- 898 Lambert, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Italy (891-898)
- 912 Abdullah ibn Muhammad, Emir of Córdoba
- 961 Abd al-Rahman III, Umayyad Emir (912-29) and 1st Caliph of Córdoba (929-961), dies at 70
- 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 and 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, Brabant 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, dies at 40
- 1730 Antoine Laumet de La Mothe Cadillac, French explorer in New France, founder of Detroit and Governor of Louisiana, dies at 71
- 1788 Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (Battle of Chesma), dies at 53
- 1789 John Morgan, American physician-in-chief of Continental Army and co-founder of the Medical College at the University of Pennsylvania, the first medical school in Colonial America, dies at 54
- 1810 Alfred Moore, American judge (US Supreme Court), dies at 55
- 1811 Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter (b. 1735)
- 1817 Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Swiss traveller and orientalist, 1st European to discover Petra and Abu Simbel, dies at 32
Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746-1817)
Polish-Lithuanian Military Leader and statesman considered a national hero, dies at 71 after falling from a horse, developing a fever and suffering a stroke
- 1819 Princess Louise of Orange-Nassau, daughter of viceroy Willem V & Wilhelmina of Prussia, dies at 48
- 1819 Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)
- 1820 Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal, dies at 49
- 1837 Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman and poet, dies at 77
- 1838 Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet (Heath's Book of Beauty), dies at 36
- 1891 Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, English writer (Punch), dies at 54
- 1891 William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 54
- 1910 Larkin Goldsmith Mead, American sculptor who worked in Florence, dies at 75
- 1918 Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian saint (b. circa 1838)
- 1920 Hendrik Peter Staal, Dutch reformed officer and politician, dies at 75
- 1930 Ernest Wilson, English botanist (plant collector in China), dies in a car accident at 54
Herbert Henry Dow (1866-1930)
American chemical industrialist (Dow Chemical), dies from cirrhosis of the liver at 64
Pierre Laval (1883-1945)
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
Hermann Goering (1893-1946)
German Nazi Party leader, convicted war criminal, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (1941-45) and World War I fighter pilot ace, poisons himself in prison at 53
Stepan Bandera (1909-1959)
Ukrainian nationalist, leader of the terrorist Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B), Nazi collaborator and anti-communist, assassinated via cyanide gas at 50 by the KGB in Munich, West Germany
Carlo Gambino (1902-1976)
Italian-born American mafioso (Gambino family), dies of a heart attack at 74
- 1978 W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (Saipan, Walk to Paradise Garden), dies of a stroke at 59
- 1980 Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian hydrodynamicist and mathematician, dies at 79
- 1985 Meret Oppenheim, German born Swiss surrealist artist, dies at 72
- 1987 Thomas Sankara, Burkinabé revolutionary and politician, President of Burkina Faso (1983-87), assassinated in a coup at 37
- 1991 Hotze de Roos, Dutch carpenter and writer (Chameleon series), dies at 81
- 1992 Oliver Franks, British civil servant, ambassador to US (Report into Falklands War), and philosopher, dies at 87
- 1994 Karl Edward Wagner, American sci-fi author (Bloodstone, Night Winds), dies at 48
- 1994 Sarah Kofman, French philosopher, dies at 60
- 2000 Konrad Emil Bloch, German-American biochemist, (1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on cholesterol), dies at 88
- 2001 Zhang Xueliang, Chinese ruler of Manchuria, dies at 100
- 2003 Ben Metcalfe, Canadian environmental activist (helped found Greenpeace), dies at 83
- 2003 Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, (1994 Nobel Prize for Physics for neutron spectroscopy), dies at 85
- 2005 Matti Wuori, Finnish politician, dies of cancer at 60
- 2008 Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish poet, dies at 94
- 2010 Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and pro-life activist (b. 1926)
- 2010 Richard C. Miller, American photographer (b. 1912)
- 2011 Matthew G. Martinez, American politician (Rep-D+R-CA, 1982-2001), dies at 82
- 2012 Claude Cheysson, French politician (Minister of Foreign Affairs), dies at 92
- 2013 Peter Miles, British Army officer, businessman and courtier in the Household of Elizabeth II, dies at 89
- 2013 Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1982-84), dies at 90