- 42 BC Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman senator (b. 85 BC)
- 930 Daigo, Emperor of Japan (b. 885)
- 1260 Koetoez, Turkish sultan of Egypt, murdered
- 1450 Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint, dies at 70
- 1456 Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (b. 1386)
- 1550 Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (b. 1480)
- 1581 Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer, dies at 52
- 1602 Franciscus Junius, French-Dutch calvinist theologist and vicar, dies at 57
- 1616 Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
- 1688 Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (b. 1610)
- 1764 Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer (b. 1683)
- 1774 Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist, dies at 59
- 1799 William Paca, American judge and signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 58
- 1868 Cullen Whipple, American inventor (pointed screw machine), dies at 67
Edward Smith-Stanley
1869 Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1852, 1858-59, 1866-68), dies at 70
Edward Smith-Stanley
- 1872 Théophile Gautier, French writer, historian and poet (Albertus, La Chanson de Roland, Émaux et camées), dies at 61
- 1874 Abraham Geiger, German theologian and leader of Reform Judaism, dies at 64
- 1885 Charles S. West, American jurist and politician, dies at 56
- 1890 Charles Verlat, Flemish painter, dies at 65
- 1892 Emin Pasha, German explorer and governor (Equatoria), murdered at 52
- 1899 W Penn Symons, British gen-maj, dies in battle
- 1901 Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank), dies
- 1903 Francis Ellingwood Abbot, American theologian (Scientific Theism), dies at 66
- 1910 Rama V [Chulalongkorn], King of Thailand (1868-1910), dies at 57
- 1913 Edwin Klebs, German physician and bacteriologist (bacterial theory of infection, diphtheria bacillus), dies at 79
- 1921 John B Dunlop, Scottish inventor air tire (Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81
- 1928 François Victor Alphonse Aulard, French historian, dies at 79
- 1929 Thomas Frederick Tout, British historian (Manch school of historiography), dies at 74
- 1935 Abe Landau, US gangster, murdered
- 1935 Dutch Schultz [Arthur Flegenheimer], US gangster, murdered at 33
- 1935 Otto "Aba Daba" Berman, US gangster, murdered
- 1939 Zane Grey, American western writer (Spirit of the Border), dies at 67
- 1942 Georg Stumme, German general/commandant of African corps, dies
- 1944 Hana Brady, Jewish Czech Holocaust victim (Hanna's Suitcase), dies at 13
- 1944 Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist (1917 Nobel Prize for Physics for X-ray scattering), dies at 67
- 1953 Maurice Lugeon, Swiss geologist (nappism), dies at 83
Christian Dior
1957 Christian Dior, French fashion designer (New Look), dies of a heart attack at 52
Christian Dior
- 1963 Raphael HLAJM Verwilghen, architect/urban developer, dies at 78
- 1986 Edward A Doisy Sr, American bio-chemist (Vitamin K1, Nobel 1943), dies at 92
- 1990 Louis Althusser, French philosopher, dies
- 1991 Lance Baker, dies at 31
- 1992 Kees Spermon, Dutch painter and graphic artist, dies
- 1996 Diana Trilling, writer, dies at 91
- 1996 Lin Onus, Australian Aboriginal artist, dies at 47
- 1996 Ronald Alfred Gardyne "Rags" Butler, sailor, dies at 68
- 1997 Luther George Simjian, Turkish-American Inventor (teleprompter and first self-posing portrait camera), dies at 92
- 1998 Barnett Slepian, American physician (b. 1946)
- 2001 Ronald William Kirby, British artist, dies at 72
- 2002 Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, British historian, dies at 96
Soong Mei-ling
2003 Soong Mei-ling [Madame Chiang Kai-shek], Chinese political figure and First Lady of the Republic of China (1948-75), dies at 106
Soong Mei-ling
- 2005 Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian first lady (b. 1945)
- 2005 John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
- 2006 Lebo Mathosa, South African entertainer (b. 1977)
- 2007 John Ilhan, Australian entrepreneur, Crazy John's mobile phones (b. 1965)
- 2007 Lim Goh Tong, Founder of Genting Group (b. 1918)
- 2010 Leo Cullum, American cartoonist (d. 1942)
- 2016 Tom Hayden, American civil rights and antiwar activist and politician (Rep-D-Ca), dies at 76
- 2016 Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (1972-95), dies at 84