- 1312 Ferdinand IV, King of Castile and León (1295-1312), dies at 26
- 1322 Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249)
- 1422 Constantine II of Bulgaria
- 1563 Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier
- 1574 Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Spanish admiral and explorer who founded St. Augustine, Florida, dies at 55
- 1575 Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer, dies at 71
- 1621 Roberto Bellarmino, Italian saint (Doctor of the Church), dies at 78
- 1630 Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)
- 1632 Susenyos I, Emperor of Ethiopia (1606-1632), dies at around 60
- 1652 Bonaventura Elsevier, Dutch book publisher and merchant, dies at about 69
Philip IV (1605-1665)
King of Spain & Portugal (1621-65), dies at 60
- 1676 Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement, dies at 49
- 1679 Juan Jose of Austrian, Spanish general/govenor of Netherlands, dies at 50
- 1727 Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman (b. 1647)
- 1771 Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (The Adventures of Roderick Random), dies at 50
- 1791 Tomás de Iriarte, Spanish writer (Fabulas Literarias), dies at 40
- 1808 Benjamin Bourne, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Rhode Island), dies at 53
- 1823 Abraham L Breguet, French clock maker, dies at 76
- 1836 Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (Classification of flowering plants), dies at 88
Dred Scott (c. 1799-1858)
US ex-slave who sought to sue for his freedom, dies of tuberculosis at 62 or 63
- 1862 Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 41
- 1862 William Edwin Starke, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at about 48
- 1863 Albartus Telting, Frisian poet (Frisianch Jierboeckjen), dies at 59
- 1863 Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny, French musketeer and writer (Moise, Chatterton), dies at 66
- 1864 Walter Savage Landor, English poet and writer (Imaginary Conversations), dies at 89
- 1868 Roman Nose (Wiquini), Cheyenne indian leader, dies
- 1873 Alexander Berry, Scottish surgeon and adventurer (established the first European settlement on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia), dies at 91
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
English photographic pioneer, dies at 77
- 1879 Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (restored medieval monuments including city of Carcassonne), dies at 65
- 1892 Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle, Austrian poet, dies at 67
- 1894 Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)
- 1895 Auguste Toulet, Belgian balloonist, dies
- 1899 Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist and co-founder (Pillsbury Company), dies at 56
- 1908 Thomas Selfridge, early American aviator, 1st person to die in an air crash at 26
- 1926 August Sauer, Austrian literature historian (Euphorion), dies at 70
- 1933 Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul, dies at 55
- 1936 Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
- 1938 Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901)
- 1939 Ethel M. Dell, English author (Storm Drift), dies at 58
- 1944 Friedrich Kussin, German Major-General and commander in Arnhem during Operation Market Garden, dies in battle at 49
- 1948 Greve Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (UN mediator for Palestine), assassinated by a Zionist group at 53
- 1948 Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (Patterns of Culture), dies at 61
- 1953 Emil Ermatinger, Swiss literature historian, dies at 80
- 1957 Jan Eisenloeffel, Dutch goldsmith, dies at 81
- 1958 Eugène Jungers, Belgian Governor of Rwanda Urundi, dies at 70
- 1958 Friedrich Adolf Paneth, Austrian-British chemist, dies at 71
- 1959 Bert Leysen, Belgian TV director (Belgian National TV), dies at 39
- 1961 Adnan Menderes, Prime Minister of Turkey (1950-60), dies at 62
- 1963 Eduard Spranger, German psychologist and educator, dies at 81
Anastasio Somoza Debayle (1925-1980)
President of Nicaragua (1967-72 and 1974-79), assassinated in Paraguay at 54
- 1980 Katherine A Porter, American author (Ship of Fools, Pulit-66), dies at 90
- 1983 Humberto Madeiros, US cardinal to Boston, dies at 67
- 1985 Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer, businesswoman and co-founder of Laura Ashley, dies by falling down the stairs of her daughter's home at 60
- 1989 Jay Stewart, American TV and Radio announcer (Let's Make a Deal), commits suicide at 71 by shooting himself in the carport of his home
- 1992 William A Swanberg, biographer (Henry Luce, Pulitzer 1973), dies at 84
- 1993 Christian Nyby, American director (Big Sleep, Thing), dies at 80
- 1994 Henk Figee, author/publisher (Shoes of the Sea), dies at 46
Karl Popper (1902-1994)
Austrian-British philosopher (The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Poverty of Historianism), dies at 92
- 1994 Paul Nicholas Young, architect, dies at 47
- 1995 Rabbi Yehuda Getz, Tunisian-Israeli soldier and religious leader, dies of a heart attack at 71 [exact birth date uncertain]
Spiro Agnew (1918-1996)
American politician (Vice President, 1969 until resignation over corruption allegations in 1973), dies of leukemia at 77
- 1997 Jan Peder Syse, Prime Minister of Norway (1989-90), dies
- 1997 John Seldon Whale, British theologian and lecturer, dies at 100
- 1998 Ted Binion, Las Vegas casino heir (b. 1943)
- 2001 Lou Dog, Sublime mascot.
- 2006 Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)
- 2009 Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist terrorist (b. 1968)
- 2011 Colin Madigan, Australian architect (National Gallery of Australia), dies at 90
- 2012 Russell E. Train, American environmentalist and administrator (EPA, WWF), dies at 92
- 2020 Terry Goodkind, American epic fantasy novelist (The Sword of Truth), dies at 72
Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1937-2021)
Algerian politician, President of Algeria (1999-2019), dies of a heart attack at 84
- 2021 Michael J. Fitzgerald, American technical writer and novelist (Song of Falling Leaves), dies at 63
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