- 640 Bilal ibn Rabah, Arabic companion of prophet Muhammad, first mu'azzin in history, (b. 580)
- 672 Chad of Mercia, Ango-Saxon abbot and saint credited with introducing Christianity to the Kingdom of Mercian (present day Midlands, England), dies at about 38
- 986 Lotharius, King of France (954-86), dies at 44
- 1074 Yorimichi Fujiwara, Japanese imperial courtier and regent for three emperors (1016-68), dies at about 82 (b. 992)
- 1121 Floris II (Floris the Fat), Count of Holland, dies at about 35 [born c. 1085]
- 1127 Charles, the Good, Count of Flanders, murdered
- 1316 Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1296)
- 1333 Władysław I Łokietek (Ladislaw the Short), King of Poland, 1320-33, dies at about 74 [born c. 1260]
- 1572 Mem de Sá, Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil
- 1589 Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma, Italian diplomat, Catholic cardinal, and patron of the arts, dies at 78
- 1606 St. Nicholas Owen (martyr), one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, executed at about 43 [birthdate uncertain]
- 1619 Anne of Denmark, daughter of Danish King Frederick II and Queen Consort of James I of England, dies at 44
- 1729 Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist, dies at 66
- 1755 Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (b. 1675)
- 1758 Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German painter and stucco worker, buried at 78
- 1772 Robert Joseph Pothier, French lawyer (influential writer on French Law), dies at 73
- 1787 Jean Allamand, Swiss-Dutch natural philosopher, dies at 73
English Christian theologian and co-founder of the Methodist movement, dies at 87
- 1793 Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-born artist, painter to the Danish court, dies at 81
- 1797 Horace Walpole, British politician (Member of Parliament, 1741-69), and gothic novelist (The Castle of Otranto), dies at 79
- 1800 Christian Friedrich Schale, German organist, harpsichordist, and composer, dies at 86
- 1822 Friedrich Christian Hermann Uber, composer, dies at 40
- 1829 Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, conspirator and supporter of the Mexican War of Independence (b. 1768)
- 1830 Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (b. 1755)
- 1835 Francis II, last Holy Roman Emperor (1792-1806), Emperor of Austria (1804-35), dies at 67
- 1840 Wilhelm Olbers, German astronomer and physician who discovered asteroids (Pallas and Vesta), dies at 81
Tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies at 58
- 1862 Frederick West Lander, American Union brigadier general and poet, dies at 40
- 1865 Carl Sylvius Völkner, German missionary to New Zealand (b. 1819)
- 1867 French-Andries Durlet, Belgian sculptor and architect, dies at 50
- 1868 Carl Eberwein, German composer and violinist, dies at 81
- 1879 John Eberhard Faber, German-American pencil manufacturer and built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US, dies at 56
- 1880 Sir John MacNeill, Irish civil engineer (b. 1790)
- 1882 Louis Kufferath, German-Belgian composer, dies at 70
- 1887 August W. Eichler, German botanist (developed a new system of classification of plants to reflect the concept of evolution), dies at 47
- 1887 Wilhelm Troszel, Polish operatic bass, composer, and voice teacher, dies at 63
- 1894 William Montagu Scott McMurdo, British army officer, dies of influenza at 74 [1]
French Impressionist painter who helped start the Impressionist movement, dies of pneumonia at 54
- 1895 Ismail Pasha, kedive of Egypt (1863-79), dies at 64
- 1916 Elisabeth OL [Carmen Sylva], Queen of Romania, dies at 72
- 1918 Hubert Howe Bancroft, American historian, ethnologist (History of Pacific States), dies at 85
- 1919 Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary hero (b. 1812)
- 1921 Champ Clark, American politician (b. 1850)
- 1921 Henryk Pachulski, Polish pianist, composer, and educator (Moscow Conservatory, 1886-1917), dies at 61
- 1936 Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse, dies at 59
- 1937 Gustav Wohlgemuth, German composer, dies at 73
- 1938 Ben Harney, American composer and 'Father of Ragtime Piano' ("You've Been a Good Old Wagon, But You Done Broke Down"), dies of a heart attack at 66 [1]
British archaeologist and Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamun's tomb, dies at 64
- 1940 Matt Kilroy, American baseball pitcher (MLB single-season record 513 strikeouts 1886; MLB no-hitter 1886; Baltimore Orioles), dies at 73
- 1942 Charlie Christian, American jazz and swing guitarist (Benny Goodman Sextet), dies of tuberculosis at 25 [1] [2]
- 1943 Alexandre Yersin, Swiss French bacteriologist (discovered bubonic plague bacillus), dies at 79
- 1945 Emily Carr, Canadian painter, dies at 73
- 1946 Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian National socialist (leading supporter of Nazism in Hungary), dies at 50
- 1946 George E. Stewart, American army officer and Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 73
- 1949 Sarojini Naidu, Indian freedom fighter and poet, dies at 70
- 1950 M Joseph V d'Arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76
- 1950 Rosli Dhobi, pro-Indonesian Malay student, hanged in Kuching for the assassination of Duncan Stewart, British Governor of Sarawak
- 1953 Jim Lightbody, American athlete (Olympic gold 800m, 1500m, 2590m Steeplechase 1904), dies at 70
- 1957 Harry E Soref, inventor (padlock), dies at 70
- 1959 Eric Blore, British stage and screen actor (The Lone Wolf; Bowery to Baghdad; Abie's Irish Rose; Love Happy), dies of s heart attack at 71
- 1960 Stanisław Taczak, Polish general, commander-in-chief of the Greater Poland Uprising, dies at 85
- 1962 Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (Prime number theorem), dies at 95
- 1962 Walt Kiesling, American Pro Football Hall of Fame guard (NFL 1920s All-Decade Team; First-team All-Pro 1929, 30, 32; Chicago Cardinals) and coach (Pittsburgh Pirates/Steelers), dies from bacteremia at 58
- 1967 Gordon Harker, British actor (Facts of Love, Champagne, Inspector Hornleigh), dies at 81
- 1967 José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish poet and writer (b. 1873)
- 1970 Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Quebecoise painter dies at 81
- 1970 Paul Christman, American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback (University of Missouri; All-Pro 1946, 47; Chicago Cardinals, Green Bay Packers), dies from a heart attack at 51
- 1971 Charles W Engelhard, US silver multi-millionaire, dies at 54
- 1972 Bill Lawrence, American news anchor (ABC), dies at 56
- 1973 Cleo Noel, US ambassador to Sudan, assassinated
- 1974 Salvador Puig Antich, Spanish anarchist (b. 1948)
- 1975 Jean Kurt Forest, German composer, dies at 65
- 1975 Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, Kenyan politician (b.1929)
- 1977 Eugénie Brazier, French chef who was the 1st woman to earn 3 Michelin stars (1933), and the 1st person earn 3 Michelin stars for 2 restaurants, dies at 81
- 1979 Christy Ring, Irish hurler (Cork 65 games, scoring tally [33-208], 8 x All-Ireland medals), dies at 58
- 1979 Edith Craig, actress (Harmony Lane, Smashing Rackets), dies at 71
- 1981 Janear Hines, American actress (Julia - "Roberta"), dies of Bright's disease at 30
- 1981 Tony Gulotta, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1927 3rd), dies at 78
- 1982 Philip K. Dick, American Sci-fi author (Hugo-1963; Dr Futurity), dies after a series of strokes at 53
- 1984 Louis Basile, actor (Louie-The Super), dies at 48
- 1985 John Kelly Jr, American rower (Olympic bronze single sculls 1956; president US Olympic Committee 1985) and brother of Grace Kelly, dies at 57
- 1986 Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian, dies at 56
- 1986 Zafer Masri, mayor of Nablus, murdered
- 1987 Randolph Scott, American actor (Ride the High Country, Last of the Mohicans, Western Union), dies at 89
- 1991 Clark Mollenhoff, American journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies
- 1991 Freek Zoetmulder, publisher (Austrian Encyclopedia)/neo-nazi, dies
- 1991 Serge Gainsbourg [Lucien Ginsburg], French singer-songwriter, record producer ("Je t'aime... moi non plus"; "Requiem pour un twister"), and actor, dies of a heart attack at 62 [1]
- 1992 Sandy Dennis, American Tony and Academy Award-winning stage and screen actress (Any Wednesday; Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?; The Out-of-Towners), dies of ovarian cancer at 54
- 1993 Floortje Peneder, Dutch poet (Diary), dies at 15
- 1993 Paul D Zimmerman, American screenwriter (King of Comedy), dies at 54
- 1994 Charles Brink, German-born British classical scholar (Horace), dies at 86
- 1994 Donald M. MacKinnon, Scottish philosopher, dies at 80
- 1995 Gilbert Gadoffre, French historian, professor of French and wartime resister, dies at 83
- 1995 Hugo Cole, British composer and critic, dies at 77
- 1996 Jacobo Majluta Azar, 47th President of the Dominican Republic (1978-82), dies at 61
- 1996 Lyle Talbot [Lysle Henderson], American stage and screen actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet - "Joe"), dies of congestive heart failure at 94
- 1996 Yrrah [Harry Lammertink], Dutch cartoonist (Vrij Netherland), dies at 63
- 1998 Henry Steele Commager, American historian (Atlas of Civil War), dies at 95
- 1999 David Ackles, American singer-songwriter (American Gothic), dies of lung cancer at 62
- 1999 Dusty Springfield [Mary O'Brien], English vocalist (Growing Pains), dies at 59
- 2000 Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler (Olympic gold team 1998; World C'ship gold 1993, 94, 87), dies of metastatic adenocarcinoma at 36
- 2001 John Diamond, British journalist, dies of cancer at 47
- 2002 Halfdan Rasmussen, Danish poet (wrote about social issues and nonsense verse for children), dies at 87
- 2003 Hank Ballard [John Henry Kendricks], American rocker (The Midnighters - "The Twist" - pre-Chubber Checker), dies at 75
- 2003 Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer, dies at 71
- 2004 Marge Schott, American MLB owner (Cincinnati Reds), dies of pneumonia at 75
- 2004 Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (All the King's Men, The Exorcist, Giant), dies at 87
- 2005 Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentarian, dies at 111
- 2005 Ivan Parik, Czech classical and electro-acoustic composer (Quadrophony), dies at 68
- 2005 Martin Denny, American exotica musician, dies at 93
- 2007 Clem Labine, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1956, 57; World Series 1955, 59, 60; Brooklyn / LA Dodgers, Detroit Tigers), dies after exploratory brain surgery at 80
- 2007 Henri Troyat, Russian-French author and historian, dies at 95
- 2007 Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (b. 1956)
- 2007 Thomas S. Kleppe, U.S. politician (b. 1919)
- 2008 Jeff Healey, Canadian blues singer and lap-steel guitarist ("Angel Eyes"), dies of sarcoma at 41
- 2009 Chris Finnegan, British boxer (Olympic gold middleweight 1968), dies of pneumonia at 64
- 2009 Ernest Ashworth, American country music singer ("Talk Back Trembling Lips", "You Can't Pick a Rose in December"), and broadcaster, dies at 80
- 2009 João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, Bissau-Guinean politician (President of Guinea-Bissau, 1980-99 & 2005-09), killed by army after his military rival's death in a bombing at 69
- 2010 Paul Drayton, American athlete (Olympic gold 4x100m relay 1964), dies from a pulmonary embolism at 70
- 2010 Winston Spencer-Churchill, British politician (b. 1940)
- 2011 Čestmír Gregor, Czech composer, dies at 84
- 2012 James Wilson, American criminologist, dies at 80
- 2012 Lawrence Anthony, South African conservationist and author, dies from heart attack at 61
- 2012 Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley, British MP (1964-1987), dies at 82
- 2012 Nydia Ecury, celebrated Afro-Dutch writer, translator and actress (Kantika pa Mama Tera), dies at 86
- 2012 Van Barfoot, American army colonel and Medal of Honour recipient, dies at 92
- 2013 Robert Feenstra, Dutch law historian, dies at 92
- 2014 Justin Kaplan, American editor and biographer (Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain - Pulitzer Prize 1967), dies at 88
- 2015 Bettina Graziani [Simone Bodin] French model, one of the first supermodels, Givenchy muse, dies at 89
- 2015 Mal Peet, British children's author, dies at 67
- 2017 Simon Hobday, South African golfer (US Senior Open 1994), dies of cancer at 76
- 2018 Sammy Stewart, American MLB baseball pitcher (World Series 1983; AL ERA leader 1981; Cleveland Indians), dies of hypertension and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease at 63
- 2018 Sean Garrison, American actor (Up Periscope; Moment to Moment; Splendor in the Grass), dies at 80
- 2018 Van McLain [McElvain], American rock guitarist (Shooting Star), dies from West Nile virus at 62
- 2020 Henry N. Cobb, American architect (Pei Cobb Freed & Partners), dies at 93
- 2020 James Lipton, American actor, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio, dies at 93
- 2021 Bunny Wailer [Neville O'Riley Livingston], Jamaican vocalist and percussionist (The Wailers with Bob Marley), dies of stroke complications at 73
- 2021 Chris Barber, English jazz trombonist ("Petite Fleur"), dies at 90
- 2021 Peter Grosser, German soccer midfielder (2 caps; Bayern Munich, 1860 Munich, Austria Salzburg), dies at 82
- 2022 Alan Ladd Jr., American producer (Braveheart) and president of 20th Century Fox (1976–79), dies of kidney failure at 84
- 2022 Autherine Lucy, American educator and 1st African-American to enroll in University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, dies at 92
- 2022 Johnny Brown, American stage and screen comic actor (Good Times - "Bookman"; Laugh-In), and singer, dies of heart failure at 84
- 2022 Robert Cohen, French boxer (NYSAC, NBA, The Ring bantamweight titles 1954-56), dies at 91
- 2022 Tony Walton, British Tony, Oscar, and Emmy Award-winning set and costume designer (Pippin; Mary Poppins; All That Jazz), dies from stroke complications at 87
- 2023 Mary Bauermeister, German artist, dies at 88
- 2023 Per Kristoffersen, Norwegian soccer forward (25 caps; Fredrikstad FC 194 games, 147 goals), dies at 85
- 2023 Rafael Viñoly, Uruguayan-American architect (20 Fenchurch Street (London); Kimmel Center (Philadelphia); Booth School of Business (Chicago)), dies of an aneurysm at 78 [1]
- 2023 Steve Mackey, British pop bassist, songwriter, and producer (Pulp - "Common People"), dies at 56
- 2023 Wayne Shorter, American jazz saxophonist and composer (Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers; Miles Davis; Weather Report), dies at 89 [1]
- 2024 Jim Beard, American session and touring jazz-fusion keyboardist and composer (Pat Metheny, Steely Dan, The Brecker Brothers), dies at 63 [1]
- 2024 John Okafor, Nigerian Nollywood actor and comedian, dies at 62 [1]
- 2025 Buvaisar Saitiev, Russian freestyle wrestler (Olympic gold 74kg 1996, 2004, 08; World C'ship gold x 6), dies at 49
- 2025 George Lowe, American voice actor (Space Ghost Coast to Coast), dies at 67
