- 1125 Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian writer
- 1204 Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, English nobleman
- 1221 Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1201)
- 1266 Birger jarl, Swedish statesman (b. 1210)
- 1422 Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422), dies at 54
- 1439 Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist/leader, dies at 53
- 1500 Go-Tsuchimikado, 103rd Emperor of Japan, dies at 58
- 1505 Paul Scriptoris, German mathematician
- 1558 Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian-French physician and scholar (On the Subtlety of Things), dies at 74
- 1561 Johannes Vasaeus, Flemish humanist/historian, dies at about 49
- 1600 Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (b. 1557)
- 1623 William Wade, English statesman and diplomat (b. 1546)
- 1627 Frederik de Houtman, navigator/governor of Ambon, dies at about 56
- 1629 Tumengung Buraksa, Matarams/Javanese general, dies in battle
- 1637 Laurens Reael, Dutch vice-governor of Ambon, poet, and admiral, dies at 54
- 1650 Pedro de Espinosa, Spanish poet/writer, dies
- 1687 Edmund Waller, English poet/plotter (Waller's plot), dies
- 1765 Giovanni Paolo Pannini/Panini, Italian painter/architect, dies at 73
- 1773 Johann Conrad Schlaun, German baroque architect, dies at 78
- 1775 Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)
Horatio Nelson
1805 Admiral Horatio Nelson, dies in Battle of Trafalgar
Horatio Nelson
- 1861 Edward Dickinson Baker, US attorney/senator, dies in battle at 50
- 1861 John Breckinridge Grayson, Confederate brigadier general, dies
- 1863 Lambertus GC Ledeboer, Dutch old-reformed vicar, dies at 55
- 1872 Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 78
- 1873 Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (b. 1807)
- 1886 Jose Hernandez, Argentine poet (La vuelta the MartinFierro), dies at 51
- 1896 James Henry Greathead, British engineer (b. 1844)
- 1904 Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (b. 1877)
- 1916 Karl von Storgkh, premier Austria, assassinated
- 1931 A Schnitzler, writer, dies at 69
- 1940 William G. Conley, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)
- 1943 Dudley Pound, British admiral of the fleet and 1st Sea Lord (Jutland, WW II), dies at 66
- 1944 Alois Kayser, German missionary to Nauru (b. 1877)
- 1963 George B Cressey, US geographer (Crossroads), dies at 66
- 1963 Józef Franczak, last cursed soldier - anticommunist underground in Poland(b. 1918)
- 1967 Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram), dies at 94
Jack Kerouac
1969 Jack Kerouac, American (Doctor Sax, On the Road), dies at 47
Jack Kerouac
- 1969 Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (Sierpinski triangle), dies at 87
- 1970 John T. Scopes, American teacher convicted for teaching evolution (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), dies at 70
- 1973 Arabi El Goni, VP/Chad parliament, murdered
- 1978 Anastas I Mikojan, Russian politician, dies at 83
- 1980 Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician and eponym of Asperger syndrome, dies at 74
- 1983 Theodorus H J Zwartkruis, Bishop (Haarlem), dies
- 1984 Francois Truffaut, dir (Fahrenheit 451), dies of brain cancer at 52
- 1986 Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge, dies at 64
- 1987 Ying-Chin Ho, Taiwan government official, dies at 88
- 1989 Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (b. 1910)
- 1992 Jackson Weaver, voice of Smokey the Bear, dies of diabetes
- 1992 Jim Garrison, Louisiana DA (investigate JFK assassination), dies at 70
- 1992 Jim Garrison, American attorney (b. 1921)
- 1993 Assad Saftawi, Palestinian co-founder of al-Fatah, murdered at 58
- 1993 Melchior Ndadaye, 1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murdered at 40
- 1993 Sam Zolotow, US theater critic (NY Times), dies at 94
- 1993 Scott Heiser, US photographer (Interview), dies at 44
- 1993 James Leo Herlihy, American novelist (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66
- 1994 Edward Moss Hutchinson, educationalist, dies at 85
- 1994 Jerome Bert Weisner, military Scientist/Disarmer, dies at 79
- 1995 Linda Goodman, Morgantown, West Virginia, American astrologer and poet, dies from complications of diabetes at 70
- 1995 Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer, dies at 58
- 1996 Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist, dies at 71
- 1996 Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator, dies at 76
- 1996 George Houston, land economist, dies at 74
- 1996 Georgios Zoitakis, leader of Greece (1967-72), dies
- 1996 Robert O'Neill Crossman, politician, dies at 49
- 1996 Wang Li, politician, dies at 78
- 1997 Dolph Camilli, Bkln Dodger/MVP (1941), dies at 90
- 1998 Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1915)
- 1999 Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator, assassinated at 60
- 2003 Luis A. Ferré, Puerto Rican industrialist and politician (Governor of Puerto Rico, 1969-73), dies at 99
- 2003 Louise Day Hicks, American politician (b. 1916)
- 2012 George McGovern, American politician and Presidential candidate (D-1972), dies at 90
- 2012 Yash Chopra, Indian director, dies from dengue fever and multiple organ failure at 80
- 2013 Major R Owens, American politician, dies at 77
Ben Bradlee
2014 Ben Bradlee, American editor, journalist, newspaper executive (Washington Post), dies at 93
Ben Bradlee