- 809 Harun al-Rashid, 5th caliph of the Abbasid empire (786-809), established House of Wisdom Library, featured in "One Thousand and One Nights", dies at 44
- 1284 Hugh III of Cyprus, King of Cyprus and Jerusalem (b 1235)
- 1381 Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint
Duchess of Lancaster and claimant to the Crown of Castile, dies at 39 or 40
- 1396 Walter Hilton, English mystic
- 1400 Florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies
- 1455 Nicholas V [Tommaso Parentucelli], Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57
- 1455 Rudolf van Diepholt, Prince-Bishop and Cardinal of Utrecht (1448-55), dies
- 1558 Anna van Buren, Countess of Egmond, Buren and Lingen, dies
- 1563 Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)
- 1575 Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488)
Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603) and daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, dies at 69
- 1631 Philipp Dulichius, German composer, dies at 68
- 1635 Jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42
- 1644 Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland, dies at 32
- 1654 Samuel Scheidt, German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66
- 1661 William Leddra becomes the last Quaker to be hanged in Boston, for the crime of returning from banishment
- 1755 Theodor Christlieb Reinhold, German composer, dies at 72
- 1771 William Shirley, British Army officer (King George's War; French and Indian War), and colonial administrator (Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1741-49 and 1753-56; Governor of the Bahamas, 1760–68), dies at 76
- 1773 Philip Dormer Stanhope [Lord Chesterfield], English statesman and letter writer, responsible for introducing the Gregorian calendar, dies at 78
English carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer to calculate longitude while at sea, dies at 82
- 1823 Cornelis van Foreest, Dutch politician, Mayor of Alkmaar, dies at 66
- 1825 Giovanni Domenico Perotti, Italian composer, dies at 64
- 1838 Thomas Attwood, English organist and composer, dies at 72
- 1844 Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (Dying Lion), dies at 73
- 1864 Karl Ernst Claus, Russian chemist, discovered chemical element ruthenium, dies at 68
- 1866 Maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, French queen as wife of Louis Philip of Austria, dies at 83
- 1869 Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)
- 1877 Walter Bagehot, British journalist and economist (founded National Review), dies at 51
- 1878 Albin Masek, Czech composer, dies at 73
- 1881 Achille Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist, dies at 64
- 1881 Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republican politician, dies at 69
- 1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75
- 1883 Thomas Turner, American Navy admiral in the Mexican-American War and for the Union Navy, dies at 75
- 1885 Jacob Thompson, American politician, 5th United States Secretary of the Interior (1857-61), dies art 74
- 1887 Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic, dies at 49
- 1888 Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
- 1891 Daniel H. Wells, Mormon leader and 3rd Mayor of Salt Lake City, dies at 76
- 1894 Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter and co-founder of the Peredvizhniki artistic cooperative, dies at 54
- 1894 Robert Prescott Stewart, Irish composer, organist, conductor, and teacher, dies at 68
- 1899 Billy Barnes, English cricket all-rounder (21 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 134, 51 wickets, BB 6/28; Nottinghamshire CCC), dies at 46
- 1901 Charlotte Mary Yonge, English writer (Heir of Redclyffe), dies at 77
- 1904 Edwin Arnold, English writer (The Light of Asia), dies at 71
French novelist known as the "Father of Science Fiction" (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77
- 1909 John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist and poet (Riders to the Sea), dies at 37
- 1910 Galen Clark, Canadian-born American naturalist and conservationist (discovered and helped preserve Mariposa's Grove of giant Sequoia trees), dies at 95 [1]
- 1911 Stanley Robison, American civil engineer, streetcar magnate, and baseball team owner (Cleveland Spiders, 1887-99; St. Louis Cardinals, 1899-1911), dies from complications of locomotor ataxia at 56
- 1915 Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist, mathematician, and first person along with Zygmunt Wróblewski to liquify oxygen and nitrogen, dies at 69
- 1916 Enrique Granados, Spanish concert pianist, and composer (Goyescas), drowns crossing the English Channel when his ferry is sunk by a German torpedo attack at 48
- 1918 Théo Ysaÿe, Belgian composer, and pianist, dies at 53
- 1921 Déodat de Séverac, French composer (Cerdaña), dies at 48
- 1921 James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dies at 86
- 1930 Henry Faulds, British surgeon, fingerprinting pioneer, and founder of the Tokyo Institute for the Blind, dies at 86 [1]
- 1932 George Harris, (4th Baron Harris), British cricket batsman and captain (4 Tests, 1 x 50; Kent CCC), dies at 81
- 1934 George Owen Squier, American inventor and Major General in U.S. Signal Corp, dies at 69
- 1934 William Donne, English cricket batsman, (Olympic gold 1900) and administrator (President England Rugby Football Union), dies at 58
- 1941 (Rafaël) "Raf" Verhulst, Flemish poet, journalist, playwright (Jesus of Nazarus; Semini's Children), and educator, dies at 75
- 1945 Jeff Nicklin, Canadian CFL football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers), Army officer and paratrooper, killed in action during Operation Varsity at 30 [1]
- 1945 Thomas Rennie, Gen-Maj (Dutch command 51st Highland Division), dies
- 1946 Alexander Alekhine, Russian-French chess player (world champion 1927-35, 1937-46), dies choking on meat at 53
- 1946 Charles F. Hurley, American attorney and politician (54th Governor of Massachusetts, 1937-39 - one of its first Irish-American governors), dies at 52
- 1946 Gustaf Heintze, Swedish pianist, organist, pedagogue, and composer, dies at 66
- 1948 Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter, dies at 62
- 1949 Hanns Albin Rauter, German SS and police leader in the occupied Netherlands, and convicted war criminal, executed by firing squad at 54
- 1950 Harold Laski, English economist, academic, and poitical leader (Labour Party chairman,1945-46), dies of influenza at 56
- 1950 James Rudolph Garfield, American politician, son of President Garfield who served under Theodore Roosevelt, dies at 84
- 1953 Felix M Abel, French dominican/biblical scholar, dies at 74
- 1953 Mary of Teck, Queen of Great Britain and consort of George V, dies at 85
- 1955 John W. Davis, American politician and United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, dies at 81
- 1956 Edmund Taylor Whittaker, British mathematician (applied mathematics and the theory of special functions), physicist and historian of science, dies at 82
- 1960 Paul Joostens, Belgian avant-garde artist, dies at 70
- 1962 (John) Jean Goldkette, French jazz pianist and bandleader, dies of a heart attack at 69
- 1966 Lola Beltrán, Mexican ranchera singer ("Priscila elque se fue"; "Paloma Negra") and actress (El revólver sangriento), dies of a pulmonary embolism at 64
- 1966 Virginia Hill, American organized crime figure (girlfriend of Bugsy Siegel), supposedly commits suicide at 49
- 1967 Marc Lavry [Levin], Latvian-Israeli composer (Emek; Independence Symphony; Song of Songs], and conductor, dies at 63 [1]
- 1968 Alice Guy-Blaché, French film director who was the first woman to direct a film (The Fairy of the Cabbages), dies at 94
- 1968 Howard Petrie, American actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), dies at 61
- 1968 Lauwrens Voorthuyzen, Dutch sect leader, dies at 70
Congolese politician and the 1st President of the Republic of Congo (1960-65), dies at about 55
- 1971 Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect (Arhus City Hall) and furniture designer (ant, swan and egg chairs), dies at 69 [1]
- 1974 Doris Deane [Dibble], American silent film actress (Stupid, But Brave), dies at 74
- 1974 Yoshida Isoya, Japanese architect (modern sukiya style), dies at 79
- 1975 Muriel Hutchison, American actress (Another Thin Man), dies at 60
- 1975 Oscar Rasbach, American composer, dies at 86
1st Viscount Alamein, British WWII Field Marshal (African campaign, D-Day) and WWI officer, dies at 88
- 1976 Nelson Case, American TV host (Trash or Treasure), dies at 66
- 1977 Saburō Moroi, Japanese composer and educator, dies at 73
- 1978 Leigh Brackett, American sci-fi author (Ginger Star), dies at 62
- 1979 Yvonne Mitchell, English actress (Nineteen Eigthy-Four) and writer, dies of cancer at 53
- 1980 Oscar Romero, El Salvador Roman Catholic priest, murdered during mass at 62
- 1982 Aileen Stanley [Maude Aileen Muggeridge], American vaudevillian, popular music singers and early recording artist, dies at 89
- 1982 Goodman Ace, American writer, radio presenter, actor and humorist (Better of Goodman), dies at 83
- 1984 Sam Jaffe, American actor (The Asphalt Jungle; Gunga Din; Dr Zorba), dies of cancer at 93
- 1985 George London, Canadian bass-baritone (Rigoleto- "Monterone"), dies at 64
- 1986 Sarah Cunningham, American actress (Trapper John, M.D. - "Nurse Andrews"), dies of a heart attack while attending the Oscar ceremony at 67
- 1989 Arnett Cobb, American jazz tenor saxophonist (Lionel Hampton), dies at 70
- 1990 Alice Sapritch, actress (European Vacation), dies
- 1990 An Wang, Chinese-American computer engineer (Wang Labs, Wang Computers), dies of cancer at 70 [1]
- 1990 Ray Goulding, American comedian (Bob & Ray), dies of kidney failure at 68
- 1991 Sir John Kerr, Australian politician and the Governor General who dismissed the Whitlam Government, dies at 76
- 1993 Erik Andriesse, Dutch painter (skulls, skeletons, flowers), dies at 35
- 1993 John Hersey, American author (Hiroshima, Bell for Adano, Wall), dies at 78
- 1993 Peter Roovers, Dutch sculptor of war monuments, and teacher, dies at 90
- 1993 Taylor Reed, American stage and screen actor (Easy Money), dies of a heart attack at 61
- 1994 David Van Vactor, American classical composer (Chaconne), dies at 87
- 1994 Edith Porada, Austrian art historian and archaeologist, dies at 81
- 1994 Tommy Benford, American jazz drummer, dies at 88
- 1995 Joey Long, American blues and cajun guitarist, dies at 62
- 1995 Trevor Oswald Ling, English religious Studies Professor, dies at 75
- 1996 Maria Lucia Beltran Alcayaga, singer, dies at 66
- 1997 Harold Melvin, American soul and R&B singer (The Blue Notes - "If You Don't Know Me By Now"), dies at 57
- 1997 Martin Caidin, American aviation writer, dies at 69
- 1999 (George) "Birdie" Tebbetts, American MLB baseball catcher (4 X All-Star; Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians), and manager (Cincinnati Redlegs, Milwaukee Braves, Cleveland Indians), dies at 86
- 1999 Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German Nazi and leader of the National Socialist Women's League (1933-45), dies at 97
- 1999 Henry Brandon [Lord Brandon of Oakbrook], British judge (Lord of Appeal - Ordinary) and probable spy (Military Cross), dies at 78
- 2000 Al Grey, American jazz trombonist (Snap Your Fingers), dies at 74
- 2001 Muriel Young, English TV entertainer (b. 1928)
- 2002 César Milstein, Argentine biochemist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1984), dies at 74
- 2003 Dave Dallwitz, South Australian jazz and classical pianist, bandleader, composer, and visual artist, dies at 88
- 2003 Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1919)
- 2004 Max Dendermonde [Hendrik Hazelhoff], Dutch literary, dies at 84
- 2006 Lynne Perrie, English actress (b. 1931)
- 2007 Florentine Rost van Tonningen (née Heubel), Dutch Nazi supporter known as "Black Widow", dies at 92
- 2007 Henson Cargill, American country music singer ("Skip a Rope", "The Most Uncomplicated Goodbye I Ever Heard"), dies while undergoing surgery at 66
- 2007 Maurice Flitcroft, British golfer known as "the world's worst golfer," dies at 77
- 2008 Chalmers "Spanky" Alford, American gospel, neo-soul, and session guitarist (Mighty Clouds of Joy; Raphael Saadiq; D'Angelo), dies of complications from diabetes at 52 [1]
- 2008 Hal Riney, American advertising executive (b. 1932)
- 2008 Mary Joan Nielubowicz, US Navy Rear Admiral and nurse (Director of the Navy Nurse Corps, 1983-87), dies at 79
- 2008 Neil Aspinall, British music executive (The Beatles), dies of lung cancer at 66
- 2008 Richard Widmark, American actor (Madigan, Murder on the Orient Express, Judgement at Nuremberg), dies complications following a fall at 93
- 2009 George Kell, American Baseball HOF third baseman (10 x MLB All-Star; AL batting champion 1949; Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox), dies at 86
- 2009 Martin Brozius, Dutch actor (Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden), dies at 67
- 2009 Uriel Jones, American jazz and session drummer (Motown's Funk Brothers), dies from complications of a heart attack at 74
- 2010 Jim Marshall, American photographer (The Beatles final concert in San Francisco; Woodstock Festival), dies at 74
- 2010 Johnny Maestro, American rock vocalist (Crests - "16 Candles"; Brooklyn Bridge), dies at 70
- 2010 Jules van Neerven, Dutch economist, journalist, and editor (Limbourg Daily), dies at 80
- 2010 Mortimer Sackler, American philanthropist, psychiatrist and co-owner of Purdue Pharma the company that created OxyContin, dies at 93 [1]
- 2010 Robert Culp, American actor, screenwriter, voice actor, and director (I Spy, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice), dies at 79
- 2010 Ron Hamence, Australian cricketer (Australian batsman post-WWII), dies at 94
- 2011 Lanford Wilson, American playwright (Hot L Baltimore, Redwood Curtain), dies of complications of pneumonia at 73
- 2012 Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player (BDO World Champion 1982, 89), dies of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 62
- 2012 Marion Marlowe, American singer ("The Man in the Raincoat"; Arthur Godfrey & His Friends), and actress, dies at 83
- 2013 Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author, dies at 86
- 2015 Maria Radner, German operatic contralto, specializing in Wagner, dies in a plane crash at 33
- 2015 Oleg Bryjak, Kazakhstani-German bass-baritone opera singer (Deutsche Oper am Rhein), dies in plane crash at 54
- 2016 Earl Hamner Jr., American creator and narrator of TV show "The Waltons", dies at 92
- 2016 Garry Shandling, American comedian (It's Garry Shandling's Show, Larry Sanders Show), dies at 66
- 2016 Houman Younessi, Iranian scientist known for his contributions to informatics, computer science, and functional genomics, dies of lung cancer at 52 [1]
- 2016 Kevin Turner, American football fullback (Philadelphia Eagles) and plaintiff against NFL (concussion case), dies of ALS at 46
- 2018 Carl Scheib, American baseball pitcher (at the time [1943] youngest player in MLB history at 16; Philadelphia A’s), dies at 91
- 2018 José Antonio Abreu, Venezuelan conductor, pianist and teacher (El Sistema), dies at 78
- 2018 Lawrence K. Grossman, American news executive (PBS, NBC-TV) and author (The Electronic Republic), dies of Parkinson’s disease and cancer at 86
- 2018 Lys Assia, Swiss singer who won the 1st Eurovision Song Contest in 1956, dies at 94
- 2020 Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist (Nobel Peace Prize 1976), dies of pneumonia at 76
- 2020 Bill Rieflin, American rock drummer (Nine Inch Nails; R.E.M.; King Crimson. 2013-20), dies of cancer at 59
- 2020 Gerard Schurmann, Dutch-British conductor, and composer of classical music (The Double Heart), and film scores (The Bedford Incident), dies at 96
- 2020 Ignacio Trelles, Mexican soccer midfielder (Mexican Primera División: 1935, 37, 38; Club Necaxa) and coach (Mexico 1960-69), dies at 103
- 2020 John Davies, Australian swimmer (Olympic gold 200m breaststroke 1952; WR 200m breaststroke 2:34.4 1952), dies at 90
- 2020 Loring Mandel, American playwright and screenwriter (Conspiracy, Love of Life), dies of cancer at 91
- 2020 Manu Dibango, Cameroonian musician (Soul Makossa), dies of COVID-19 at 86
- 2020 Terrence McNally, American Tony-winning playwright (Kiss of the Spider Woman; Love! Valour! Compassion!), dies of COVID-19 complications at 81
- 2020 Tony Rutter, British motorcycle road racer (Formula Two World C'ship 1981-84; 7 x Isle of Man TT Races), dies at 78
- 2021 Bob Plager, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (St. Louis Blues 1969-77) and coach (St. Louis Blues 1992), dies from a heart attack at 78
- 2021 Craig "muMS" Grant, American poet and actor (Oz), dies at 52
- 2021 Jessica Walter, American actress (Play Misty For Me, Arrested Development), dies at 80
- 2021 Richard Stoker, British pianist and composer (Antic Hay; Ecco homo), dies at 82
- 2021 Rudolf Kelterborn, Swiss composer, conductor (Swiss German RSO, 1974-80), and educator (Basel Music Academy, 1983-94), dies at 79
- 2021 Toshihiko Koga, Japanese judoka (Olympic gold - 71kgs 1992; silver 1996), dies at 53
- 2023 Dolores White, American composer, pianist, and pedagogue, dies at 90
- 2024 Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer ("Chinese Opera"), conductor, contemporary music advocate, and teacher, dies at 80
