- 690 Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 602)
- 1180 Louis VII, the Younger, King of France (1137-80), dies at 59
- 1339 Go-Daigo, 96th Emperor of Japan (1318-39), dies at 50
- 1356 Gautier de Brienne, duke of Athens/French supreme commander, dies
- 1356 Geoffroy de Charny, French nobleman, dies in battle
- 1356 Jean de Clermont, French marshal, dies in battle
- 1356 Peter I, Duke of Bourbon, killed at the Battle of Poitiers (b. 1311)
- 1668 William Waller, English soldier
- 1693 Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Slovenian polymath and natural historian, dies at 52
- 1710 Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer, dies at 65
- 1719 Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant/lord of the manor, executed at 59
- 1719 Jan Weenix, Dutch painter, buried
- 1736 Feofan Prokopovich, Russian Orthodox theologian and Archbishop of Novgorod, dies at 55
- 1761 Pieter Musschenbroek, Dutch mathematician and physician (Leydan jar), dies at 69
- 1812 Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German Jewish banker and founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty, dies at 68
- 1843 Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (b. 1792)
- 1859 John Pringle Nichol, Scottish Astronomer and educator, dies at 55
- 1862 [Lewis] Henry Little, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 45
- 1863 Preston Smith, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 39
- 1864 Archibald Campbell Godwin, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle
- 1864 David Allen Russell, United States Army officer (Union), dies in battle at 43
- 1864 Robert Emmet Rodes, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 35
- 1868 William Sprague, American minister and politician from (b. 1809)
James Garfield
1881 James A. Garfield, 20th US President (Republican: 1881), dies of a gunshot wound at 49
James Garfield
- 1882 Andreas Ignatius Schaepman, Archbishop of Utrecht (1868-82), dies at 67
- 1893 Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician, a father of Canadian Confederation, dies at 76
- 1902 Maria Hendrika, Queen of the Belgians, dies
- 1902 Masaoka Shiki, Japanese haiku & tanka poet and diarist (Salt Water Ballads), dies at 34
- 1905 Thomas John Barnardo, British social worker, dies at 60
- 1906 Maria Georgina Grey, British writer and founder of the Girls' Day School Trust (b. 1816)
- 1927 Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
- 1935 Jules M Cambron, French gov-gen to Algeria/ambassador, dies
- 1935 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian pioneer in rocket and space research, dies at 78
- 1935 Jules Cambon, French ambasador, to U.S. (1897), Spain (1902–07) and Germany (1907–14), dies at 90
- 1942 Condé Nast, American publisher (b. 1873)
- 1944 David Lord, British lieutenant/Dakota-pilot DFC/VC, dies in battle
- 1944 Hilary Barlow, British colonel, dies
Guy Gibson
1944 Guy Gibson, British wing commander who led the Dambusters (Victoria Cross), dies in action at 26
Guy Gibson
- 1949 George Shiels, Irish dramatist (b. 1886)
- 1952 Giuseppe Zoppi, Swiss writer (Presento il mio Ticino), dies at 56
- 1955 John D. Dingell, Sr., U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1894)
- 1957 Reginald Aldworth Daly, Canadian-American Geologist who independently developed the theory of magmatic stopping, dies at 86
- 1961 Helen Kimble, fictional wife of Dr Richard Kimble (The Fugitive)
- 1961 Pieter Tesch, mine engineer/geology (Pedestal of Netherlands), dies
- 1962 Nikolai Pogodin, Soviet playwright, dies at 61
- 1967 Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian painter, dies at 82
- 1967 Monica Proietti, Canadian criminal (b. 1940)
- 1968 Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopying), dies at 62
- 1969 Bert [Lambertus] Bakker, director Free Netherland/inventor, dies
- 1978 Rolf Gunther, East German priest, self imolation
- 1978 Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and historian, dies at 94
- 1981 Joke Kool-Smit, Dutch feminist, dies
- 1985 Italo Calvino, Italian author (T-Zero, Mr Palomar), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 61
- 1986 Vivian Duncan, entertainer (Duncan Sisters), dies
- 1987 Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)
- 1988 Oren Lee Staley, 1st President of National the Farmers Organization (1955-79), dies at 65
- 1992 Jacques Pic, french restaurant owner, dies
- 1994 Sandra Fisher, American painter, dies at 47
- 1995 Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist, dies at 83
- 1995 Yevgeni Nikolayevich Khludeyev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 55
Orville Redenbacher
1995 Orville Redenbacher, American popcorn magnate (Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popcorn), drowns in bathtub at 88
Orville Redenbacher
- 1995 Rudolf Peierls, German-British physicist (atomic bomb), dies at 88
- 1996 Douglas Hyde, English political journalist, dies at 85
- 1996 Timothy Nicholson, journalist, dies at 32
- 1997 Kathy Keeton Guccione, CEO (General Media Intl), dies at 58
- 1997 Malcolm Hughes, artist, dies at 77
- 2000 Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (b. 1917)
- 2001 Jan Koplowitz, German writer, dies at 91
- 2002 Robert Guéï, ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1941)
- 2004 Eddie Adams, American photographer (photograph of execution of a Viet Cong soldier, Pulitzer Prize 1969), dies at 71
- 2004 Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian-born American civil servant (b. 1919)
- 2006 Hugh Kawharu, New Zealander Ngāti Whātua Māori chief (b. 1927)
- 2006 Martha Holmes, American photographer (b. 1923)
- 2011 Thomas Capano, attorney, criminal (b. 1949)
- 2015 Jackie Collins, British-American author (The Stud, Lucky), dies of cancer at 77
- 2017 David Shepherd, British painter (paintings of steam locomotives), dies at 86
- 2019 Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, 2nd President of Tunisia (1987-2011). dies in exile at 83