- 1128 Toghtekin, Turkoman atabek and military leader of Damascus (fought during First Crusade), founded Burid Dynasty, dies
- 1242 Henry VII, King of Germany and Sicily (1220-35), who rebelled against his father Holy Roman Emperor King Frederick II, falls off a horse or possibly commits suicide at 30 or 31
- 1538 Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, dies at about 57
- 1554 Lord Guildford Dudley, Jane Grey's husband, beheaded at about 19 for treason
- 1571 Nicholas Throckmorton, English diplomat and politician (b. 1515)
- 1590 François Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer and diplomat (Anti-Tribonien), dies at 65
- 1595 Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, son of Holy Roam Emperor Maximilian II, dies at 41
- 1616 Johannes van den Driesche, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65
- 1624 George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist (b. 1563)
- 1630 Fynes Moryson, English traveler and writer (Europe and the eastern Mediterranean) (b. 1566)
- 1640 William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, Scottish explorer of Nova Scotia and Long Island and poet (Aurora; The Monarchick Tragedies), dies at around 73
- 1684 Pietro Andrea Ziani, Italian composer and organist, dies at 67
- 1689 Marie Louise D'Orleans, Queen consort of Spain as the first wife of King Charles II of Spain, dies of a possible appendicitis at 26
- 1700 Aleksei Shein, Russian general and statesman, dies at about 48
- 1712 Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, mother of Louis XV of France, dies of measles at 26
- 1724 Elkanah Settle, British poet and playwright (The World in the Moon, The Empress of Morocco), dies at 76 [1]
- 1728 Agostino Steffani, Italian-German diplomat and composer, dies at 73
- 1738 James Sherard, English amateur composer, dies at 71
- 1762 Laurent Belissen, French composer, dies at 68
- 1763 Pierre de Marivaux, French playwright and novelist (Triomphe de l'amour,), dies at 75
- 1771 Adolf Frederik, King of Sweden (1751-70), dies at 60
American Revolutionary War patriot (lead the Green Mountain Boys), dies of an apoplectic fit at 51
- 1798 Stanislaw II August Poniatowski, last King of Poland (1764-95), dies of a stroke at 66
- 1799 František Xaver Dušek, Czech pianist, harpsichordist, and composer, dies at 67
- 1799 Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian physiologist and biologist, dies at 70
- 1820 Guillaume Albert Teniers, Flemish composer, dies at 71
- 1834 Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist and philosopher, dies at 65
- 1837 Ludwig Borne [Loeb Baruch], German-Jewish writer, dies at 50
- 1856 Thomas L. Jennings, American tailor and inventor (dry-cleaning), abolitionist, and desegregationist, dies at 64 [1]
- 1861 Hippolyte-André-Baptiste Chélard, French violist, composer and conductor, dies at 72
- 1871 Alice Cary, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel), dies at 50
- 1880 Karl von Holtei, Silesian actor, playwright and author (Die Vagabunden), dies at 82
- 1884 Aaron Bernstein, German Jewish writer (Young Germany), dies at 72
- 1886 Horatio Seymour, American politician (18th Governor of New York), dies at 75
- 1889 Andrew Greenwood, English cricket batsman (2 Tests, HS 49; Yorkshire CCC), dies from tuberculosis at 41
- 1894 Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (b. 1830)
- 1896 Ambroise Thomas, French opera composer (Mignon), and music professor, dies at 84
- 1896 Isaac Murphy, American jockey, 628 wins on 1,412 mounts (44.5%), dies at 35
- 1901 Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Colon), dies at 83
- 1903 Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Spanish dramatist and statesman (b. 1834)
- 1905 Marcel Schwob, French writer and journalist (Coeur double), dies at 37
- 1907 Muriel Robb, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1902), dies of lymphadenoma at 28
- 1911 Alexander Stuart Webb, American Union general (medal for gallantry at Battle of Gettysburg), dies at 75
- 1912 Armauer Hansen, Norwegian physician (1st to identify leprosy as bacteria), dies at 70 [1]
- 1915 Émile Waldteufel [Charles Émile Lévy], French pianist and composer (Estudiantina; Les Patineurs - The Skaters' Waltz), dies at 77
- 1916 Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers), dies at 84
- 1920 Émile Sauret, French violinist and composer, dies at 67
- 1920 Jean Allemane, French socialist and communard (allemanisten), dies at 77
- 1920 Ottalee Baker, American wife of MLB player Frank "Home Run" Baker, dies of scarlet fever at 31
- 1921 Charles Leslie, English cricketer (4 Tests England v Australia 1882-83), dies at 59
- 1929 Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, German psychologist who studied paranormal phenomena, dies at 66 [1]
- 1929 Lillie Langtry (née Emilie Charlotte Le Breton), British-American artists' model, stage actress (His Neighbor's Wife), theatrical producer, thoroughbred owner, and socialite, dies at 75
- 1931 Samedbey Mehmandarov, Azerbaijani Russian general during WWI, dies at 75
- 1933 Henri Duparc, French composer (L'invitation au voyage), and visual artist, dies at 85
- 1935 Auguste Escoffier, French chef and writer (Le Guide Culinaire), dies at 88
- 1939 S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist who introduced the concept of pH, dies at 71
- 1942 Avraham Stern, Polish-born Zionist paramilitary leader, founded the Lehi movement, killed by British forces at 34
- 1942 Grant Wood, American painter (American Gothic), dies of cancer at 50
- 1945 Antonio Villa-Real, Filipino jurist (b. 1880)
- 1945 Henrietta Szold, American Zionist leader (founded Hadassah, Youth Aliyah), dies at 84
- 1945 Walraven van Hall, Dutch banker who led resistance against Nazis, executed by the Nazis at 39
- 1947 [Hooper] Sidney Toler, American theater director, playwright, stage and screen actor (Madame X; Meeting at Midnight; Charlie Chan films, 1938-46), dies of cancer at 72
- 1949 Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, dies at 42
- 1951 Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (one of the earliest proponents of the creation of the state of Pakistan and recognized as the creator of the name “Pakistan” for a separate Muslim, homeland in South Asia and is known as the founder of the Pakistan National Movement), dies at 53
- 1954 Dziga Vertov [Denis Kaufman], Russian influential film director (Man with a Movie Camera, 3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58
- 1955 S Z Sakall [Gerö Jenö], Hungarian stage and film character actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca), dies at 72
- 1957 Eric Alfred Knudsen, American Hawaiian folklorist, dies at 84
- 1957 Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Martha og Maria), dies at 82
- 1958 Douglas R. Hartree, English mathematician and physicist, dies at 60
- 1958 Marcel Cachin, French politician and co-founder of the French Communist Party, dies at 88
- 1959 George Antheil, American pianist, avant garde composer (Airplane Sonata; Ballet Mécanique), and inventor, dies at 58
- 1960 Bobby Clark, American vaudevillian, clown and actor (in comedy act with Paul McCullough), dies at 71
- 1964 Gerald Gardner, British occultist and Wiccan (founding the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca), dies at 79
- 1965 Henry Kulky [Kulakowich], American actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Love Nest), dies from a heart attack at 53
- 1967 (Francis) "Muggsy" Spanier, American swing jazz and Dixieland revival cornetist and trumpeter, dies at 65
- 1969 Johanna Tourniaire, Dutch actress (Potasch & Perlemoer), dies at 80
- 1970 André Souris, Belgian composer, dies at 79
- 1971 George Shelton, American actor (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 86
American department store founder (J C Penney), dies at 95
- 1973 Benjamin Frankel, British composer, dies at 67
- 1976 Clifton Williams, American composer (The Ramparts; Sinfonians), dies from cancer at 52
- 1976 Sal Mineo, American actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed at 37
- 1979 Jean Renoir, French film director (Madame Bovary, Nana, Grand Illusion) and actor (Rules of the Game), dies at 84
- 1980 Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (The Book of the Dead), dies at 66
- 1980 Wally Wales [Floyd Taliaferro Alderson], American actor (Crossing Trails), dies at 84
- 1981 Jean Dixon, American actress (Joy of Living; You Only Live Once), dies at 87
- 1982 Hal Hooker, Australian cricketer (world record 10th wicket 307 partnership with Kippax), dies at 83
- 1982 Kees Rijnsdorp, Dutch writer (Culprit), dies at 87
- 1983 (James Hubert) "Eubie" Blake, American ragtime composer and pianist ("Memories of You"; "I'm Just Wild About Harry"), dies at 96
- 1984 Anna Anderson [possibly born Franziska Schanzkowska], best-known of several imposters claiming to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov, dies still maintaining her fraudulent claim at 87
- 1984 Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (Blow-Up, Underground Game), dies at 69
- 1985 Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (Cheers - "Coach"; Family Plot; The Counterfeit Killer), dies of a heart attack at 61
- 1985 Van Lingle Mungo, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1934, 36, 37, 45; NL strikeout leader 1936; Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants), dies at 73
- 1986 Guy Warrack, Scottish composer, dies at 86
- 1986 Sid Stone, American comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 82
- 1987 Lang Jeffries, Canadian actor (Rescue 8 - "Skip", dies at 56
- 1989 Mauritius Balfoort, French-Belgian director, dies at 83
- 1989 Thomas Bernhard, Austrian novelist, playwright and poet whose work some describe as "the most significant literary achievement since World War II", dies at 58
- 1991 Edward A. Blatt, Polish-born American director (Between 2 Worlds), dies at 88
- 1991 Robert F. Wagner Jr., Mayor of New York City (Democrat: 1954-65), dies at 80
- 1991 Roger Patterson, American death metal bass player, dies in a car crash at 22
- 1992 Bep [Lambertus] van Klaveren, Dutch boxing champ (Olympic gold 1928), dies
- 1993 James Bulger, English child abducted, tortured and beaten to death at 2, by 10-year-old boys
- 1994 Donald Judd, American minimalist sculptor and artist, dies of cancer at 65
- 1994 Ray Dandridge, American Baseball HOF third baseman (3 × NgL All-Star 1935, 37, 44; American Association MVP 1950 Minneapolis Millers), dies at 80
- 1994 Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate, dies at 43
- 1995 Earring George Mayweather, American blues harmonica player, dies of liver cancer at 66
- 1995 Nat Holman, American Basketball HOF coach (NCAA, NIT C'ships 1950 CCNY), dies at 98
- 1995 Rachid Mimouni, Algerian author (L'Honneur de la Tribu), dies at 49
- 1995 Terence Beckles, English pianist and teacher, dies at 82
- 1995 Tony Secunda, English rock band manager (The Moody Blues), dies at 54
- 1996 Bob Shaw, Northern Irish novelist (b. 1931)
- 1996 Roger Omond, South African journalist ("The Apartheid Handbook"), dies at 51
- 1997 James Cossins, English stage and screen character actor (The Anniversary; Fawlty Towers), dies of hear disease at 63
- 1997 Nora Beloff, British journalist, first female political correspondent for a UK newspaper (Observer), and author, dies at 78
- 1997 Walter Ritchie, British sculptor (Man's Struggle), dies at 77
- 2000 (Jalacy) "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, American blues-rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter ("I Put a Spell On You"), and actor, dies of an aneurysm at 70
- 2000 Andy Lewis, Australian musician (The Whitlams), commits suicide at 33
American cartoonist (Peanuts), dies of a heart attack while battling colon cancer at 77
- 2000 Oliver [William Swofford], American pop singer ("Good Morning Starshine"), dies of cancer at 54
American Pro Football HOF coach (Super Bowl VI, XII; NFL Coach of the Year 1966 Dallas Cowboys), dies of leukemia at 75
- 2001 Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer, dies at 88
- 2003 Vali Myers, Australian painter, dies at 72
- 2004 Robert A. Bruce, American cardiologist and pioneer (exercise cardiology), dies at 87
- 2005 Brian Kelly, American actor (Flipper, Straightaway), dies at 71
- 2005 John Vivian Dacie, English haematologist (discovered haemophilia B), dies at 92
- 2005 Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan athlete, dies in a car accident at 41
- 2005 Sammi Smith, American country music singer (Help Me Make It Through the Night), dies at 61
- 2007 Eldee Young, American jazz upright bassist (Ramsey Lewis Trio, 1956-66 'The In Crowd"; Young-Holt Unlimited - "Soulful Strut"), dies of a heart attack at 71
- 2007 Peggy Gilbert [Margaret Knechtges], American jazz saxophonist, pianist, and bandleader (Metro Goldwyn Orchestra; Symphonics; Dixie Belles), dies at 102 [1]
- 2007 Randy Stone, American actor, casting director, and producer. dies of heart disease at 48
- 2008 David Groh, American actor (Rhoda - "Joe"; Another Day - "Don"), dies of kidney cancer at 68
Lebanese militant leader (Hezbollah), is killed by a car bomb at 45
- 2008 Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter (The Glenn Miller Story), dies at 100
- 2009 Lis Hartel, Danish equestrian rider (Olympic silver individual dressage 1952, 56; permanently paralyzed her below her knees from polio), dies at 87
- 2010 Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger, dies in a training run for the Winter Olympics at 21
- 2011 Elizabeth "Betty" Garrett, American actress, comedian, singer and dancer (All in the Family), dies of an aortic aneurysm at 91
- 2011 Gino Cimoli, American baseball player, dies at 81
- 2011 Kenneth Mars, American actor (The Producers; What's Up, Doc?; Malcolm in the Middle), dies at 75
- 2011 Mato Damjanović, Croatian chess grandmaster (b. 1927)
- 2011 Peter Alexander [Ferdinand Maximilian Neumayer], Austrian actor and singer (Who Wants to Sleep?), dies at 84
- 2012 David Kelly, Irish actor (Grandpa Joe-Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Fawlty Towers), dies of pneumonia and lung cancer at 82
- 2012 John Severin, American comic book artist, dies at 90
- 2012 Marty Allen, American comedian (Allen & Rossi "Hello Dere"), dies at 95
- 2012 Zina Bethune, American actress, dies from hit and run at 66
- 2013 Hennadiy Udovenko, Ukrainian politician and diplomat (UN General Assembly President, 1997-98), dies at 81
- 2013 Richard Orton, British modern classical and electronic music composer, performer, and educator (University of York, 1967-96), dies at 73
- 2014 Diarmuid Downs, British automotive engineer, dies at 91
- 2014 Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar, American comic actor and writer (Your Show of Shows), dies at 91
- 2015 David Carr, American journalist (New York Times), dies of cancer at 58
- 2015 Gary Owens [Altman], American disc jockey, TV announcer (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In; The Gong Show), and voice actor, dies of diabetes complications at 80
- 2015 Sam Andrew, American guitarist, singer-songwriter (Big Brother and the Holding Company; Kozmic Blues Band), and classical composer, dies of complications following heart surgery at 73
- 2015 Steve Strange [Harrington], Welsh pop singer (Visage) and nightclub host, dies of a heart attack at 55
- 2016 Johnny Lattner, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1953, Notre Dame; Pro Bowl 1954, Pittsburgh Steelers), dies from mesothelioma at 83
- 2017 Al Jarreau, American jazz singer (Moonlighting), dies at 76
- 2019 Gordon Banks, English soccer goalkeeper (World Cup 1966, 73 England caps), dies of kidney cancer at 81
- 2019 Lyndon LaRouche, American political activist (National Caucus of Labor Committees), dies at 96
- 2019 W. E. B. Griffin [William Edmund Butterworth], American best-selling author (Clandestine Operations, The Lieutenants), dies at 89
- 2020 Tamás Wichmann, Hungarian sprint canoeist (World C'ship gold x 9; Olympic silver C-1 1000m 1972, C-2 1000m 1968; bronze C-1 1000m 1976), dies at 72
- 2021 Milford Graves, American avant-garde and free jazz drummer, percussionist (New York Art Quartet), and educator (Bennington College, Vermont, 1973-2012), dies of heart failure at 79 [1]
- 2022 Aurelio de la Vega, Cuban-American composer (Adiós; Variación del Recuerdo), educator (California State University, 1959-92), and poet, dies at 96
- 2022 Brian Kan, Chinese thoroughbred horse trainer (5 x Hong Kong champion trainer; 5 x HK Derby winners), dies at 84
- 2022 Howard Grimes, American soul music session drummer (Al Green; Ann Peeples), dies of kidney failure at 80
Slovak-Canadian director and producer (Stripes; Ghostbusters; Dave; Private Parts), dies at 75
- 2022 William Kraft, American timpanist, percussionist (Los Angeles Percussion Ensemble), conductor, and composer (The Demise of Suriyodhaya; Avalanche), dies at 98
- 2023 Eileen Sheridan, English cyclist (record road cyclist - Land’s End-John O’Groats time stood for 36 years), dies at 99 [1]
- 2023 Trugoy the Dove [David Jolicoeur], American rapper and producer (De La Soul - "Me Myself and I"), dies of heart failure at 54
- 2023 Vadim Abdrashitov, Russian film director (Fox Hunt, Parade of Planets), dies at 78
- 2024 Steve Wright, English DJ and actor (Funny Man), dies at 69
- 2024 Zdenko Morović, Venezuelan soccer midfielder (5 caps; Deportivo Italia, CS Marítimo, Caracas FC), dies at 57
- 2025 Holmes Rolston III, American environmental philosopher and Templeton Prize laureate (2003), dies at 92 [1]
- 2025 Patrick Barclay, English sportswriter (The Times, The Guardian-Observer, Sunday Telegraph, The Independent; Sky Sports), dies at 77
- 2025 Tommy Hunt, American soul singer (Flamingos, 1956-60 - "I Only Have Eyes For You"; "Lovers Never Say Goodbye"), dies at 91
