- 31 Sejanus, Roman head of praetorian guard, executed
Domitian
- 887 Pietro I Candiano, Doge of Venice (killed in battle)
- 993 Arnulf vanf Gent, Westfries earl (988-93), dies in battle
- 1137 Erik II Eimune, [Onvergetelijke], king of Denmark (1134-37), murdered
- 1180 Louis VII, King of France, dies
- 1261 Conrad van Hochstaden, archbishop of Cologne, dies
- 1426 Hubert [Huybrecht] van Eyck, painter, dies
- 1524 Charlotte de Valois, Princess of France as second daughter of King Francis I and his wife Claude, dies at 7
- 1598 Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1536)
- 1630 Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (b. 1552)
- 1663 Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint, dies at 60
- 1675 Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (1624-75), dies at 71
- 1684 Joannes Antonides van der Goes, Dutch poet (Ystroom), dies at 37
- 1721 Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat, dies at 57
- 1722 André Dacier, French classical scholar (b. 1651)
- 1735 Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator), dies at 51
- 1775 Andrew Foulis, bookseller/printer, dies
Leonhard Euler
1783 Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (Euler's Constant), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 76
Leonhard Euler
- 1783 Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar, dies at 65
- 1792 Gottlieb August Spangenberg, founder (Moravian Church in Amer), dies
- 1797 Louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general, dies
- 1806 Patrick Cotter O'Brien, first known eight-foot-tall person (b. 1760)
- 1818 Olaf Swaertz, botanist, dies
- 1827 Robert Pollok, poet, dies
- 1830 William Hazlitt, English critic and essayist, dies at 52
- 1860 Casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Meus oito anos), novelist and playwright (Camoes e o jau), dies at 21
- 1860 Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer, dies at 55
- 1872 Charles XV, King of Sweden and Norway (1859-72), dies at 46
- 1891 William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817)
- 1896 Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau, physicist, dies
- 1904 Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto, dies
- 1905 George MacDonald, Scottish poet and sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie), dies at 80
- 1911 Peter Stolypin, 3rd Prime Minister of Russia (1906-11), shot and murdered at the Kiev Opera House aged 49
- 1924 Francis H. Bradley, British idealist philosopher (Appearance and Reality), dies at 78
- 1931 Hazrat Babajan, a Baloch Muslim saint (b. c. 1806)
- 1939 Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
- 1939 Gwen John, Welsh painter, dies at 63
- 1944 Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch premier (1933-39), dies at 75
- 1944 Robert Cole, US lt-colonel, dies in battle at Best
- 1952 Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Dreamy), dies
- 1956 Adélard Godbout, Canadian politician (15th Premier of Quebec), dies at 63
- 1961 Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish public servant, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-61) and posthumous Nobel Peace Prize winner (1961), dies in an air crash over Congo at 56
- 1962 Therese Neumann, German stigma, dies at 64
- 1964 Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (The Plough and the Stars), dies at 84
- 1964 Clive Bell, English art critic, dies at 83
- 1964 J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and newspaper columnist, dies at 75
- 1967 John Cockcroft, English physicist (Radar, Nobel 1951), dies at 70
- 1968 Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist and church historian, dies at 65
- 1975 Fairfield Porter, American painter, dies at 68
- 1977 Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)
- 1980 K A Porter, writer, dies at 90
- 1987 Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician (13th President of Portugal 1958-74), dies at 92
- 1994 Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer, dies at 44
- 1995 Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic, dies at 73
- 1995 Doreen Cannon, teacher of acting (London), dies at 64
- 1995 Lesley Sunderland, decorative artist, dies at 47
- 1997 Harry Brian Boyne, journalist, dies at 87
- 2001 Ernie Coombs, American-Canadian children's entertainer (Mr. Dressup), dies at 73
- 2002 Andres Burnier [Catharina Irma Dessaur], Dutch criminologist and author (Jongensuur), dies at 71
- 2003 Emil Fackenheim, German Holocaust survivor and philosopher (b. 1916)
- 2003 Bob Mitchell, British politician (b. 1927)
- 2004 Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (b. 1929)
- 2004 Marvin Mitchelson, American celebrity attorney, dies at 76
- 2006 Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1925)
- 2018 Judith Kazantzis, English poet and feminist, dies at 78