- 1436 Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman (b. 1390s)
- 1471 Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, dies at 17, becoming the only heir apparent to the English throne to ever die in battle
- 1471 Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English military commander (executed)
- 1506 Husayn Bayqarah, ruler of Herat (b. 1438)
- 1519 Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, dies at 26
- 1566 Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490)
- 1594 Paul Buys, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at 62
- 1605 Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist and naturalist, dies at 82
- 1615 Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561)
- 1626 Arthur Lake, English Bishop of Bath and Wells, and translator of the King James Bible, dies at 56
- 1677 Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (b. 1630)
- 1684 John Nevison, English highwayman (b. 1639)
- 1729 Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (b. 1651)
- 1734 James Thornhill, English painter
- 1737 Eustace Budgell, English writer (b. 1686)
- 1752 Pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 71
- 1774 Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, dies at 59
- 1776 Jacques Saly, French sculptor (b. 1717)
- 1790 Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1718)
- 1799 Tipu Sultan, Indian military leader killed during Battle of Seringapatam (b. 1750)
- 1811 Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)
- 1824 Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (b. 1754)
- 1832 Jan van Speyck, Dutch admiral, buried in New Church
- 1858 Aimé Bonpland, French explorer and botanist, dies at 84 (date disputed)
- 1859 Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician (b. 1771)
- 1879 William Froude, British civil eng/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies at 68
- 1880 Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
- 1885 Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia (1842-58), dies at 78
- 1891 Sherlock Holmes, "dies" at Reichenbach Falls
- 1901 John Jones Ross, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec (1884-1887), dies at 69
- 1903 Goce Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkans - leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (b. 1872)
- 1916 Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish revolutionary (b. 1887)
- 1919 Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (b. 1880)
- 1922 Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (b. 1888)
- 1924 Edith Nesbit, British children books author (The Story of the Treasure Seekers, Five Children and It), dies at 65
- 1928 Barry E Odell Pain, English writer (Punch), dies at 63
- 1938 Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist and writer (Nobel Peace Prize 1935), dies at 48
- 1953 Edward Shanks, British poet and critic, dies at 60
- 1955 Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer, dies at 75
- 1961 Anita Stewart, dies of heart attack at 66
- 1965 Norman Brokenshire, TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies at 66
- 1969 Osbert Sitwell, English writer (b. 1892)
- 1970 4 students, at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard
- 1970 William Schroeder (b. 1950)
- 1971 Donald Dexter Van Slyke, American chemist (Micromanometric analysis), dies at 88
- 1971 Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor, dies at 83
- 1972 Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
- 1973 Jane Bowles, American writer and playwright, dies at 56
- 1980 Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80), dies at 87
- 1984 Bob Clampett, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
- 1985 Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907)
- 1987 Dick Hillenius, Dutch biologist/writer, dies at 59
- 1989 Evelle Jansen Younger, American prosecutor (Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan), dies at 70
- 1990 Don Appell, American writer and director, dies at 70
- 1991 Dennis Crosby, son of Bing, commits suicide at 54
- 1992 Henri Guillemin, French historian, dies at 89
- 1992 Ismael Galeano, "Commandant Franklyn" (Contra), dies
- 1992 Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 50
- 1992 Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (b. 1927)
- 1994 Karl Francis Hettinger, onion Field survivor, dies at 59
- 1995 Lewis T Preston, American banker (President of the World Bank 1991-95), dies at 68
- 1996 Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist, dies at 87
- 1996 Stanley William Reed, cineaste, dies at 85
- 1997 Vijayananda Dahanayake, PM of Sri Lanka (1959-60), dies
- 2001 Bonnie Lee Bakley, American murder victim (b. 1956)
- 2005 David Hackworth, U.S. Army officer and military journalist (b. 1930)
- 2013 Christian de Duve, British cytologist and biochemist, dies from euthanasia at 95
- 2013 Morgan Morgan-Giles, British Naval officer and politician, dies at 98
- 2017 William J. Baumol, American economist (Baumol’s cost disease), dies at 95