- 366 Procopius, Roman usurper (b. 326)
- 866 Ordono I, King of Asturia (850-66), dies
- 927 Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria (b. 864 or 865)
- 1039 Dirk III Hierosolymita, Count of Holland, dies
- 1178 Godfried van Rhenen, bishop of Utrecht, dies
- 1444 John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (b. 1404)
Ludovico Sforza
1508 Ludovico Sforza [il Moro], Italian duke of Milan, dies at 55
Ludovico Sforza
John Calvin
1564 John Calvin [Jehan Cauvin], Protestant religious reformer and theologian (Calvinism), dies at 54 (b. 1509)
John Calvin
- 1569 François de Coligny d'Andelot, French general (Jarnac) and Ruler of van Andelot, dies at 48
- 1576 Louis de Boisot, Dutch admiral, drowns at about 44
- 1580 Jonker Barthold Entens van Mentheda until Middelstum, dies
- 1596 Tibaldi II, Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies
- 1610 François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578)
- 1615 Marguerite de Valois, 1st Queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
- 1627 Eberhard Bronchorst, Dutch lawyer, dies at 73
- 1661 Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 53
- 1675 Gaspard Dughet, French painter (b. 1613)
- 1702 Dominique Bouhours, French critic (b. 1628)
- 1707 Marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1640)
- 1768 Johann M Fleischmann, German/Dutch stamp/letter designer, dies
- 1781 Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (b. 1716)
- 1790 Jeremiah Carlton, laziest man in history, heir to a large fortune at 19 went to bed & stayed there for next 70 yrs, dies at 89
- 1797 Francois-Noal "Gracchus" Babeuf, French utopian socialist, dies at 36
- 1831 Jedediah Smith, American explorer (b. 1799)
- 1848 Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom, 5th daughter of King George III, dies at 70
- 1855 Nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russ writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies
- 1855 Nikolaj Bestuzhev, Russian Navy officer, writer and painter (Decembrist revolt), dies at 64
- 1863 Edward Payson Chapin, Union Brigadier General, dies at 31
- 1876 Joseph Bosworth, lexicographer/scholar, dies
- 1887 Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer, dies at 86
- 1896 Allard Pierson, theologist/philosopher/art historian/poet, dies
- 1896 Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839)
- 1902 Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet, dies
Robert Koch
1910 Robert Koch, German pioneering bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel Prize 1905), dies at 66
Robert Koch
- 1914 Joseph Wilson Swan, physicist/chemist, dies
- 1916 Joseph Gallieni, French general (Battle of Marne) and military governor of Paris, dies at 67
- 1918 Henry Adams, US literature historian (Esther), dies at 80
- 1919 Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Social reformer of Andhra Pradesh, dies at 71
- 1926 Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904)
- 1934 Meijer Linnewiel, [Prof Kokadorus], Amsterdam street hawker, dies
- 1939 Joseph Roth, Austria journalist (Fluctuate ohne Ende), dies at 44
- 1941 AH Borgesius, tutor/experimentator/amateur astronomer, dies at 76
- 1949 Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY
- 1951 Thomas Blamey, Australian general (WWI, WWII), dies at 67
- 1954 Herzmanovsky-Orlando, writer, dies
- 1958 Samuel Stritch, US cardinal/archbishop (Chicago), dies
- 1960 James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator, dies at 82
- 1963 Lambrakis, Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered
Jawaharlal Nehru
1964 Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India (1947-64) and important leader of the Indian independence movement, dies of an assumed heart attack at 74
Jawaharlal Nehru
- 1967 Ernst Niekisch, German politician (b. 1889)
- 1970 Emmy van Lokhorst, author, dies at 78
- 1986 Gaston Duribreux, Flemish writer (Sour Dove), dies at 82
- 1986 Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi, Palestinian-born philosopher (b. 1921)
- 1987 John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
- 1989 Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (b. 1907)
- 1990 Robert B. Meyner, American politician (b. 1908)
- 1991 Ed Dodd, cartoonist (Mark Trail), dies at 88
- 1992 Daniel Robberechts, Belgian writer (Aankomen in Avignon), dies at 55
- 1992 Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo, mobster (St Valentines Day), dies at 86
- 1992 Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890)
- 1994 Norman Cook, British museum curator, dies at 87
- 1994 Theo Swagemakers, portrait painter, dies at 95
- 1996 Ivan Sutton, concert Promotoer, dies at 82
- 1996 Jack Massey, groundsman, dies at 85
- 2000 Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch, British statesman (b. 1917)
- 2000 Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912)
- 2006 Alex Toth, American cartoonist (b. 1928)
- 2006 Rob Borsellino, American columnist (b. 1949)
- 2007 Ed Yost, American inventor (b. 1919)
- 2008 Franz Künstler, Last remaining Austro-Hungarian Empire World War I veteran (b. 1900)
Clive Granger
2009 Clive Granger, Welsh-born British economist (Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences 2003), dies at 74
Clive Granger
- 2010 Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator (b. 1929)