- 546 St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Irish bishop
- 1000 Olaf Tryggvason, King Olaf I of Norway (995-1000)
- 1087 William I, The Conqueror, King of England/Duke of Normandy, dies
- 1398 King James I of Cyprus (1382-98), dies at about 64
- 1438 Eduard [Dom Duarte], King of Portugal (1433-38)/writer, dies
- 1487 Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447)
- 1488 Francis II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1433)
- 1513 James IV, King of Scots (1488-1513), dies in battle at 40
- 1573 Andre de Resende, Portuguese dominican/humanist, dies
- 1596 Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen
- 1612 Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)
- 1676 Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer (b. 1612)
- 1680 Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
- 1683 Algernon Sidney, English Whig politician/plotter, beheaded
- 1713 Giovanni A di Bartlommeo Viscardi, Swiss architect, dies
- 1755 Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)
- 1770 Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist, dies at 73
- 1770 Georg Dionysius Ehret, German-English botanist and cartoonist, dies at 62
- 1806 William Paterson, American jurist and statesman (b. 1745)
- 1810 Johann Baptiste Hagenauer, Austrian sculptor, dies at 78
- 1815 John Singleton Copley, American painter of portraits and historical objects, dies at 77
- 1817 Paul Cuffe, African American civil rights activist (helped settle Sierre Leone), dies at 58
- 1841 Augustin P de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 63
- 1866 Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian/Czech poet/translator, dies at 65
- 1876 American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle
- 1888 John van Swieten, Dutch governor of West-Sumatra, dies at 71
- 1891 Jules Grévy, 2nd President of the French Third Republic, dies at 84
- 1898 Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
- 1901 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, dies at 36
- 1901 Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, minister of Cologne dies
- 1902 Titus AJ van Asch van Wijck, Governor of Suriname (1891-97), dies at 53
- 1907 Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
- 1909 Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
- 1913 Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician, dies
- 1931 Lujo [Ludwig J von] Brentano, German economist dies at 86
- 1941 Gustav Ehrismann, German author and expert on the German language, dies at 85
- 1941 Hans Spemann, German embryologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1935), dies at 72
- 1946 Mynona, Polish writer (The Creator), dies at 74
- 1962 Pat Rooney, American vaudevillian (Night club), dies at 82
- 1962 Geoffrey Mander, English industrialist (Mander Brothers Ltd.), dies at 80
- 1963 Ernst Kantorowicz, German-American historian (Laudes regiae), dies at 68
- 1963 Jan Schouten, Dutch founder (illegal Trouw)/chairman (ARP), dies
- 1966 Leon de Smet, Flemish painter, dies at 85
Mao Zedong
1976 Mao Zedong, Chinese revolutionary and Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1949-76), dies of a heart attack at 82
Mao Zedong
- 1978 Jack L Warner [Jacob Warner], Canadian-American film executive and president of the Warner Bros. Studios, dies at 86
- 1978 Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
- 1980 John Howard Griffin, American photographer, journalist and author (Black Like Me), dies from complications of diabetes at 60
- 1982 Frederic Dannay, [Ellery Queen], American detective writer, dies at 76
- 1984 Yilmaz Gueney, director (Yol, Arkadas, Baba, Agit), dies at 47
- 1985 Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
- 1987 Gerrit John Heijn, senior executive (Ahold), kidnapped/murdered
- 1990 Rimantas Stankevičius, Lithuanian cosmonaut, dies at 46
- 1990 Samuel Doe, Liberian politician (b. 1951)
- 1991 Edwin M. McMillan, American physicist and discoverer of plutonium (Nobel 1951), dies at 83
- 1991 John Lawrence, doctor, dies
- 1991 Joop H Zwart, Spanish fighter/publicist (Black Widow), dies
- 1994 Keith Davis, voice Tutor/Author, dies at 85
- 1996 Jack Pepys, immunologist, dies at 82
- 1997 Myra McCulloch, teacher academic/administrator, dies at 48
- 1999 Chan Parker, American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods (b. 1925)
- 1999 David Stafford-Clark, English psychiatrist, dies at 83
- 2000 Julian Critchley, British politician (b. 1930)
- 2001 Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader (b. 1953)
- 2002 Geoffrey Dummer, British electronics engineer, built first integrated circuit and work in radar, dies at 93
Edward Teller
2003 Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist, father of the Hydrogen bomb (Manhattan Project), dies at 95
Edward Teller
- 2003 Thomas Edward Allibone, English Physicist (Manhattan Project, high-voltage particle acceleration), dies at 99
- 2005 John Wayne Glover, English-born Australian serial killer, commits suicide in prison at 72
- 2005 Stanley Dancer, American harness racer (4 Hambletonians, 3 Trot Triple Crown), dies at 78
- 2006 William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
- 2008 Warith Deen Muhammad, American religious leader (b. 1933)
- 2012 Ron Taylor, Australian shark expert and cinematographer, dies from myeloid leukemia at 78
- 2012 Verghese Kurien, Indian engineer, dies from kidney failure at 90
- 2014 Denny Miller, American actor, dies from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 80