- 365 Felix II, Italian anti-pope, dies after failing to regain position as Pope from Liberius
- 950 Lotharius, King of Italy (947-50), dies
- 1247 Robin Hood, dies (from "A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hood")
- 1286 Eric V of Denmark, Danish King (b. 1249)
- 1318 Mikhail Yaroslavich, Russian prince (b. 1271)
- 1594 Martin Frobisher, English privateer, explorer (Canada) and later vice-admiral who helped defeat the Spanish Armada, dies aged between 55 and 59
- 1617 Ahmed I, 14th Sultan of the Ottoman Emperor (1603-17), dies at 27
- 1694 John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1630)
- 1697 Libéral Bruant, French architect (b. 1635)
Blackbeard (c. 1680-1718)
Notorious English pirate who operated in the West Indies and eastern coast of North America, dies in battle at 38
- 1758 Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, British politician (b. 1680)
- 1773 Robert Clive, English explorer and founder (British Empire in India), dies at 49
- 1781 Jan Ekels the Elder, Amsterdam painter and cartoonist, dies at 57
- 1782 John Barueth, vicar/pamphleter, dies
- 1782 John de Mol, porcelein manufacturer, dies
- 1783 John Hanson, American Continental Congressman and 1st US President under Articles of Confederation, dies at 68
- 1794 John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
- 1799 Baroness van Dorth, orangist, executed
- 1803 Bernardus Bosch, Dutch vicar and poet, dies at 57
- 1825 Anne Bailey (née Herris), British-American revolutionary war scout and messenger, and pioneer woman, known as 'Mad Anne", dies at 85
- 1871 Oscar J Dunn, (Lt Gov-La), dies suddenly, charges he was poisoned
- 1875 Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)
- 1886 William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
- 1893 James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University (b. 1826)
- 1896 George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American engineer and inventor (Ferris Wheel), dies of typhoid fever at 37
- 1901 Aleksandr Kovalevsky, Russian biologist (founded comparative embryology and experimental histology and identified a common pattern of embryological development in all multi-cellular animals), dies at 61
- 1902 Friedrich A Krupp, cannon manufacturer, commits suicide
- 1904 Theophile E A de Bock, painter/etcher, dies
- 1906 Ernst Josephson, Swedish painter, dies at 55
- 1907 Asaph Hall, American astronomer who discovered satellites of Mars (Phobos & Deimos), dies at 78
- 1916 Jack London, American activist and author (Call of the Wild), dies at 40
- 1917 Teoberto Maler, German-born explorer (b. 1842)
- 1919 Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer, dies at 67
- 1920 Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (b. 1884)
- 1924 Herman Heijermans, Dutch writer (On Hope, Heap of Blessing), dies at 59
- 1932 William Walker Atkinson, American author (b. 1862)
- 1936 Louis Apol, Dutch painter, etcher and literary, dies at 86
- 1940 Wacław Rawicz [Berent], Polish biologist and writer, dies at 67
- 1941 Werner Mölders, German ace fighter pilot (b. 1915)
- 1944 Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist, cosmologist and mathematician (stars), dies at 61
- 1944 George Clausen, English painter, dies at 92
- 1946 Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (Reich Minister of Justice 1942-45), dies at 57
- 1953 Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani religious scholar and biographer of Muhammad, dies at 69
- 1954 Andrej J. Vysjinski, Russian lawyer and UN ambassador, dies at 70
- 1956 Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French criminal attorney, dies at 77
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
English author (Brave New World), dies at 69
- 1963 Bikram Singh, Indian Lt-General (Kashmir), killed in a helicopter crash in Poonch district
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
British author (The Chronicles of Narnia), dies of renal failure at 64
- 1963 Daulet Singh, Indian Lt-General, killed in a helicopter crash in Poonch district
- 1963 Erlic Pinto, Indian air vice marshal (Annexation of Goa), killed at 42 in a helicopter crash in Poonch district
- 1963 J. D. Tippit, American police officer, murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald at 39, shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
35th President of the United States (1961-63) and Senator (D-Mass), assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas at 46
- 1963 Wilhelm Beiglböck, Nazi physician (b. 1905)
- 1963 William R. Titterton, English author (Candle of the Stars), dies at 87
- 1966 Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomez, 1st Prime Minister of Dutch Antilles, dies at 59
- 1967 Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
- 1979 Anne Vondeling, Male Dutch soc democratic party-minister, dies at 63
- 1980 Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter (b. 1901)
- 1981 Hans Krebs, German-British doctor and research biochemist specializing in metabolic reactions (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1953), dies at 81 [1]
Jean Batten (1909-1982)
New Zealand aviator (first-ever solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936), dies at 73
Raymond Dart (1893-1988)
Australian paleoanthropologist (Australopithecus africanus), dies at 95 [1]
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
British novelist and essayist (A Clockwork Orange), dies of cancer at 76
- 1994 John Michael Grimes, British set designer (Philby, Burgess and MacLean), dies at 70
- 1995 John Putz, journalist, dies at 89
- 1995 Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist (National Welfare Rights Association), dies at 69
- 1995 Norman Potter, English cabinetmaker, designer and writer, dies at 72
- 1996 Terence Donovan, English fashion photographer, film and video director, commits suicide at 60
- 1997 Harry Kissin, Baron Kissin, British businessman and President (GPG), dies at 85
- 1997 Tom Blackburn, writer, dies at 71
- 1998 Stu Unger, American poker player (b. 1953)
- 2001 Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (b. 1915)
- 2006 Gilles Grégoire, Quebec politician (co-founder of the Parti Québécois), dies at 80
- 2006 Ria Beckers, Dutch politician and leader of the progressive Christian party PPR, dies at 67
- 2007 Maurice Béjart, Father of the Ballet Renewal(b. 1929)
- 2008 MC Breed, American hip hop artist (b. 1971)
- 2010 Frank Fenner, Australian microbiologist (b. 1914)
- 2011 Lana Peters [Svetlana Stalina], Stalin's daughter, dies at 85
- 2011 Lynn Margulis, American biologist (serial endosymbiotic theory), dies at 73
- 2012 Bryce Courtenay, South African-born Australian novelist, dies from stomach cancer at 79
- 2015 Kim Young-sam, politician and activist - President of South Korea (1993-98), dies at 87
- 2022 Greg Bear, American sci-fi author (Eon, Eternity), dies following surgery at 71 [1]
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