Agrippina the Younger
59 Agrippina the Younger, Roman Empress, dies at 43 (circumstances of her death vary, but suggest she was murdered by her son, the Emperor Nero)
Agrippina the Younger
- 1103 Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1058)
Peter the Cruel
1369 Peter the Cruel, King of Castile & Leon (1350-69), murdered by his half-brother at 34
Peter the Cruel
- 1548 Itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen
Julius III
1555 Julius III [Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte], Counter-Reformation Pope (1550-55), dies at 67
Julius III
- 1559 Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia (killed in battle) (b. 1521/1522)
- 1596 Henry Unton, English diplomat
- 1606 Justus Lipsius [Joost Lips], Dutch classic philologist, dies at 58
- 1618 James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician
- 1653 Johan van Galen, Dutch admiral (Dunes Monte Christo), dies at about 48
Nicolas Fouquet
1680 Nicolas Fouquet, French politician and Superintendent of Finances (1653-61) who became fabulously wealthy and later imprisoned for maladministration of state funds, dies in jail in Pinerolo at 65
Nicolas Fouquet
- 1742 Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French writer (b. 1670)
- 1747 Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (b. 1675)
- 1754 Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (b. 1693)
- 1786 Patience Wright, 1st US woman pro artist, dies (birth date unknown)
- 1801 Tsar Paul I of Russia (1796-1801) is struck with a sword, strangled, and trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle aged 46
- 1813 Princess Augusta Frederica of Great Britain, dies at 75
- 1819 August von Kotzebue, German dramatist, dies at 57
- 1840 William Maclure, Scottish-American Geologist (first geological map), dies at 76
- 1842 Stendhal [Marie-Henri Beyle], French author (Le Rouge et de Noir, a Chartreuse de Parme), dies at 59
- 1862 Karl Robert von Nesselrode, German-Russian chancellor, dies at 81
- 1907 Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary lawyer and senator, dies at 79
- 1914 Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès (Saint Rebecca) Lebanese saint (b. 1832)
- 1925 Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general and minister of War, dies at 76
- 1927 Paul César Helleu, French artist (b. 1859)
Bhagat Singh
1931 Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom fighter, hanged at 23
Bhagat Singh
- 1937 Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist, dies at 66
- 1942 Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, President of Argentina (1922-28), dies at 73
- 1943 Andre Lichtenberger, French Sudan writer (Le Petit Roi), dies at 72
- 1944 O.C. Wingate, British General-Major (Burma), dies in air crash in India at 41
- 1946 Gilbert N. Lewis, American Chemist (atomic theory), dies at 70
- 1947 Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (b. 1870)
- 1952 Klaas Schilder, Dutch vicar/theologist/antifascist, dies at 61
- 1953 Raoul Dufy, painter, Forcalquier, France
- 1955 Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (b. 1875)
- 1957 Patrick Abercrombie, English architect and town planner, dies at 77
- 1958 Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76
- 1960 Franklin P Adams, columnist (Information Please), dies at 78
- 1961 James Edward Murray, (Sen-D-Montana) (1935-61), dies
- 1961 Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko, cosmonaut, dies in accident at 24
- 1962 Josephus RH van Schaik, lawyer/vice-premier of Neth, dies at 80
- 1964 Vassily Vainonen, Russian ballet choreographer (Gayaneh), dies at 66
- 1968 Edwin O'Connor, American writer, dies at 49
- 1969 Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer and philosopher (Urblik), dies at 87
- 1970 Del Lord, Canadian director (b. 1894)
- 1971 Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author/poet (Brass Garden), dies at 72
- 1980 Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (Misery Index), dies of a heart attack at 51
- 1982 Mario Praz, Italian literary critic and scholar (Casa della vita), dies at 85
- 1983 Barney Clark, 1st artificial heart recipient, dies after 112 days at 62
- 1985 Anton Constandse, Dutch anarchist and writer, dies at 85
- 1985 Patricia Roberts Harris, (Rep-D), 1st African American woman cabinet member, dies of cancer at 60
- 1985 Richard Beeching, chairman of British Railways (b. 1913)
- 1985 Peter Charanis, Greek-American scholar and professor (b. 1908)
- 1987 Adriaan Pitlo, Dutch lawyer, dies at 85
- 1991 Dominic Bellissimo, created buffalo chicken wings, dies at 68
- 1991 Fons Jansen, Dutch news reader and cabaretier, dies at 65
- 1991 Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1913)
- 1991 Elisaveta Bagriana, Bulgarian poet (The Eternal and the Holy), dies at 97
- 1992 Friedrich A von Hayek, British economist (Road to Serfdom), dies at 92
- 1993 Hans Werner Richter, German writer/founder (Gruppe 47), dies at 84
- 1994 Alvara del Portillo, Spanish Opus Dei bishop, dies at 80
- 1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican presidential candidate, assassinated at 44
- 1995 Robert Turner, winner of 1st All-American Soap Box Derby, dies at 72
- 1995 Russell Reading Braddon, Australian author, dies at 74
- 1996 Peter Baer, German-British artist and printmaker, dies at 72
- 1998 Gerald Stano, American serial killer (confessed to killing 41 people), dies at 46
- 1999 Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan politician (b. ?)
- 2004 Rupert Hamer, Australian politician (b. 1916)
- 2006 David B. Bleak, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
- 2007 Paul J. Cohen, American mathematician, Fields Medal winner (b. 1934)
- 2007 Paul Joseph Cohen, American mathematician (Cohen forcing, Continuum hypothesis), dies at 72
- 2011 Fred Titmus, English cricket all-rounder (53 Tests, 153 wickets, 10 x 50s; Middlesex), dies at 78
- 2012 Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, President of Somalia, dies from liver failure at 77
- 2013 David Bond, British sailor, dies at 90
- 2014 Adolfo Suárez, Prime Minister of Spain (1976-81), dies from a respiratory infection at 81
Lee Kuan Yew
2015 Lee Kuan Yew, Founding father of modern Singapore and 1st Prime Minister of Singapore (1959-90), dies of pneumonia at 91
Lee Kuan Yew
- 2016 Peter Moores, British businessman and director (Littlewoods), dies at 83