- 942 Odo van Cluny, 2nd abbott of Cluny (924-42), dies
- 1154 Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)
- 1170 Albrecht I "Bear", 1st margrave of Brandenburg (1150-70), dies at 70
- 1305 John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)
- 1559 Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474)
- 1590 George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528)
- 1603 Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Juliana, dies at 61
- 1630 Esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter, buried
- 1724 Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)
- 1785 Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)
- 1797 Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)
- 1814 William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745)
- 1827 Wilhelm Hauff, German writer, dies at 24
- 1851 Ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover (1837-51), dies at 80
- 1854 Edward Forbes, English Naturalist and pioneer in the field of biogeography, dies of an illness at 39
- 1883 Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies
Chester A. Arthur
1886 Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (1881-85), dies at 56
Chester A. Arthur
- 1887 Gustav T Fechner, German psychologist/physicist, dies at 86
- 1889 William Allingham, Irish poet (Day & Night Songs), dies at 68
- 1904 Justus van Maurik, Dutch author and cigar manufacturer, dies at 58
- 1909 Renee Vivien, British-born poet, wrote in French, dies at 32
- 1911 Alfred Binet, French child psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test (Binet–Simon test), dies at 54
- 1917 Henry Spiekman, social-democratic politician, dies at 43
- 1919 Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies
- 1919 Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (Riemann–Hurwitz formula), dies at 60
- 1922 Marcel Proust, French intellectual and author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51
- 1929 Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78
- 1941 Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77
- 1941 Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (Labour Party), dies at 74
- 1941 Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (b. 1879)
- 1941 Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physicist and chemist (Nobel 1920), dies at 77
- 1950 Gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60
- 1951 Johan van Maarseveen, Dutch Minister of Justice and Internal minister, dies at 57
- 1952 Paul Eluard, French communist/poet, dies at 56
- 1959 Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician, dies at 65
- 1962 Luc Haesaerts, Flemish art critic (Flandre), dies at 63
Niels Bohr
1962 Niels Bohr, Danish physicist who expanded quantum physics (Nobel Prize 1922), dies at 77
Niels Bohr
Joseph P. Kennedy
1969 Joseph P Kennedy, JFK/RFK/TMK father, dies in Hyannis Port Mass, at 81
Joseph P. Kennedy
- 1978 Leo J Ryan, (Rep-Cal) & 4 killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Peoples Temple, followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 members
- 1982 Heinar Kipphardt, German writer and playwright (In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer), dies at 60
- 1984 Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (Pictorial Review, Good Housekeeping), dies at 77
- 1989 Henry de Vries, painter/poet (Toovertuin), dies
- 1991 Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslovakia (1975-89), dies at 78
- 1992 Herman Musaph, psychiatrist/sexologist/co-founder (NVSH), dies
- 1992 Superman, fictional character, killed by Doomsday at 54
- 1994 Christopher Joyce, British photographer, dies at 51
- 1995 Miron Grindea, literary editor, dies at 86
- 1996 David Herbert, publisher, dies at 69
- 1996 John Vassall, British spy and civil servant (spied for Soviet Union), dies at 72
- 1999 Patrick Bowles, American writer and translator, dies at 88
- 1999 Paul Bowles, American novelist (The Sheltering Sky ), dies at 88
- 2010 Brian G. Marsden, British astronomer (b. 1937)
- 2015 Jim Slater, British financier and writer, dies at 86
- 2016 Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon (1st artifical heart transplant), dies at 96
- 2017 Mother Flawless Sabrina [Jack Doroshow], American LGBT activist and drag queen who was a pioneer for transgender people and drag queens, dies at 78