- 709 Aldhelm, Abbot of Malmesbury, Bishop of Sherborne. English poet and scholar (b. cica 639)
- 946 Edmund the Older, king of Wessex/England (939-46), dies
- 986 Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Persian astronomer, dies at 83
- 992 Mieszko I, Grand Duke and ruler of Poland (960-992), dies at around 61
- 1085 Gregory VII [Hildebrand of Sovana], Pope (1073-85), dies at about 70 [birthdate uncertain, c. 1015]
- 1261 Alexander IV [Rinaldo dei conti di Segni], Pope (1254-61), dies
- 1401 Maria, Queen of Sicily and Duchess of Athens & Neopatria, dies at 37
- 1452 John Stafford, English Archbishop of Canterbury (1443-52), dies
- 1510 Georges d'Amboise, French Roman Catholic cardinal, minister of state and viceroy in North Italy, dies at 49
- 1555 Gemma Frisius [Jemme Reinerszoon], Frisian physician, mathematician and cartographer (created globe), dies at 46
- 1555 Henry II of Navarre (1517-55), dies at 52
- 1595 Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (b. 1567)
- 1632 Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher, dies at 60
- 1667 Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman and regent for Charles XI, dies at 47
- 1681 Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age, dies at 81
- 1693 Madame de la Fayette [Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne], French writer (La Princesse de Clèves - 1st historical novel in French), dies at 59
- 1741 Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German Protestant theologian, dies at 80
- 1765 Pierre-Joseph Le Blan, Flemish carillonneur and composer, dies at 53
- 1786 Pedro III, King of Portugal and the Algarves (1777-86) and consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal, dies at 68
- 1789 Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)
- 1797 John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal, dies at 78
- 1798 Asmus Jakob Carstens, Danish-German Neoclassical painter, dies at 44
- 1805 William Paley, English philosopher and theologian (Natural Theology), dies at 61
- 1826 Christian Friedrich Ruppe, German-Dutch composer, brother of Friedrich Christian Ruppe, dies at 72
- 1848 Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (b. 1797)
- 1849 Andreas Victor Michiels, Dutch military governor of West-Sumatra, Dutch East Indies, dies in battle at 52
- 1849 Benjamin d'Urban, British general and colonial administrator (b. 1777)
- 1862 Johann Nestroy, Austrian actor, singer and playwright (Judith und Holofernes), dies at 60
- 1865 Madeleine Sophie Barat, French saint and founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart, dies at 85
- 1891 David Butler, American politician (1st Governor of Nebraska, 1867-71), impeached for misuse of funds, dies at 61
- 1895 Ahmed Cevdet Paşa, Turkish statesman and historian (Minister of Justice), dies at 73
- 1899 Marie-Rosalie "Rosa" Bonheur, French animalière painter (The Horse Fair; Buffalo Bill), and sculptor, dies at 68
- 1911 Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky, Russian imperial historian, dies at 70
- 1912 Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (Governor of Maryland, 1908-12), dies at 52
- 1914 Paolo Giorza, Italian-Australian composer, dies at 81
- 1916 Jack Marsh, Australian cricketer (Aboriginal bowler played for NSW 1900-03), dies in a pub brawl at 41 or 42
- 1917 Léon Vasseur, French composer, dies at 72
- 1917 Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet, dies at 25
African American entrepreneur (First American self-made female millionaire, Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company), dies of kidney failure complications at 51
- 1924 Ashutosh Mukherjee, Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician described as the "Banglar Bagh" (Tiger of Bengal), dies abruptly at 59
- 1924 Lyubov Popova, Russian avant-garde artist and painter, dies at 35
- 1924 Theodore F. Morse, American composer, dies at 51
- 1926 Symon Petliura, Ukrainian socialist leader (pogroms), assassinated in Paris at 47 by Sholom Schwartzbard
- 1927 William Payne Whitney, American businessman and Whitney family member, dies at 51
- 1930 Randall Thomas Davidson, British Archbishop of Canterbury and advisor to Queen Victoria, dies at 82
- 1933 James E. Kelly, American sculptor "Sculptor of American History", dies at 77
- 1934 Gustav Holst, English composer (The Planets; Ode to Death), dies at 59
- 1935 Sir Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer, dies at 71
- 1936 Ján Levoslav Bella, Slovak composer, dies at 92
- 1937 Henry Ossawa Tanner, American artist, dies at 77
- 1939 Joseph Duveen, British art connoisseur (Elgin marbles), dies at 69
- 1940 Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director (Flowing Gold, Hell Morgan's Girl), dies at 67
- 1942 Emanuel Feuermann, Ukrainian-born cellist (Chicago Symphony Orchestra), dies of complications during surgery at 39
- 1943 Nils Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter, dies at 54
- 1945 Demjan Bednyi, Russian writer and satirist, dies at 62
- 1946 Patty Smith Hill, American composer, teacher and songwriter ("Happy Birthday To You"), dies at 78
Polish WWII resistance fighter (volunteered to go to Auschwitz, Witold's Report), executed by communist secret police after a show trial at age 47
- 1949 Simon Spoor, Dutch army intelligence officer (WWII; Indonesian National Revolution), dies at 47
- 1951 Paula von Preradović, Croatian-Austrian poet and writer, dies at 63
- 1955 Wardell Gray, American swing and bebop jazz tenor saxophonist, dies at 34
- 1958 Rolland Beaumont, South African cricket batsman (5 Tests; Transvaal), dies at 74
- 1964 Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, Russian composer (Rhapsodie hébraïque; Prince Lake), and teacher, dies at 92
- 1965 Sonny Boy Williamson II [Aleck Miller], American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, dies at 65
- 1966 Ricardo Castillo, Guatemalan composer, dies at 71
- 1968 Charles K. Feldman, American producer (Casino Royale), dies at 63
- 1968 Georg von Küchler, German field marshal and WWII war criminal, dies at 86
- 1971 Charles P. Cabell, American military and intelligence officer (US Air Force general; Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1953–1962), dies of a heart attack at 67
- 1971 Jo Etha Collier, young African American woman killed by 3 whites in Drew, Mississippi
- 1971 Mark Brunswick, American composer, dies at 69
- 1971 Terence De Marney, British actor (Lorna Doone, Doctor Who, The Immortal Gentleman), dies after accidentally falling under a subway at 63
- 1974 Donald Crisp, British actor and director (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana), dies at 91
- 1977 Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer, dies at 72
- 1979 John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (b. 1949)
- 1981 Fredric Warburg, British publisher (Animal Farm) and author, dies at 82
- 1981 Rosa Ponselle [Ponzillo], American soprano opera diva ("Casta Diva"; La Forza del Destino - "Leonora"; Metropolitan Opera, 1918-37), dies at 84
- 1981 Roy Brown, American R&B singer, songwriter ("Good Rockin' Tonight"), dies of a heart attack at 55
- 1982 Larry J. Blake, American actor (Earth vs the Flying Saucers), dies at 68
- 1983 Black Jack Stewart, Canadian NHL hockey player (b. 1917)
- 1983 Jean Rougeau, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1925)
- 1983 Sydney Box, British film producer and screenwriter (The Seventh Veil), dies at 76
- 1984 Piet Ketting, Dutch pianist, conductor and composer, dies at 79
- 1985 Harold Hecht, American choreographer, dies at 77 of cancer
- 1985 Robert Nathan, American poet and novelist (Portrait of Jennie), dies at 91
- 1986 Chester Bowles, American ambassador and writer (Conscience of a Liberal), dies at 85
- 1988 Ernst Ruska, German physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1986, dies at 81 [1]
- 1990 Victor "Vic" Tayback, American actor (Mel Sharples-"Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore "), dies of a heart attack at 60
- 1992 Danny Biasone, American founder of the Syracuse Nationals (persuaded NBA to use 24 second clock), dies at 83
- 1992 Johan Polak, Dutch essayist (Bloom of Decadence), publisher, and patron of the arts, dies at 62
- 1992 Philip C. Habib, US diplomat (Middle-East, Asia), dies at 72
- 1992 Viktor Grishin, Soviet communist hardliner, dies at 78
- 1993 Dan Seymour [Daniel Seymour Katz], American actor (To Have and Have Not, We the People, Sing It Again), dies following a stroke at 78
- 1994 Eric Gale, American jazz, R&B, session and touring guitarist (Negril; Stuff; Paul Simon's One-Trick Pony; Bob James; Grover Washington, Jr.), dies of lung cancer at 55
- 1995 Dany Robin, French actress (Follow the Boys, Topaz, Jupiter, Julietta), dies at 68
- 1995 Dick Curless, American country music singer-songwriter (A Tombstone Every Mile), dies of stomach cancer at 63
- 1995 Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player, dies at 46
- 1996 Barney Wilen, French tenor, composer and saxophonist, dies of cancer at 59
- 1996 Bernard Sendall, British deputy director general of the Independent Television Authority and author (Independent Television in Britain), dies at 83
- 1996 Bradley Nowell, American ska musician (Sublime), dies of a heroin overdose at 28
- 1996 David W. Howe, American test pilot (X-14) and WWII flying ace, dies at 77
- 1996 John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale, English landowner, politician (MP for Salisbury, 1942-65), and horse breeder, dies at 89
- 1996 Laurence Marks, English journalist, dies at 67
- 1996 Renzo de Felice, Italian historian of Fascism, dies at 67
- 1997 Jay Hebert, American golfer (PGA Championship 1960), dies at 74
- 1997 Muhammad Fadhel, Iraqi politician, Prime Minister of Iraq (1953-54), dies at 94
- 1999 Hillary Brooke, American film actress (The Abbott and Costello Show), dies at 84
- 2000 Nicholas Clay, English actor (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at 53
- 2001 Malcom McLean, American trucking fleet owner (SeaLand - invented containerized shipping), dies at 87 [1]
- 2002 Patricia "Pat" Coombs, British comedienne and actress (Carry On Again Doctor, Cranford), dies at 75
- 2003 Jeremy Michael Ward, American musician (The Mars Volta), dies of a heroin overdose at 27
- 2003 Sloan Wilson, American novelist ("The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit"; "A Summer Place"), dies at 83
- 2004 Roger W. Straus Jr., American publisher and co-founder of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, dies at 87 [1]
- 2005 Graham Kennedy, Australian television personality (b. 1934)
- 2005 Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer, dies of lethal injection at 40
- 2005 Robert Jankel, British car designer, best known for designing luxury limousines and custom cars, dies of pancreatic cancer at 67 [1] [2]
- 2005 Ruth Laredo, American concert pianist, dies of ovarian cancer at 67
- 2005 Sunil Dutt, Indian Bollywood director, actor and politician (Yaadein, Mother India, Khandaan), dies at 75
- 2006 Desmond Dekker [Dacres], Jamaican reggae pioneer (The Aces - "007 (Shanty Town)"; "Israelites"), dies of a heart attack at 64
- 2006 Ismail Merchant (né Rahman), Indian film producer (Merchant Ivory Productions - Howard's End; Remains of the Day; A Room with a View), dies following peptic ulcer surgery at 68
- 2006 Otto Zykan, Austrian pianist and composer, dies at 71
- 2007 Bill Johnston, Australian cricket fast/spin bowler (40 Tests, 160 wickets @ 23.91; Victoria), dies at 85
- 2007 Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor, comedian and gameshow panelist (Match Game, Ghost & Mrs Muir), dies at 76
- 2008 David Gahr, American photographer noted for his work with folk, jazz and rock musicians (Time Magazine; Folkways albums), dies at 85 [1]
- 2008 Georgette Amowitz, French choreographer and educator, dies at 78
- 2008 J. R. Simplot, American potato farmer (b. 1909)
- 2009 Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (b. 1905)
- 2010 Alexander Belostenny, Ukrainian basketball player (b. 1959)
- 2010 Gabriel Vargas, Mexican cartoonist (b. 1915)
- 2010 Robert Muczynski, American classical pianist, composer (Time Pieces), and educator, dies at 81
- 2010 Silvius Magnago, Italian politician (b. 1914)
- 2010 Siphiwo Ntshebe, South African operatic tenor, dies of meningitis at 35
- 2011 Leonora Carrington, British-Mexican Surrealist artist, dies aged 94
- 2011 Paul Splittorff, American MLB pitcher and broadcaster (KC Royals), dies of oral cancer at 64
- 2011 Terry Jenner, Australian cricket spin bowler (9 Tests, 24 wickets; WA CA, SA CA), dies from a heart attack at 66
- 2012 Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer (6x Olympic gold, 1936-1960), dies at 93
- 2013 Marshall Lytle, American rock bassist (Bill Haley, 1951-55), dies from lung cancer at 79
- 2014 Berniece Baker Miracle, American writer (My Sister Marilyn) and half-sister of Marilyn Monroe, dies at 94
- 2014 Bertha Gilkey, American activist for public housing tenant rights, dies of cancer at 65
- 2014 Herb Jeffries [Umberto Alejandro Ballentino], American actor and director (The Bronze Buckaroo, Mundo depravados), dies of heart failure at 100
Polish general and 1st President of Poland (1989-90), dies at 90
- 2016 Yang Jiang, Chinese writer (Six Chapters From My Life ‘Downunder’), dies at 104
- 2017 Sir Alistair Horne, British historian and journalist (A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962), dies at 91
- 2018 Bill Mallory, College Football coach (Miami, Colorado, Northern Illinois, Indiana), dies after brain surgery from a fall at 82
- 2018 Piet Kee, Dutch organist and composer, dies at 90
- 2019 Claus von Bülow (né Claus Cecil Borberg), Danish-British socialite accused of murdering his wife, dies at 92
- 2019 LaSalle Leffall Jr., American surgeon, medical educator, and 1st black president of the American Cancer Society (1978), and the American College of Surgeons (1995), dies at 89
- 2020 Balbir Singh Sr., Indian field hockey centre forward (Olympic gold 1948, 52, 56) and coach (World Cup gold 1975), dies at 96
African American bouncer, murdered at 46 while restrained in police custody by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin who placed his knee on Floyd's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds causing mechanical asphyxia
- 2020 Joel Revzen, American opera conductor and pianist, dies of COVID-19 at 74
- 2020 Marcelino Campanal, Spanish soccer defender (11 caps; Real Avilés CF, Sevilla FC, Deportivo de La Coruña), dies at 88
- 2020 Marvin Luster, American CFL Hall of Fame defensive back (6 x CFL All Star; Toronto Argonauts, Montreal Alouettes), dies at 82
- 2020 Patrick Tilley, British sci-fi author (The Amtrak Wars: First Family, Blood River), dies at 91
- 2021 J. D. Roberts, American College Football Hall of Fame guard (University of Oklahoma; Outland Trophy 1953) and coach (New Orleans Saints), dies at 88
- 2022 Dick Conway, New Zealand rugby union flanker/#8 (10 Tests; Otago RFU, Bay of Plenty RU), dies at 87
- 2022 Jean-Louis Chautemps, French jazz and session saxophonist (Claude Bolling; Chet Baker; Elton John), dies at 90
- 2022 Thomas S. Murphy, American media executive who spearheaded the sale of Capital Cities/ABC to the Walt Disney Company, dies at 96
- 2023 Denny Stolz, American college football coach (Alma College, Michigan State University, Bowling Green State Uni, San Diego State Uni), dies at 89
- 2023 Frank Handlen, American artist of marine subjects, dies at 106
- 2023 Jalna Hanmer, American-British feminist campaigner, scholar and co-founder of Women's Aid, dies of heart failure at 91
- 2024 Richard Sherman, American Grammy and Academy Award-winning composer and lyricist, with his brother Robert (Mary Poppins; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; "It's a Small World (After All)"), dies at 95 [1]
- 2025 Barry McIlheney, Irish journalist and founding editor of Empire magazine (1989-93), dies at 67 [1]
- 2025 Christophe Clement, American thoroughbred horse trainer (Belmont Stakes 2014; Jockey Club Gold Cup 2014, 15; Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf 2021), dies of uveal melanoma at 59
- 2025 Don Combs, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer (Kentucky Derby 1970 with Dust Commander), dies from a stroke at 86
- 2025 Foday Musa Suso, Gambian kora (21-string West African lute-like instrument), composer, and girot (oral historian and folk musician), dies at 75 [1]
- 2025 Phil Robertson, American television personality (Duck Dynasty) and founder of Duck Commander, dies at 79 [1]
