- 912 Leo VI (the Wise), Byzantine Emperor (886-912) and writer (Problematica), dies at 45
- 1304 Maḥmūd Ghāzān, 7th Mongol Empire ruler in Iran, dies at 32
- 1610 Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (China), dies at 57
- 1621 Johann Arndt, German Lutheran theologian and author of books on devotional Christianity, dies at 65
- 1631 Christoph Buel, German composer, dies at 57
- 1672 Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, Scottish peer, dies at 57
- 1708 Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect, dies at 62
- 1723 Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist, dies at 66
- 1743 Francesco Stradivari, Italian violin maker and son of Antonius, dies at 70
- 1777 George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot, British President of the British East India Company (1755-63, 1775-6), dies at 58
- 1779 John Hart, American farmer, politician, delegate from New Jersey to the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at about 68
British statesman and Prime Minister (Tory: 1809-12), assassinated by John Bellingham at 49
- 1819 Kaspar Furstenau, German composer, dies at 47
- 1845 Carl Filtsch, Transylvanian composer and pianist child prodigy, dies of tuberculosis at 14
- 1848 Tom Cribb, English bare knuckle boxer (C'ship of England 1808-22), dies at 66
- 1849 Juliette Récamier, French socialite, dies at 71
- 1849 Otto Nicolai, German composer and conductor, dies at 38 of a stroke
- 1853 Hyacinth [Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin], founded Sinology in Russia, dies at 75
- 1857 Eugène François Vidocq, French criminal & police detective, dies at 81
- 1864 Thomas D. Doubleday, American bookstore owner and Union Army officer, dies after being run over by a horse-drawn coach at 58
English astronomer and photographer who invented the blueprint and catalogued southern hemisphere stars, dies at 79
- 1874 Franklin Buchanan, American first superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, dies at 73
- 1881 Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Swiss writer (Journal Intime), dies at 59
- 1887 Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French agricultural chemist (the nitrogen cycle), dies at 85
- 1889 John Cadbury, English Quaker and businessman, founder of the Cadbury chocolate company, dies at 87
- 1891 Edmond Becquerel, French physicist who studied the solar spectrum, magnetism, electricity and optics (photovoltaic effect), dies at 71
- 1906 Edward D. Brown, American champion racehorse jockey (Belmont Stakes, 1870), trainer (Kentucky Derby, 1877, 1893, and 1900), and owner (Kentucky Derby, 1893 and 1900), dies of complications from tuberculosis at about 56 [birthdate uncertain, born into slavery, c. 1850] [1]
- 1907 John Albert Delany, Australian composer, dies at 54
- 1916 Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (Schwarzschild effect), dies on the Eastern front at 42, mere months after working out a solution to Einstein's Theory of Relativity
- 1916 Max Reger, German composer, pianist and professor (Leipzig Univ), dies at 43
- 1917 Otto Klauwell, German composer, dies at 66
- 1920 (Vincenzo) "Big Jim" Colosimo, Italian-American gangster, murdered in Chicago by an organized crime hitman at 42
- 1920 William Dean Howells, American novelist, critic and editor (A Woman's Reason), dies at 83
- 1923 Henry Martyn Robert, American soldier & parliamentarian (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 86
- 1924 Moses Walker, American baseball catcher (first African-American open about his heritage to play MLB; Toledo Blue Stockings), dies at 66
- 1927 Juan Gris, Spanish cubist painter (Still Life Before an Open Window), dies at 40
- 1929 Jozef Murgaš, Slovak priest and inventor who achieved radiotelegraph transmission between Wilkes-Barre and Scranton in 1905, dies at 65
- 1934 Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist and honorary member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1920), dies at 81
- 1935 Edward Herbert Thompson, American archaeologist (Mayan civilization), dies at 78
- 1937 Ellen Hansell, American tennis player (US National champion 1887), dies at 67
- 1937 Viliam Figuš-Bystrý, Slovak composer, dies at 62
- 1938 Arnold Sauwen, Belgium poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81
- 1939 Yevgeny Miller [Eugen Ludwig Müller], Baltic German general and a leader of the anticommunist White Army during and after the Russian Civil War, executed at 71 after being kidnapped in Paris by Soviet intelligence and taken to Moscow where he was tortured and eventually shot
- 1943 Szmul Zygielbojm, Jewish-Polish socialist politician (Bund) and activist, commits suicide to protest Allied indifference to the Holocaust during WWII at 48
- 1944 Henk Hos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at 37
- 1944 Walter Oesau, German fighter pilot (WWII), dies at 30
- 1947 Ture Rangström, Swedish composer, dies at 62
- 1948 Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (Between Pacific Tides, Sea of Cortez), dies at 50 due to injuries sustained when his car was hit by a train
- 1952 Giovanni Tebaldini, Italian composer, dies at 87
- 1953 Jean Adair, Canadian actress, dies at 80
- 1954 Russell Stover, American chemist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Russell Stover Candies with his wife Clara Stover, dies at 66
- 1955 Gilbert Jessop, English cricket batsman (18 Tests; Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1898), dies at 80
- 1956 Walter Sydney Adams, American astronomer and director of Mount Wilson, dies at 79
- 1963 Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 74
- 1965 Lode Baekelmans, Belgian writer (Tille), dies at 84
- 1970 (Cornelius) "Johnny" Hodges, American jazz alto saxophonist (Duke Ellington Orchestra), dies at 62
- 1971 Alan Mara Bateman, Canadian geologist (Yale professor), dies at 82
- 1971 Hans Carste, German stage, radio, and film composer ("Du spielst 'ne tolle Rolle" aka "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer"), and orchestra leader, dies at 71
- 1973 Grigory Kozintsev, Russian director, dies at 68
- 1973 Lex Barker, American actor (Tarzan of the Apes; Treasure of the Silver Lake), dies of a heart attack on Lexington Avenue, NYC at 54
- 1975 Walter Kinsella, American stage, screen, and radio actor (Martin Kane, Private Eye), dies at 74
- 1976 Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (Finlandia House) and designer, dies at 78
- 1976 Camille Schmit, Belgian composer, dies at 68
- 1976 Wynona Carr, American gospel, R&B and rock and roll singer-songwriter ("The Ball Game", "Should I Ever Love Again?"), dies at 52 [1]
- 1978 John Clinge Doorenbos, Dutch journalist and poet, dies at 93
- 1979 Barbara Hutton 'poor little rich girl', American heiress (Woolworth fortune), dies at 66
- 1979 Joan Chandler, American actress, dies at 55
- 1979 Lester Flatt, American bluegrass guitarist (Flatt & Scruggs - "Foggy Mountain Breakdown"; "Ballad of Jed Clampett"), dies at 64
Jamaican reggae musician ("Exodus"; "One Love"; "No Woman No Cry"; "Three Little Birds"), dies of brain and lung cancer at 36
- 1981 Hoyt J. Fuller, American editor (1st World magazine), dies at 57
- 1981 Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist (Nobel 1969 - the study of the three-dimensional geometric structure of molecules), dies at 83
- 1982 Leigh Snowden [Martha Lee Estes], American actress (All That Heaven Allows), dies of cancer at 51
- 1982 Piet van Egmond, Dutch organist and conductor (Netherlands Chamber Orchestra), dies at 70
- 1983 Zenna Henderson, American sci-fi author (Anything Box), dies at 65
- 1985 Chester Gould, American cartoonist (Dick Tracy), dies at 84
- 1985 Garmt Stuiveling, Dutch writer and poet (Ego & Echo), dies at 77
- 1985 Jorja Curtright, American stage and screen actress (Whistle Stop, Heaven Only Knows), and interior decorator, dies of a heart attack at 61
- 1986 Fritz Pollard, early African American NFL star and coach, dies at 92
- 1986 Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist and art collector, regarded as "first gentleman of Philadelphia", dies at 75
- 1987 James Jesus Angleton, American intelligence officer & head of counterintelligence for the CIA (1954-75), dies at 69
British spy and Soviet mole who was a member of the "Cambridge Five", dies at 76
- 1989 Jitka Snížková, Czech composer, music educator and musicologist, dies at 64
- 1991 Ho Dam, North Korean Politician Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1970-83), dies at 62
- 1992 Carlos Herrera, American drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90
- 1992 Elizabeth McDonald, American inventor (Spic & Span), dies at 98
- 1994 Alfred James Broomhall, British Protestant Christian medical missionary to China, dies at 82
- 1994 Danny Overbea, American rock singer and guitarist ("Forty Cups of Coffee"), dies at 68
- 1994 Leonard Friedman, British-Lithuanian violinist (Scottish Baroque Ensemble), dies at 63
- 1994 Lewis B Puller, American writer (Pulitzer 1992), commits suicide at 48
- 1994 Timothy Carey, American actor (Paths of Glory, The Killing), dies of stroke at 65
- 1995 David Avidan, Israeli poet, dies at 62
- 1995 Ivo Samkalden, Dutch Minister of Justice (PvdA), Mayor of Amsterdam (1967-77), dies at 82
- 1995 Tibor Sarai, Hungarian composer, dies at 76
- 1995 William John Phillips, British actor (Nothing But A Man; Z-Cars), dies at 80
- 1996 Ademir de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (Brazil national team 1945-53), dies at 73
- 1996 Bruce Boyce, Canadian-American baritone singer, and teacher (Royal Academy - London, England), dies at 85
- 1996 Joan Thirkettle, British journalist, dies at 48
- 1996 Malcolm MacEwen, Scottish conservationist & communist activist, dies at 84
- 1996 Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1st President of Nigeria (1963-66), dies at 91
- 1996 Walter Hyatt, American singer-songwriter (Uncle Walt's Band), dies in a plane crash in the Florida Everglades at 46
- 1997 Brenda Carlin, American television producer and wife of comedian George Carlin, dies at 57
- 1998 Willy Corsari, Dutch writer (the Dutch Agatha Christie) and actor, dies at 100
- 2000 Paula Wessely, Austrian actress and producer (Masquerade), dies at 93
English author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy), dies of myocardial infarction and a fatal cardiac arrhythmia at 49
- 2001 Henry Katzman, American pianist, songwriter (founding member of BMI), and landscape painter, dies at 89
- 2001 Klaus Schlesinger, German writer, dies at 64
- 2002 Joseph Bonanno, Italian-American mafioso & crime boss of the Bonanno crime family, dies of heart failure at 97
- 2002 Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and first Francophone woman to become Speaker of the Senate (1974-79), dies at 90 [1]
Australian cricket fast bowler (12 Tests, 47 wickets), dies at 88
- 2003 Noel Redding, English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Purple Haze"), dies from cirrhosis of the liver at 57
- 2004 John Whitehead, American songwriter and soul singer (McFadden & Whitehead - "Ain't No Stopping Us Now"), murdered outside of his home at 55
- 2004 Mick Doyle, Irish rugby union footballer and coach, dies at 64
- 2005 Michalis Genitsaris, Greek rebetiko singer, and composer, dies at 88
American boxer (world heavyweight champion 1956-59, 1960-62, Olympic gold 1952), dies of prostate cancer at 71
- 2006 Frankie Thomas, American actor and author (Tom Corbett Space Cadet), dies of a stroke at 85
- 2006 Yossi Banai, Israeli pop and cabaret singer, and actor dies of cancer at 74
- 2007 Bernard Gordon, American writer and producer (Earth vs. the Flying Saucers), dies at 88
- 2007 Malietoa Tanumafili II, Chief and Head-of-Head of Samoa (1962-2007), dies at 94
- 2008 Bruno Neves, Portuguese cyclist, dies in competition at 26
- 2008 Dottie Rambo [Joyce Luttrell], American gospel singer, dies when her tour bus crashes at 74
- 2008 John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (Rush, 1968-1974), dies from a heart attack at 55
- 2011 (Eugene) "Snooky" Young, American jazz trumpeter who mastered the plunger mute, dies at 92
- 2013 Jack Butler, American Pro Football HOF cornerback (First-team All-Pro 1957-59; Pro Bowl 1955–58; Pittsburgh Steelers), dies from complications from staph infection at 85
- 2013 Ollie Mitchell, American musician and bandleader (The Wrecking Crew), dies of cancer at 86
- 2014 Ed Gagliardi, American bass guitarist (Foreigner, 1976-79 - "Feels Like The First Time"), dies from cancer at 62
- 2014 Reg Gasnier, Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame centre and captain (36 Tests; 3 World Cups; St. George RLFC), dies at 74
- 2015 Jef Geeraerts, Flemish writer (Black Venus) and crime novelist, dies at 85
- 2016 David King, British graphic designer (album cover art for Jimi Hendrix and The Who), photographer (I Am King), and historian (The Commissar Vanishes), dies at 73
- 2016 Jim Pothecary, South African cricket medium pace bowler (3 Tests, 9 wickets; Western Province), dies at 82
- 2017 Yale Lary, American NFL football HOF safety (Detroit Lions), dies at 86
- 2018 Josh Greenfeld, American author and screenwriter (A Child Called Noah), dies at 90
- 2018 Scott Hutchinson, Scottish musician (Frightened Rabbit), found dead after a suffering from mental illness at 36
- 2019 Harold Lederman, American boxing judge & analyst (HBO), dies of cancer at 79
American actress (Julie in "The Mod Squad"; Twin Peaks), dies of colon cancer at 72 [1]
American comedian (Seinfield - "Frank Constanza"; King of Queens -"Arthur"; Stiller & Meara), dies of natural causes at 92
- 2020 John "Moon" Martin, American rockabilly singer-songwriter and guitarist ("Bad Case Of Loving You"), dies at 74
- 2021 Janine Brookner [née Okun], American CIA officer and lawyer who spoke out against sexual discrimination in the CIA, dies of complications of kidney disease and cancer at 80
- 2022 Alexander Toradze, Soviet Georgian-American concert pianist and music professor (University of Indiana, 1991-2017), dies of heart failure at 69
- 2022 Henk Groot, Dutch soccer attacking midfielder/forward (39 caps; Ajax, Feyenoord), dies at 84
- 2022 Randy Weaver, American anti-government activist at the center of the Ruby Ridge standoff, dies at 74 [1]
- 2022 Shireen Abu Akleh, Palestinian-American journalist (Al Jazeera), shot and killed by Israeli forces at 51 [1]
- 2023 Barry Newman, American film and television actor (Vanishing Point; Amy; Petrocelli), dies of throat cancer at 92
- 2023 Futoshi Nakanishi, Japanese Baseball HOF infielder (Nishitetsu Lions; Pacific League MVP 1956; 7×Best Nine Award) and manager (Nishitetsu Lions), dies at 90
- 2023 Hodding Carter III, American White House press secretary under Jimmy Carter (1977-80), dies after a series of strokes at 88
- 2023 Kenneth Anger [Anglemeyer], American Underground Filmmaker (Magick Lantern Cycle), dies at 96
- 2024 Mary Wells Lawrence, American businesswoman and the first woman to own a major US national advertising agency (Wells Rich Greene), dies at 95 [1]
- 2024 Ron Ellis, Canadian ice hockey right wing (Summit Series 1972; Stanley Cup 1967, 4 x NHL All Star; Toronto Maple Leafs), dies at 79
- 2025 Hans Noë, Romanian-American sculptor, architect and restaurateur who revived the Fanelli Cafe, dies at 96 [1]
- 2025 Norma Meras Swenson, American women's health activist and co-author of "Our Bodies, Ourselves", dies at 93 [1]
- 2025 Robert Benton, American screenwriter and director (Kramer vs Kramer), dies at 92
- 2025 Sharpe James, American politician (Mayor of Newark 1986-2006) who was convicted of corruption, dies at 89
