- 949 Herman I, Duke of Swabia
- 1198 Averroes, Arab physician and philosopher (b. 1126)
- 1490 Antoine Haneron, Bourgundy diplomat, dies at about 90
- 1508 René II, Duke of Lorraine, dies at 57
- 1572 Cornelis Musius, Dutch humanist/poet, murdered at 72
- 1595 Reynier Cant, mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 59
- 1616 Diogo do Couto, Portuguese historian/archivist of Goa, dies at 74
- 1618 Giulio Caccini, Italian composer, buried at 67
- 1626 Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (b. 1581)
- 1638 Ivan [Dzivo F] Gundulic, Dalmatian writer (Osman), dies at 49
- 1665 Tarquinio Mercula, Italian violinist, organist, and Baroque composer, dies at 70
- 1736 António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese ruler of Malta (b. 1663)
- 1746 Teodorico Pedrini, also known as De Lige, Italian Vincentian priest, musician, composer, and missionary at the imperial court of China (1711-46), dies at 75
- 1749 Gabrielle Chôtelet [La belle Emilie], French writer (Voltaire), dies at 42
- 1770 Theophil "Gottlieb" Muffat, German court organist and composer, dies at 80
- 1805 Friedrich Franz Hůrka, Bohemian operatic tenor, conductor, and composer, dies at 43
- 1808 James Sullivan, 7th Governor of Massachusetts (1807-08), dies at 64
- 1826 Benedikt Schack, Bohemian-Austrian singer, composer, and friend of Wolfgang Mozart (originated role of Tamino in Die Zauberflöte), dies at 68
- 1831 Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist (Seebeck effect), dies at 61
- 1833 Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, Belgian composer, dies at 79
- 1842 Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, British general (fought with Wellington at Waterloo, Commander-in-Chief British army 1828), dies at 70
- 1850 François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist, dies at 63
American geographer, geologist and ethnologist who found the source of the Mississippi River, dies at 71
- 1864 John Carpenter Carter, American Confederate brigadier general, dies of wounds received at the Battle of Franklin at 26
- 1865 Leopold I, King of Belgium (1831-65), dies at 74
- 1867 Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese samurai and anti-shogunate revolutionary, assassinated at 31
- 1875 Otogaki Rengetsu, zen nun/benefactress of Tessai, dies at about 84
- 1877 Federico Ricci, Italian composer, dies at 68
- 1877 Jared Kirtland, American physician, naturalist and reformed penitentiaries, dies at 84
- 1878 Henry Wells, American businessman and founder (American Express Co & Wells Fargo & Co), dies at 72
- 1888 Marià Obiols, Catalan composer, Catalan composer, conductor, music director (Gran Teatre del Liceu, 1847-88), and music educator, dies at 79
- 1889 Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian playwright, dies at 50
- 1890 Ludolph Anne Jan Wilt Sloet van de Beele, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1861-66), dies at 84
Swedish chemist who invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63
- 1906 Nikolai Garin-Michailovski], Russian railroad engineer (Trans-Siberian railway) and author (Tjoma Kartashov), dies at 54
- 1909 Red Cloud, Sioux indian chief, dies
- 1910 Pablo Hernandez Salces, Spanish composer, dies at 76
- 1911 Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist and director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, dies at 94
- 1916 Clement Reid, English geologist and paleobotanist, first to suggest a drowned land bridge between Britain and Europe (now called Doggerland), dies at 63
- 1920 Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturing pioneer (co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company), dies at 52
- 1921 George Ashlin, Irish architect noted for his work on churches and cathedrals, dies at 84
- 1921 Viktor Jacobi, Hungarian operetta composer (Szibill), dies at 38
- 1924 August Belmont Jr., American financier (construction of New York subway, NY Jockey Club), dies at 71
- 1926 Nikola Pašić, Serbian nationalist and premier (over many periods from 1891 to 1926), dies at 80
- 1928 Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator, dies at 60
- 1929 Frederick Abberline, British police investigator into Jack the Ripper, dies at 86
- 1931 Max Elskamp, Belgian author and poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69
- 1936 Bobby Abel, English cricket batsman (13 Tests, 2 x 100, HS 132no; Surrey CCC), dies at 79
- 1936 Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Six Characters in Search of An Author-Nobel 1934), dies at 69
- 1938 Mario Pilati, Italian composer, dies at 35
- 1939 Wilhelm Grosz, Austrian pianist, conductor, classical composer (Afrika Songs), and popular songwriter ("Red Sails in the Sunset"; "Isle of Capri"), dies at 45 [1]
- 1941 Colin Kelly, American B-17 Flying Fortress pilot and 1st US air hero during WW II, killed in action at 26 after ordering his crew to bail out shortly before his bomber exploded
- 1944 John Brunt, English soldier and Victoria Cross holder, dies at 22
- 1944 Johnny Marvin, American jazz, pop, and country ukulele player, singer, and vaudevillian, dies of dengue fever at 47
- 1944 Paul Otlet, Belgian author, lawyer and peace activist (created the Universal Decimal Classification scheme), dies at 76
- 1945 Theodor Dannecker, SS officer and an associate of Adolf Eichmann, dies at 32
- 1949 Duncan Stewart, 2nd British Governor of Sarawak (1949), dies at 45 after being fatally stabbed in the streets of Sibu by pro-Indonesian Malay student Rosli Dhoby
- 1951 Algernon Blackwood, English novelist (The Willows), dies at 82
- 1953 Abdullah Yusuf Ali, British-Indian Islamic scholar and translator (translated Qu'ran into English), dies at 81
- 1958 Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder (b.1864)
- 1958 Juliane Gabriels, Belgian physician and art historian who was one of the first female doctors in Belgium (Artus Quellin the Elder, Flemish Sculpture), dies at 72 [1]
- 1959 Charles Jones, West Indian cricket batsman (4 Tests), dies at 57
- 1959 Henri Vidal, French actor (Fabiola), dies of a heart attack at 40
- 1960 Ernie Quigley, Canadian Basketball HOF official (St. Mary's College, Kansas Uni), basketball umpire (1936 Olympics), MLB umpire (6xWorld Series) & football referee, dies at 80
- 1965 Henry Cowell, American pianist, composer (The Tides of Manaunaun; Aeolian Harp), and modern music promoter (New Musical Resources), dies of cancer at 68
- 1966 Boris Koutzen, Russian violinist, composer and educator, dies at 65
- 1967 Brasílio Itiberê da Cunha Luz, Brazilian composer, dies at 71
- 1967 Carl Cunningham, American drummer (The Bar-kays - "Soul Finger"), killed in Otis Redding plane crash in Lake Monona, Wisconsin crash at 19
- 1967 Jimmy King, American guitarist (The Bar-kays - "Soul Finger"), dies in Otis Redding plane crash in Lake Monona, Wisconsin crash at 18
- 1967 Phalin Jones, American soul and R&B saxophonist (The Bar-kays - "Soul Finger"), dies in Otis Redding plane crash in Lake Monona, Wisconsin at 19
- 1967 Ron Caldwell, American soul and R&B keyboardist (The Bar-kays - "Soul Finger"), dies in Otis Redding plane crash in Lake Monona, Wisconsin at 18
- 1968 George Forrest, Northern Irish politician, dies at 47
- 1968 Karl Barth, Swiss Protestant theologian ("The Epistle to the Romans"; "Barmen Declaration"; "Church Dogmatics"), dies at 82
- 1968 Patsy Moran, American actress (Children of the Wild), dies at 65
French-American Catholic writer and Trappist monk (7 Story Mountain), accidentally electrocuted by an electric fan at 53
- 1969 Franco Capuana, Itlalian opera conductor, dies of a heart attack on the podium while leading a performance of Gioachino Rossini's "Mosè in Egitto" in Naples, at 75
- 1969 Leigh Harline, American composer and conductor, dies at 62
- 1971 Jo [Jozef Maria Laurens Theo] Cals, Prime Minister of Netherlands (1965-66) and Minister of Education, Arts and Sciences, dies at 57
- 1972 Mark van Doren, American poet and author (Happy Critic, Transients), dies at 78
- 1973 Earle Foxe, American actor (Dance Fools Dance), dies at 81
- 1974 Paul Richards, American actor (Kiss Daddy Goodnight; Breaking Point), dies of cancer at 50
- 1977 Adolph Rupp, American Basketball HOF coach (NCAA Div I Tournament 1948, 49, 51, 58; Uni of Kentucky; 5 × National Coach of the Year), dies of spinal cancer at 76
- 1978 Ed Wood, American filmmaker and director (Plan 9 from Outer Space), dies of heart failure at 54
- 1978 Miura Isshu, Zen teacher, Hakuin Rinzai line, dies at 75
- 1979 Ann Dvorak [McKim], American actress (G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface), dies at 67
- 1981 John Kieran, American columnist and author (Natural History of NYC), dies at 89
- 1982 Freeman Gosden, American radio and television writer and actor (The Amos 'n' Andy Show; Calvin and the Colonel), dies at 83
- 1982 Roy Webb, American film score composer (films of Val Lewton), dies at 94
- 1983 Dorothy Cummings, actress (Dancing Mothers), dies at 84
- 1983 Patrick O'Moore, actor (Jungle Gents), dies at 74
- 1986 Kate Wolf [Allen], American folk singer-songwriter ("Love Still Remains"; "Across the Great Divide"), dies of leukemia at 44
- 1986 Susan Cabot, American actress (Sorority Girl, Carnival Rock), is killed by her son following a psychotic episode at 59
- 1987 (Leroy) "Slam" Stewart, American jazz double bass player, dies of congestive heart failure at 73
- 1987 Jascha Heifetz, Russian violinist, dies at 86
- 1988 Dick Clair, American comedian (Clair & McMahon, Facts of Life), dies of AIDS
- 1988 Richard Castellano, American actor (The Godfather, Lovers & Other Stranger), dies at 55
- 1990 Armand Hammer, American industrialist (Occidental Petroleum), dies at 92
- 1991 Greta Kempton, Austrian-born American artist (White House artist under Truman), dies at 90
- 1991 Headman Tshabalala, South African singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), shot and killed at 44
- 1992 Bernard Reichel, Swiss composer, dies at 91
- 1992 Carlomagno Andrade, Equadorian general, dies
- 1992 Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator (b. 1908)
- 1993 Alice Tully, American singer and patroness (Carnegie Hall), dies at 91
- 1993 Maroun Bagdadi, Lebanese film director (Little Wars, Veiled Man), dies in an accident at 43
- 1994 Alexander Wilson, Canadian sprinter (Olympic silver 800m 1928), dies at 87
- 1994 George van Renesse, Dutch concert pianist and music director, dies at 85
- 1994 Keith Joseph, British Conservative politician and minister under four PMs who helped create the ideology of Thatcherism, dies at 76
- 1994 Robert Blum, Swiss composer, dies at 94
- 1994 Ruth Evelyn Mansfield (née Webster), British physician and anaesthetist, dies at 92
- 1995 Darren Robinson [Human Beatbox], American rapper and actor (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock), dies of a heart attack at 28
- 1995 Gillian Rose, English philosopher and writer, dies of cancer at 48
- 1995 Mary Madge Lascelles, literary critic/poet, dies at 95
- 1995 Philip Piratin, British Communist Party MP, dies at 88
- 1996 Faron Young, American country and honky-tonk singer ("Hello Walls"; "It's Four in the Morning"), and actor (Hidden Guns; Daniel Boone, Trailblazer), commits suicide at 64
- 1996 John Duffey, bluegrass guitarist, dobro, and mandolin player (Country Gentlemen), dies of a heart attack at 62
- 1997 Gershon Kingsley [Götz Ksinski], German-American composer, electronic music pioneer, and Moog synthesizer player (Popcorn), dies at 97
- 1997 Jake Carey, American actor (Rock Rock Rock!, Go, Johnny, Go!), dies at 71
Croatian politician and President of Croatia (1990-1999), dies of stomach cancer at 77
- 1999 Lex Goudsmit, Dutch actor (Fiddler on the Roof, Thomas en Senior op het spoor van Brute Berend), dies at 86
- 1999 Rick Danko, Canadian rock bassist and singer (The Band - "Stagefright"), dies of heart failure at 55
- 1999 Shirley Hemphill, American stand-up comedienne and actress (Shirley in "What's Happening!!" and "What's Happening Now!!"), dies of kidney failure at 52b. 1947)
- 2000 Marie Windsor [Emily Marie Bertelson], American actress (The Bounty Hunter, Double Deal), dies of congestive heart failure at 80
- 2001 Ashok Kumar [Dadamoni, Kumudlal Kunjilal Ganguly], Indian actor (Mahal, Afsana), dies from chronic asthma at 90
- 2002 Andres Küng, Swedish-Estonian politician and journalist, dies at 57
- 2003 John Watts, British army and Chief of Defense (Omani Armed Forces), dies at 73
- 2003 Sean McClory, Irish actor (The Californians, My Chauffeur), dies at 79
American Emmy and 5X Grammy Award-winning comedian (Live on the Sunset Strip), actor (Silver Streak; Stir Crazy), and screenwriter (Blazing Saddles), dies of a heart attack at 65
- 2006 Jack Williamson, American sci-fi author (Cometeers), dies at 98
- 2007 Aqsa Parvez, Canadian victim of an honor crime (b. 1991)
- 2007 Robert Moevs, American composer, dies at 87
- 2008 Didith Reyes [Maria Avenila], Filipino pop singer, dies of a heart attack at 59
- 2008 Dorothy Porter, Australian poet (The Monkey's Mask), librettist, (The Eternity Man), and lyricist (The Fiery Maze), dies of breast cancer at 54
- 2008 Henning Christiansen, Danish experimental composer, dies at 76
- 2009 Thomas Hoving, American museum director (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1967-77), arts correspondent (20/20), editor (Connoisseur Magazine, 1981-91, and writer (Art for Dummies), dies of lung cancer at 78
- 2010 J. Michael Hagopian, Turkish-born American documentarian (b. 1913)
- 2010 Jacques Swaters, Belgian racing driver, dies at 84
- 2010 John Bennett Fenn, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
- 2010 MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (b. 1921)
- 2012 Iajuddin Ahmed, Bikrampur, President of Bangladesh (2002-09), dies from heart surgery complications at 81
- 2013 Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist and composer, dies at 83
- 2013 Rossana Podestà, Italian director and actress, (Helen of Troy), dies at 79
- 2014 Catherine Hughes [Pestell], British principal (Somerville College Oxford), dies at 81
- 2014 Donald Moffitt, American sci-fi author (The Jupiter Theft; The Genesis Quest), dies at 83 [1]
- 2014 Ziad Abu Ein, Palestinian government minister, killed in confrontation with Israeli troops at protest on West Bank
American basketball Hall of Famer (Syracuse Nationals/Philadelphia 76ers, 1948-63) and coach (76ers, 1963-66; Buffalo Braves, 1970-72) and coach, dies of cancer at 87
- 2016 A. A. [Adrian Anthony] Gill, British critic (The Sunday Times), dies of cancer at 62
- 2016 John Montague, Irish poet and 1st occupant of the Ireland Chair of Poetry, dies at 87
- 2017 Zarley Zalapski, Canadian NHL defenseman, 1987-2000 (Pittsburgh Penguins; Calgary Flames, and 3 other teams), dies of a viral infection at 49
- 2019 Jean Pagé, Canadian sports journalist (host: 'La Soirée du hockey' and '110%'), dies from prostate cancer at 73
- 2019 Jim Smith, English soccer midfielder and manager (Birmingham City, QPR, Portsmouth, Derby County), dies at 79
- 2020 Barbara Windsor, British actress and Dame (Carry On films, EastEnders), dies at 83
- 2021 Michael Nesmith, American rock guitarist (The Monkees), and singer-songwriter ("Different Drum"), dies of heart failure at 78 [1]
- 2022 (James Jay) "J.J." Barnes, American R&B and soul singer-songwriter ("Please Let Me In"; "Baby Please Come Back Home"), dies at 79
- 2022 Beryl Grey [Groom], English prima ballerina (Sadler’s Wells/Royal Ballet, 1941-57), artistic director, and dance teacher, dies at 95 [1]
- 2022 Grant Wahl, American sports journalist (CBS Sports, Sports Illustrated, Fox Sports), dies from a heart attack covering FIFA World Cup at 48
- 2022 Paul Silas, American College Basketball HOF forward (NBA C'ship 1974, 76 Boston Celtics, 1979 Seattle SuperSonics; 2 x NBA All-Star) and coach (Charlotte/NO Hornets, Cleveland Cavaliers, Charlotte Bobcats), dies from a heart attack at 79
- 2023 David Drake, American lawyer, army veteran, and science fiction author (Hammer's Slammers; Lord of the Isles), dies at 78
- 2023 Jim Ayoub, Canadian drummer (Mahogany Rush, 1970-82), dies at 70
- 2023 Michael Blakemore, Australian Tony Award-winning theater director (Copenhagen; Kiss Me Kate), actor, and screenwriter, dies at 95
- 2023 Syd Millar, Irish rugby union prop (37 Tests Ireland; 9 British & Irish Lions; Ballymena RFC, Ulster), coach (Ireland, B&I Lions 1974) and executive (IRFU President 1995-96), dies at 89
- 2024 Michael Cole, American actor (The Mod Squad - "Pete"), dies at 84 [1]
American baseball outfielder (MLB All-Star x 9; AL HR leader 1959, AL RBI leader 1965 Cleveland Indians), dies at 91
- 2024 The Amazing Kreskin [George Kresge], American mentalist, dies from complications of dementia at 89
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