- 200 Sun Ce, warlord of the Han Dynasty (b. 175)
- 311 Gaius VM Galerius, emperor of Rome, dies at about 50
- 984 Gerberga of Saxony, Queen of Western Francia
- 1028 Alfonso V, King of Leon/Galicia (999-1028), dies in battle
- 1194 Casimir II, the Just, grand duke of Poland (1177-94), dies. Born 1138
- 1219 King Leo II of Armenia (b. 1150)
- 1309 Charles II, the Lame, King of Naples (1285-1309), dies
- 1504 Anton of Burgundy, the Great Bastard, knight, dies at about 82
- 1525 Frederik III, the Wise, ruler of Saxon (1486-1525), dies at 62
- 1582 Charlotte de Bourbon, Princess of Orange, dies
- 1586 Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)
- 1672 Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
- 1678 Anna M van Schurman, Dutch poet/spoke 10 languages, dies at about 70
- 1705 Leopold I von Hapsburg, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire, dies at 64
- 1766 Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)
- 1801 Philippe-Lambert-Joseph Spruyt, Flemish painter and engraver, dies at 74
- 1808 Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist, dies at 50
- 1811 Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (b. 1734)
Napoléon Bonaparte
1821 Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader and Emperor of the French (1804-14, 1815), dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena, officially from stomach cancer but rumours of arsenic poisoning persist
Napoléon Bonaparte
- 1827 Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (1806-27), dies at 76
- 1855 Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (b. 1786)
- 1859 Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician, dies at 53
- 1864 Alexander Hays, US Union-general-major, dies in battle at 44
- 1864 John Marshall Jones, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 43
- 1864 Leroy A Stafford, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 42
- 1886 Joseph Albert, German photographer (Albertotype), dies at 61
- 1892 August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818)
- 1896 Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
- 1900 Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817)
- 1902 Bret Harte, American author (Outcasts of Poker Flat), dies at 65
- 1909 Pauline Staegeman, German feminist, dies
- 1921 Alfred H Fried, Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel 1911), dies
- 1921 William Friese-Greene, British photographer and inventor (motion pictures), dies at 65
- 1927 Charles Boissevain, editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies
- 1941 Natalija Obrenović, Queen of Serbia (b. 1859)
- 1942 Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
- 1945 Peter Van Pels, Jewish Refugee (b. 1926)
- 1945 Elsie Mitchell and five Sunday school students become the only people to die during World War II on US soil when they are killed by a Japanese fire balloon that lands in the forest of Gearhart Mountain, near Bly, Southern Oregon
- 1956 Karel Rudolph Gallas, Dutch lexicographer (French Dictionary), dies at 88
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
1959 Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician (Nobel Peace Prize 1936), dies at 80
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
- 1963 Jacobus JP Old, architect/co-founder (Stijl), dies at 73
- 1971 Harry Moorman, Dutch vice-admiral (KVP), dies at 71
- 1971 Petro Scaglione, Italian procureur-general, killed by Mafia
- 1971 Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor (b. 1887)
- 1976 Thomas Burnett Swann, American sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur), dies at 47
- 1977 Ludwig Erhard, German minister of Economic Affairs (CDU), dies at 80
- 1980 Edmond Vandercammen, Belgian writer/poet (Grand Combat), dies at 79
- 1981 Bobby Sands, Irish IRA activist dies in the 66th day of his hunger strike at 26
- 1983 Horst Schumann, Nazi physician (b. 1901)
- 1985 Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b. 1901)
- 1988 Tamara Pos, Suriname/Dutch activist
- 1988 Michael Shaara, American author (Killer angels), dies of a heart attack at 59
- 1992 Stefano d'Arrigo, Siciilian writer, dies at 72
- 1993 Balak Brahmachari, [Marxist Godman], Indies guru, dies at 73
- 1993 Irving Howe, American writer and critic (Dissent), dies at 72
- 1993 Lenore Kingston Jenson, dies of cancer at 79
- 1993 Dermot Boyle, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, dies at 88
- 1994 Hein Salomonson, architect, dies at about 83
- 1994 Joe Layton, American director (Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip), dies at 63
- 1995 Anthony Wagner, Officer of Arms at the College of Arms in London, dies at 86
- 1995 Bernard Benjamin Gillis, judge, dies at 89
- 1995 James Pack, naval officer museum curator, dies at 81
- 1995 Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, British engineer (float glass), dies at 75
- 1996 Ai Qing, Chinese poet, dies at 86
- 2001 Clifton Hillegass, American writer and publisher
- 2002 Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator (b. 1926)
- 2002 Paul Klipsch, American engineer, noted for his loudspeaker designs, dies at 98
- 2003 Walter Sisulu, South African activist (b. 1912)
- 2007 Theodore Harold Maiman, American Inventor and engineer (created 1st working laser), dies at 79
- 2008 Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur (b. 1917)
- 2011 Claude Choules, last surviving World War I veteran (b. 1901)
- 2018 Aaron D. Panken, American rabbi, dies in a plane crash at 53
- 2018 Rosemarie Schruder, German writer, dies at 89
- 2018 Stanley Falkow, American microbiologist (molecular mechanisms of infectious diseases), dies at 84
- 2018 Ludwig Harig, German writer, dies at 90