- 585 BC Jimmu Tennō, According to legend the 1st Emperor of Japan (660 BC - 585 BC) and founder of the imperial dynasty, dies at 126
- 93 Yuan An, Minister over the Masses of the Han dynasty
- 491 Zeno, Eastern Roman Emperor (474-75, 476-91), dies at 66
- 715 Constantine I, Greek-Syrian Pope (708-15), dies at 50 or 51
- 806 Kanmu, 50th Emperor of Japan (781-806) and first emperor of the Heian period, dies at 70
- 1024 Benedict VIII [Theophylact of Tusculum], Italian Pope (1012-24), dies
- 1137 William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099)
- 1283 Margaret of Scotland, Scottish princess as daughter of Alexander III and Queen of Norway as consort of Eric II, dies in childbirth at 22
King of England (1461-70, 71-83), dies of unknown causes at 40
- 1484 Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (b. 1473), son of Richard III King of England
- 1553 Francois Rabelais, French author (Gargantua, Pantagruel), dies at 49
- 1557 Michael Agricola, Finnish theologist/church reformer/bishop, dies
English statesman, Lord Chancellor (1617-21) and philosopher (Novum Organum), dies from pneumonia at 65
- 1654 Matei Basarab, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1588)
- 1681 Alfonso Marsh, English composer and lutenist, dies at 54
- 1693 Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer, dies at 74
- 1747 Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, Scottish Jacobite among those defeated at Culloden (last man beheaded in England), beheaded for treason at 80
- 1754 Christian von Wolff, German philosopher, dies at 75
- 1761 William Law, British minister and theologian (b. 1686)
Princess of Orange and ancestor of all currently reigning monarchs in Europe, dies at 77
- 1768 Sarah Fielding, English writer (The Adventures of David Simple), dies at 58
- 1793 Ernestus Weinrauch, German composer, dies at 62
French finance minister of Louis XVI whose decisions contributed to the outbreak of the French Revolution, dies at 71
- 1806 William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, dies at 58
- 1807 John Opie, English painter (The Murder of Rizzio), dies at 46
- 1821 Félix Máximo López, Spanish composer, dies at 78
- 1850 William Prout, physician/chemist, dies
- 1851 Antoine-Charles Glachant, French violinist, composer, and artillery commander, dies at 79
- 1852 John Howard Payne, American actor, playwright (Fair Warning), author and creator of the hit song "Home! Sweet Home!", dies at 60
- 1862 George W Johnson, US planter/Confederate (gov-Ky), dies at about 50
- 1865 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32
- 1872 Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (Mayor of Albany, New York), dies at 77
- 1876 Charles Goodyear, American politician (D-NY), dies at 71
- 1879 Ernst Richter, German musical theorist and composer, dies at 70
- 1882 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter, dies at 53
- 1886 Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German writer (Ekkehard), dies at 60
- 1889 Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (b. 1786)
- 1892 Charles William Field, American major general in the Confederate Army, dies at 64
- 1898 James Ronald Chalmers, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 67
- 1899 Stephen Johnson Field, American jurist, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, dies at 82
- 1904 Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-68), dies at 73
- 1909 Charles Conder, artist, dies
- 1909 F. Marion Crawford, American author (Mr. Isaacs), dies at 54
- 1909 Helena Modrzejewska, Polish-American actress, dies from Bright's disease at 68
- 1914 Eben Sumner Draper, American businessman and politician (44th Governor of Massachusetts), dies at 55
- 1916 Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, Basque composer, dies at 62
- 1917 Edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I
- 1917 James Hope Moulton, British scholar of Classical Greek (b. 1863)
- 1922 Patrick Manson, Scottish physician and parasitologist (Father of tropical medicine), dies at 77
- 1923 Mauritius H Binger, director and producer (Living Ladder), dies
- 1926 Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer famous for his tapered head, dies at about 83
- 1931 Paul Vidal, French composer and conductor, dies at 67
- 1933 Sigfrid Karg-Elert, German composer, dies at 55
- 1936 Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist and philosopher, dies at 80
- 1939 Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, Spanish composer, dies at 89
- 1940 Mrs Patrick Campbell [Beatrice Tanner], British actress (Outcast Lady, Riptide), dies at 75
- 1944 Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski, Polish composer and conductor, dies at 59
- 1944 Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (b. 1920)
- 1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor, theologist (Confessing Church) and anti-Nazi dissident, hung by the Nazi government at 39
- 1945 Georg Elser, German failed assassin of Adolf Hitler (Bürgerbräukeller Bombing), dies in Dachau concentration camp at 42
- 1945 Hans Oster, German major general, spy and "July 20th plot", hanged at 57
- 1945 Hans von Dohnanyi, German jurist accused of inspiring "July 20th plot", hanged by Nazis in Sachsenhausen concentration camp at 45
- 1945 Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral and head of Germany military intelligence, hanged by the Nazi regime for treason at 58
- 1947 Konrad Friedrich Noetel, German composer, dies in a car crash at 43
- 1948 George Carpenter, Australian 5th General of The Salvation Army, dies at 75
- 1948 Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903)
- 1951 Sadiq Hidajat, Iranian Persian writer (Hadji Aga), dies at 48
- 1951 Vilhelm F K Bjerknes, Norwegian/US physicist/meteorology, dies at 89
- 1953 Stanisław Wojciechowski, Polish politician and 2nd President of Poland (1922-6), dies at 84
- 1954 Philip Greeley Clapp, American composer and educator (University of Iowa, 1919-54), dies at 65
American architect (Guggenheim) recognized as "the greatest American architect of all time", dies at 91
- 1961 Zog I [Ahmed Zogu], King of Albania (1928-39), dies at 65
- 1962 Juan Belmonte, famed bullfighter, dies at 70
- 1963 Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist, dies at 71
- 1964 Hesketh Pearson, English biographer and playwright (Writ for Libel), dies at 77
- 1966 Sutan Sjahrir, Indonesian politician and revolutionary leader (1st prime Minister of Indonesia 1945-47), dies in exile at 57
- 1970 Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish-American artist and chief illustrator for The Walt Disney Company during the 1930s (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Bambi, Pinocchio), dies at 73
- 1971 Will Harridge, American Baseball HOF executive (President American League 1931-59), dies at 87
American politician and statesman influential in domestic and foreign policy in the mid-1940s, dies at 89
- 1976 Akio Yashiro, Japanese composer, dies at 46
- 1976 Phil Ochs, American anti-war folk singer ("I Ain't Marching Anymore"; "Draft Dodger Rag"), commits suicide at 35
- 1978 Clough Williams-Ellis, British architect known chiefly as the creator of the Italianate village of Portmeirion in North Wales, dies at 94
- 1978 Vivian McGrath, Australian tennis player (Australian C'ship 1937), dies at 62
- 1979 Staats Cotsworth, American actor (Hamlet, Peyton Place), dies at 71
- 1980 Kathleen Burke, American actress (Island of Lost Souls), dies at 66
- 1982 RobertHavemann, German chemist and dissident, dies at 72
- 1982 Wilfred Pelletier, Canadian conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 85
- 1984 Basil Henry Blackwell, British publisher, dies
- 1988 Brook Benton [Benjamin Franklin Peay], American soul vocalist (It's Just a Matter of Time; Rainy Night in Georgia), dies of meningitis at 56
- 1988 Dave Prater, American R&B singer and musician (Sam & Dave - "Soul Man"), dies in a car crash at 50
- 1991 Forrest Towns, American athlete (Olympic gold 110m hurdles 1936), dies at 77
- 1991 Maurice Binder, American photographer and film title designer (James Bond Movies), dies at 73
- 1992 Gale McGee, senator (Wyoming, 1959-77), dies at 77
- 1992 Ruth Hammond, American Broadway actress, dies in her sleep at 96
- 1994 Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at 59
- 1994 Marcel Ichac, French director (Karakoram) and alpinist, dies at 87
- 1994 Raouf Khayrat, Egyptian general-major, murdered
- 1995 Jim Bullock, English colliery manager, unionist and mine pit reformist, dies at 92 [1]
- 1996 James Rouse, American builder (founder of The Rouse Company), dies at 81
- 1996 Luis Sandi, Mexican musician and composer, dies at 95
- 1996 Maisie Fitter, English editor and conservationist, dies at 83
- 1996 Richard Condon, American author (The Manchurian Candidate), dies at 81
- 1996 Sandy Becker, NYC Kiddie TV Show host (Sandy Becker Show), dies at 74
- 1997 Helene Hanff, author (84 Charing Cross Road), dies at 80
- 1997 Mae Boren Axton, American songwriter, known as the"Queen Mother of Nashville" ("Heartbreak Hotel"), drowns in her hot tub during a heart attack at 82
- 1998 John Tate, American boxer (WBA heavyweight championship 1979-80), dies from a stroke at 43
- 1998 Tom Cora, American cellist and composer, dies at 44
- 1999 Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Niger politician and general, assassinated at 49
- 2001 Archibald Forster, British chemical engineer and businessman (CEO of Esso UK, 1982-93), dies at 73
- 2001 Graziella Sciutti, Italian operatic soprano, teacher, and opera producer, dies at 64 [1]
- 2002 Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
- 2002 Pat Flaherty, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500, 1956), dies from cancer at 76
- 2002 Weldon Irvine, American jazz organist, pianist, composer, lyricist ("Young, Gifted, and Black"), playwright, and poet, commits suicide at 58
- 2005 Andrea Dworkin, American radical feminist (Pornography: Men Possessing Women), dies of heart failure at 58
- 2005 Jerrel Wilson, American NFL punter (Pro Bowl 1970-72; Super Bowl 1970; KC Chiefs), dies of cancer at 63
- 2006 Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player, coach, and official (b. 1916)
- 2006 Robin Orr, Scottish composer, dies at 96
- 2006 Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (b. 1924)
- 2007 E. Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer who studied visible stars (The Bright Star Catalogue), dies at 100
- 2007 Egon Bondy, Czech philosopher and writer (b. 1930)
- 2008 Ozzie Cadena, American jazz and gospel music record producer (Savoy; Prestige), label executive, and jazz promoter (Lighthouse Café), dies of pneumonia at 83
- 2009 Nick Adenhart, American baseball player, dies at 22
- 2009 Randy Cain, American soul singer (4 Gents; Delfonics - "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)"), dies at 63
- 2010 Aladár Kovácsi, Hungarian pentathlete and Olympic champion (1952, Helsinki), dies at 77
- 2010 Bob Franks, American politician (Rep-R-NJ 1993-2001), dies of cancer at 58
- 2010 Zoltán Varga, Hungarian footballer (Ferencváros; Olympic gold, 1964), and manager, dies on the field while playing in an 'old boys match' at 65
- 2011 Daniel Catán, Mexican composer (Rappaccini's Daughter; Florencia en el Amazonas), dies at 62
- 2011 Jerry Lawson, American electronic engineer, considered the 'the father of the video game cartridge, dies from complications of diabetes at 70 [1]
- 2011 Roger Nichols, American recording engineer, producer and inventor (Steely Dan; John Denver), dies of pancreatic cancer at 66
American film director (Group, Pawnbroker, Fail Safe), dies of lymphoma at 86
- 2012 Dave Shriver, American rock bassist (Eddie Cochran, Trini Lopez), and music director, dies of cardiac arrest following a stroke at 76
- 2012 Mark Lenzi, American springboard diver (Olympic gold 1992), dies at 43
- 2012 Reginald Askew, British Anglican priest and academic (Dean of King's College London, 1988-93; Principal of Salisbury and Wells Theological College, 1973-87), dies at 83
- 2013 David Hayes, American sculptor, dies from leukemia at 82
- 2013 Emilio Pericoli, Italian pop singer ("Al di là", "Quando, quando, quando"), dies at 85
- 2013 Zao Wou-Ki, Chinese French painter (Juin-Octobre 1985), dies at 93
- 2014 Bertha Tickey, American softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1973), dies at 91
- 2015 Margaret Rule, British archaeologist (Mary Rose Tudor warship), dies at 86
- 2015 Pim Lier, Dutch lawyer and illegitimate son of Prince Consort Henry, dies at 96
- 2017 Alan Henderson, Irish rock bassist (Them), dies at 72
- 2017 Bob Wootton, American country and rockabilly guitarist (Johnny Cash, 1968-97), dies of complications from dementia at 75
- 2017 Peter Hansen, American actor (Lee Baldwin in "General Hospital", Mr. Marshall in "War of the Roses"), dies at 95 [1]
- 2019 Charles Van Doren, American teacher, writer, and quiz show contestant (Twenty-One), dies at 93
- 2019 Marilynn Smith, American golfer, co-founder LPGA (Titleholders Championship 1963-64), dies at 89
- 2020 Dmitri Smirnov, Russian-British classical composer (Solo for Harp; Thel; Red Bells), and teacher, dies of COVID-19 at 71
- 2020 Jocelyn Barrow, British race relations campaigner (Card) and 1st black female governor of the BBC, dies at 90
- 2020 Phyllis Lyon, American lesbian activist who was part of the first legal same-sex marriage in California, dies at 95 [1]
- 2021 Ekkehard Fasser, Swiss bobsledder (Olympic gold, four-man 1988; World C'ship gold 1983; World Cup champion 1985-86), dies at 68
- 2021 Ramsey Clark, American lawyer, US Attorney General (1967-69) and activist, dies at 93
- 2022 Dwayne Haskins Jr, American NFL football quarterback (Washington Redskins), dies from injuries sustained when struck on a highway while tending to his disabled vehicle at 24
- 2022 Jack Higgins [Harry Patterson], British novelist (The Eagle Has Landed), dies at 92
- 2023 Fred Pancoast, American college football coach (University of Tampa, Memphis State University, Vanderbilt University), dies at 90
- 2023 Karl Berger, German-American jazz pianist, vibraphone player, and musicologist, dies of post-surgical complications at 88
- 2024 André Boniface, French rugby union outside back (48 Tests; Stade Montois Rugby; IRB HOF), dies at 89
- 2024 Jack Alabaster, New Zealand cricket spin bowler (21 Tests, 49 wickets; Otago), dies at 93
- 2024 Vladimir Aksyonov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 22, Soyuz T-2), dies at 89
- 2025 David Sassoon, Iraqi-British fashion designer best known for dressing Princess Diana, dies at 92
- 2025 Kim Shin-jo, North Korean soldier who tried to assassinate South Korean president Park Chung-hee, dies at 82
- 2025 Ray Shero, American ice hockey executive (GM Pittsburgh Penguins 2006–14; GM New Jersey Devils 2015–20), dies of cancer at 62
- 2025 Sybil Shainwald, American lawyer specialising in cases involving women's health, dies at 96
