- 238 Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus, the Thracian, Roman Emperor, murdered
- 995 Boudouin, bishop of Utrecht
- 1034 Mieszko II, King of Poland (1025-34), dies
- 1290 Duke Rudolph II of Austria (b. 1271)
- 1403 Katherine Swynford, English Duchess of Lancaster, lover then wife of John of Gaunt, dies at 52 or 53
- 1424 Go-Kameyama, 99th Emperor of Japan (1383-92) and last Emperor of the Southern Court, dies at 76 or 77 (b. 1347)
- 1482 Paolo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician, astronomer and mapmaker, provided Columbus with a map to sail west to find the Spice Islands, dies at about 85
- 1493 Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician
- 1521 Sebastian Brant, Alsatian humanist and satirist (Ship of Fools), dies at about 74 [birth date uncertain, c. 1457]
- 1566 Leonhard Fuchs, German physician and botanist (Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants) for which the flowering plants and color Fuchsia is named after, dies at 65
- 1569 Juan the Avila, Spanish minister/writer
- 1637 Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet and wife of Constantine Huygens, dies at 37
- 1641 Johan Banér, Swedish Field Marshal, led Swedish armies during Thirty Years' War, dies at 44
- 1653 John Bicker, ship builder/merchant/regent, dies at 61
- 1657 Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician, dies at 65
- 1691 Colonel John Birch, English soldier (b. 1615)
- 1696 Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (The Characters, or the Manners of the Age, with The Characters of Theophrastus), dies at 50
- 1710 Georg Dietrich Leiding, composer, dies at 46
- 1717 John Hathorne, American magistrate (b. 1641)
- 1726 Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier, dies at 56
- 1733 Barton Booth, British actor (Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre), dies at approximately 52
- 1737 Nakamikado [Yasuhito], 114th Emperor of Japan (1709-35), dies at 35
- 1743 Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal, German royal mistress to King George I of Great Britain, dies at 75
- 1760 Johann Christoph Graupner, German harpsichordist and Baroque composer, dies at 77
- 1764 Picander [Christian Henrici], German writer (Die Weiberprobe), dies
- 1770 Charles Avison, British composer, dies at 61
- 1774 Louis XV, King of France (1715-74) known as "Louis the Beloved", dies at 64
- 1775 Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, Queen consort of Denmark and Norway, dies at 23
- 1785 Etienne Joseph Floquet, French opera composer, dies at 36
- 1787 William Watson, English physician and scientist, dies at 72
- 1789 Guillaume-Gommaire Kennis, Belgian violinist and composer, dies at 72
- 1792 John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress
- 1794 Élisabeth of France, princess of France, youngest sister of king Louis XVI, beheaded at 30
- 1798 George Vancouver, British explorer, (surveyed Pacific coast from San Francisco to Vancouver Island), dies at 40
American silversmith and patriot who alerted the colonial militia to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, dies at 83
- 1820 Matthäus Stegmayer, Austrian composer, dies at 49
- 1822 Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician and philosopher known for his work on group theory, dies at 56
- 1826 Giuseppe Sigismondo, Italian historian and composer, dies at 86
- 1829 Thomas Young, British physician and physicist (light interference), dies at 55
- 1833 François Andrieux, French playwright, dies at 74
- 1849 Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese painter and printmaker (The Great Wave off Kanagawa), dies at 89
- 1859 John Archduke of Austria, dies
- 1864 James Clay Rice, lawyer/Union brigadier general, dies in battle at 34
- 1864 Thomas Greeley Stevenson, Union brigadier general, dies at about 27
- 1868 Henry Bennett, American politician (b. 1808)
- 1869 Wilhelm Bernhard Molique, German composer and violonist, dies at 66
- 1880 John Goss, British organist and composer (Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven), dies at 79
- 1885 Edward Stephen, Welsh musician and composer, dies at 62
- 1885 Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist, composer and conductor, dies at 73
- 1889 Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (b. 1826)
- 1891 Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss botanist (famous for his work on plant cells), dies at 74
- 1897 Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino revolutionary leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain, dies at 33
- 1897 William Thomas Best, English organist and composer, dies at 70
- 1900 Richard Storrs Willis, American composer, mostly of hymns ("Carol"; "Fairest Lord Jesus"), dies at 81
- 1909 Johannes de Koo, Dutch journalist and playwright, dies at 67
- 1910 Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (advocated for single system of atomic formulas), dies at 85
- 1910 William Huggins, discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies
- 1914 Augustine Sackett, American inventor of drywall, dies at 73 [1]
- 1914 Sir William Alexander Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys' Brigade, dies at 59
- 1915 Albert Weisgerber, German painter and graphic artist, dies in battle at 37
American inventor who simplified the production of celluloid, dies at 82
- 1923 Vaslav Vorovsky, Russian delegate, assassinated
- 1924 Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (Amore & Amore, Top), dies at 58
- 1930 Edward Stratemeyer, American author (The Rover Boys), dies at 67
- 1933 Sam Marx, French-American father of the Marx Brothers, and husband of Minnie Marx, dies from kidney failure at 73
- 1937 William Tedmarsh, British silent movie actor (Two Beds and No Sleep), dies at 61
- 1938 Percy McAlister, Australian cricket batsman (8 Tests; Big Six cricket dispute 1912), dies at 68
- 1940 (Euphemia) "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch illustrator and ceramic artist, dies at 56
- 1942 Joe Weber, American vaudeville comedian, singer (Weber and Fields), and theatrical producer, dies at 74
- 1943 Andre Bertulot, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
- 1943 Arnaud/Armand Fraiteur, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
- 1943 Maurice-Albert Raskin, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
- 1945 Richard Glücks, German SS officer and concentration camp administrator, committed suicide at 56
- 1950 Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer and archivist, dies at 66
- 1950 John Gould Fletcher, American poet (Epic of Arkansas; Burning Mountain), drowns himself in a pond at 64 [1]
- 1951 Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader of the Swaminarayan Sampradaya, dies at 86
- 1954 George Hirst, English cricketer (36,323 1st-class runs, 2739 wickets), dies at 82
- 1955 John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist, dies at 89
- 1956 Clarence E. Mulford, American writer (Hopalong Cassidy), dies at 73
- 1960 Yuri Olesha, Russian writer known for "Envy", dies at 61
- 1963 Gene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb, American NFL football defensive lineman, 1953-62 (Baltimore Colts, and two other teams), and professional wrestler, dies of a heroin overdose at 31
- 1964 Carol Haney, dancer (Pantomime Quiz), dies at 35
- 1964 Ignace Lilien, Austrian-Dutch composer, poet, and chemical engineer, dies at 66 [1]
- 1964 Mikhail Larionov, Russian avant-garde painter who co-founded rayonism (Glass, Red Rayonism), dies at 82 [1]
- 1965 Hubertus van Mook, Dutch colonial administrator (Acting Governor General of the Dutch East Indies 1942-48), dies at 70
- 1967 Lorenzo Bandini, Italian auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans 1963; 24 Hours of Daytona 1967), dies after a race accident in Monaco F1 GP at 31
- 1968 Maurie Sievers, cricket medium-pacer (Austral v England 1936-37), dies
- 1968 Philippa Bevans, British actress (Notorious Landlady, World of Henry Orient), dies at 55
- 1968 Scotty Beckett, American actor (Our Gang, Listen Darling, Battleground), dies from either an overdose, or as a result from a beating at 38
- 1970 Mari Blanchard, American actress and femme fatale (Kathy-Klondike), dies of cancer at 47
- 1971 Mihail Jora, Romanian composer, dies at 79
- 1971 Shukichi Mitsukuri, Japanese composer (10 Haikai de Basho), dies at 75
- 1972 Rhys Gemmell, Australian tennis player (Australasian C'ships singles & doubles 1921), dies at 76
- 1973 Jack E. Leonard, American comedian (Disorderly Orderly), dies at 62
- 1973 Loren Tindall, American actor (Meet Me on Broadway, Girl of Limberlost), dies of a heart attack at 51
- 1974 Hal Mohr [Harold Leon Mohr], American Cinematographer and husband of Evelyn Venable (Captain Blood), dies at 74
- 1976 Elias Aslaksen, Leader of Smith's Friends (b. 1888)
- 1976 George Curzon, dies at 77
American actress (Mildred Pierce), dies of a heart attack between 69 and 74 [year of birth disputed]
- 1979 J.B. Morton, British satirist under pen name of Beachcomber (Daily Express "By the Way" column, 1924-75), dies at 85
- 1979 Louis Paul Boon, Belgian writer (Eros & the Lonely Man), dies at 67
- 1982 Jean Picart le Doux, French artist and tapestry designer, dies at 80
- 1982 Peter Weiss, German author and playwright (Marat/Sade), dies at 65
- 1983 John P Strijbos, writer (Called that Bird), dies at 92
- 1984 Jean-Louis Viale, French jazz drummer, dies at 51
- 1984 Joaquin Agostinho, Portuguese cyclist, dies after a fall during a race at 41
- 1984 Robert Moore, American director and actor (Murder by Death, Marshall-Diana), dies from AIDS-related pneumonia at 56
- 1988 Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (Long River), dies at 85
- 1989 Woody Shaw, American jazz trumpeter (Rosewood), and educator, dies from kidney failure and other complications after being struck by a subway train in Brooklyn, NYC, at 44
- 1990 Susan Oliver [Charlotte Gercke], American stage and screen actress (Peyton Place - "Ann"; Star Trek - The Cage), television director, and airplane pilot, dies of lung cancer at 58
- 1990 Walker Percy, American writer and novelist ("The Moviegoer"; "Lancelot"), dies of cancer at 73
- 1991 Armand HF Boni [Armand the Good], Flemish poet/writer, dies
- 1992 Joan Merrill, American pop vocalist ("There Will Never Be Another You"), dies of a stroke at 74
- 1992 John Lund, American actor (High Society, Wackiest Ship in the Army), dies at 81
- 1992 Sylvia Syms [Blagman], American jazz and cabaret singer and actress ("I Could Have Danced All Night"; South Pacific - "Bloody May"), dies of a heart attack at 74
- 1993 Lester del Rey, American sci-fi author (Moon Trilogy, Marooned on Mars), dies at 77
- 1994 Lucebert [Jacobus Swaanswijk], Dutch poet and cartoonist (PC Hooft prize 1967), dies at 69
- 1994 Phyllis Flowerdew, English school Reading text author (Wide Range Reader series that sold over 7 million copies), dies at 81
- 1995 Harold Berens, comedian, dies at 92
- 1995 Hilde Jarecki, German English educationist (Kindertransport, Playgroups), dies at 83
- 1995 Jimmy Raney, American jazz guitarist, dies at 67
- 1996 Ethel Smith [Goldsmith], American pop and Latin style Hammond organist ("Tico Tico", "Monkey on a String"), dies at 93
- 1997 Joan [Joanie] Weston, American roller derby queen (Bay Bombers), dies at 61
- 1998 Clara Rockmore (née Reisenberg), Lithuanian Litvak-American violin prodigy and virtuoso theremin player, dies at 87
- 1999 Shel Silverstein, American writer and cartoonist (Now Here's My Plan: A Book of Futilities; The Giving Tree) and songwriter ("A Boy Named Sue"; "The Cover Of The Rolling Stone"), dies at 68
- 2000 (André) "Dédé" Fortin, Canadian rock and ska singer-songwriter (Les Colocs), dies by suicide at 37
- 2000 Jules Deschênes, Canadian Quebec Superior Court judge, dies at 76
- 2001 Deborah Walley, American actress (b. 1943)
- 2002 David Riesman, American sociologist (Lonely Crowd), dies at 92
- 2002 George Cates, American composer and orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show), dies at 90
- 2002 Lynda Lyon Block, American convicted murderer (shot a police officer), executed at 54
- 2002 Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe), dies at 81
- 2003 Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and a grandmaster of chess problem composition, dies at 66
- 2004 Alf Valentine, Jamaican cricketer (great West Indian lefty spinner), dies at 74
- 2004 Eric Kierans, Canadian economist, liberal politician, and MP (1963-68), dies at 90 [1]
- 2005 David Wayne, American singer (Metal Church) (b. 1958)
- 2006 A. M. Rosenthal, American journalist and newspaper editor (NY Times), dies at 84
- 2006 Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician, dies at 89
- 2006 Soraya [Lamilla], Colombian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, arranger and record producer ("Amor En Tus Ojos / Love In Your Eyes"'; "Casi"), dies of breast cancer at 37
- 2006 Val Guest, British film director (b. 1911)
- 2007 Brian Wolfson, British CEO (Wembley Stadium Ltd), dies at 71
- 2007 Oliver Millar, British art historian (served in the Royal Household for 41 years), dies at 84
- 2008 Jessie Jacobs, Australian Actress (b. 1990)
- 2008 Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)
- 2009 Helle Virkner (née Lotinga), Danish actress (Matador), author, and second wife of Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag, dies of cancer at 83
- 2009 James Kirkup, British travel writer, poet and novelist (African in Greenland), dies at 91
- 2010 Frank Frazetta [Frazzetta], American fantasy illustrator of comic book, paperback, album cover art, dies of a stroke at 82
- 2012 Carroll Shelby, American auto racer who won LeMans 1959; and automobile designer Ford Shelby Mustang, Shelby GT, Dodge Shelby Charger, Dodge Viper, dies at 89
- 2012 Evelyn Johnson, American pilot (most flying hours - 57,685), dies at 102
- 2014 Nash the Slash [Jeff Plewman], Canadian progressive rock electric violinist, mandolin player, keyboardist and composer (FM), dies of a suspected heart attack at 66
- 2015 Rein van den Broek, Dutch trumpet player (Ekseption), dies at 69
- 2016 Louis van Gasteren, Dutch actor and director (The House, De prijs van overleven), dies at 93
- 2017 Geoffrey Bayldon, British stage and screen actor (Catweazle; Worzel Gummidge - "Crowman"), dies at 93
- 2018 Evgeni Vasiukov, Russian chess grandmaster (World Senior Champion 1995), dies at 85
- 2019 Lee Hale, American choral director (The Entertainers), dies at 96
- 2020 Betty Wright [Bessie Norris], American R&B singer-songwriter ("Clean Up Woman"), dies at 66
- 2020 John Teerlinck, American NFL defensive end (SD Chargers) and coach (annual award for NFL best defensive line coach named after him), dies at 69
- 2021 Néstor Montelongo, Uruguayan soccer utility (36 caps; Montevideo Wanderers, Peñarol, Nacional, Racing), dies at 66
- 2021 Norman Lloyd, American actor (St. Elsewhere - "Dr. Auschlander"; Dead Poets Society), producer and director (Alfred Hitchcock Presents), dies at 106 [1]
- 2021 Tony Armatrading, British stage and screen actor (Colour Blind; Notting Hill), dies of cancer at 59
- 2022 Bob Lanier, American Basketball HOF center (8 x NBA All-Star; NBA All-Star Game MVP 1974; Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks), dies at 73
- 2022 Glyn Shaw, Welsh rugby union prop (12 caps; Neath RFC), and rugby league prop (7 caps Wales, 1 GB; Widnes RLFC, Wigan RLFC), dies at 71
- 2022 Mike Davis, English rugby union lock (16 caps; Sherborne RFC) and coach (England 20 Tests 1979-83), dies at 80
- 2023 Ed Flanagan, American football center (Pro Bowl 1969, 70, 71, 73; Detroit Lions, San Diego Chargers), dies from heart problems at 79
- 2023 Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician (1st President of Ukraine, 1991-94), dies at 88
Australian-British comedian, actor, painter, singer-songwriter ("Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport"), and convicted sex offender, dies at 93 [1]
- 2023 Thelston Payne, West Indian cricket wicketkeeper (1 Test, 5 dismissals; 7 ODIs, HS 60; Barbados), dies from pancreatic cancer at 66
- 2025 Bob Cowper, Australian cricket batsman (27 Tests, 5 x 100, HS 307 v England 1966; Victoria, WA), dies from cancer at 84
- 2025 John Gale, British theatrical producer (No Sex Please, We're British), and artistic director (Chichester Festival, 1985-89), dies at 95
- 2025 Koyo Kouoh, Cameroonian art curator and director of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art (2019-25), dies of cancer at 57 [1]
