- 678 Donus, Italian Pope (676-78), dies
- 1034 Romanus III Argyrus, Byzantine emperor (1028-34), assassinated by wife at 66 or 67
- 1240 Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies
- 1512 Gaston de Foix, French pretender to Navarra throne, dies in battle
- 1554 Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (b. 1521)
- 1612 Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher, burnt at the stake in Lichfield for heresy (b. 1566)
- 1626 Marin Getaldić, Croatian mathematician (b. 1568)
- 1648 Matthäus Appelt, German composer, dies at 53
- 1712 Richard Simon, French Oratorian priest, biblical critic and orientalist (Histoire Critique du Vieux Testament / Critical History of the Old Testament), dies at 73 [1]
- 1723 John Robinson, English diplomat and prelate, dies at 72
- 1729 Manuel de Egues, composer, dies at 71
- 1783 Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64
- 1798 Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (Geistliche Kantaten), dies at 74
- 1810 Jakob Zupan, Slovenian composer, dies at 75
- 1812 Gottlieb Schick, German neoclassical painter (Versuchung des Heiligen Antonius; Apollo unter den Hirten), dies of heart disease at 35
- 1833 Rowland Hill, English preacher who advocated for the smallpox vaccine, dies at 88
- 1834 John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (Fullerian Professorship of Chemistry, Royal Institution), politician and slave owner, dies at 67
- 1838 Piet Uys [Petrus Lafras Uys], Dutch Afrikaner Voortrekker pioneer (the Great Trek from Cape of Good Hope to interior South Africa), killed during the Battle of Italeni against the Zulus at 40
- 1839 John Galt, Scottish novelist (Annals of the Parish), dies at 59
- 1842 Alexander Csoma de Kőrös, Hungarian Tibetan scholar (first Tibetan-English Dictionary), dies at 58
- 1842 John England, bishop of Charleston Carolina, dies
- 1853 Louis-Emmanuel Jadin, French pianist, music director, and composer, dies at 84
- 1854 Karl Adolph von Basedow, German artist (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55
- 1856 Juan Santamaría, national hero of Costa Rica (b. 1831)
- 1861 Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (Mexican national anthem), dies at 37
- 1873 Edward Canby, U.S. general (b. 1817)
- 1875 Heinrich Schwabe, discoverer (11-year sunspot cycle), dies
- 1881 Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Torn Trondal), dies of pneumonia at 40
- 1884 Charles Reade, English novelist (Cloister & Hearth), dies at 69
- 1887 Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, Russian composer, dies at 54
- 1890 Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man", dies of asphyxia at 27
- 1894 Constantin Lipsius, German architect (b. 1832)
- 1895 Julius Lothar Meyer, German Chemist, dies at 64
- 1900 Seth Barton, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 70
- 1901 Ivar Hallström, Swedish composer, dies at 74
- 1902 General Jacobus Potgieter, South African Boer commander, dies in Second Boer War Battle of Rooiwal, South African Republic
- 1903 Gemma Galgani, Italian saint and mystic, dies of tuberculosis at 25
- 1906 Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (The New York Sun - "Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus"), dies at 67
- 1908 Henry Bird, English Chess player and author (b. 1829)
- 1916 Richard Harding Davis, American journalist and author (Soldiers of Fortune, The King's Jackal), dies of a heart attack at 52
- 1918 Arthur E Ochse, South African cricket batsman (2 Tests; Transvaal), dies in action WWI at 48
- 1918 Otto Wagner, Austrian architect and leading figure in the Vienna Secession movement, dies at 76
- 1918 William C. McDonald, American lawyer and politician (1st Governor of New Mexico. 1912-17), dies at 59
- 1921 Augusta Victoria, Queen of Prussia, wife of Emperor Wilhelm II, dies at 62
American horticulturist who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants, dies of gastrointestinal complications at 77
- 1934 John Collier, English painter (Lady Godiva) and writer, dies at 84
- 1936 Mitya Stillman, Russian composer and violinist, dies at 44
- 1938 Cristóbal Torriente, Cuban Baseball HOF outfielder (NgL NL batting champion 1920; NgL NL pennant 1920–22; Chicago American Giants; career batting average: .352), dies from alcoholism & tuberculosis at 44
- 1939 S.S. Van Dine [pseudonym for William Huntingdon Wright], American critic and detective writer (Philo Vance), dies at 50
- 1945 Frederick Lugard, British Colonial administrator, mercenary and explorer (Governor of Nigeria and Hong Kong), dies at 87
- 1945 Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish author and resistance fighter (Mensch op Weg), dies at 29
- 1947 Louise Peete, American convicted serial killer, dies at 66
- 1952 Wadih Sabra, Lebanese composer (Kulluna lil Watan), dies at 76
- 1953 Kid Nichols, American Baseball HOF pitcher (3 × NL wins leader; All-Time Saves Leader 1899–1906; Boston Beaneaters, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies) and manager (St. Louis Cardinals 1904–05), dies at 83
- 1958 Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter, dies at 82
- 1961 Francis de Bourguignon, Belgian pianist (accompanist to Nellie Melba), and contemporary classical composer, dies at 70
- 1967 Donald Sangster, Jamaican prime-minister (b. 1911)
- 1969 Ludvig Irgens-Jensen, Norwegian composer, dies at 74
- 1970 Cathy O'Donnell [Ann Steely], American film noir actress (Miniver Story, Man from Laramie), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 46
- 1970 John O'Hara, American short story writer and novelist (Appointment at Samarra; Pal Joey; BUtterfield-8), dies of cardiovascular disease at 65
- 1973 (Edward) "Ted" de Corsia, American actor (The Naked City; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), dies at 69
- 1974 Charles Curtis "Curt" Conway, American actor (Raw Deal; The Twilight Zone), dies of a heart attack at 60
- 1975 Dorothy Patten, American stage and screen actress (Men in White; Botany Bay), dies at 70
- 1976 Liam Dunn, American actor, dies at 59
- 1977 Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter of the poetic realist movement, dies from lung cancer at 77
- 1977 Karen Krantzcke, Australian tennis player (Australian Open doubles 1968; Federation Cup 1970), dies of a heart attack whilst jogging at 31
- 1980 Charlotte Henry, American actress (Alice in Wonderland; Babes In Toyland; Jungle Menace), dies of cancer at 66
- 1980 Florence Lake, American comic actress (leading lady in many of Edgar Kennedy comedy shorts; Lassie), dies at 75
- 1981 Caroline Gordon, American writer (Green Centuries), dies at 85
- 1981 Marie Ney, British character actress (The Lavender Hill Mob), dies at 85
- 1983 Dolores Del Rio, actress (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 78
- 1984 Fred Robinson, American jazz trombonist (Louis Armstong's Hot Five; Fats Waller; Cab Calloway), dies at 83
- 1985 Bunny Ahearne, British ice hockey promoter, dies at 84
Albanian post-war communist leader and dictator of Albania (1944-85), dies at 76
- 1987 Erskine Caldwell, American novelist (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre), dies at 83
- 1987 Kent Taylor [Louis Weiss], American actor (Boston Blackie; Rough Riders), dies at 79
- 1987 Primo Levi, Italian chemist and writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67
- 1988 Jean "Jeff" Donnell, American actress (Gidget Goes to Rome, Hoedown, 9 Girls), dies at 66 of a heart attack
- 1990 Barbara Miller, British stage and screen actress (Blackadder), dies of a brain tumor at 71
- 1990 Harold Ballard, Canadian ice hockey club (Toronto Maple Leafs, 1972-90), and football team (Hamilton Tiger Cats, 1978-88) owner, dies at 86
- 1991 Bruno Hoffmann, German glass harmonica virtuoso, and musicologist, dies at 77
- 1991 Tom Rosqui, American stage and screen character actor (The Godfather - "Rocco Lampone"), dies of cancer at 62
- 1991 Walker Cooper, American baseball catcher (MLB All-Star 1942–44, 46–50; World Series 1942, 44; St. Louis Cardinals), dies at 76
- 1992 Adele Dixon, British stage and screen actress and singer (Uneasy Virtue), dies of pneumonia at 83
- 1992 Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, dies of a brain tumor at 71
- 1992 Eve Merriam [Moskovitz], American writer and poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of liver cancer at 75
- 1992 James Brown, American actor (Objective, Burma!; The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin -"Rip"), dies of lung cancer at 72
- 1992 Robert Houben, Belgian politician (Minister of Public Health, 1958), dies at 86
- 1993 Janet Harmon Bragg, American pilot (1st female black aviator to hold a commercial pilot's license), dies at 86 [1]
- 1993 Mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered
- 1993 Rahmon Nabiyev, Tajik politician, First Secretary of The Communist Party (1982-85) and President of Tajikistan (1991-92), dies at 63
- 1994 John Nicolaas Block, Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair, Transavia), dies at 64
- 1996 Dan Wolf, American journalist, writer, and editor (founder of The Village Voice), dies at 80
- 1996 Edwin Clarke, British neurologist, medical historian,and museum keeper, dies of pancreatic cancer at 76
- 1996 Jessica Dubroff, American aviator (attempting to become the youngest person to fly a light utility aircraft across the United States), crashed at 7
- 1996 Louis Osman, British artist, goldsmith, architect, and craftsman, dies at 82
- 1996 Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, French advertising magnate and Founder of Publicis Groupe, dies at 89
- 1998 Ivan Tcherepnin, American experimental and postmodern composer, dies at 55
- 1998 Rodney Harvey, American actor and model (Salsa), dies of a drug overdose at 30
- 2000 Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
- 2000 Lucia Dlugoszewski, Polish-American composer (Fire Fragile Flight), dies at 74
- 2001 Harry Secombe, Welsh actor, comedian, singer and goon (The Goon Show; Oliver!), dies of cancer at 79
- 2001 Kamal Ranadive, Indian cancer researcher (Indian Women Scientists' Association; Indian Cancer Research Centre), dies at 83
- 2001 Sandy Bull, American musician (b. 1941)
- 2003 Cecil Howard Green, British geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900)
- 2005 André François, Hungarian-French cartoonist, dies at 89
- 2005 Lucien Laurent, French footballer (scored the first ever FIFA World Cup goal), dies at 97
- 2005 Maurice R. Hilleman, American microbiologist who developed over 36 vaccines including measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia, dies at 85
- 2006 June Pointer, American pop and R&B singer (The Pointer Sisters - "Fire"; "He's So Shy"; "Jump (For My Love)'; "Slow Hand"), dies of cancer at 52
- 2006 Proof [DeShaun Holton], American rapper (D12), shot to death in billiard game dispute at 32
- 2007 Janet McDonald, American novelist (b. 1954)
American author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan), dies from head trauma at 84
- 2007 Ronald Speirs, American Army officer (CO of Easy Company), dies at 86
- 2007 Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (McCoy, Saunders-Soap), dies at 81
- 2008 Barry Gottehrer, American political aide and journalist known for the "City in Crisis" series, dies of cancer at 73
- 2008 Merlin German, United States Marine
- 2009 Corín Tellado, Spanish romance novelist, sold the most books in Spanish (400 million), dies at 81
- 2010 Jean Boiteux, French swimmer (Olympic gold 400m freestyle, bronze 4×200m freestyle 1952), dies after falling off a tree at 76
- 2010 Vicki Draves, American diver (Olympic gold platform & springboard 1948), dies from pancreatic cancer at 85
- 2011 Billy Bang [William Walker], American free jazz violinist and composer, dies of lung cancer at 63
- 2011 La Esterella [Ester Lambrechts], Flemish pop singer ("Oh Lieve Vrouwetoren"), dies at 91
- 2011 Lacy Gibson, American Chicago-style blues guitarist, singer and songwriter ("Switchy Titchy"), dies of a heart attack at 74
Algerian socialist revolutionary and 1st President of Algeria (1963-65), dies at 93
- 2013 Angela Voigt, German athlete (Olympic gold GDR long jump 1976), dies at 61
- 2013 Grady Hatton, American baseball third baseman (MLB All Star 1952 Cincinnati Reds) and manager (Houston Astros 1966-68), dies at 90
- 2013 Hilary Koprowski, Polish virologist and immunologist, dies at 96
Native American-Osage prima ballerina (The Nutcracker), first Native American prima ballerina and America's first major prima ballerina, dies from broken hip complications at 88
- 2014 Jesse Winchester, American-Canadian musician and songwriter ("Yankee Lady"; "Say What"), dies from bladder cancer at 69
- 2016 Emile Ford, Caribbean-born British singer and engineer (first black male singer to top UK charts), dies at 78
- 2017 J. Geils [John Warren Geils Jr], American rock guitarist (J. Geils Band - Centerfold), dies at 71
- 2017 Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer (Goodfellas, Broadcast News), dies at 81
- 2017 Toby Smith [Grafftey-Smith], British keyboardist and songwriter, dies of cancer at 46
- 2018 Gillian Ayres, British abstract painter and printmaker, dies at 88
- 2018 Mitzi Shore [Lillian Saidel], American owner of The Comedy Store and founder of The Comedy Channel, dies at 87
- 2019 Frances Swem Anderson, American technologist (nuclear medicine), dies at 105
- 2019 Monkey Punch [Kazuhiko Kato], Japanese manga cartoonist (Lupin III), dies of pneumonia at 81
- 2020 Francis Tombs, Lord Tombs, British engineer and businessman (CEO of Rolls Royce), dies at 95 [1]
- 2021 Colin Baker, Welsh soccer wing half (7 caps; Cardiff City 298 games), dies at 86
- 2021 Marco Bollesan, Italian rugby union number 8 (47 caps; CUS Genova, Partenope) and coach (Italy 1985-88), dies at 79
- 2021 Massimo Cuttitta, Italian rugby union prop (69 caps [captain 16]; Milano, Harlequins, Bologna), dies from COVID-19 at 54
- 2021 Shirley Williams, British politician (Labour Party; Social Democratic Party; Liberal Democrat), dies at 90
- 2022 Mohammad Hussain, Pakistani cricket all-rounder (2 Tests, 3 wickets; 14 ODIs, 13 wickets; Lahore), dies from kidney related illness at 45
- 2023 Miguel Escobar, Colombian soccer defender (15 caps; Deportivo Pereira, Deportivo Cali), dies at 77
- 2025 Gretchen Dow Simpson, American artist (New Yorker magazine covers, 1974-93), dies of Lewy body dementia at 85 [1]
- 2025 John LaFalce, American politician (US Representative from New York-D, 1975-2003), dies of kidney failure at 85
- 2025 Kenneth Walker, American journalist best known for his reporting on apartheid, dies of a heart attack at 73
- 2025 Max Romeo [Smith], Jamaican reggae singer and songwriter, dies of heart complications at 80
- 2025 Meg Bennett, American television writer and actress (The Young and the Restless, General Hospital), dies of cancer at 75
