- 392 Valentinianus II, emperor of Rome (375-392), murdered at 21
- 884 Marinus I [Martinus II], Pope (882-84), dies
- 913 Hatto I, Archbishop of Mainz
- 1036 Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan, 68th Emperor of Japan (1016-36), dies at 27
- 1157 Yury Dolgoruky, Russian prince
- 1174 Nur ad-Din, King of Syria (1146-1174), dies at 56
- 1381 Eppelein von Gailingen, German robber baron
- 1482 Paolo Toscanelli, Italian physician & mapmaker, dies
- 1585 Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1535)
- 1591 Dmitry Ivanovitch, youngest son of Russian Tsar Ivan IV, murdered at 8
- 1621 Henrick de Keyser, Amsterdam's master builder, dies at 56
- 1622 Peter Plancius, Flemish vicar/cartographer, dies at about 69
- 1634 Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (b. 1585)
- 1685 Henri Otto, Spanish marquis of Caretto/Savona/Grana, dies
- 1699 Edward Petre, English Jesuit and privy councilor (b. 1631)
- 1714 Roger Elliott, British general and Governor of Gibraltar
- 1740 Ephraim Chambers, English encyclopaedist (b. 1680)
- 1760 Alaungpaya, King of Burma (b. 1711)
- 1761 Jacob Mossel, Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1750-61), dies at 56
- 1773 Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer, dies at 62
- 1782 Richard Wilson, Welsh landscape painter, dies at 67
- 1801 Louis C count Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian diplomat, dies at 73
- 1842 Emanuel A D M J count de las Cases, French historian (Napoleon), dies at 76
- 1845 Samuel I Wiselius, Dutch lawyer/businessman/writer, dies at 76
- 1852 Louisa Adams, US First Lady (1825-29), dies at 77
- 1855 Jan Mazereeuw, Frisian farmer/sect leader, dies at 75
- 1873 Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Romania, dies at 53
- 1879 Gottfried Semper, German architect (b. 1803)
Emily Dickinson
1886 Emily Dickinson, American poet (Collected Poems), dies of nephritis at 55
Emily Dickinson
- 1889 Alfred Potocki, premier Austrian/governor/viceroy of Galicia, dies
- 1892 Arthur Hodister, British ivory seller (Heart of Darkness), murdered
- 1895 Joseph Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker's Almanack), dies at 75
- 1899 Francisque Sarcey, French writer (Le Temps), dies at 70
- 1924 Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and pacifist (Nobel 1909), dies at 71
- 1926 Mohammed VI Vahideddin, last sultan of Turkey (1918-22), dies
- 1932 Ki Inukai, premier Japan (1931-32), murdered
- 1935 Kazimir Malevich, Polish/Ukrainian artist (b. 1878)
- 1937 Phillip Snowden, British politician first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, dies at 72
- 1940 Joseph Limburg, Dutch lawyer and politician, dies at 73
- 1940 Willem Adriaan Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race & Crime), suicide at 63
- 1945 Major Courtney, US medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf
- 1945 Charles Williams, British poet and writer, dies at 58
- 1948 Edward Flanagan, American priest and founder of Boys Town (b. 1886)
- 1954 William March, American writer (Company K), dies at 60
- 1956 Austin Osman Spare, English magician (b. 1886)
- 1958 Michael G the Boer, historian (Harbor of Amsterdam), dies at 91
- 1964 Cornelis H Edelman, Dutch geologist, dies at 61
- 1964 Vladko Maček, Kingdom of Yugoslavia deputy prime minister (b. 1879)
- 1965 Adrian Schoevers, Dutch director (Schoevers Institution), dies
- 1967 Edward Hopper, American painter (House by Railroad), dies at 84
- 1971 Donald F. Duncan Sr., American entrepreneur (Duncan Toys Company), dies at 78
- 1973 Willem Huibert Rassers, Dutch cultural anthropologist (Pandji), dies at 95
- 1974 Guy Simonds, Canadian army, youngest General officer, dies at 71
- 1976 Samuel Eliot Morison, American historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea), dies at 88
- 1977 Modibo Keïta, 1st President of Mali (1960-68), dies at 61
Robert Menzies
1978 Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (1939-41, 1949-66) and its longest-serving, dies of a heart attack at 83
Robert Menzies
- 1983 James Van Der Zee, African-American photographer, dies at 96
- 1984 Lionel Charles Robbins, British economist, dies at 85
- 1984 Francis Schaeffer, American theologian, philosopher, and pastor (b. 1912)
- 1986 Theodore H. White, American journalist (Making of President, Pulitzer Prize1962), dies at 71
- 1987 John Baur, American museum director and author (American Paintings in 19th Century), dies at 78
- 1991 Andreas Floer, German mathematician (Floer homology), dies at 34
- 1992 Robert Morris Page, US physicist (radar), dies at 88
- 1993 Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese writer, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933)
- 1994 [Henry] John Baker, resistance fighter/journalist (Slogan), dies at 79
- 1996 Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (b. 1910)
- 1996 Claus Bremer, German dramatist, dies at 71
- 1998 John Hawkes, American writer (2nd Skin), dies at 72
- 2003 George Francis, British gangster (b. 1940)
- 2005 Alan B. Gold, Quebec Chief Justice (b. 1917)
- 2007 Jerry Falwell, American TV evangelist, founder of Liberty University, dies at 73
- 2008 Willis Lamb, American physicist (Nobel 1955), dies at 94
- 2010 Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli Bible scholar, dies at 81
- 2012 Carlos Fuentes, Mexican author (The Death of Artemio Cruz), dies from a haemorrhage at 83
- 2012 Jean Craighead George, American writer (Julie of the Wolves), dies at 92
- 2014 Jean-Luc Dehaene, Belgian Prime Minister (1992-99), dies from a fall at 73
- 2017 Ian Brady [Ian Duncan Stewart], British serial killer (Moors Murders), dies in prison at 79