- 373 Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria (b. 298)
- 649 Maruta of Tagrit, theology/1st mafriaan Jakobitische church, dies
- 756 Emperor Shōmu, Emperor of Japan (b. 701)
- 907 Boris I, King of Bulgaria (852-889), saw Bulgaria converted to Christianity
- 1230 William de Braose, Lord of Abergavenny (b. 1197)
- 1250 Toeransa, sultan of Egypt, murdered
- 1300 Blanche of Artois, regent of Navarre (b. 1248)
- 1450 William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English military leader (b. 1396)
- 1459 Pierozzi Antoninus, Italian archbishop of Florence/saint, dies
- 1488 Jacob van Horne, Burgundy statesman, dies
Leonardo da Vinci
1519 Leonardo da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67
Leonardo da Vinci
- 1564 Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (b. 1500)
- 1567 Marin Drzic, Croatian playwright (Dundo Maroje), dies
- 1667 George Wither, English writer (b. 1588)
- 1669 Pieter Jansz Post, master builder (Waag, Gouda), dies at 61
- 1683 Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (b. 1613)
- 1685 Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter, buried
- 1711 Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English statesman (b. 1641)
- 1727 Paul Aler, French jesuit and poet (Gradus ad Parnassum), dies at 70
- 1736 Albert Seba, Amsterdam pharmacist, dies at 71
- 1802 Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch statesman (b. 1762)
- 1810 Rev. Dr. Henry Jerome de Salis, divine (b.1740)
- 1818 Herman W Daendels, governor-gen of Guinea (1815-18), dies at 55
- 1819 Mary Moser, English painter (Flowers Still Life), dies at 74
- 1845 August Pauly, German writer (Real Encyclopedia), dies at 48
- 1849 David H Chasse, baron/gen (fought Napoleon at Waterloo), dies at 84
- 1857 LC Alfred the Musset, French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies
- 1859 Eliza Courtney, English illegitimate daughter of Charles Grey and Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, dies at 67
- 1898 Charles C. Walcutt, American general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, dies of an old war wound at 60
- 1919 Gustav Landauer, German socialist, dies
- 1927 Ernest Starling, British physiologist (Frank–Starling law of the heart), dies at 61
- 1934 Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev, Russian Chemist who invented the first commercially viable and mass-produced synthetic rubber, dies at 59
Martin Bormann
1945 Martin Bormann, German Nazi leader (Hitler's secretary, chief of the Party Chancellery), most likely commits suicide age 44 [remains identified in 1972]
Martin Bormann
Joseph McCarthy
1957 Joseph McCarthy, anti-communist US senator (R-Wisc), dies at 48
Joseph McCarthy
- 1958 Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist, dies at 89
- 1960 Caryl Chessman, rapist executed after 12 years of appeals at 39
- 1963 Van Wyck Brooks, US historian (Ordeal of Mark Twain), dies at 77
- 1964 Nancy N Witcher Astor, US/Eng feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor, dies
- 1968 Donald L Hall, American airplane designer (Spirit of St Louis), dies at 69
- 1969 Franz JHMM von Papen, German chancellor (1932), dies at 89
- 1972 Hugo Hartung, writer, dies at 69
J. Edgar Hoover
1972 J. Edgar Hoover, first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1924-72) dies at 77
J. Edgar Hoover
- 1979 Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
- 1983 Marius F Duintjer, architect, dies
- 1984 Jack Barry, american game show emcee (Joker's Wild), dies of cardiac arrest at 66
- 1984 Piet van Aken, Flemish writer (Failing God, Niggers), dies at 64
- 1985 Milton S Eisenhower, US diplomat, dies at 85
- 1985 Bridget D'Oyly Carte, British theater & hotel director, dies of lung cancer at 77
- 1989 Giuseppe Siri, Italian Catholic Cardinal (b. 1906)
- 1989 Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (b. 1902)
- 1990 Oleg Anatolyevich Yakovlev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 49
- 1991 Hal Bell, dies at 65
- 1991 Leib Lensky, dies at 82
- 1991 Ronald McKie, Australian author (The Mango Tree), dies at 81
- 1992 Lee Salk, Russian-American child psychologist and author, dies of cardiac arrest at 65
- 1992 Wilbur Mills, (Rep-D-Ark)/involved with Fanne Foxe, dies at 82
- 1993 Julio Gallo, wine maker (Gallo), dies in a car accident at 82
- 1993 Will Weng, Sunday Times crossword puzzle editor (1968-78), dies at 86
- 1994 Louis Calaferte, writer (Requiem of the Innocents), dies at 65
- 1994 Wilson Charles Geoffrey Baldwin, hero, dies at 75
- 1996 Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, civil servant, dies at 97
- 1996 Emile Habibi, Palestinian Israeli writer (The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist), dies at 73
- 1996 Peter John Swales, football club chairman, dies at 63
- 1997 Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator (b. 1921)
- 1999 Edward Portman, 9th Viscount Portman, British landowner and multimillionaire, dies at 65
- 2002 W. T. Tutte, English-born codebreaker (b. 1917)
- 2005 Kenneth B. Clark, American psychologist (b. 1914)
- 2005 Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915)
- 2006 Louis Rukeyser, American columnist (b. 1933)
- 2009 Jack Kemp, former United States Congressman and 1996 Vice Presidential Candidate (b. 1935)
Osama bin Laden
2011 Osama bin Laden, Islamic militant and founder of al-Qaeda, shot and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan by navy seals during Operation Neptune Spear at 54
Osama bin Laden