- 843 Judith, French empress/2nd wife of Louis de Vrome, dies
- 1012 Alphege [Aelfheah], Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered by Vikings (b. 953)
- 1044 Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine (Lower: 1023-44; Upper: 1033-44), dies at about 77
- 1054 Pope Leo IX [Bruno, Graf von Egisheim und Dagsburg], Catholic Church's 151st pope (1049-54), dies at 51
- 1390 King Robert II of Scotland, first monach of the House of Stewart (1371-90), dies at 74
- 1529 John Cuspinianus [Spiessheimer], German physician, dies at about 55
- 1560 Philipp Melanchthon (Schwazerd), German Protestant reformer and theologian (Martin Luther's right-hand man), dies at 63
- 1567 Michael Stifel, German theologist and mathematician, dies at about 79
- 1578 Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord known as the "Dragon of Echigo", dies at 48
- 1588 Paolo Veronese (Cagliari), painter, dies
- 1608 Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English poet and statesman, Lord High Treasurer, dies at 71 or 72
- 1618 Thomas Bastard, English clergyman and epigrammatist (b. 1565 or 1566)
- 1627 John Beaumont, English poet (b. 1583)
- 1629 Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer, dies at about 47 [details are sketchy]
- 1645 Anton van Diemen, Dutch colonial administrator and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1636-45), dies at about 51
- 1645 William Smith, British composer of Anglican sacred choral works, dies at 42
- 1686 Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610)
- 1689 Christina, Queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic (1644-54), dies at 62
- 1706 Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch Mennonite minister (The War of the Lambs), and physician, dies at 83
- 1733 Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England
- 1739 Nicholas Saunderson, English scientist and mathematician, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics Cambridge University, dies at 57
- 1751 Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (b. 1678)
- 1768 Filippo della Valle, Italian sculptor, dies at about 70
- 1768 Giovanni Antonio Canal [Canaletto], Italian painter and printmaker (Rialto), dies at 70
- 1770 Esprit Antoine Blanchard, French composer, dies at 74
- 1772 Johann Peter Kellner, German organist and composer, dies at 66
- 1773 Florian Johann Deller, Austrian composer, dies at 43
- 1776 Jacob Israel Emden [Jacob ben Tswi], German rabbi, dies at 78
- 1791 Richard Price, Welsh philosopher and dissenting minister who supported the French and American revolutions (Alabi's World), dies at 68 [1]
- 1799 Pieter Hellendaal, Dutch violinist, organist (Pembroke College & Chapel of Peterhouse, both in Cambridge, England), teacher, and composer (Glees), dies at 78
- 1813 Benjamin Rush, Early American physician, writer, abolitionist, educator, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies of typhus fever at 67
British romantic poet (Don Juan; The Curse of Minerva; Childe Harold's Pilgrimage), dies of a fever at 36
- 1831 Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician, dies at 65
- 1840 Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777)
- 1852 Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian folk poet and translator (Homerus), dies at 69
- 1854 Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)
- 1862 Louis Powell Harvey, US governor of Wisconsin, drowns
- 1862 Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer and fur trader (explored the Fraser River), dies at 86
- 1867 Robert Smirke, British architect, dies
- 1870 Andreas Schelfhout, Dutch landscape painter, etcher and lithographer, dies at 83
- 1870 Camille Marie Stamaty, French pianist, composer, and teacher of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Camille Saint-Saëns, dies at 59
- 1870 William Henry Havergal, composer, dies at 77
- 1874 Owen Jones, architect, dies
- 1876 Samuel Sebastian Wesley, English organist and composer, dies at 65
- 1881 Michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor, dies at 53
English naturalist (Origin of the Species) who conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection, dies of heart failure at 73
- 1889 Warren De La Rue, astronomer/chemist, dies
- 1892 Fr. Thomas Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821)
- 1893 John Addington Symonds, British historian and writer (Probs in Greek Ethics), dies at 52
- 1895 George Scharf, British art critic and administrator (National Portrait Gallery, 1857-95), dies at 74
- 1896 Arthur Boreman, American lawyer, judge, and politician (1st Governor of West Virginia, 1863-69; US Senator from West Virginia, 1869-75), dies at 72
- 1901 Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)
- 1903 Oliver Mowat, Canadian lawyer and politician (Premier of Ontario 1872-96, a founder of the Canadian Confederation), dies at 82 [1]
- 1906 Pierre Curie, French physicist (Nobel 1903) and husband of Marie Curie, dies in a cart accident at 46
- 1906 Spencer Gore, British tennis player (1st Wimbledon singles champion 1877), dies at 56
- 1914 Charles Peirce, American scientist and philosopher known as "the father of pragmatism", dies at 74
- 1916 Ephraim Shay, American inventor of Shay type of geared steam locomotive, dies at 76
- 1923 Thomas Payne Westendorf, American songwriter ("I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen"), dies at 75
- 1926 Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)
- 1926 Sir Squire Bancroft [Butterfield], British actor and manager known for creating 'drawing-room comedy' (Haymarket), dies at 84
- 1930 Charles Scribner II, American magazine and book publisher, dies at 75
- 1930 Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)
- 1932 Władysław Rzepko, Polish composer, dies at 77
- 1937 William Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English historian and explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81
- 1937 William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, and professor at Harvard University, dies at 72
- 1938 Henry John Newbolt, English poet and author (Studies Green & Gray), dies at 75
- 1941 Johanna Muller-Hermann, composer, dies at 63
- 1943 Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded
- 1943 Gustave Doret, Swiss composer, dies at 76
- 1943 Willy Graf, German resistance fighter, beheaded
- 1944 Tommy Hitchcock, polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 27), dies at 44
- 1945 J P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed
- 1947 Charles Bidwill, American Pro Football HOF team owner (Chicago Cardinals 1933-46), dies of pneumonia at 51
- 1949 Stephen Samuel Wise, American Rabbi and President of Zionist Org of America, dies at 75
- 1949 Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (Olympic gold men's singles 1908; 10 x World C'ship gold), dies at 71
- 1950 Lord Berners [Gerald Tyrwhitt], English composer (1st Childhood), dies at 66
- 1956 Ernst Robert Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70
- 1956 Leon Junschlaeger, Dutch sailor, soldier, and head of military intelligence in Dutch Indonesia, dies after a series of strokes while on trial fighting charges of subversion at 52
- 1956 Lionel Crabb "Buster", British Royal Navy diver (WWII), disappears presumed dead on a job for M16 at 47
- 1957 Johan Willem Albarda, 1st Dutch socialist minister (1939-45), dies at 79
- 1964 Cyril Merry, Trinidadian cricketer (WI batsman in 2 Tests 1933), dies at 53
- 1965 George Davis, Flemish actor (Private Lives, Devil May Care), dies at 75
- 1968 Tommy Bridges, American baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61
- 1971 Russ Hodges, American sportscaster (NY Mets, SF Giants; Wednesday Night Fights), dies at 60
- 1972 Adolf Bach, German linguist known for his study of the German dialect and onomastics (Deutsche Namenkunde / German Onomastics), dies at 82 [1]
- 1972 Billy Burke, American golfer (US Open 1931), dies at 69
African American chemist who received 130 patents, pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants, dies at 76
- 1977 Günter Bruno Fuchs, German writer, poet and artist, dies at 48
- 1978 Emile de Strycker, Belgian philosopher and founder of the Antwerp University Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, dies at 70
- 1979 Rogers Morton, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland), dies at 64
- 1980 Ethel Wilson, actress (Aunt Harriet-Aldrich Family), dies at 88
- 1980 Tony Beckley, actor (Assault, When a Stranger Calls), dies at 51
- 1981 Ernst Levy, Swiss composer, dies at 85
- 1983 Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish writer (Ashes and Diamonds), dies at 73
- 1983 Lorene Scott, actress (Faraway Hill), dies at 74
- 1985 Bruce R. McConkie, American LDS apostle and author, dies at 69
- 1986 Alvin Childress, actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 78
- 1986 Dag Wirén, Swedish composer, dies at 80
- 1987 Hugh Brannum, American actor and singer (Captain Kangaroo - "Mr. Green Jeans"; The Fred Waring Show - "Lumpy"), dies of cancer at 77
- 1987 Maxwell D. Taylor, American army general, (WWII Commander 101st airborne), Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff 1962-64), dies at 85
- 1988 Kwon Ki-ok, Korea's first pilot, dies at 87
- 1989 Daphne Du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn), dies at 82
- 1990 Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 52
- 1991 Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
- 1992 Alice Mary Riley, entertainer, dies of cancer at 51
- 1992 Deacon Lunchbox [Timothy Tyson Ruttenber], American poet and performance artist, dies in car crash with a drunk driver at 41
- 1992 Frankie Howerd, British comedian and actor (Carry on Doctor, Up the Front), dies at 70
- 1992 Neill Sanders, British classical horn player (London Philharmonic; BBC Symphony; Melos Ensemble, 1950-79; The Beatles - "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"), and pedagogue, dies at 68
- 1992 Pat Thompson, actress (Strictly Ballroom), dies at 51
- 1992 Rob Clayton, American alternative rock drummer (The Jody Grind), dies in car crash with a drunk driver at 22
- 1992 Robert Hayes, American alternative rock bassist (The Jody Grind), dies in car crash with a drunk driver at 24
- 1993 Blas Galindo, Mexican composer (A la Patria), dies at 83
- 1993 David Koresh [Vernon Howell], American cult leader (Branch Davidian sect), dies by a gunshot to the head in his Waco, Texas compound at 33
- 1993 George S. Mickelson, American politician (Governor of South Dakota 1987-93), dies in a plane crash at 52
- 1993 Steve Douglas [Kreisman], American session and touring saxophonist and flautist (Phil Spector; Duane Eddy; Beach Boys), dies of a heart attack at 54
- 1994 Frederick Ferrari, English tenor and variety performer (Love Descended Like An Angel), dies at 81
- 1994 Larry Davis, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 57
- 1994 Louis Simmonds, British bookseller, dies at 87
- 1994 Michael Carreras, British film producer and director (The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, Shatter), dies at 67
- 1994 Michel van Rooy, Dutch actor (Doctor Vlimmen, The Attack), dies at 43
- 1995 "King" Herbert Whitaker, American R&B tenor saxophonist, dies at 66
- 1995 Igor Hajek, Czech translator and writer, dies at 64
- 1995 J. Peter Grace, American businessman and industrialist, dies from cancer at 81
- 1995 Wilson "Papa" Godett, Curacaos worker's union leader, politician, and boxer, dies at 62
- 1996 Bernard Edwards, American funk and disco bass player (Chic - "Le Freak"; "Good Times"; Robert Palmer - "Addicted to Love"), dies of pneumonia at 44
- 1996 Norman Oldfield, English cricketer (scored 99 runs in Test for England), dies at 84
- 1997 El Duce [Eldon Wayne Hoke], American singer and drummer (The Mentors), dies from a "misadventure" on a train-track at 39
- 1998 Liam Sullivan, American singer and actor (Star Trek; The Magic Sword; Monroes), dies of a heart attack at 74
- 1998 Octavio Paz, Mexican poet (Salamandra; Topoemas), writer and diplomat who won the 1990 Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 84
- 1999 David Sanes, US Navy employee
- 1999 Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal and female camp guard at Ravensbrück and Majdanek concentration camps, dies at 79
- 2000 Louis Applebaum, Canadian conductor and composer, dies at 82
- 2003 Conrad Leonard, British composer and pianist, dies at 104
- 2004 John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
- 2004 Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
- 2005 Clement Meadmore, Australian-American modernist sculptor (Swerve 2002), dies of complications of Parkinson's disease at 76
- 2005 George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (b. 1941)
- 2005 Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz double bassist (Oscar Petesron; Dexter Gordon; Kenny Drew), sometimes known as NHØP, dies of heart failure at 58
- 2005 Rick Lewis, American doo-wop tenor (The Silhouettes - "Get A Job"), dies at 71
- 2005 Ruth Hussey, American actress (Another Thin Man), dies at 93
- 2006 Ellen Kuzwayo, South African member of parliament (ANC) and noted writer ("Call me Woman"), dies at 91
- 2006 June Knox-Mawer (née Ellis), Welsh novelist (Sandstorm), and radio host (World of Islands), dies at 75
- 2006 Scott Crossfield, American pilot, first man to fly at Mach 2 (b. 1921)
- 2006 Sir Ian Morrow, British company accountant, best known for saving Rolls Royce, dies at 93
- 2006 Zola Levitt, Messianic Jewish preacher (b. 1938)
- 2007 George Webster, American College Football HOF linebacker (Michigan State Uni; First-team All-AFL 1967–69 Houston Oilers), dies at 61
- 2007 Helen Walton, wife of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (b. 1919)
- 2007 Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (Trout), dies at 74
- 2007 Ken Albers, American singer and brass musician (The Four Freshmen, 1956-82), dies at 82
- 2008 Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, dies at 72
- 2008 Germaine Tillion, French ethnologist, member of the French Resistance and mediater in the Algerian war, dies at 100 [1]
- 2008 Richard de Bois, Dutch songwriter ("Ik Hou Van Jou"), record producer (Dollly Dots); Ivy Green), and drummer (Roek's Family; Ginger Ale), dies of cancer at 59
- 2009 Doc Blanchard, American College Football Hall of Fame fullback (Heisman Trophy 1945; National C'ship 1944, 45, 46; Army), dies of pneumonia at 84
- 2009 J.G. Ballard, British novelist (Empire of the Sun; Crash), dies of prostate cancer at 78
- 2010 Carl Williams, Australian criminal (b. 1970)
- 2010 Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (undefeated world champion WBA super featherweight 2006-08; WBC lightweight 2009-10), commits suicide at 28
- 2010 Keith "Guru" Elam, American rapper (b. 1966)
- 2011 Elisabeth Sladen, British actress (Doctor Who; The Sarah Jane Adventures), dies of pancreatic cancer at 65
Norwegian long distance athlete (9 x NYC Marathon titles; World C'ship gold 1983; 5 x gold World Cross Country; WR x 4), dies of cancer at 57
- 2011 Jaroslav Smolka, Czech composer (Metamorfosi), music director, dramaturge, pedagogue, and musicologist, dies at 78
- 2011 Serge Nubret, French bodybuilder known as 'The Black Panther', Mr Universe 1976, dies at 72
- 2012 Greg Ham, Australian rock saxophonist and flutist (Men At Work - "Who Can It Be Now"), dies under mysterious circumstances at 58
- 2012 Levon Helm, American drummer and singer (The Band - "Up On Cripple Creek"; "The Weight"), and actor (Coal Miner's Daughter; The Right Stuff), dies from throat cancer at 71
- 2012 Valeri Vasiliev, Soviet ice hockey defenceman (2x Olympic gold, dies at 62
- 2013 Al Neuharth, American newspaper founder (USA Today), dies at 89
- 2013 Allan Arbus, American commercial photographer, and actor (M*A*S*H - "Dr. Sidney Freeman"; Greaser's Palace; Curb Your Enthusiasm), dies of congestive heart failure at 95
- 2013 François Jacob, French biologist and bacteriologist (Nobel 1965), dies at 92
- 2013 Mike Denness, English cricket batsman and captain (28 Tests, top score 188), dies from cancer at 72
- 2013 Patrick Garland, British director (Doll House), actor, and poet, dies at 78
- 2015 Richard Anthony [Btesh], Syrian-French pop singer, and songwriter ("Aranjuez mon amour"; "Amoureux de ma femme"), dies at 77
- 2015 Roy Mason [Baron Mason of Barnsley], British defense secretary and Labour MP, dies at 91
- 2016 Milt Pappas, American baseball pitcher, (3-time MLB All Star), dies at 76
- 2016 Patricio Aylwin, Chilean lawyer, politician and President of Chile (1990-94), dies at 97
- 2016 Walter Kohn, Austrian-born American scientist (Nobel Prize Chemistry 1998), dies at 93
- 2017 Dick Contino, American accordionist and singer ("Lady of Spain"; 48 Ed Sullivan Show appearances), dies at 87
- 2018 Graciela Agudelo, Mexican pianist and avant garde composer (Celebration of Wine), dies at 72
- 2019 Bob Efford, British jazz and session baritone saxophonist and reed player, dies at 91
- 2019 Martin Böttcher, German composer and conductor, dies at 91
- 2020 Ian Whitcomb, English rocker ("You Turn Me On"), dies at 78
- 2020 Índio, Brazilian soccer striker (7 caps; Flamengo, Corinthians, Espanyol), dies at 89
- 2020 Peter Beard, American wildlife photographer and diarist (The End of the Game, Eyelids of Morning), found dead in Camp Hero State Park at 82 [1]
- 2020 Steve Dalkowski, American baseball player and inspiration for Bull Durham film, dies of COVID-19 complications at 80
- 2021 Monica Bandini, Italian racing cyclist (World Championship gold women's team time trial 1988), dies from a heart attack at 56
American politician (US Senator from Minnesota (D), 1964-76 ; 42nd Vice President, 1977-81), dies at 93
- 2021 Willy van der Kuijlen, Dutch soccer forward (22 caps; PSV 528 games), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 74
- 2022 Kane Tanaka, oldest Japanese supercentenarian and 2nd oldest person in the world, dies at 119 years, 107 days [1]
- 2022 Mike Gregory, English darts player (BDO World C'ship 1992 runner-up), dies from dementia at 65
- 2022 Sandra Pisani, Australian field hockey captain (Olympic gold 1988), dies from cancer at 63
- 2023 (Elmer) "Bud" Shuster, American politician (US Representative-R-PA, 1973-2001), dies at 91
- 2023 Dave Wilcox, American Pro Football HOF linebacker (First-team All-Pro 1971, 72; 7 x Pro Bowl; San Francisco 49ers), dies at 80
- 2023 Moonbin [Moon Bin], South Korean K-pop singer and actor, dies in a suspected suicide at 25 [1]
- 2023 Richard Riordan, American politician (Mayor of Los Angeles (R) 1993-2001), dies at 92 [1]
- 2024 Bill Tobin, American football executive (GM Chicago Bears, Indianapolis Colts), dies at 83
- 2024 Leighton James, Welsh soccer winger (54 caps; Burnley 335 games), dies at 71
- 2024 Muhammed Faris, first Syrian astronaut in space (Soyuz TM-3), dies from heart attack at 72
- 2025 George Lee [George Li], Chinese ballet dancer who is believed to be the first Asian dancer at the New York City Ballet, dies at 90
- 2025 Herbert Migdoll, American artist and photographer best known for his work with the Joffrey Ballet, dies at 90 [1]
- 2025 Jay Sigel, American golfer (US Amateur C'ship 1982-83), dies from pancreatic cancer at 81
