- 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 Willem & Juliana van Stolberg, 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 Aleijadinho ‘the Cripple’ [Antônio Francisco Lisboa], Brazilian architect and sculptor (São Francisco de Assis), dies at 76
- 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 and inventor (open-hearth furnace), dies at 60
Chester A. Arthur (1829-1886)
21st President of the United States (1881-85), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 57
- 1887 Gustav Fechner, German psychologist and physicist (Weber–Fechner law), 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
- 1917 Henry Spiekman, social-democratic politician, dies at 43
- 1919 Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (Riemann–Hurwitz formula), dies at 60
- 1919 Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, Dutch socialist politician (1st Socialist MP in parliament), dies at 72
- 1922 Marcel Proust, French intellectual and author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51
- 1929 Henricus van de Wetering, Archbishop of Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78
- 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 Prize, 1920), dies at 77 [1]
- 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 Éluard, French communist and 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 (1885-1962)
Danish physicist who expanded quantum physics (Nobel Prize 1922), dies at 77
Joseph P. Kennedy (1888-1969)
American businessman, diplomat and father of JFK, RFK and Teddy, dies at 81
Jim Jones (1931-1978)
American pastor and leader of the Peoples Temple cult (Jonestown Massacre), commits suicide at 47
- 1978 Leo Ryan, American teacher and politician (U.S. House of Representatives from California, 1973-78), assassinated at 53 in Jonestown, Guyana
- 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, Dutch Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, dermatologist and sexologist, dies at 76
- 1992 Superman, fictional character, killed by Doomsday at 54
- 1994 Christopher Joyce, British photographer, dies at 51
- 1995 Miron Grindea, Romanian-born literary editor (ADAM International Review), 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
- 2009 Jeanne-Claude [Denat de Guillebon], French artist who worked with Christo (Running Fence, Wrapped Reichstag), dies at 74
- 2010 Brian G. Marsden, British astronomer (Smithsonian's Minor Planet Center (MPC), 1978-2006), dies at 73
- 2015 Jim Slater, British financier and writer, dies at 86
- 2016 Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon (1st artificial 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
- 2018 Jerry Frankel, American Broadway producer, dies at 88
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