- 200 Sun Ce, warlord of the Han Dynasty (b. 175)
- 311 Galerius, Emperor of Rome (305-311) ended persecution of Christianity in the East, dies of disease
- 984 Gerberga of Saxony, Queen of Western Francia
- 1028 Alfonso V, King of Leon/Galicia (999-1028), dies in battle
- 1061 Humbert of Silva Candida, French abbot and cardinal whose bull of excommunication began the Great Schism, dies (b. c. 1000)
- 1194 Casimir II, the Just, grand duke of Poland (1177-94), dies. Born 1138
- 1219 King Leo II of Armenia (b. 1150)
- 1309 Charles II, the Lame, King of Naples (1285-1309), dies
- 1316 Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, youngest daughter of King Edward I and Queen Eleanor of Castile, dies at 33
- 1504 Anton of Burgundy, the Great Bastard, knight, dies at about 82
- 1525 Frederick III [Frederick the Wise], Elector of Saxony (1486-25) who protected his subject Martin Luther, dies at 62
- 1577 Viglius [Wigle Aytta van Zwichem], Dutch statesman and jurist (minister to Charles V and Philip II), dies at 69
- 1582 Charlotte de Bourbon, Princess of Orange, dies
- 1586 Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)
- 1613 Johann Steuerlein, German composer, dies at 66
- 1672 Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
- 1678 Anna M van Schurman, Dutch poet, spoke 10 languages, dies at about 70
- 1702 Jacob Hintze, German composer, dies at 79
- 1705 Leopold I, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire (1658-1704), dies at 64
- 1760 Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, last English peer to be hanged, executed at 39 for the murder of his steward
- 1765 August Friedrich Graun, German organist and composer, dies at about 67 (exact birthday uncertain, c. 1698)
- 1766 Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar who was the first to apply textual analysis to study Genesis, dies at 82 [1]
- 1801 Philippe-Lambert-Joseph Spruyt, Flemish painter and engraver, dies at 74
- 1808 Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist, dies at 50
- 1811 Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (b. 1734)
French military leader and Emperor of the French (1804-14, 1815), dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena, officially from stomach cancer, but rumours of arsenic poisoning persist, at 51
- 1827 Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (1806-27), last Elector of Saxony, tried to reunite Poland, dies at 76
- 1831 Friedrich Ludwig Seidel, composer, dies at 65
- 1837 Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer (Andromeda), dies at 85
- 1840 Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, German composer, dies at 67
- 1840 Matthäus Fischer, German organist and composer, dies at 76
- 1855 Robert Inglis, English Conservative politician known for his staunch high church views, dies at 69
- 1859 Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician (number theory), dies at 53
- 1864 Alexander Hays, US Union-general-major, dies in battle at 44
- 1864 John Marshall Jones, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 43
- 1881 Ansel Briggs, American politician (1st Governor of Iowa, 1846-50), dies at 75
- 1883 Josiah Henson, American abolitionist, ex-slave and settlement founder, dies at 93
- 1885 Lauro Rossi, Italian composer (I falsi monetari), dies at 73
- 1886 Joseph Albert, German photographer (albertotype), dies at 61
- 1892 August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818)
- 1892 Jan Nepomuk Škroup, Czech composer, dies at 80
- 1896 Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician, dies at 57
- 1900 Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817)
- 1901 Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, Parsi entrepreneur and founder of the first textile mills in India, dies at 77
- 1902 Bret Harte, American author (Outcasts of Poker Flat), dies at 65
- 1909 Pauline Staegeman, German feminist, dies
- 1921 Alfred Hermann Fried, German pacifist (Nobel 1911-co-founder of the German peace movement), dies at 56
- 1921 William Friese-Greene, British photographer and inventor (motion pictures), dies at 65
- 1927 Charles Boissevain, Dutch editor of Amsterdam Algemeen Handelsblad (1885-1908), dies at 84
- 1931 Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (b. 1899)
- 1941 Natalija Obrenović, Queen of Serbia (b. 1859)
- 1942 Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
- 1943 Andy Minder, American jockey (Kentucky Derby 1907), dies from a heart attack at 62
- 1943 Gordon Hewart, British judge "Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done" (Lord Chief Justice 1922-40), dies at 73
- 1944 Bertha Benz [Cacilie Bertha Ringer], German inventor, automotive pioneer and wife of fellow automotive inventor Karl Benz, dies at 95
- 1945 Elsie Mitchell and five Sunday school students become the only people to die during World War II on US soil when they are killed by a Japanese fire balloon that lands in the forest of Gearhart Mountain, near Bly, Southern Oregon
- 1945 Peter Van Pels, Jewish Refugee (b. 1926)
- 1947 Ty LaForest, Canadian MLB baseball player (Boston Red Sox), dies at 30
- 1951 Eddie Dunn, comedian (Face to Face, Spin the Picture), dies at 54
- 1956 Karel Rudolph Gallas, Dutch lexicographer (French Dictionary), dies at 88
- 1957 Joseph W Kennedy, American chemist (Manhattan Project; 1 of 4 discoverers of plutonium), and educator, dies of stomach cancer at 40
- 1957 Mikhail Gnesin, Russian composer (Vrubel; The Youth Of Abraham), dies at 74
- 1958 James Branch Cabell, American novelist and essayist (Restless Heads), dies at 79
Argentine politician (Nobel Peace Prize 1936), dies at 80
- 1960 Sulho Ranta, Finnish composer, dies at 58
- 1962 Ernest Tyldesley, English cricket batsman (14 Tests, 3 x 100, 6 x 50, HS 138; Lancashire CCC), dies at 73
- 1963 Heinrich Gebhard, German-born American composer, dies at 84
- 1963 Jacobus JP Old, architect/co-founder (Stijl), dies at 73
- 1964 Howard Zahniser, American environmental activist (father of Wilderness Act), dies of heart failure at 58
- 1968 Albert Dekker, American stage and screen character actor (Dr. Cyclops; Beau Geste; The Wild Bunch), and politician, dies of accidental suffocation at 62
- 1971 Alice Tissot, French actress (Italian Straw Hat), dies of cancer at 81
- 1971 Harry Moorman, Dutch vice-admiral (KVP), dies at 71
- 1971 Petro Scaglione, Italian procureur-general, killed by Mafia
- 1971 Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor (b. 1887)
- 1972 [Reverend] Gary Davis, American blues and folk guitarist (A Little More Faith), dies of a heart attack at 76
- 1976 Thomas Burnett Swann, American sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur), dies of cancer at 47
- 1977 Sam Lanin, American sweet jazz arranger and bandleader (Roseland Orchestra; The Ipana Troubadors), dies at 85
- 1978 Harold Gilligan, English cricket batsman (4 Tests; captain 1929-30 Tour of NZ), dies at 81
- 1979 Shirley O'Hara, actress (Wild Party), dies at 68
- 1980 Edmond Vandercammen, French-Belgian painter and poet (Grand Combat), dies at 79
- 1980 Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist, co-created Myers–Briggs Type Indicator personality test, dies at 82 [1]
Irish IRA member and leader of the hunger strike at Maze Prison, dies in the 66th day of his hunger strike at 27
- 1982 Cal Tjader, American Latin jazz vibraphonist, dies of a heart attack at 56
- 1983 Horst Schumann, German Nazi physician who oversaw concentration camp x-ray sterilization and gas chamber murder of Jews, as well as euthanasia centers to kill feeble and ill people, dies at 77
- 1983 John Williams, British actor (Family Affair, Dial M for Murder), dies at 80
- 1983 Olin Dutra, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1932, US Open 1934), dies at 82
- 1985 Donald Bailey, British civil engineer, invented the Bailey bridge, dies at 83
- 1986 John William Haussermann Jr., American composer, dies at 76
- 1986 Rui Coelho, Portuguese composer, dies at 94
- 1988 George Rose, British actor and singer (Beacon Hill; Holocaust), dies at 68
- 1988 Michael Shaara, American author (Killer Angels), dies of a heart attack at 59
- 1988 Tamara Pos, Suriname/Dutch activist
- 1989 Frank Easton, cricket wicket-keeper (NSW 1933-39), dies
- 1991 William De Acutis, American actor (9½ Weeks, Other People's Money), dies from a brain lymphoma at 33
- 1992 Ben Frommer, Polish-American character actor (Scarface; Battlestar Galactica, F Troop), voice artist, and publicist, dies at 78
- 1992 Dick Yarmy, American character actor (Get Smart; Kentucky Fried Movie; Mork & Mindy), dies of lung cancer at 59
- 1992 Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor (Golden Salamander), dies at 64
- 1992 Stefano d'Arrigo, Siciilian writer, dies at 72
- 1993 Balak Brahmachari [Marxist Godman], Indies guru, dies at 73
- 1993 Dermot Boyle, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, dies at 88
- 1993 Dick Metz, American golfer (US Open 1938 runner-up; 10 PGA Tour titles), dies at 84
- 1993 Irving Howe, American writer and critic (Dissent), dies at 72
- 1993 Lenore Kingston Jenson, dies of cancer at 79
- 1994 Hein Salomonson, architect, dies at about 83
- 1994 Joe Layton, American director (Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip), dies at 63
- 1995 Anthony Wagner, English Officer of Arms at the College of Arms and author on heraldry, dies at 86
- 1995 James Pack, British naval officer and museum curator (POrtsmouth), dies at 81
- 1995 Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, British engineer (float glass), dies at 75
- 1995 Thomas Eden Binkley, musician, dies at 63
- 1996 Ai Qing, Chinese poet, dies at 86
- 1996 Bernard Benjamin Gillis [Kyanski] British jurist (High Court, 1964-80), dies at 89
- 1996 Beryl Burton (née Charnock), British cyclist who won record seven women's world championship titles (Track, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963 and 1966; Road Race, 1960 and 1967), dies of heart failure while delivering birthday party invitations by bike at 58
- 1996 Charles H. Zimmerman, American aeronautical engineer (NACA, NASA), dies at 88 [1]
- 1996 David Lasser, American science fiction magazine editor (Wonder Stores, 1930-33), writer (The Conquest of Space), and workers' rights activist, dies at 94
- 1996 Salli Terri [Stella Tirri], Canadian-American Grammy Award-winning pop-classical-folk-exotica singer, arranger, composer (Duets with the Spanish Guitar), musicologist, and educator, dies after a series of strokes at 75
- 1997 Murray Kempton, American journalist, columnist and Pulitzer Prize recipient (1985), dies at 79 [1]
- 1997 Tolia Nikiprowetzky, French composer, ethnomusicologist and broadcaster of Russian heritage, dies at 80
- 1997 Walter Gotell, German actor (James Bond, From Russia With Love), dies at 73
- 1998 Syd Lawrence, British bandleader (Syd Lawrence Orchestra), dies at 74
- 2000 Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (Tour de France 1938, 48; Giro d'Italia 1936-7, 46), dies of a heart attack at 85
- 2001 (Wilson) "Boozoo" Chavis, American zydeco pioneer, accordion player, singer-songwriter, and bandleader, dies following a heart attack at 70
- 2001 Charles L. Black Jr., American constitutional law scholar and writer (The Law of Admiralty, Impeachment: A Handbook), dies of respiratory failure at 85
- 2001 Cliff Hillegass, American publisher (Cliffsnotes), dies at 83
- 2002 Earl Shaffer, American outdoorsman and the first recorded person to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail, dies of cancer at 83 [1]
- 2002 George Sidney, American film director known for "Bye Bye Birdie" and "Viva Las Vegas", dies at 85
- 2002 Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator, 51st president of Bolivia (1971-8, 1997-2001), dies from lung cancer at 75
- 2002 Paul Klipsch, American engineer, noted for his loudspeaker designs, dies at 98
- 2003 David Lewin, American composer, dies at 69
- 2003 Walter Sisulu, South African activist (b. 1912)
- 2004 José Maceda, Filipino composer and ethnomusicologist, dies at 87
- 2004 Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (Kanashii Jiyū / Koi ga, Kiete Yuku), dies at 44
- 2005 Ted Atkinson, American jockey (US Champion 1944, 46), dies of a stroke at 88
- 2006 Joep de Boer, Dutch naval officer and politician (CDA), dies at 81
- 2006 Naushad Ali, Indian composer, and Hindi film music director, dies at 86
- 2007 Theodore Harold Maiman, American Inventor and engineer (created 1st working laser), dies at 79
- 2008 Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur (co-founded the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain), dies at 90
- 2008 Jerry Wallace, American country and pop singer ("Primrose Lane"; "If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry"), dies of heart failure at 79
- 2008 Thomas Boggs, American rock drummer (Box Tops), dies at 63
- 2010 Alfons Kontarsky, German concert pianist (best known for duo-piano performance with his brother, Aloys), dies at 77
- 2011 Arthur Laurents, American playwright (West Side Story: Gypsy), and screenwriter (Rope; Anastasia), dies at 93
- 2011 Claude Choules, British-Australian sailor and last surviving combat veteran of both World War I and World War II, dies at 110
- 2011 Dana Wynter, German-English actress (Airport; Invasion of the Body Snatchers), dies at 79
- 2011 Yosef Merimovich, Israeli football player, 1948-58, and manager, 1958-89, dies at 86
- 2012 "Sweet Joe" Russell, American a cappella singer (The Persuasions - "Street Corner Symphony"; Frankly A Cappella: The Persuasions Sing Zappa), dies from complications of diabetes at 72 [1] [2]
- 2012 Raman Surendranath, Indian cricket fast bowler (11 Tests, 26 wickets), dies at 75
- 2013 Richard Barratt, British lawman (Chief Inspector of Constabulary, 1987-90; Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police, 1975–78), dies at 84
- 2013 Sarah Kirsch, German poet, dies at 78
- 2014 Butler Derrick, American politician (Rep-D-SC, 1974-95), dies at 77
- 2015 Craig Gruber, American rock bassist (Rainbow), dies of cancer at 63
- 2017 Adolph Kiefer, American swimmer (Olympic gold 100m backstroke 1936), dies at 98
- 2018 Aaron D. Panken, American rabbi, dies in a plane crash at 53
- 2018 Ermanno Olmi, Italian film director (The Tree of Wooden Clogs), dies at 86
- 2018 Ludwig Harig, German writer, dies at 90
- 2018 Rosemarie Schruder, German writer, dies at 89
- 2018 Stanley Falkow, American microbiologist (molecular mechanisms of infectious diseases), dies at 84
- 2020 Ann McBride Norton [Virginia Ann deGravelles], American activist, conservationist and the first female president of Common Cause (1995-99), dies of complications of Alzheimer's disease at 75
- 2020 Hillard "Sweet Pea" Atkinson, American R&B singer (Was (Not Was)), dies of a heart attack at 74 [1]
- 2020 Millie Small, Jamaican ska singer, and songwriter ("My Boy Lollipop"), dies of a stroke at 72
- 2021 Del Crandall, American baseball catcher (11 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1957; 4 × Gold Glove Award; Boston/Milwaukee Braves) and manager (Milwaukee Brewers, Seattle Mariners), dies at 91
American drug trafficker whose story was portrayed in the biopic "Blow", dies of liver and kidney failure at 78
- 2021 Lucinda Franks, American journalist and the first woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting (1971), dies of cancer at 74
- 2021 Nick Kamen, English pop singer-songwriter (Each Time You Break My Heart, I Promised Myself), and fashion model (Levi's), dies of bone marrow cancer at 59
- 2022 James Anderton, British policeman (Chief Constable of Manchester, 1976-91), dies at 89
- 2022 Leo Wilden, German soccer defender (15 caps West Germany; 1. FC Köln, Bayer Leverkusen), dies at 85
- 2023 Arsenio Iglesias, Spanish soccer manager (Deportivo La Coruña, Hércules, Zaragoza, Elche, Real Madrid), dies at 92
- 2023 Chris Strachwitz, German-born American folk, roots, and world music record producer and label founder (Arhoolie Records), dies at 91 [1]
- 2023 Siiri Rantanen, Finnish cross country skier (Olympic gold 3 × 5k relay 1956, bronze 1960; bronze 10k 1952), dies at 98
- 2023 Terry Lewis, Australian disgraced police officer (Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service, 1976-87), and convict (corruption, forgery), dies at 95
- 2024 Bernard Hill, English actor (Yosser Hughes in "Boys from the Blackstuff"; King Théoden in "The Lord of the Rings"), dies at 79
- 2024 César Luis Menotti, Argentine soccer manager (Argentina Winner FIFA World Cup 1978) and striker (11 caps; CA Rosario Central), dies from anemia at 85
- 2025 James Baker, Australian punk rock drummer (The Victims; The Scientists: Hoodoo Gurus), dies of liver cancer at 71
- 2025 Luis Galván, Argentine soccer centre back (37 caps; Talleres de Córdoba 267 games), dies from pneumonia at 77
