Suleiman the Magnificent
1566 Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan and the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1530-1566), dies at 71
Suleiman the Magnificent
- 1569 Pieter Bruegel, South Netherlands painter, dies at about 44
- 1572 Pieter Tichelmann, Flemish Franciscan, dies at about 71
- 1607 Pomponne de Bellièvre, chancellor of France (b. 1529)
- 1659 Pieter de Carpentier, Flemish gov-gen of Neth East-Indies, dies at 71
- 1683 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French Minister of Navy, dies at 64
- 1684 John Uytenhage van Lacks, lawyer/author, drowned at 48
- 1786 Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
- 1808 John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
- 1836 Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
- 1838 Charles Percier, French architect, dies at 74
- 1857 Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
- 1858 Moritz G, [Moses] Saphir, Hungarian journalist, dies at 63
- 1859 Friedrich von Olivier, German landscape painter, dies at 68
- 1867 Santiago Derqui, Argentinian politician (b. 1809)
- 1876 Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
Crazy Horse
1877 Crazy Horse [Tashunka Witko], last great Sioux war chief, dies at 37
Crazy Horse
Rudolf Virchow
1902 Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician (cell pathology), dies at 80
Rudolf Virchow
- 1906 Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (thermodynamics), dies at 62
- 1912 Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
- 1914 Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
- 1917 Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
- 1922 Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
- 1926 Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, founding member of the "DAP", which would become the Nazi Party (b. 1890)
- 1930 Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
- 1932 Paul Bern, husband of Jean Harlow, dies
- 1932 Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
- 1936 Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
- 1942 François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b. 1917)
- 1944 Willem M Groenewegen, resistance fighter, executed
- 1948 Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
- 1953 Richard Walther Darré, Nazi politician, one of the leading 'blood and soil' ideologists (b. 1895)
- 1954 Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer and liberal politician, dies at 94
- 1965 Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
- 1972 Josef Romano, Israeli olympian, murdered
- 1977 Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and wallon militant, dies at 80
- 1979 Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (b. 1884)
- 1981 Ayatollah Ali Qoddusi, prosecutor-general of Iran, assassinated
- 1982 Maurice Naessens, Belgian banker, dies at 73
- 1982 Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910)
- 1990 Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
- 1992 Dorothy MacKaye, marital advisor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 88
- 1993 Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (Spy Who Loved Me), dies at 78
- 1993 John Truscott, Australian set designer (Camelot), dies at 57
- 1994 Edgar Louis Vanderstegen Millington Drake, painter, dies at 62
- 1994 John Newman, Australian state politician (Labor), murdered at 47 by local club owner and political opponent Phuong Ngo who had run against Newman as an independent
- 1995 Francis Showering, brewer, dies at 83
- 1995 John Britten, motorcycle Designer, dies at 45
- 1996 Rose Isabel Williams, sister of Tennessee Williams, dies at 86
- 1997 Leon Edel, biographer, dies at 89
Mother Teresa
1997 Mother Teresa [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], Albanian born Indian nun and founder of Missionaries of Charity (Nobel Peace Prize, 1979), dies of cardiac arrest at 87
Mother Teresa
- 1998 Verner Panton, Danish designer (b. 1926)
- 1999 Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician, dies at 78
- 2001 Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian UN statistician (b. 1912)
- 2001 Heywood Hale Broun, American TV commentator and sports correspondent, dies at 83
- 2002 David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer, author of the first study of the Cosmic microwave background radiation (b. 1935)
- 2005 Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d'état attempt in Chile (b. 1917)
- 2007 Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941)
- 2007 Paul Gillmor, American politician (b. 1939)
- 2007 D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930)
Phyllis Schlafly
2016 Phyllis Schlafly, American right-wing crusader, Eagle Forum President, dies at 92
Phyllis Schlafly
- 2016 Duane Graveline, American doctor and astronaut, dies at 85