- 587 Yōmei, 31st Emperor of Japan (585-7), dies at 46
- 1254 Conrad IV, King of Germany, Jerusalem and Sicily, dies at 26
King of England (1422-61, 1470-71), executed in the Tower of London at 49
- 1481 Christian I, king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, dies at 55
- 1512 Pandolfo Petrucci, Italian ruler of the Republic of Siena (1500-12) during the Renaissance, dies at 60
- 1524 Thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk, general/premier, dies at about 80
Spanish conquistador and 1st European to discover the Mississippi River, dies of a fever while searching for gold, near the Mississippi River at about 46
- 1607 John Rainolds, English scholar (b. 1549)
- 1619 Hieronymus Fabricius Ab Aquapende Italian physician (De Formato Foetu), dies at 82
- 1639 Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher and poet, dies at 70
- 1647 Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian, poet and playwright (Grandida; Nederduytsche Historiën / History of the Netherlands), dies at 66 [1]
- 1650 James Graham, Marquis of Montrose "the Great Montrose", Scottish general, hanged at 37
- 1664 Elizabeth Poole, English born Puritan American settler, first woman to found a town (Taunton), dies at 65
- 1670 Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer, dies at 83
- 1686 Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor, and politician, dies at 83
- 1690 John Eliot, English Puritan missionary to Native Americans in Massachusetts, whose Algonquian translation of the bible was first bible published in North America, dies at 85
- 1703 Roemer Vlacq, Dutch admiral, dies in battle
- 1719 Pierre Poiret, French mystic, dies at 73
- 1724 Robert Harley, English diplomat and statesman (Lord High Treasurer, 1711-14; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1710-11; Secretary of State, 1704-08), dies at 62
- 1742 Lars Roberg, Swedish physician, natural science researcher, and educator, dies at 78
- 1771 Christopher Smart, English poet and journalist (Ceremony of Carols), dies at 49
- 1786 Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish pharmacist and chemist (lemon acid), dies of mercury poisoning at 43
- 1789 John Hawkins, English writer (A General History of the Science and Practice of Music; Life of Samuel Johnson), dies at 70
- 1790 Thomas Warton, English critic and poet (Pleasures of Melancholy) British Poet Laureate (1785-90), dies at 62
- 1806 Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Princess of Asturias, dies at 21
- 1810 Chevalier d'Éon [Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont], French spy, dies at 81
- 1812 Joseph Wolfl, Austrian composer, dies at 38
- 1815 Roman Hoffstetter, German classical composer, dies at 73
- 1817 Johann Friedrich Christmann, German composer, dies at 64
- 1844 Guiseppi Baini, Italian composer and priest, dies at 68
- 1858 José de la Riva-Agüero, Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru (1823), dies at 75
- 1860 Johannes Frederik Fröhlich, Danish violinist and composer, dies at 53
- 1860 Phineas Gage, American railroad construction foreman, famous for surviving frontal lobe damage after an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head (American Crowbar Case), dies of seizure at 36
- 1862 John Drew, Irish-born American actor and theatre manager, dies from head injuries at 34
- 1865 Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Danish Archaeologist, created Stone, Bronze, Iron age system, dies at 76
- 1879 Arturo Prat, Chilean naval officer (b. 1848)
- 1885 Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, Russian composer and teacher, dies at 73
- 1886 Stephen Pearl Andrews, American abolitionist, writer, and individualist anarchist, dies at 74
- 1894 August Kundt, German physicist, (sound vibration, test of Kundt), dies at 54
- 1894 Emile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
- 1894 Philip Cook Jr, American Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, dies at 76
- 1895 Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76
- 1895 Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon, dies at 66
- 1897 Karol Mikuli, Polish composer, pianist, and friend of Frederic Chopin, dies at 77
- 1911 Williamina Fleming, pioneering Scottish astronomer, discovered the Horsehead Nebula (1888), dies at 54
- 1915 Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (designed the portable mortar), dies in combat at 40
- 1919 Victor Segalen [Max Anely], French ship's doctor and writer, found death in a forest with copy of the works of Shakespeare at 41
- 1919 Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1853)
Mexican President (1917-1920), executed by army generals after his decision that the next President be a civilian at 60
- 1922 Sidney Ainsworth, British silent film actor (Not in the News, The Rajah's Tunic), dies at 49
- 1923 Thomas Benton Smith, American Brigadier General during the Civil War (Confederate Army), dies at 85
- 1924 Bobby Franks, American school boy killed by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, at 14
- 1924 Charley Barrett, American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback (Cornell undefeated National C'ship 1915), dies from effects of war injuries at 30
- 1926 Georgy Catoire, Russian composer, dies at 65
- 1926 Ronald Firbank, British novelist (The Flower Beneath the Foot), dies at 40
- 1929 V P F A Royle, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1879), dies
- 1931 Charlie Poole, American traditional folk and country music banjo player and band leader (North Carolina Ramblers), dies of a heart attack at 39
- 1933 John Henry Mackay, Scottish German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at 69
- 1935 Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist and geneticist who rediscovered Mendel's theory of heredity and for his work on genes (The Mutation Theory), dies at 87
American pacifist, social activist, feminist, author, co-founder of ACLU (Nobel Prize for Peace, 1931), dies at 74 [1]
- 1949 Klaus Mann, German-American writer (Mephisto; The Turning Point), dies from an overdose of sleeping pills at 42
- 1952 John Garfield [Jacob Garfinkle], American actor (Four Daughters, Body and Soul), dies of coronary thrombosis at 39
- 1954 János Hammerschlag, Hungarian composer, dies at 68
- 1956 Thomas A.C. Rennie, Scottish-American psychiatrist who led "Mental Health in the Metropolis: The Midtown Manhattan Study", dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 52
- 1957 Aleksandr Vertinsky, Russian singer (b. 1889)
- 1961 John H. Trumbull, American politician, Governor of Connecticut (1925-31), dies at 88
- 1964 James Franck, German-born American physicist (Nobel Prize for Physics 1925), dies at 81
- 1965 Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer, dies at 82
- 1966 Pat O'Malley, silent film actor (Wild One, Quiet Man), dies at 75
- 1968 Doris Lloyd, English American actress (Oliver Twist), dies of heart strain at 71
- 1970 E. L. Grant Watson, Australian biologist (b. 1885)
- 1970 Vinton Hayworth, American actor (Gen Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 63
- 1971 Dennis King, English actor (Devil's Brother), dies of heart ailment at 73
- 1973 Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian writer (La Madonna dei filosofi - The Philosoper's Madonna; Giornale di guerra e di prigionia - War and Prison Diary), poet, and engineer (Vatican City power station), dies at 79
- 1973 George Breakston, French-American producer, actor and director (Jungle Stampede, It Happened One Night), dies at 53
- 1973 Ivan Konev, Russian general (Marshal of the Soviet Union - led Red Army on WWII Eastern Front, commanded Warsaw Pact forces), dies at 75
- 1973 Vaughn Monroe, American singer and orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61
- 1974 Lili Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (World C'ship gold Ladies singles 1908, 09, 10, 11), dies at 83
- 1975 Boris Klyuzner, Russian Soviet composer, dies at 65
- 1976 Harold Blair, Australian tenor and Aboriginal activist, dies at 51
- 1976 Sulo Nikolai Salonen, Finnish composer, dies at 77
- 1978 Jo Spier [Joseph Spier], Dutch cartoonist and water color painter, dies at 77
- 1979 (Richard Allen) "Blue" Mitchell, American jazz trumpeter (Horace Silver Quintet; Riverside; Blue Note), dies of cancer at 49
- 1980 Ida Kamińska, Polish stage and screen actress, director, and writer (The Shop on Main Street; Mother Courage and Her Children), dies at 80
- 1981 Patsy O'Hara, Irish hunger striker (b. 1957)
- 1981 Raymond Mccreesh, Irish hunger striker (b. 1957)
- 1981 Yuki Shimoda, actor (Farewell to Manzanar), dies
- 1983 Finn Einar Mortensen, Norwegian composer, music critic, and educator, dies at 61
- 1983 Kenneth Clark, English art historian (Civilisation), dies at 79
- 1984 Andrea Leeds, American film actress (Stage Door, Earthbound) and horse breeder, dies of cancer at 70
- 1984 Ann Little, actress (Roaring Road), dies at 93
- 1987 Alejandro Rey, Argentine-American actor and director (Carlos-Flying Nun), dies lung cancer at 57
- 1987 Archie Carr, American ecologist and zoologist (advocated for conservation of sea turtles), dies at 77
- 1988 Bruno Frei [Benedikt Freistadt], Austrian Marxist journalist, dies at 91
- 1988 Dino Conte Grandi, Italian Fascist politician and delegate to league of nations (1925-32), dies at 92
- 1988 Harry Babasin, American jazz bassist and cellist (Dodo Marmarosa Trio), and archivist (Los Angeles Theaseum), dies of emphysema at 67
American vaudeville dancer (Mr. Wonderful), dies at 87
- 1990 Mary Victor Bruce (née Petre), British speedboat pilot, race car driver, and aviator who flew around Empire State building in 1930, dies at 94
- 1990 Max Wall [Lorimer], British music hall, screen, and stage comic and actor (Professor Wallofski), dies of head injuries from a fall at 82
- 1990 Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, murdered
- 1991 Jean Van Joutte, Prime Minister of Belgium (1952-54), dies
- 1992 Brendan Mulholland, British reporter jailed for refusing to name his sources (Daily Mail), dies at 59
- 1992 Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer (English Bread and Yeast Cookery), dies after a series of strokes at 72
- 1992 Mrithi, gorilla (Gorilla in the Mist), dies at 24
- 1993 John Frost, English soldier who led the defence of Arnhem Bridge during Operation Market Garden, dies at 80
- 1993 John Holland, American actor (My Fair Lady, Chinatown), dies at 85
- 1994 Cliff Wilson, Welsh snooker player, dies at 60
- 1994 Forsyth Hardy, Scottish documentary film pioneer, dies at 84
- 1994 Giovanni Goria, Italian politician (Prime Minister of Italy, 1987-88), dies of lung cancer at 50
- 1994 Johan Hendrik Weidner, Dutch-American resistance fighter (set up largest WWII underground network to smuggle people out of Nazi territory), dies at 81
- 1995 Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch writer (Fam Doorsnee, Jip & Janneke), dies at 84
- 1995 Kieron Walsh, British academic, dies at 46
- 1995 Les Aspin, American politician, (Rep-D-Wisc, 1971-93) US Secretary of Defense (1993-95), dies of stroke at 56
- 1996 Alfred "Lash" LaRue, American actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp), dies of emphysema at 78
- 1996 Bobby Tulloch, Scottish ornithologist, and writer (Bobby Tulloch's Shetland: An islander, his islands and their wildlife), dies at 67
- 1996 Laurence Dowdall, Scottish lawyer, dies at 91
- 1996 Mary Perot Nichols, American journalist, dies at 79
- 1996 Peter Fletcher, British orchestral and choral conductor, music educator and author (Roll Over Rock), dies at 60
- 1998 Douglas Fowley, American actor (Singin' in the Rain, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at 86
- 1999 Karnail "Bugz" Pitts, American rapper (D12), killed in a picnic dispute at 21
- 1999 Vanessa Brown [Smylla Brind], Austrian-born American actress (My Favorite Husband), dies at 71
- 2000 Barbara Cartland, English romance author (Camfield #69), dies at 98
British stage and screen actor (Arthur; Hamlet; Ages of Man), and director, dies at 96
- 2000 Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (b. 1956)
- 2002 Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor, dies at 71
- 2003 Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine auto racer and car manufacturer (De Tomaso Automobili), dies at 74
- 2003 Frank D. White, American politician (b. 1933)
- 2005 Howard Morris, American comedic actor and director (The Andy Griffith Show, High Anxiety), dies of a heart disease at 85
- 2006 Billy Walker, American country music singer and guitarist ("Charlie's Shoes"), dies, along with his wife and two band members, in a single vehicle car accident, at 77
- 2006 Cherd Songsri, Thai film director (Plae Kao), dies at 74
- 2006 Katherine Dunham, American dancer (Casbah; Stormy Weather), choreographer (Metroplitan opera, 1963; Joplin's Treemonisha, 1972), and social activist, dies at 96
- 2008 Bert André, Dutch stage and screen actor (Turkish Delight; Come-Back!), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage while battling leukemia at 66
- 2008 Brian Keenan, Irish Provisional IRA member who played a key role in Northern Ireland's peace process (1998), dies of cancer at 66
- 2009 Allen Greenwood, British aeronautical engineer and aerospace executive, dies at 91
- 2009 Joan Alexander [Louise Abrass], American actress (The New Adventures of Superman, The Tales of Hoffmann), dies of an intestinal ailment at 94
- 2010 Joseph Burnett-Stuart, British CEO (Robert Fleming Holdings), dies at 80
- 2010 Trevor Meale, New Zealand cricketer (batted in 2 Tests NZ v England 1958), dies at 81
- 2011 Bill Hunter, Australian film, television, and stage actor (Finding Nemo, Gallipoli, Muriel's Wedding), dies of liver cancer at 71
- 2013 Frank Comstock, American big band and pop orchestral arranger (Les Brown; Doris Day; Warner Bros; Brian Setzer), film and television composer (Rocky and His Friends; Adam-12), and recording artist (Project: Comstock - Music from Outer Space), dies at 90
- 2013 Trevor Bolder, British rock bassist (The Spiders From Mars; Uriah Heep, 1976-2013), and record producer, dies from pancreatic cancer at 62
- 2014 Teodor Grigoriu, Romanian composer, dies at 87
- 2015 Louis Johnson, American rock bassist and vocalist (Brothers Johnson), dies at 60
- 2016 Jim Ray Hart, American baseball player (Giants), dies at 74
- 2016 Marco Pannella, Italian politician and activist, dies at 86
- 2016 Nick Menza, American heavy metal drummer (Megadeth, 1989-98), dies of congestive heart failure after collapsing on stage at 51
- 2018 Clint Walker, American actor (Kodiak, Cheyenne, Dirty Dozen), dies at 90
- 2019 Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan author and journalist (How to Write About Africa; I am a homosexual, Mum), dies at 48 [1]
- 2019 Rik Kuypers, Belgian director (Sea Gulls Die in the Harbor), dies at 94
- 2020 Gerhard Strack, German soccer defender (10 caps; 1. FC Köln, FC Basel, Fortuna Düsseldorf), dies of a heart attack at 64
- 2020 Oliver Williamson, American economist (Nobel Prize for Economics 2009), dies at 87
- 2021 Carla Fracci, Italian ballerina (La Scala Theatre Ballet), dies at 84
- 2021 Juraj Hatrík, Slovak composer (Monumento malinconico; Dispute Over a Plastered Dwarf), and educator, dies at 80
- 2021 Tahir Salahov, Soviet-Azerbaijani painter (The Shift is Over; Aidan), dies at 92
- 2022 Jiří Zídek Sr., Czech basketball center (considered best Czech player ever; FIBA European All-Star 1966, 67; USK Praha) and coach (USK Praha, Sparta Praha), dies at 78
- 2022 Marco Cornez, Chilean soccer goalkeeper, (20 caps; FC Deportivo Palestino, Universidad Católica, Everton de Viña del Mar), dies from stomach cancer at 64
- 2023 Ed Ames [Edmund Dantes Urick], American popular singer (Ames Brothers - "My Cup Runneth Over"), and actor (Daniel Boone - "Mingo"), dies at 95 [1]
- 2023 Ray Stevenson, Northern Irish actor (King Arthur, Rome), dies at 58
- 2025 Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottish-American philosopher (After Virtue), dies at 96 [1]
- 2025 Billy Williams, British Academy Award-winning cinematographer (Gandhi; On Golden Pond), dies at 96
- 2025 Gerry Connolly, American Democratic politician (US Representative from Virginia, 2009-25), dies of esophageal cancer at 75 [1]
- 2025 Jim Irsay, American businessman and NFL executive (owner Indianapolis Colts 1997-2025), dies from a respiratory illness at 65 [1]
- 2025 Nol de Ruiter, Dutch football coach (Netherlands, Egypt; FC Utrecht, ADO Den Haag), dies at 85
- 2025 Robert Holton, American chemist credited with synthesizing the cancer drug Taxol, dies of emphysema at 81
