- 615 Columbanus, Irish monastery founder/poet/saint (Poenitentiale), dies
- 947 Berthold, Duke of Bavaria
- 955 Edred, King of England (b. c. 923)
- 1249 Ajjoeb, sultan of Egypt, dies
- 1407 Louis, duke of Orleans, murdered
- 1457 Ladislaus V Posthumus, king of Hungary/Bohemia, dies at 17
- 1503 Bona of Savoy, Italian noblewoman (b. 1449)
- 1503 Margaret of York (Margaret of Burgendy), wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 57
- 1511 Princess Anne of York, 5th daughter of King Edward IV, dies at 36
- 1511 Mahmud Begada, Sultan of Gujarat (successfully captured Pavagadh and Junagadh forts in battles), dies at 66
- 1558 Charles, earl of Lalaing/land guardian of the Neth, dies at 52
- 1572 Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet (b. 1503)
- 1613 Charles Philip of Croij, marquis of Havre/earl of Fontenoy, dies at 64
- 1616 Richard Hakluyt, English writer (b. 1552)
- 1682 Claude Lorrain, French painter (b. 1604)
- 1709 Hans Willem baron Bentinck, Dutch/English earl of Portland, dies at 60
- 1763 Friedrich Graf von Seckendorf, German soldier (b. 1673)
- 1769 Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (b. 1711)
- 1783 Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (approximated the value of pi and its square, pi^2), dies at 68
- 1803 Roger Newdigate, British politician (sat in the House of Commons 1742-80), dies at 87
- 1804 Richard Graves, English writer, dies at 89
- 1807 Jean-François Rewbell, French lawyer and politician, dies at 60
- 1814 Elbridge Gerry, American statesman who invented gerrymandering and 5th Vice President of the United States, dies at 70
- 1829 Ritta and Christina Parodi, Sardinian siamese twins, die at 8 months
- 1848 John Barrow, 1st Baronet, English statesman and founder of the Royal Geographical Society, dies at 84
- 1864 Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German-Russian astronomer, dies at 71
- 1865 René E de Russy, West Indian/US brigadier general, dies at about 75
- 1872 Ten Bears (Parra-Wa-Samen), American poet/Comanche chief, dies
- 1890 Willem III, last male King of the Netherlands (1849-90), dies at 73
- 1902 Walter Reed, U.S. Army physician and bacteriologist who proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever, dies at 51
- 1910 Hawley Harvey Crippen [Dr Crippen], American homeopath and first killer to be caught with the aid of wireless telegraphy, dies by hanging at 48
- 1914 Elbrige Gerry, VP (of Gerrymander fame), dies at 70
- 1920 Mohammed ibn Addoellah, Somalian resistances leader "Mad Molla", dies
- 1923 Urmuz, Romanian writer (b. 1883)
- 1927 S Przybyszewski, writer, dies
- 1934 E. A. Wallis Budge, English orientalist and museum curator (British Museum), dies at 77
- 1935 Louise Mack, Australian poet and novelist, dies at 65
- 1937 Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist, ploymath and writer, dies at 78
- 1937 George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b. 1858)
- 1946 Fawzi Husseini, Arabic High Director for Palestine, murdered
- 1949 Gustav Radbruch, German lawyer and jurist, dies at 71
- 1952 Aaro A Hellaakoski, Finnish geographer/poet, dies at 59
- 1956 Jeanne Cappe, Belgian author (Tres Grand Cardinal), dies at about 61
- 1962 H. J. Friedericy, Dutch author (Last General), dies at 62
- 1965 Franc Debenham, Australian geographer/geologer, dies at 81
- 1966 Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician and President of Ireland (1945-59), dies at 84
- 1970 Yusuf Bin Ishak, president of Singapore 1965-70, dies at about 60
- 1973 Constance Talmadge, US comedienne (Her Primitive Lover), dies at 75
- 1974 Cornelius Ryan, Irish war reporter and historian (Bridge too Far), dies at 54
André Malraux
1976 André Malraux [Berger], French novelist and art historian (La Condition Humaine), dies at 75
André Malraux
- 1979 Richard Rovere, American political journalist (Goldwater Caper), dies at 64
- 1980 Thien-an Thich, Zen teacher/Vietnamese Rinzai line, dies in LA at 54
- 1983 Juhan Muks, Estonian artist (b. 1899)
- 1989 Armand Salacrou, French playwright, dies at 90
- 1990 Nguyen Van Tam, Prime Minister of Vietnam (1952-53), dies
- 1990 Renate Rubinstein, German-Dutch author and columnist (Tamar), dies at 61
Roald Dahl
1990 Roald Dahl, British author (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG), dies at 74
Roald Dahl
- 1992 Thelma Orloff, entertainer, dies of kidney failure at 76
- 1993 Gerarda Rueter, Dutch sculptor, dies at 89
- 1994 William Donald Campbell, diarist/Ornithologist, dies at 89
- 1996 Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photojournalist, dies at 53
- 1996 Ralph Tubbs, architect, dies at 84
- 1996 Sayed Idries Shah, thinker, dies at 72
- 2001 Mary Whitehouse, English social activist who opposed social liberalism and the mainstream British media, dies at 91
- 2002 Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b. 1911)
- 2004 Pete Franklin, American talk radio host (b. 1928)
- 2006 Nick Clarke, English radio presenter (b. 1948)
- 2006 Alexander Litvinenko, Russian KGB officer, dies at 43
- 2011 Oscar Griffin Jr, American journalist and 1963 Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 78
- 2011 Carlos Moorhead, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California), dies at 89
- 2015 Douglass North, American economist, (Nobel Prize Economic Sciences 1993), dies at 95
- 2016 Joe Esposito, American author and friend of Elvis, dies at 78
- 2017 Fred van der Spek, Dutch 2nd chamber member (PSP), dies at 93
- 2019 Walter Spink, American professor and world expert on South Asian art and architecture (Ajanta caves), dies at 91
- 2019 Barbara Hillary, American adventurer, 1st black woman to reach the North Pole, dies at 88