Horace (65-8 BC)
Roman Republican poet (Odes), dies at 56
- 450 Galla Placidia, daughter of Byzant emperor Constantius III, dies at 58
- 511 Clovis, king of Salische France, founder of Merovingische, dies at 45
- 640 Saint Acharius of Noyon, French bishop of Noyon–Tournai, dies of natural causes
- 835 Muhammad at-Taqi, Muslim Shia Imam, dies at 24
- 1026 Adalbert II, bishop of Utrecht (1010-26), dies
- 1198 Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1154)
- 1570 Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
- 1592 Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1568)
- 1632 John Eliot, English parliament leader, dies at 40
- 1673 Anthonie Palamedes [Palamedesz], Dutch painter, dies at about 72
- 1680 Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit priest and inventor (magic lantern), dies at 79
- 1720 Willem van Outhoorn, Dutch governor-general (Dutch East Indies), dies at 85
- 1754 Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem), dies at 87
- 1811 Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719)
- 1836 Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer, dies at 78
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)
English mathematician considered the first Computer Programmer, and writer and daughter of poet Lord Byron, dies of uterine cancer at 36
- 1887 Frank Dalton, American lawman of the Old West (Deputy US Marshal - Oklahoma Territory), brother of the Dalton Gang of outlaws, killed in the line of duty at 28
- 1894 Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian noblewoman, wife of Otto von Bismarck (b. 1824)
- 1899 Guido Gezelle, Flemish priest and poet, dies at 69
- 1901 Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1831)
- 1908 Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist and palaeontologist, dies at 81
- 1921 Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (b. 1854)
- 1925 Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor and painter, dies of tuberculosis at 40
Baby Face Nelson (1908-1934)
American bank robber and gangster who killed more FBI agents than any other criminal, shot by the FBI in a shoot out at 25
- 1934 Herman Hollis, FBI agent, shot and killed by Baby Face Nelson
- 1934 Sam Cowley, FBI agent, shot and killed by Baby Face Nelson
- 1936 Edward Bach, British bacteriologist, homeopathic doctor (Bach flower remedies), dies at 50
- 1943 Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian communist and partisan, killed by a German bomb at 27
- 1944 Camille Looten, French-Flemish priest and literature historian, dies at 86
- 1944 Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
American playwright (Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936), dies of cerebellar cortical atrophy at 65
- 1953 T. F. Powys, British novelist & short-story writer (Captain Patch, Goat Green), dies at 77
- 1955 William Nigh, American director (Ape, Doomed to Die, Mr Wong), dies at 74
- 1957 Margo Scharten-Antink, Dutch writer (Catherina, Sprotje), dies at 88
- 1960 Dirk Jan de Geer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1926-29, 39-40), dies at 89
- 1971 Korneel Goossens, Flemish literary figure and art historian, dies at 70
- 1974 Louis B Russell Jr, American longest living heart transplant, dies at 49
- 1975 Ross McWhirter, English Guinness Book of Records co-founder, assassinated by the IRA at 50
- 1977 John Little McClellan, American lawyer and politician (Sen-D-Ark), dies at 81
- 1978 George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (1976-78) shot and killed by Dan White aged 49
Harvey Milk (1930-1978)
American politician, gay activist and first openly gay person elected to public office, assassinated by Dan White at 48
- 1980 F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
- 1983 Manuel Scorza, Peruvian writer, dies at about 55
- 1984 Percy Norris, deputy high commissioner of India, shot dead
- 1992 Ivan Generalić, Croatian painter (b. 1914)
- 1994 Arthur Frank "Peter" Shore, egyptologist, dies at 70
- 1995 Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker, dies at 75
- 1995 Simon Bailey, 1st British priest to say he had AIDS, dies at 40
- 1996 George Ernest Leslie, trade union official, dies at 76
- 1997 Henry Charnock, oceanographer, dies at 76
- 1999 Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and author (b. 1925)
- 2000 Dorothy Woolfolk, American comic book editor (Kryptonite), dies at 87
- 2006 Alan Freeman, British disc jockey known by his nickname 'Fluff' (b. 1927)
- 2006 Bebe Moore Campbell, American author (b. 1950)
- 2007 Bernie Banton, Australian asbestos campaigner (b. 1946)
- 2007 Robert Cade, American physician and inventor of Gatorade, dies at 80
- 2008 V.P. [Vishwanath Pratap] Singh, Indian politician, 7th Prime Minister of India (1989-90), dies at 77
- 2010 Irvin Kershner, American director (b. 1923)
- 2014 P. D. James [Phyllis Dorothy], Baroness James of Holland Park, English crime and mystery writer (Cover Her Face, Death in Holy Orders), dies at 94
- 2015 Gwyn Jones Francis, Welsh UK Forestry commissioner, dies at 85