producer (Lights Out, Bwana Devil), dies at 77
- 1987 Louis Broglie, French physicist (Nobel 1929), dies at 94
- 1987 Louis Victor de Broglie, French quantum physicist (studied electrons, Nobel Prize for Physics, 1929), dies at 94
- 1987 Tony Stratton-Smith, journalist/record co CEO (Charisma), dies at 53
- 1991 Ron Pagano, dies after lengthy illness at 37
- 1993 Barend P Tammeling, journalist (Trouw, Peek on the North), dies at 58
- 1994 Giuseppe Diana, Italian anti-mafia priest, murdered
- 1994 Jose Coronel Urtecho, poet, dies at 87
- 1995 Fernand Lodewick, literature historian (Literature), dies at 85
- 1995 Gerard Tebroke, 5/10 km-dasher, dies at 45
- 1996 William Hutchinson Murray, Scottish mountaineer and author, dies at 83
- 1997 Willem De Kooning, Dutch artist (Abstract), dies of Alzheimer at 92
- 1999 Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (b. 1926)
- 1999 Tofilau Eti Alesana, former Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
- 2001 Charles K. Johnson, American President of the Flat Earth Society, dies at 76
- 2003 Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator, dies at 76
- 2004 Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (b. 1911)
- 2005 John De Lorean, American automobile engineer (b. 1925)
Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)
English sci-fi author (2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End), dies of post-polio syndrome at 90
- 2008 Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (Cool Lover, Sugar), dies at 78
- 2012 William Charette, American navy Hospital Corpsman and Medal of Honour recipient, dies at 79
- 2017 Jimmy Breslin, American author and columnist (NY Post, News, Newsday), dies at 88
- 2017 Mary Maples Dunn, American college president (Smith College), dies at 85