- 1118 Boudouin I, of Bologne/Edessa, 1st crusader/king of Jerusalem, dies
- 1272 Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1209)
- 1305 Joan I, Queen of Navarre, Countess of Champagne and Queen of France by marriage to King Philip IV, dies allegedly in childbirth at 32
- 1335 Duke Henry of Carinthia (b. circa 1265)
- 1412 Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo, Spanish traveler and writer (b. ????)
- 1416 Ferdinand I the Righteous, King of Aragon and Sicily, dies at 52
- 1502 Arthur, Prince of Wales, English crown prince, son of King Henry VII of England, 1st husband of Catherine of Aragon, dies from an unknown illness at 15
- 1507 Francis of Paola, Italian founder of the Order of the Minims (b. 1416)
- 1640 Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Polish poet considered Europe's most prominent Latin poet, dies at 45
- 1657 Ferdinand III, King of Hungary & Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor (1637-57), dies at 48
- 1657 Jean-Jacques Olier - French catholic priest, founder of the Society of Saint-Sulpice (b. 1608)
- 1705 Johann Löhner, German composer, dies at 59
- 1720 Joseph Dudley, American President of the Dominion of New England and first Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court of Judicature, dies at 72 [1] [2]
- 1742 James Douglas, Scottish physician and anatomist (b. 1675)
- 1747 Johann J Dillenius, German botanist, dies at 63
- 1754 Thomas Carte, English historian (b. 1686)
- 1758 Johann Balthasar König, German Baroque composer, mainly of hymn music, dies at 67
- 1784 Pierre Leclair, French composer and violinist, dies at 74
- 1787 Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican Jesuit teacher and writer, dies at 55
- 1787 Thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719)
- 1801 Thomas Dadford Junior, British canal engineer (b. circa 1761)
- 1803 Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch poet of children's poems (Proeve van kleine gedigen voor Kinder), dies at 56
- 1817 Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (Heinrich Stillings Leben), dies at 76
- 1827 Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and naturalist (b. 1776)
- 1831 Charles Felix, Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia (1821-31), dies at 74
- 1845 Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (b. 1763)
- 1852 Theodor Althaus, writer, dies
- 1864 Princess Hildegard of Bavaria, seventh child and fourth daughter of Ludwig I of Bavaria and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, dies at 38
- 1865 A. P. Hill, Confederate general, killed in action at 39
- 1865 Richard Cobden, English politician and manufacturer (founder of the Anti-Corn-Law League), dies at 60
American painter and inventor of the electric telegraph and Morse Code, dies at 80
- 1876 Paul van Vlissingen, Dutch ship owner, dies at 78
- 1890 Marinus Frederik Andries Gerardus Campbell, Dutch bibliographer, dies at 70
- 1892 Willem Jan d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, Dutch baron and genealogist, dies at 79
- 1902 Esther Morris [Esther Hobart McQuigg], American suffragist, anti-slavery activist, and 1st female justice of the peace in the US, dies at 87
- 1910 Boyd Alexander, English explorer and ornithologist (Niger to the Nile), murdered in a dispute with locals in Africa at 37
- 1910 Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, German theologian (founded institutions, including a bank, to help the poor), dies at 79
- 1914 Paul von Heyse, German writer (Nobel Prize for Literature 1910), dies at 84
- 1917 Bryn Lewis, Welsh rugby union winger (2 caps; Newport, Cambridge University), dies on active duty in WWI at 26
- 1918 Willem Hendrik de Beaufort, Dutch historian, politician and chair of the first Hague Peace Conference in 1899, dies at 73 [1]
- 1919 Enny Vrede [Maria Magdalena Müller], Dutch actress and wife of Eduard Verkade, dies returning from her second honeymoon when the SS Amstel sinks at 35
- 1922 Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (inkblot test - Rorschach test), dies at 37
- 1923 Michel Théato, Luxembourgian athlete (Olympic gold representing France, marathon 1900), dies at 45
- 1924 Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming, Danish botanist (plant ecology, environment-organism interactions), dies at 82
- 1928 Theodore W. Richards, American chemist (1st American to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for atomic weights 1914, awarded 1915), dies at 60
- 1930 Zewditu, Empress of Ethiopia (1916-30), dies at 53
- 1932 Bill Pickett, American rodeo performer (invented bulldogging), dies after being kicked in the head by a bronco at 61
- 1932 Hugo Kaun, German composer, dies at 69
- 1932 John Morrill, American baseball first baseman and manager (National League pennant: 1877, 78, 83; Boston Red Caps/Beaneaters), dies of pneumonia at 77
- 1933 Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Indian cricket batsman (15 Tests, 989 runs @ 44.95, 2 x 100s) and politician (Maharaja of Nawanagar), dies at 60
- 1935 Bennie Moten, American jazz pianist and bandleader (Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - "South", "Moten Swing"), dies of complications following tonsillectomy surgery at 41 [1]
- 1936 Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (Father of The Tank), dies at 75
- 1937 Nathan Birnbaum, Austrian writer (Gottes Volk;; Der Ruf), and philosopher (early Zionist, later anti-Zionist), dies at 72
- 1938 Alice Berend, writer, dies
- 1941 Pál Teleki, Hungarian politician (Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary, 1920-1 and 1939-41), dies at 61
- 1944 Mikuláš Moyzes, Slovak composer (The Orphans), dies at 71
- 1947 Joe Hardstaff Sr., English cricket batsman (5 Tests; 3 x 50; Nottinghamshire CCC) and umpire (21 Tests), dies at 64
- 1948 Sabahattin Ali, Turkish poet, author and journalist (Esirler, Içimizdeki Şeytan), killed at 41
- 1951 Simon Barere, Russian, American pianist, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage while performing Grieg's Piano Concerto at Carnegie Hall at 54 [1]
- 1952 Bernard Lyot, French astronomer (Coronagraph, Lyot-filter), dies at 55
- 1953 Jean Epstein, French director (Vive la Vie), dies at 56
- 1954 Maud Barger-Wallach, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1908), dies at 83
- 1954 Pudge Heffelfinger, American College Football Hall of Fame guard (3 x All American, Yale; first professional player 1892) and coach (Cal, Lehigh, Minnesota), dies at 86
- 1956 Albert Marie Léon Adolphe de Bassompierre, Belgian ambassador to Tokyo (1921-39), dies at 82 [1]
- 1956 Chester Clute, American actor ("Arsenic and Old Lace"; "Too Many Girls"; "Niagara Falls"), dies of a heart attack at 65
- 1956 Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter and poet, dies at 59
- 1958 Josei Toda, Japanese second president of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai , dies at 58
- 1959 Benjamin Christensen, Danish actor (Barnet, Mockery) and film director (Häxan), dies at 79
- 1961 August Defresne, Dutch playwright and director (Anno Christi 969), dies at 67
- 1961 Wallingford Riegger, American cellist, composer (New Dance; Cooper Square), and educator, dies from head injuries in a dog walking accident at 75
- 1965 Renzo Bossi, Italian composer, and educator (Milan Conservatory), dies at 81
- 1966 C. S. Forester, English historical novelist (Horatio Hornblower), dies at 66
- 1969 Fortunio Bonanova, Spanish actor and opera singer (My Best Gal, Havana Rose), dies at 74
- 1971 Willy Lages, German chief of Sicherheitsdienst in Amsterdam (deported 70,000 Dutch Jews to death camps), dies at 70
- 1972 Franz Halder, German general (b. 1884)
American Baseball HOF first baseman (8 x MLB All Star; Brooklyn/LA Dodgers; NY Mets; World Series 1955, 59, 69; Gold Glove Award 1957–59) and manager (Washington Senators, NY Mets), dies of a heart attack at 47
- 1972 Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Japanese martial artist and Bujinkan teacher, dies at 83
- 1973 Jascha Horenstein, Russian-born American conductor, dies at 74
- 1974 Douglass Dumbrille, Canadian actor (Mr Deed Goes to Town), dies at 84
- 1975 Dong Biwu, Chinese Communist Party revolutionary, Acting Chairman of the People's Republic of China (1972-75), dies at 89
- 1976 Ray Teal, American actor (Judgment at Nuremberg, Bonanza), dies at 74
- 1979 Carroll Rosenbloom, American businessman and NFL team owner Baltimore Colts, LA Rams, dies of a heart attack at 72
- 1979 Ivan Barrow, Jamaican cricket wicketkeeper (11 Tests; first West Indian Test century-maker in England), dies at 68
- 1980 Dick Howorth, English cricket all-rounder (5 Tests, 19 wickets; Worcestershire CCC), dies at 70
- 1980 Pascual de Rogatis, Argentine composer (Huemac; Estampas Argentinas), dies at 99
- 1981 Delfo Cabrera, Argentine distance runner (Olympic gold marathon 1948), dies in a car accident at 62
American jazz drummer and bandleader (Buddy Rich Band - "Away We Go"), dies at 69
- 1989 Manolis Angelopoulos, Greek pop-laiko singer, dies of complications after heart surgery at 49
- 1990 Aldo Fabrizi, actor (Postman Goes to War, Open City), dies at 85
- 1992 Juanito, Spanish soccer forward (34 caps; Real Madrid 284 games, 85 goals), dies in car crash at 37
- 1992 Paula Kelly, American big band singer (The Modernaires), dies at 72 [1]
- 1992 Tomisaburo Wakayama, Japanese actor (b. 1929)
- 1993 Eugenie Leontovitch, Russian actress (Homicidal, The Rains of Ranchipur), dies at 93
- 1994 Richard Davies, actor (Pvt Buckaroo), dies of a heart attack at 79
- 1995 Hannes Alfven, Swedish electrical engineer and plasma physicist (Nobel Prize for Physic, 1970), dies at 86
- 1995 Harvey Penick, American golfer, coach, author (World Golf Hall of Fame), dies of degenerative arthritis at 90
- 1995 Julius Hemphill, American jazz saxophonist, and composer, dies from complications of diabetes at 57
- 1995 Leo LeBlanc, American country musician and pianist who was legally blind, dies of cancer at 55
- 1996 Guitar Gabriel [Robert Lewis Jones], American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 70
- 1997 Anthony Bushell, British actor (Journey's End, A Night to Remember), dies at 92
- 1997 Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese film producer (Godzilla), dies of a stroke at 86
- 1997 Zsolt Durko, Hungarian composer, dies at 62
- 1999 Andrew Gardner, British newscaster (News at Ten), dies in flight en route to Madeira at 66
- 2000 Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian mafioso and informant, dies living under the witness protection program in the US at 71
- 2001 Charles Daudelin, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
- 2001 Jennifer Syme, American actress (b. 1972)
- 2002 Edward Levy, American composer, and educator, dies of pancreatic cancer at 72
- 2002 Henry Slesar, American writer and playwright (The Edge of Night), dies at 74
- 2002 Jack Kruschen, Canadian character actor (The Apartment, Busting Loose), dies at 80
- 2002 John Pierce, American engineer (1st communications satellite Telstar 1), dies at 92
- 2003 Edwin Starr [Hatcher], American soul and R&B singer ("War"; "Twenty Five Miles"), dies of a heart attack at 61
- 2003 Michael Wayne, American film producer (Green Berets, McLintock), son of John Wayne, dies at 68
- 2004 John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer, one of the creators of the Finite Element Method, dies at 90
264th Roman Catholic Pope (1978-2005), dies of heart failure at 84
- 2006 Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (b. 1913)
- 2008 Jacques Bondon, French composer, dies at 80
- 2009 Clifford “Bud” Shank, American jazz saxophonist and flute player, dies of a pulmonary embolism at 82
- 2009 Frank Springer, American comics artist (The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist), dies at 79
- 2009 Peter Anderson, English footballer (Plymouth Argyle), dies at 72
- 2010 Chris Kanyon, American pro wrestler (WCW/WWF World Tag Team C'ship), dies from suicide at 40
- 2010 Mike Cuellar, Cuban baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1967, 70, 71, 74; World Series 1964, 70; AL Cy Young Award 1969; Baltimore Orioles), dies from stomach cancer at 72
- 2010 Thomas J. Moyer, American judge and Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (1987-2010), dies at 70
- 2011 George E Mahlberg, American astronomer (Mt Palomar/Mt Wilson, California, 1974-78), movie actor, sound engineer, and DJ (Dr. Cosmo), dies at 56
- 2011 Larry Finch, American college basketball coach (University of Memphis 1986-97), dies at 60
- 2012 Elizabeth Catlett, African-American sculptor and print maker (Mother and Child), dies at 96
- 2013 Chuck Fairbanks, American football coach (New England Patriots 1973-78; University of Oklahoma 1967-72, University of Colorado 1979-81), dies from brain cancer at 79
- 2013 Fred Othon Aristidès, French comic artist (Philémon), dies at 82
- 2013 Jane Henson (née Nebel), American puppeteer and co-founder of Muppets, Inc. with her husband Jim Henson, dies of cancer at 78
- 2013 Jesús Franco, Spanish film director and writer, dies from complications from a stroke at 82
- 2013 Milo O'Shea, Irish character actor (Barbarella, Staircase and Mass Appeal, Romeo & Juliet), dies at 86
- 2014 Bernard Carter, British painter and curator at the National Maritime Museum (Greenwich Observatory, On the Avon), dies at 93 [1] [2]
- 2014 Richard Small, American thoroughbred horse trainer (Breeders' Cup Classic 1994), dies at 68
- 2014 Urs Widmer, Swiss writer, dies at 75
- 2015 Doug Sax, American mastering engineer (Bob Dylan, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Ray Charles), dies of cancer at 78
- 2015 Robert Schuller, American Christian televangelist (Glass Cathedral; Hour of Power), dies at 88
- 2016 (Leandro) "Gato" Barbieri, Argentine Latin jazz saxophonist (Last Tango in Paris), dies of pneumonia at 83
- 2018 Susan Anspach, American actress (Grace-Yellow Rose, Hair, Five Easy Pieces, Play It Again Sam), dies at 75
South African anti-apartheid activist and ANC politician, dies of a long illness at 81
- 2020 Carl Tacy, American college basketball coach (Wake Forest University 1972-85; 222-149 record), dies at 87
- 2020 Claudio Spies, Chilean American composer, dies at 95
- 2020 Eddie Large [McGinnis], British comedian (Little and Large), dies of heart issues and COVID-19 complications at 78
- 2020 Goyo Rubio, Spanish soccer defender (22 caps; Real Madrid 317 games), dies of COVID-19 at 73
- 2020 Patricia Bosworth, American actor, journalist, writer, and biographer, dies of COVID-19 complications at 86
- 2020 Sergio Rossi, Italian shoe designer, dies of COVID-19 complications at 84
- 2020 William Frankland, British immunologist known as the "grandfather of allergy" due to his work on the pollen count, dies at 108
- 2021 Morris "B. B." Dickerson, American bassist (War - "Why Can't We Be Friends?"; "Low Rider"), dies at 71
- 2021 Valentin Afonin, Russian soccer defender (42 caps; SKA Rostov-on-Don, CSKA Moscow), dies at 81
- 2022 Estelle Harris, American actress and comedian (Estelle Costanza - Seinfeld; Toy Story), dies at 93
- 2022 Leonel Sánchez, Chilean soccer striker (85 caps; Club Universidad de Chile 413 games, 167 goals), dies at 85
- 2023 Salim Durani, Indian cricket all-rounder (29 Tests, 1 x 100, 74 wickets, BB 6/73; Saurashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan), dies from cancer at 88
- 2023 Seymour Stein [Steinbigle], American music label executive (Sire Records- signed Madonna, Ramones, Talking Heads), and co-founder of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, dies of cancer at 80 [1]
- 2024 Christopher Durang, American playwright (Sister Mary Ignatius, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike), dies of complications of aphasia at 75
- 2024 John Barth, American satirist and author (The Sot-Weed Factor; Lost in the Funhouse), and educator (Johns Hopkins University, 1973-91), dies at 93
- 2024 Larry Lucchino, American baseball executive (President/CEO Boston Red Sox; World Series 2004, 07, 13), dies from heart failure at 78
- 2025 Franklin W. Stahl, American molecular biologist who helped prove DNA replicates semi-conservatively (The Meselson-Stahl Experiment), dies of congestive heart failure at 95 [1]
