- 412 Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria
- 892 Al-Mutamid, kalief of Abbasiden, dies
- 898 Lambert, Holy Roman Emperor
- 912 Abdullah ibn Muhammad, Emir of Córdoba
- 1002 Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)
- 1080 Rudolf of Rheinfeld, Duke of Swabia and German anti-King
- 1268 Dirk II, mister of Valkenburg, dies
- 1271 Hostiensis, [Henricus the Segusia], cardinal/bishop of Ostia, dies
- 1326 Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (1308-26), dies at 65
- 1389 Urban VI, [Bartolomeo Prignano], Italian pope (1378-89), dies
- 1404 Marie of Valois, Princess of France, dies at 60
- 1512 Antoon Keldermans, Flem builder (Middelburg town hall), dies at 72
- 1524 Joachim Patinir, Flemish landscape painter, dies at about 45
- 1539 Reynier Brunt, procureur-general of Court of Holland, dies
- 1595 Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch East iIndies poet, dies at 48
- 1674 Robert Herrick, English poet ('Gather ye rosebuds while ye may'), dies at 83
- 1715 Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (b. 1675)
- 1730 Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (b. 1658)
- 1788 Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (b. 1735)
- 1810 Alfred Moore, American judge (b. 1755)
- 1811 Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter (b. 1735)
- 1817 Tadeusz AB Kosciusko, Polish lt-general/freedom fighter, dies
- 1819 F Louise W, daughter of viceroy Willem V, dies at 48
- 1819 Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)
- 1820 Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (b. 1771)
- 1837 Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman and poet, dies at 77
- 1891 Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer (b. 1837)
- 1918 Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian saint (b. circa 1838)
Herbert Henry Dow
1930 Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (Dow Chemical), dies from cirrhosis of the liver at 64
Herbert Henry Dow
Pierre Laval
1945 Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (1931-32 and 1935-36) and Head of Vichy France (1942-44), executed by firing squad for high treason at 62
Pierre Laval
Hermann Goering
1946 Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison at 53
Hermann Goering
- 1958 Jan Poortenaar, Dutch painter, etcher and cartoonist, dies at 72
- 1959 Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1880)
- 1963 Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss-French writer (Ecoute Israel), dies at 88
- 1969 Shermake, president of (Somalia), murdered
- 1971 Sylvester Magee, last living American slave and oldest person who ever lived, dies at 130
Carlo Gambino
1976 Carlo Gambino, Italian-American gangster, dies of a heart attack at 74
Carlo Gambino
- 1980 Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900)
- 1985 Meret Oppenheim, writer, dies at 72
- 1987 Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso, dies
- 1991 Hotze de Roos, carpenter/kid book writer (Chameleon series), dies
- 1992 Dorothy Helen Baker, mother of Diane Baker, dies at 78
- 1994 Karl Edward Wagner, American sci-fi author (Bloodstone, Night Winds), dies at 48
- 1994 Sarah Kofman, French philosopher, dies at 60
- 1995 Arthur Carleton Hetherington, public servant, dies at 82
- 1996 Bernard Frank, oriental scholar/writer, dies at 69
- 2000 Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
- 2001 Zhang Xueliang, Chinese ruler of Manchuria (b. 1901)
- 2003 Ben Metcalfe, Canadian environmental activist (b. 1919)
- 2003 Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
- 2005 Matti Wuori, Finnish politician (b. 1945)
- 2008 Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish poet (b. 1914)
- 2010 Richard C. Miller, American photographer (b. 1912)
- 2010 Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and pro-life activist (b. 1926)
Norodom Sihanouk
2012 Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia, dies from a heart attack at 89
Norodom Sihanouk