- 685 Marwan I, 4th Umayyad Caliph (684-85), dies (date disputed)
- 973 Otto I, the Great, East Frankish king and Holy Roman Emperor (962-973), dies at 60
- 1092 Remigius de Fécamp, first bishop of Lincoln (b. unknown)
- 1166 William I, the Bad, Norman King of Sicily (1154-66), dies at about 46
- 1205 Ladislaus III, Árpád dynasty King of Hungary and Croatia (1204-05), dies at 4 or 5 [exact birthdate uncertain]
- 1427 Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman
- 1494 Eskender [Kwestantinos II], Emperor of Ethiopia (1478-94) whose death led to civil war, dies at 22
- 1523 Franz von Sickingen, German knight/protect of poor, dies of wounds at 42
- 1539 Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer, dies at 73
- 1617 David Fabricius, German astronomer (discovered variable star), dies at 53
- 1667 Johann Jakob Froberger, German organist, singer, and composer, dies at 50
- 1673 Johannes Teellinck, Dutch vicar, dies at about 58
- 1682 Tsar Feodor III of Russia (1676-82), dies at 20
- 1718 Mary of Modena, Queen of James II of England, dies at 59
- 1736 John Weldon, British composer, dies at 60
- 1792 Aert Schouman, Dutch painter and glass engraver, dies at 82 [1]
- 1793 Johan Zoutman, Dutch rear admiral who fought at the Battle of Dogger Bank and in the American Revolutionary War, dies at 68
- 1793 Pietro Nardini, Italian composer, dies at 71
- 1800 Laurens Pieter van de Spiegel, Dutch Grand Pensionary of Zeeland and Holland (1787-95), dies at 64
- 1800 Niccolò Piccinni, Italian classical, opera, and sacred music composer (Roland; Buona Figliuola), dies at 72
2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1782-83), dies at 68
- 1814 Franz Volrath Buttstett, German composer, dies at 79
- 1818 Leopold Koželuch [Jan Antonín Koželuh], Czech pianist, composer, kapellmeister, and teacher, dies at 70 [1]
Italian composer (Tarare; La Fiera), opera director (Habsburg Court, 1774-92), and Kapellmeister (Austrian Imperial Court, 1788-1824), dies in Vienna at 74
- 1836 Norbert Burgmuller, German composer, drowns during an epileptic seizure at 26
- 1840 Caspar David Friedrich, German painter, chiefly of landscapes with contemplative figures in the Romantic style, dies at 65
- 1863 Amiel Weeks Whipple, US Union gen-major, dies of injuries at 46
- 1868 Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, English statesman (Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, 1830-34; Slavery Abolition Act 1833). and carriage designer, dies at 89
- 1871 Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian political reformer (Patriote movement), dies at 84
- 1873 Salmon P. Chase, American politician and jurist (Senator and Governor of Ohio, US Chief Justice 1864-73), dies at 65
- 1876 Franz Graf von Pocci, German founding director of the Munich Marionette Theatre (Punch and Judy), poet, and illustrator of children's literature (Viola Tricolor: In Picture and Rhyme), dies at 69
- 1876 William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author who compiled :Annals of the American Pulpit", dies at 80
- 1884 Judah P. Benjamin, American politician (1st practicing Jew to be elected to US Senate, Confederate Secretary of State and Secretary of War), dies at 72
- 1887 C. F. W. Walther, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1811)
- 1887 Samuel Cousins, English mezzotint engraver, dies at 85
- 1890 James Nasmyth, Scottish engineer and inventor of the steam hammer, dies at 81
- 1904 Peter Hille, German writer, dies at 49
- 1908 Ludovic Halévy, French author and playwright (contributions to Carmen and La Belle Hélène), dies at 74 [1]
- 1914 Edward Mollenhauer, American composer, dies at 87
American businessman (New York Central Railway), dies aboard the RMS Lusitania during World War I at 37
- 1915 Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr., American 3-year-old who drowned on Lusitania
- 1915 Charles Frohman, American theatre producer (Peter Pan), dies aboard RMS Lusitania at 58
- 1922 Max Wagenknecht, German composer, dies at 64
- 1925 William Hesketh Lever, First Viscount Leverhulme (b. 1851)
- 1928 Alexander Spendiaryan, Armenian-Soviet conductor and composer (Three Palms; Yerevan Sketches), dies at 56
- 1929 Albert Anselmi, American gangster, murdered by Al Capone
- 1929 John Scalise, American gangster, murdered by Al Capone
- 1929 Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta, American gangster, murdered by Al Capone
- 1932 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician (Minister of Armament WW1), dies at 53
- 1934 Edward Naylor, English composer, dies at 67
- 1940 George Lansbury, British politician, Labour Party Leader and pacifist, dies at 81
- 1941 David Wijnkoop, Dutch socialist, and later communist politician, and journalist, dies of a heart attack at 65
- 1941 James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist and folklorist (The Golden Bough), dies at 87
- 1942 (Paul) Felix Weingartner, Austrian pianist, conductor (Vienna Philharmonic, 1907-27; first to record all nine of Beethoven's symphonies), and composer (Die Dorfschule), dies at 78
- 1946 Anton Mussert, Dutch fascist and leader of the Nationalist Socialist Movement, executed for high treason at 51
- 1946 Joe Humphries, English cricket wicket-keeper (3 Tests for England 1907-08), dies at 69
- 1950 Bertha "Chippie" Hill, American blues and vaudeville singer (King Oliver's Jazz Band), struck and killed by a car in New York City at 45
American actor (In Old Arizona; Cisco Kid), dies at 62
- 1953 Ormy Pearse, South African cricketer (55 runs & 3 wkts in 3 Tests for S Af), dies at 68
- 1956 Josef Hoffmann, Austrian architect (Vienna Secession Movement), dies at 85
- 1957 Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer who led the German Antarctic expedition of 1911–12, dies at 79
- 1958 Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, conductor, and choral composer (Koit / Dawn), dies at 77
- 1958 Nyogen Senzaki, 1st Zen teacher to reside in USA, dies at 81
- 1962 Jimmy Conlin, American actor (Sin of Harold Diddlebock), dies at 77
- 1963 Max Miller [Thomas Henry Sargent], British comedian known as 'The Cheeky Chappie', dies at 68
- 1965 Charles Sheeler, American Modernist-Precisionist artist, commercial photographer, and the avant-garde film maker (Manhatta), dies at 81
- 1967 Judith Evelyn [Evelyn Morris], American actress (13th Letter, Tingler, Rear Window), dies of cancer at 54
- 1968 Lurleen Wallace, American politician (46th Governor of Alabama, 1967-68), dies at 41
- 1970 Carlos Estrada, Uruguayan composer and conductor, dies at 60
- 1971 Willem Banning, Dutch theologist and sociologist (Karl Marx), dies at 83
- 1974 Hans van Werveke, Belgian historian (Diocese Terwaan), dies at 76
- 1976 Alan Baxter, American actor (Big Town Girl,;Rags to Riches), dies at 67
- 1977 Irwin Fischer, American composer and organist (Chicago Symphony Orchestra), dies at 73
- 1981 Mieczyslaw Kolinski, Polish-Canadian composer (Encounterpoint), educator, and ethnomusicologist, dies at 79
- 1982 Alfred Adam, French character actor, dies at 72
- 1983 Peter Edel, writer, dies
- 1985 Dawn Addams, British actress (A King in New York, Star Maidens) who married the Prince of Roccasecca, dies of cancer at 54
- 1986 Gaston Defferre, French Socialist politician, dies at 75
- 1986 Jeffrey Mylett, American actor and songwriter (Godspell), dies from complications of HIV/AIDS at 36
- 1987 Colin Blakely, Northern-Irish character actor (Shattered, Equus, King Lear), dies of leukemia at 56
- 1987 Stewart McKinney, American politician (Rep-R-CT, 1971-87), dies of AIDS at 56
- 1990 Berta Waterstradt, German writer and actress, dies at 82
- 1990 Jessica James, actress (Spring Break), dies of breast cancer at 60
- 1993 Mary Philbin, American silent film actress (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 89
- 1994 Clement Greenberg, American art critic (Art & Culture), dies at 85
- 1994 Margaret Skeete, oldest American, dies at 115
- 1995 Ernest Harold Martin [Markowitz], American Broadway producer (Feuer & Martin in A Chorus Line), dies at 75
- 1995 Lawrence Josset, British engraver, dies at 84
- 1995 Maria Luisa Bemberg, Argentine filmmaker, dies at 73
- 1995 Ray McKinley, American orchestra leader and jazz drummer (Glenn Miller Time), dies at 84
- 1996 Albert Meltzer, British anarchist (Anarchist Black Flag), dies at 76
- 1996 Don McNeill, American radio and TV host (The Breakfast Club; Don McNeill TV Club), dies at 88
- 1996 Henry Diamond, Irish Nationalist MP, dies at 87
- 1996 Howard Smith, British diplomat and Director General of MI5, dies at 76
- 1998 Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1924)
- 1998 Eddie Rabbitt, American songwriter ("Kentucky Rain"), and country singer ("I Love a Rainy Night"), dies of lung cancer at 56
American actor (Prisoner of Zenda; Gunga Din), and decorated US naval officer (WWII Beach Jumpers), dies of a heart attack at 90
- 2001 Joseph Harold Greenberg, American linguist (Language Universals, Language in the Americas), dies at 85 [1]
- 2001 Simon Slåttvik, Norwegian cross country skier (Olympic gold 18 km individual 1952), dies at 83
- 2002 Kevyn Aucoin, American makeup artist and photographer, dies of the effects of acetaminophen toxicity at 40
American racehorse (American Triple Crown 1977), dies at 28
- 2002 Xavier Montsalvatge, Spanish composer (El gato con botas), dies at 90
- 2004 Rudi Maugeri, Canadian doo-wop vocalist (Crew Cuts - "Sh-Boom"), and broadcaster, dies of cancer at 73
- 2004 Waldemar Milewicz, Polish reporter (b. 1956)
- 2004 William J. "Pete" Knight, American astronaut and test pilot (X-15), dies at 74
- 2005 Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian soccer forward (13 caps; Emelec), dies in a car accident at 25
- 2005 Peter W. Rodino, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey (1949-89), dies at 95
- 2005 Tristan Egolf, American writer (Lord of The Barnyard; Skirt and the Fiddle), takes his own life at 33
- 2006 Joan C. Edwards, American philanthropist (b. 1918)
- 2006 Machiko Soga, Japanese actress, singer, and tokusatsu legend, dies of pancreatic cancer at 67
- 2006 Richard Carleton, Australian television news journalist, dies of a heart attack, while covering press conference of Beaconsfield Mine collapse, at 62
- 2007 Diego Corrales, American boxer (Diego Corrales, American boxer (IBF super featherweight title 1999-2000, WBO super featherweight 2004; WBO lightweight 2004-06, WBC, Ring mag & lineal lightweight titles 2005-06), dies in a road accident at 29
- 2007 Gene Bianco [Eugene Capobianco], American jazz, easy-listening, and session harpist, dies at 80 [1]
- 2007 Octavian Paler, Romanian writer and journalist who criticized the Communist regime, dies at 80
- 2007 Yahweh ben Yahweh, American cult leader (b. 1935)
- 2009 David Mellor, English cutlery designer (b. 1930)
- 2009 Tony Marsh, English auto racer (record 6 ; British Hill Climb Championship), dies from breathing complications at 77
- 2010 Adele Mara [Adelaida Delgado], American actress (Sands of Iwo Jima; Angel in Exile), dies at 87
- 2010 Wally Hickel, American politician (Governor-R-Alaska 1966-69, US Secretary of Interior 1969-71), dies at 90
- 2011 "Big" George Webley, British broadcaster, composer, bandleader and musician, dies of a heart attack at 53
- 2011 Allyson Hennessy, Trindadian television presenter
- 2011 John Walker [Maus], American pop-rock guitarist and vocalist (Walker Brothers - "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)"), dies of liver cancer at 67
Spanish golfer (British Open 1979, 84, 88, US Masters 1980, 83), dies of brain cancer at 54
- 2011 Willard S. Boyle, Canadian physicist and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (2009), dies at 86
- 2013 George Sauer, Jr., American football wide receiver (AFL All Star 1996-99; Super Bowl 1969; New York Jets), dies from heart failure at 69
- 2013 Ray Harryhausen, American movie special effect artist (Clash of Titans), dies at 92
- 2014 Will Gaines, American-British tap dancer, dies at 86
- 2015 Sam Edwards, Welsh physicist (condensed matter physics), dies at 87
- 2016 Harold Kroto, English chemist, (Nobel Prize laureate 1996), dies at 76
- 2016 John Krish, British documentary filmmaker (Let My People Go), dies at 92
- 2017 David Pell, American big band jazz saxophonist, bandleader (Dave Pell Octet), and record producer, dies at 92
- 2018 Isyaku Rabiu, Nigerian businessman and Islamic scholar, dies at 92
- 2018 Jeremy D. Safran, Canadian-born American clinical psychologist, is killed during a burglary
- 2018 Maurane [Claudine Luypaerts], Belgian Francophone jazz and chanson singer, dies at 57
- 2018 Mikhail German, Russian writer, dies at 85
- 2018 Miki Muster, Slovenian artist, dies at 92
- 2018 Roman Toi, Estonian-Canadian composer, choral conductor and organist, dies at 101
- 2018 Tore Torell, Norwegian magician, dies of cancer at 76
- 2019 Georg Katzer, German composer (electro-acoustic music), dies at 84
- 2019 Jean Vanier, Canadian philosopher and disabilities advocate, dies at 90
- 2020 Brian Bolus, English cricket batsman (7 Tests @ 41.33; Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire), dies at 86
- 2020 John Macurdy [McCurdy], American operatic bass (Metropolitan Opera, 1962-2000), dies at 91
- 2020 Mike Storen, American sports executive (Indiana Pacers, Atlanta Hawks; ABA Commissioner 1973-76), dies from cancer at 84
- 2021 Ernest Angley, American Christian televangelist, dies at 99
- 2021 Leigh Perkins, American businessman and the owner of Orvis (1965-92), dies of complications of a fall at 93
- 2021 Martín Pando, Argentine soccer forward (11 caps; Argentinos Juniors, River Plate), dies at 86
- 2021 Yegor Ligachev, Soviet politician (ally then challenger to Gorbachev), dies at 100
- 2021 [Julie] Tawny Kitaen, American actress (Bachelor Party; Whitesnake videos; Witchboard), dies at 59
- 2022 Kang Soo-yeon, South Korean actress (The Surrogate Woman, Come Come Come Upward), dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at 55 [1]
- 2022 Mickey Gilley, American nightclub owner (Urban Cowboy) and country singer (Roomful of Roses), dies at 86 [1]
- 2022 Yuri Averbach, Russian chess player (first centenarian FIDE Grandmaster), dies at 100
- 2023 Don January, American golfer (PGA Championship 1967; 10 x PGA Tour wins; 22 x PGA Tour Champions wins), dies at 93
American mezzo-soprano (Venus in Tannhäuser, 1st Black singer to sing at Bayreuth Festival), dies at 86 [1]
- 2023 Larry Mahan, American rodeo rider (PRCA All-Around Champion 1966–70, 73; ProRodeo Hall of Fame), dies at 79
- 2023 Vic Stasiuk, Canadian ice hockey left winger (Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins) and coach (Philadelphia Flyers, Vancouver Canucks), dies at 93
- 2024 Steve Albini, American writer, recording engineer and musician (Big Black, Rapeman, Shellac), dies of a heart attack at 61
- 2025 Joe Don Baker, American actor (Eischied; Walking Tall; Fletch), dies of lung cancer at 89
- 2025 JoJo Wallace, American gospel music singer, and guitarist (The Sensational Nightingales, 1946-2021), dies at 98
- 2025 Joy Schaverien, British psychoanalyst and author (Boarding School Syndrome), dies at 82
- 2025 Rosanna Norton, American costume designer (Tron, Carrie), dies of cancer at 80
