- 421 Flavius Constantine III, Emperor of Western Roman Empire, dies at about 51
- 459 Simeon Stylites, Syrian Christian ascetic who lived on a column for nearly 40 years, dies at 68 or 69
- 1031 Saint Emeric of Hungary [Prince Emeric], killed by a boar at 24
- 1274 Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (b. 1242)
- 1348 Joan, Princess of England, daughter of Edward III, dies of the plague at 15 in Bordeaux on her way to marry Prince Pedro of Spain
- 1418 Jan III Chalon, prince of Orange/gov of Burgundy, dies
- 1540 Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1501)
- 1566 Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter, dies at 37
- 1606 Carel van Mander, Flemish painter/art historian, dies at 58
- 1645 Alice Lisle, Last woman to be executed by a judicial sentence of beheading in England, beheaded for harboring fugitives after the defeat of the Monmouth Rebellion at around 68
- 1651 Kösem Sultan, Greek-born influential consort of Ottoman Ahmed I and mother to Sultans Murad IV and Ibrahim, murdered on orders on the Chief Eunuch at 61 or 62
- 1680 Per Brahe, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
- 1688 Robert Viner, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1631)
- 1690 Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
- 1698 Justus Vingboons, Architect, buried
- 1764 Nathaniel Bliss, English 4th Astronomer Royal (1762-64), dies at 63
- 1765 Henry Bouquet, Swiss-born British army officer (b. 1719)
- 1768 Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician, dies at 64
- 1779 Onno Zwier van Hairs, Fries poet (Agon), dies at 66
- 1790 Johann Nicholas von Hontheim, German church historian and theologian (febronianism), dies at 89
- 1813 Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general, mortally wounded in battle at 50
- 1820 Jiaqing, 5th Emperor of Qing Dynasty, dies at 59
- 1832 Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian astronomer, dies at 78
- 1834 Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (designed and constructed Menai Bridge, Wales in 1819-26), dies at 77
- 1862 Thornton F Brodhead, US lawyer/politician/brigadier general, dies at 40
- 1871 Arvid August Afzelius, Swedish poet and historian, dies at 85
- 1872 N. F. S. Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher, dies at 88
- 1877 Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral, freedom fighter and politician (b. 1793)
- 1898 Hubert Howard, British journalist (The Times), dies through friendly fire
- 1898 Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
- 1910 Henri Rousseau, French post-impressionist painter (The Dream, The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope), dies of a blood clot at 66
- 1915 August Stramm, German poet and playwright dies in battle during WWI at 41
- 1921 Anthony Francis Lucas, Croatian-American oil exploration pioneer, dies at 65
- 1921 Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
- 1922 Henry Lawson, Australian writer and poet (n the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses), dies at 55
- 1942 Tom Williams, Irish republican (b. 1924)
- 1944 Bella Rosenfeld, Jewish Belarusian writer, subject of Marc Chagall's paintings and his 1st wife, dies at 48
- 1944 George W. Norris, U.S. Senator noted for his advocacy of political reform and of public ownership of hydroelectric-power plants, dies at 83
- 1944 Manfred Freiherr von Killinger, German ambassador to Romania, commits suicide after Romanian coup
- 1948 Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy, dies at 65
- 1953 Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, American army officer, dies at 70
- 1957 William Alexander Craigie, Scottish lexicographer (Skotlands Rimur), dies at 90
- 1964 Alvin York, American World War I soldier who led a famed attack on a German machine gun nest (Medal of Honor), dies at 76
- 1964 Francisco Craveiro Lopes, 12th President of Portugal (1951-58), dies at 70
- 1964 Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist, dies at 64
- 1965 Johannes Bobrowski, German poet and writer, dies at 48
- 1968 Ernest Claes, Belgian author (The White), dies at 82
- 1969 Harry Williams Millard, producer, dies of cancer at 41
Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969)
Vietnamese communist revolutionary and President of North Vietnam (1946-69), dies of heart failure at 79
- 1976 Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish writer (b. 1934)
- 1979 Otto P. Weyland, American military figure (b. 1903)
- 1990 John Bowlby, British psychologist, dies at 83
- 1991 Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican foreign minister (Nobel 1982), dies
- 1992 Barbara McClintock, American geneticist (Nobel 1983), dies at 90
- 1992 Piotr Jaroszewicz, premier of Poland (1970-80), dies
- 1993 John [Eoin] Higgins, Northern Ireland supreme court justice (1984-93), dies at 66
- 1994 Harry Vincent Kemp, poet, dies at 82
- 1994 Mildred Mcafee Horton, US 1st head mistress of WAVES, dies
- 1994 Richard M Major, US anti-terror specialist (CIA Red Book), dies at 72
- 1996 Emily Kngwarreye, artist, dies at 86
- 1996 Kenneth M Stewart, euro MP for Merseyside West, dies at 71
- 1997 Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (Man's Search for Meaning) and founder of logotherapy, dies at 92
- 1998 Allen Drury, American author (b. 1918)
- 1998 Jonathan Mann, American physician and AIDS activist, dies in the 1998 crash of Swissair Flight 111 at 51
Christiaan Barnard (1922-2001)
South African cardiac surgeon who performed the 1st heart transplant, dies from a severe asthma attack at 78
- 2002 Dick Reynolds, Australian rules footballer and coach, dies at 87
- 2004 Joan Oró, Catalan scientist (b. 1923)
- 2007 Franz-Benno Delonge, German game designer (b. 1957)
- 2008 Denis Rooke, British engineer and CEO (British Gas), dies at 84
- 2009 Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India (b. 1949)
- 2011 Roberto Bruce, Chilean journalist (b. 1979)
- 2013 Frederik Pohl, American sci-fi author (3 Hugo, Gateway, Bipohl), dies at 93
- 2013 Paul Scoon, Grenadian politician (2nd Governor-General of Grenada (1978-92)), dies at 78
- 2013 Ronald Coase, British economist (Nobel Prize in Economics 1991), dies at 102
- 2015 Alan Kurdi, 3 year old Syrian refugee drowns off the coast of Turkey, his death and photograph prompt international reaction
- 2016 Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan (1991-2016), dies at 78
- 2020 Khang Khek Leu 'Comrade Dutch', Cambodian Khmer Rouge figure convicted of crimes against humanity, dies at 77
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