- 656 Sigebert III, King of Austrasia, dies at about 25
- 1248 Henry II, Duke of Brabant (1235-48), dies at about 40 [date of birth uncertain, c. 1207]
- 1328 Charles IV, the Handsome, King of France (1322-28), dies at 33
- 1502 Olivier de la Marche, Flemish soldier & poet, dies at 77
- 1542 Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal, dies at 61
- 1563 Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia (1559-63), dies of fever at 28 or 29
- 1590 Lawrence Humphrey, English clergyman and educator, dies at 63
- 1691 Alexander VIII [Pietro Ottoboni], Italian Pope (1689-91), dies at 80
- 1691 George Etherege, English stage writer (Love in a Tub), dies at 56
- 1694 Jean Louis d'Elderen, 63rd Prince-Bishop of Liège (1688-94), dies at 73
- 1705 Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, 1st Queen consort of Prussia (1701-05), dies at 36
- 1718 Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician, helped lead Glorious Revolution to put William III on the throne, dies at 57
- 1733 August II the Strong, Elector of Saxony, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (claimed to have sired over 350 children), dies at 62
- 1734 John Floyer, English physician and writer, dies at 84
- 1743 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian Baroque composer, organist, and maestro di cappella (Basilica of San Marco. 1677-1743), dies at 85
- 1747 Jacobus Capitein, Dutch Christian minister, dies at ~30
- 1761 Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French Jesuit prince and historian, dies at 78
- 1768 Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer, dies at 82
- 1793 William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman, dies at 76
- 1795 Giacomo Insanguine, Italian organist and composer, dies at 66
- 1818 Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian composer, dies at 74
- 1824 Maria Theresia von Paradis, Austrian blind pianist, singer, organist, and composer, dies at 64
- 1832 Archibald Murphey, North Carolina politician, dies at 55
- 1832 Ecco Epkema, Dutch classic linguist (Frisian, Old Frisian), dies at 71
- 1839 Giuseppe Valadier, Italian architect & archaeologist, dies at 76
- 1850 Edward Baker Lincoln, 2nd son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, dies from illness at 3
English novelist (Frankenstein), dies of a brain tumor at 53
- 1864 Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois, Duchess of Parma and Piacenza, dies at 44
- 1869 Frederick Willem Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer and railway pioneer (Katwyk), dies at 68
- 1871 Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, Russian composer, dies at 51
- 1873 Matthew Maury, American oceanographer, dies at 67
- 1875 William Sterndale Bennett, English composer, dies at 58
- 1877 Joseph-Leon Gatayes, French harpist, dies at 71
- 1878 George Cruikshank, English caricaturist & illustrator (Grimm), dies at 85
- 1883 Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian and author (In the Forests) [NS=Feb 13], dies at 64
- 1889 Joseph Gungl, Austro-Hungarian bandmaster and composer of dances and marches, dies at 78
- 1893 George Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco, dies at 70
- 1897 Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and paleobotanist (Contributions to the Tertiary Flora of Australia), dies at 70 [1]
- 1902 Salomon Jadassohn, German pianist and composer, dies at 70
- 1904 Peter Paul Maria Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian and writer, dies at 76
- 1905 Oswald Aschenbach, German landscape painter, dies at 77
"the Diplomat", King of Portugal (1889-1908), penultimate king of Portugal, assassinated by Republican sympathisers at 44
- 1910 Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), dies at 44
- 1916 Anton Simon, Russian composer, dies at 65
- 1919 Robert Daniel Johnston, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 81
- 1922 William Desmond Taylor [Deane-Tanner], Irish director and actor (The Awakening, Broken Coin), murdered at 49
- 1922 Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese soldier and statesman (Prime Minister of Japan 1889–91,1898–1900), dies at 83
- 1928 Hughie Jennings, American Baseball Hall of Fame infielder (Baltimore Orioles) and manager (Detroit Tigers 1907-20), dies of meningitis at 58
- 1929 Alexander Ogston, British surgeon (discovered Staphylococcus), educator, and military doctor, dies at 84
- 1929 August Halm, German composer, dies at 59
- 1936 Georgios Kondylis, Prime Minister of Greece and general of the Greek army, dies at 56
- 1937 Marguerite Audoux, French novelist, dies at 73
- 1940 Philip Francis Nowlan, American sci-fi writer, creator of Buck Rogers character (b. 1888)
- 1943 Foy Draper, American athlete (Olympic gold 4 x 100m relay 1936 WR 39.8s), dies in action as a USAF pilot at 31
- 1944 Martin Lunssens, Belgian composer, dies at 72
Dutch abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie, Composition with Red Blue and Yellow) and art theoretician, dies of pneumonia at 71
- 1945 Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens), dies at 72
- 1946 Hans Bethge, German poet, dies at 70
- 1948 Francis Kelley, Canadian-born Catholic Bishop of Oklahoma, dies at 77
- 1949 Herbert Stothart, American theater (Rose-Marie) and film score composer (The Wizard of Oz; Mutiny on the Bounty; A Night at the Opera), dies at 63
- 1954 Henry Leveson-Gower, English cricket batsman and captain (3 Tests; Surrey CCC, Oxford University CC), dies at 80
- 1954 Julius P. Hoste, Belgian journalist, daily newspaper publisher (Last News), and politician (Minister of Education, 1936-38; Senator 1949-54), dies at 69
German field marshal who commanded the 6th Army at Stalingrad and highest-ranking German officer to surrender, dies at 66
- 1958 Clinton Davisson, American physicist (Nobel 1937- discovery of electron diffraction in the famous Davisson-Germer experiment), dies at 76
- 1959 Madame Sul-Te-Wan [Nellie Crawford], American actress (The Birth of a Nation, Uncle Tom's Cabin), dies of a stroke at 85
- 1959 William Hoppe, American carom billiards player (51 world titles 1906-52), dies at 71
- 1963 Fleetwood Lindley, American man & last living person to see Abraham Lincoln's face, dies at 75
American actor and comedian (Navigator, Steamboat Bill Jr, The General), dies at 70
- 1966 Hedda Hopper [Elda Furry], American gossip columnist, dies at 75
- 1966 William Harrigan, American actor (Invisible Man, Girl in 419), dies at 71
- 1967 Ernie Bromley, Australian cricket batsman (2 Tests; first Western Australian to play Test cricket for Australia), dies at 54
- 1968 Lawson Little, American golfer (US Open 1940), dies at 57
- 1970 Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 48
- 1970 Blaž Arnič, Slovenian composer (Ples čarovnic (The Dance of the Witches)), and pedagogue, dies in a car crash at 69
- 1971 Jim Christy, South African cricket batsman (10 Tests; top score 103 1932; Transvaal, Queensland), dies at 66
- 1973 Beulah Louise Henry, American inventor who held 49 patents and developed over 110 inventions (bobbin-free sewing machine, vacuum ice cream freezer), National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee, dies at 85
- 1974 Lynda Ann Healy, 1st Bundy murder victim, abducted in Seattle at 22
- 1975 Richard Wattis, British actor (Hobson's Choice, Prince & Showgirl, The Man Who Knew Too Much), dies from a heart attack at 62
- 1976 Edgar Pangborn, American sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), dies at 66
- 1976 George Whipple, American scientist and Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 97
German physicist who discovered the uncertainty principle (Nobel 1932), dies of kidney cancer at 74
- 1976 William Lawther, English union leader (National Union of Mine Workers 1939-54), dies at 86
- 1977 Edmond Hamilton, American sci-fi author ("City at World's End"; "The Star Kings"), dies at 72
- 1979 Mort Marshall [Mortimer Haig Lichtenstein], American actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Dumplings), dies of coronary arrest at 60
- 1980 Gastone Nencini, Italian road cyclist (Giro d'Italia 1957, Tour de France 1960), dies at 49
- 1980 Jack Bailey, American actor and TV host (Queen for a Day), dies at 72
- 1980 Romolo Valli, Italian actor (Boom, La Viaccia), dies at 54
- 1981 Ernst Pepping, German composer, dies at 79
- 1981 Geirr Tveitt [Nils Tveit], Norwegian classical pianist and composer, dies at 72
- 1981 Wanda Hendrix, American actress (Sierra, Ride the Pink Horse), dies at 52
- 1986 Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist, diplomat and leader of the disarmament movement (Nobel Peace Prize 1982), dies at 84
- 1986 Dick James [Leon Vapnick], British dance band vocalist and Beatles' music publisher (Northern Songs), dies of a heart attack at 65
- 1986 John Lawrence Seymour, American composer (Hollywood Madness; From the Far-off Hills), and playwright, dies at 93
- 1987 Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director, dies at 86
- 1987 Ernest "Ern" Westmore, American 3rd generation make-up artist (Westmore family) and actor, dies from a heart attack at 82
- 1987 Sala Burton, American politician (Rep-D-CA, 1983-87), dies of cancer at 61
- 1988 Heather O'Rourke, American actress (Happy Days, Poltergeist), dies of intestinal ailment at 12
- 1988 Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor (The French Connection), dies at 59
- 1988 Reinder Zwolsman, Dutch businessman, dies at 75
- 1989 Blaze Foley [Michael Fuller], American outlaw country singer-songwriter (Wanted More Dead Than Alive), shot to death by a family friend at 39
- 1989 Elaine de Kooning, American artist, dies at 70
- 1991 Carol Dempster, American film actress (Sally of Sawdust, America), dies at 89
- 1991 Jimmy MacDonald, Scottish-American voice actor (Mickey Mouse), dies at 84
- 1991 Phil Watson, Canadian NHL right wing (Stanley Cup 1940 [NYR], 1944 [Montreal Canadiens]) and coach (NY Rangers), dies at 76
- 1992 George Berkeley, American actor (Life Stinks, Capts & Kings), dies at 70
- 1992 Irving Kaufman, American federal judge (Rosenberg Case), dies at 81
- 1993 Sven Thofelt, Swedish athlete (Olympic gold pentathlon 1928; silver team épée 1936, bronze 1948), dies at 88
- 1994 Fouad Fram al-Boustani, Lebanese historian (Rawaeaa), dies at 88
- 1994 John Littlejohn [Funchess], American electric blues slide guitarist ("So-Called Friends"), dies of renal failure at 62
- 1994 Olan Soule, American character radio and screen actor (The First Nighter Program; Captain Midnight; Dragnet; Arnie), dies of lung cancer at 84
- 1995 Michael Cesar, American man & self-proclaimed 'Pope of Pot', dies of liver cancer at 52
- 1997 Ed Danowski, American football quarterback & halfback (NFL Championship 1934, 38; New York Giants; Pro Bowl 1938), dies at 85
- 1997 Herb Caen, American columnist (SF Chronicle), dies of lung cancer, at 80
- 1997 Marjorie Reynolds [Goodspeed], American actress and dancer (Holiday Inn; Life of Riley), dies from congestive heart disease at 79
- 1997 Mitchell Goodman, American writer, dies at 71
- 1997 Peter Morris, British historian of France, dies of cancer at 50
- 1997 Thelma Moss, American actress and psychologist, dies at 78
- 1998 Sheila Watson, Canadian writer (Double Hook), dies at 88 [1]
- 1999 Barış Manço, Turkish rock guitarist, singer-songwriter (Kurtalan Ekspres - "Arkadaşım Eşek (My Friend the Donkey"), and television producer (From 7 to 77), dies of a heart attack at 56
- 1999 Paul Mellon, American philanthropist (Washington National Gallery of Art), dies at 91
- 1999 Robin Nedwell, English comedy actor, known for "Doctor in the House", dies of a heart attack at 52
- 1999 Rudolf Kárpáti, Hungarian fencer (Olympic gold sabre team 1948, 52, 56, 60; individual 1956, 60; World C'ship gold x 7), dies at 78
- 2000 Dick Rathmann, American auto racer (first Indy pole-sitter to complete no laps), dies at 74
- 2000 Peter Levi, British archeologist, poet (Pancakes for the Queen of Babylon; Shadows and Bones), Jesuit priest, and academic, dies at 68
- 2000 Roger Landry, Canadian businessman and newspaper publisher (La Presse), dies at 86
- 2001 André D'Allemagne, Quebec teacher, political observer and essayist, dies at 71
- 2002 Daniel Pearl, American journalist for The Wall Street Journal (kidnapped by jihadist militants), murdered in Pakistan at 38
- 2002 Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer, and writer (Touch of Class; Mozambique), dies at 76
- 2002 Irish McCalla, American actress and artist (Sheena Queen of Jungle), dies of a brain tumor and stroke complications at 73
- 2003 David Brown, American US Navy Captain and NASA astronaut & member of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster), dies at 46
- 2003 Ilan Ramon, Israeli astronaut aboard mission STS-107, dies in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster at 48
- 2003 Kalpana Chawla, American astronaut (STS 87) and the first woman of Indian descent to go to space, dies in Space Shuttle Columbia disaster at 40
- 2003 Laurel Clark, American astronaut and member of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster), dies at 41
- 2003 Michael P. Anderson, American astronaut & member of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster), dies at 43
- 2003 Mongo Santamaria, Cuban Latin jazz percussionist and bandleader, dies at 85
- 2003 Nancy Whiskey [Anne Wilson], Scottish folk singer and guitarist ("Freight Train"), dies at 67
- 2003 Rick Husband, American astronaut & member of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster), dies at 45
- 2003 William C. McCool, American astronaut & member of the STS-107 Mission, dies in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster at 41
- 2004 Ally MacLeod, Scottish soccer manager (Scotland, Ayr United, Aberdeen, Motherwell, Airdrie, Q of the South) and left wing (Blackburn Rovers, Hibernian, Third Lanark), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 72
- 2004 May O'Donnell, American modern dancer and choreographer, dies at 97
- 2005 Franco Mannino, Italian pianist, conductor, classical concert, opera, and film score composer (Death in Venice; Il diavolo in giardino), dies at 80
- 2005 George Douglass Milne, British peer, soldier and artist, dies at 95
- 2005 Jean-Pierre Warner, British jurist and first British Advocate General of the European Court of Justice, dies at 80 [1] [2]
- 2005 John Vernon [Adolphus Agopsowicz], Canadian actor (Animal House, Chained Heat, Dirty Harry), dies at 72
- 2006 Bryce Harland, New Zealand diplomat, dies at 74
- 2006 Dick Bass, American NFL running back (Pro Bowl 1962, 63, 66; LA Rams), dies at 68
- 2007 Ahmad Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader, dies at 60
- 2007 Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian pianist, librettist, and composer (Amahl & Night Visitors), and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 95
- 2007 Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dance choreographer, dies at 70
- 2007 Whitney Balliett, American jazz critic, dies of cancer at 80
- 2008 Shell Kepler [Michelle Alaine Kepler], American actress (General Hospital), dies from renal failure at 49
- 2009 Frankie Ervin, American R&B singer (The Three Blazers -"Dragnet Blues"; The Shields -"You Cheated"), dies at 82
- 2009 Jay Uzzell, American R&B singer (Corsairs), dies at 66
- 2009 Lukas Foss [Fuchs], German-American pianist, conductor and composer (Prairie), dies at 86
- 2010 David Brown, American film producer (The Sting; Jaws; Cocoon), dies at 93
American pro wrestler (NWA World Heavyweight Champion 1973–75), dies from complications of open heart surgery at 68
- 2012 Angelo Dundee, American boxing trainer & cornerman (Muhammad Ali 1960–81 & 15 other world boxing champions), dies at 90
- 2012 Charlie Spoonhour, American basketball coach (Southwest Missouri State, Saint Louis, UNLV), dies at 72
- 2012 Don Cornelius, American television host, commits suicide by gunshot at 75
- 2012 Gerlando Alberti, Sicilian Mafioso, dies from cancer at 88
- 2012 Ton de Kruyf, Dutch composer, dies at 74
- 2012 Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet, winner of 1996 Nobel Prize for Literature, dies at 88
- 2013 Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe, Norwegian musicologist, educator, and composer, dies at 86
- 2013 Maggie Gee, one of two Chinese-American women to serve in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II, dies at 89
- 2013 Paul Holmes, New Zealand radio and TV broadcaster, dies from prostate cancer and heart problems at 62
- 2013 Vladimir Yengibaryan, Armenian boxer (Olympic gold light welterweight 1956), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 80
- 2014 Luis Aragonés, Spanish soccer forward (11 caps; Atlético Madrid) and manager (Spain 2004-08; Atlético Madrid, Barcelona), dies from leukemia at 75
Swiss-Austrian actor (Judgment at Nuremberg, The Pedestrian), dies at 83
- 2015 Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-French concert pianist, dies at 89
- 2015 Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle, British engineer, politician and CEO of the Equal Opportunities Commission, dies at 91
- 2015 Monty Oum, American animator (RWBY), dies of an allergic reaction at 33
- 2016 Israr Ali, Pakistan cricket all-rounder (4 Tests; member of Pakistan's first Test team that played against India 1952–53), dies of pneumonia at 88
- 2017 Desmond Carrington, British radio host (The Music Goes Round), dies at 90
- 2017 Étienne Tshisekedi, Congolese opposition leader, dies at 84
- 2017 Ken Morrison, English supermarket tycoon (Morrisons), dies at 85
- 2018 Alan Stout, American experimental contemporary composer, dies at 85
- 2018 Dennis Edwards, American pop and soul singer (The Temptations - "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"), dies following a stroke at 74
- 2018 Patricia Lindop, British radiobiologist and physician, dies at 87
- 2019 Clive Swift, British stage, wireless, and screen actor (Frenzy; A Passage to India; Keeping Up Appearances), dies at 82
- 2019 Wade Wilson, American football quarterback (Super Bowl XXX Dallas Cowboys; Pro Bowl 1988 Minnesota Vikings), dies of complications from Type 1 diabetes on his 60th birthday
- 2020 Andy Gill, British guitarist and record producer (Gang of Four - "Damaged Goods"), dies from multiple organ failure and pneumonia at 64
- 2020 Charles Wood, British playwright and screenwriter (The Charge of the Light Brigade, A Breed of Heroes), dies at 87
- 2020 Peter Serkin, American concert pianist (TASHI quartet), and pedagogue (Juilliard; Curtis Institute; Yale; Bard College), dies from pancreatic cancer at 72
- 2021 Dustin Diamond, American actor (Saved By Bell - "Screech"), dies of cancer at 44
- 2021 Robert C. Jones, American film editor (Bound for Glory) and screenwriter (Coming Home), dies at 84
- 2022 Easton McMorris, West Indian cricket batsman (13 Tests, 1 x 100; Jamaica), dies at 86
- 2022 Glenn Wheatley, Australian rock bassist (The Masters Apprentices), and talent manager (Little River Band; John Farnham), dies of COVID-19 complications at 74
- 2022 Maurizio Zamparini, Italian football executive (owner/director Palermo FC 2002–18), dies from complications of peritonitis at 80
- 2022 Richard L. Tierney, American sci-fi author (Winds of Zarr, Red Sonja), dies at 85
- 2022 Robin Duthie, Scottish accountant, businessman (CEO of Black and Edgington, 1962-83; Chairman of Britoil, 1988-90), and cricketer, dies at 93
- 2022 Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (Governor of Tokyo), dies at 89
- 2023 Joanne Bracker, American college basketball coach (Midland University 1970-2012; Women's Basketball HOF), dies at 77
American football player, actor (Rocky films (I-IV); Street Justice; The Mandalorian), and director, dies at 76
- 2024 Michel Jazy, French athlete (WR 1 mile 3:53.6 1965; Olympic silver 1500m 1960), dies at 87
- 2024 Mike Martin, American College Baseball HOF coach (all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division I: Florida State Uni 1980-2019; Baseball America Coach of the Year 2012, 19), dies at 79
- 2025 Horst Köhler, German politician, President of Germany (2004-10), Head of the International Monetary Fund (2000-04), dies at 81 [1]
- 2025 John Montagu, 11th Earl of Sandwich, British humanitarian known for his work with the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Sudan, dies at 81
