- 695 Begga, ancestress of the Carolingians and saint, dies [or 693]
- 1187 Gregory VIII [Alberto de Morra], Italian Pope (1187), dies
- 1195 Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)
- 1213 John of Matha, French Christian saint and founder of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity dedicated to ransoming Christians captured by North African marauders, dies at 53
- 1273 Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet, scholar, and mystic, dies at 66
- 1471 Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy, dies at 74
- 1562 Adrian Willaert, Flemish singer, bandmaster, and composer, dies at about 82
- 1645 Nur Jahan, powerful Mughal Empress as consort and 20th wife to emperor Jahangir, dies at 68 [date uncertain]
- 1651 Wolfgang Schonsleder, German composer (Missa super Laudate), and clergyman, dies at 81
- 1663 Nzinga Mbandi, Queen of Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms (1626 -1663) (modern Angola), dies at about 82
- 1679 Don Juan, ruler of Spain, dies
- 1697 Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria, Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania (1670-3), dies at 44
- 1711 Arnold Moonen, Dutch vicar, linguist (Nederduitsche Spraekkunst), poet, and lexicographer dies at 67
- 1721 Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1640)
- 1751 Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, Czech Baroque architect builder (St. Nicholas Church, Prague), dies at 62
- 1811 John Antes, American composer and missionary, dies at 71
- 1811 Louis Abel Beffroy de Reigny, French dramatist and composer, dies at 54
- 1829 Bernard Jumentier, French composer, primarily of sacred music, dies at 80
Venezuelan political and military leader who freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule (President of Colombia, 1819-30; President of Peru, 1824-27; President of Bolivia, 1825), dies of tuberculosis at 47
- 1833 Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe (who claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell), murdered at 21
- 1847 Marie-Louise of Austria, Duchess of Parma and second wife of Napoleon, dies at 56
- 1857 Francis Beaufort, Irish admiral and hydrographer (Beaufort wind force scale), dies at 83
- 1860 Désirée Clary, French Queen of Sweden and Norway (1818-44), consort of King Charles XIV John, dies at 83
- 1870 Saverio Mercadante, Italian composer, dies at 75
- 1872 Alfred Pollard Edward, American writer who advocated for secession and slavery, coined the phrase "Lost Cause", dies at 40 [1]
American naval officer (best known for sinking the CSS Albemarle during a daring nighttime raid on 27 October 1864), dies at 32
- 1881 Lewis H Morgan, US ethnologist (Iroquois-indians), dies at 62
- 1891 Msiri, ruler of the Garanganze Kingdom, Congo (Katanga), dies in battle against Belgian funded expedition
- 1891 Omer Bodson, Belgian captain, dies in battle against Msiri, ruler of Garanganze Kingdom in the Congo
- 1892 George Brayton, American engineer who developed the Brayton Cycle combustion engine, dies at 62
- 1893 Levinus T Keuchenius, Dutch min of Colonies (1888-90), dies at 71
- 1899 Frederick "Freddy" Roberts, son of British field marshal, dies in battle
1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish mathematical physicist (Kelvin Scale) and engineer (transatlantic telegraph), dies of a chill at 83
King of the Belgians (1865-1909), sole owner of the Congo Free State (1885-1908), dies at 74 after a reign of exactly 44 years
- 1913 Stefano Gobatti, Italian composer, dies at 61
- 1917 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1st qualified woman physician in Britain, first woman mayor (Aldeburgh), dies at 81
- 1917 Frank Gotch, American professional wrestler, dies at 40
- 1925 A. N. Hornby, English cricket batsman and captain (3 Tests; Lancashire CCC) and rugby union utility back & captain (9 Tests; Lancashire CRFC), dies at 78
- 1926 Alexander Kastalsky, Russian composer, dies at 70
- 1927 Hubert Harrison, West Indian-American writer and freedom fighter, dies at 44
- 1928 Eglantyne Jebb, British humanitarian and founder of Save the Children, dies at 52 [1]
- 1930 Peter Warlock [Philip Heseltine], British composer, dies of a probable suicide at 36
- 1933 Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Side-Studies), dies at 81
- 1933 Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama, dies at 57
- 1934 Edwin Binney, American inventor and businessman (carbon black, 1st dustless white chalk, Crayola crayon), dies at 68 [1]
- 1935 Lizette Woodworth Reese, American poet (Branch of May, Tears), dies at 79
- 1936 Jón Friðfinnsson, Icelandic-Canadian organist, and composer (The Millennial Cantata), dies at 71
- 1940 Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician, dies at 80
- 1944 Pieter A. Roodenburgh, student and resistance fighter, dies at 26
- 1946 Constance Garnett, English translator of Russian (first to translate Chekhov and Dostoevsky into English), dies at 84
- 1948 Edgar Istel, German composer, dies at 68
- 1949 David Stanley Smith, American composer (Merrymount), dies at 72
- 1956 Eddie Acuff, American character actor (Guns of the Pecos; Phantom Creeps; Outer Gate; Blondie films), dies at 48
- 1957 Dorothy L. Sayers, English novelist (The Nine Tailors), dies at 66
- 1961 Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53
- 1962 Carl Diem, German sports executive (Sec Gen Organising Committee 1936 Berlin Olympics; creator Olympic torch relay), dies at 80
- 1962 Thomas Mitchell, American Academy Award-winning actor (Gone With The Wind; High Noon), dies of bone cancer at 70
- 1964 Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883)
- 1965 María Teresa Vera, Cuban singer, guitarist and composer ("Veinte años"), dies at 70
- 1966 Gustaf Paulson, Swedish organist and composer (The Resurrection Symphony), dies at 68
- 1967 Barry Byrne, American architect (Church of St. Francis Xavier in Kansas City), dies at 83
- 1967 Harold Holt, Australian prime minister (Liberal, 1966-67), presumed to have drowned at 59
- 1967 Jack Perrin, American actor, dies of a heart attack at 71
- 1969 Arturo da Costa e Silva, 27th President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67
- 1972 Erwin Dressel, German composer, dies at 63
- 1973 Charles Greeley Abbot, American astronomer (Solar Constant), dies at 101
- 1973 Patrick Hadley, English composer (La Belle Dame sans merci; The Hills), pedagogue, and conductor, dies of throat cancer at 74
- 1975 Frank Sully, American actor (Along Came Jones; Phantom Thief; Inside the Law), dies at 67
- 1975 Hound Dog Taylor [Theodore Roosevelt], American Chicago blues guitarist and singer, dies of lung cancer at 60
- 1975 Noble Sissle, American jazz composer, singer, lyricist and playwright (Shuffle Along; "I'm Just Wild About Harry"), dies at 86
- 1978 Don Ellis, American avant garde jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and Grammy Award-winning film score composer (The French Connection), dies of a heart attack at 44
- 1981 Edwin Erich Dwinger, German writer (General Vlassov), dies at 83
- 1982 Big Joe Williams, American Delta blues singer-songwriter, and nine-string guitarist ("Baby, Please Don't Go"), dies at 79
- 1982 Homer S. Ferguson, American attorney, judge, and senator, dies at 93
- 1982 Leonid Kogan, Soviet Russian violinist (Lenin Prize, 1952), dies of a heart attack at 58
- 1982 Philipp Jarnach, French pianist, composer, and music educator (Hamburg Music Academy, 1949-70), dies at 90
- 1983 Erik Christensen, NHL player
- 1985 Otto Gotsche, writer, dies
- 1986 Ron Kass, record co pres (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer
- 1987 Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Dutch cardinal of Utrecht Netherlands, dies at 87
- 1987 Marguerite Yourcenar, French-American novelist (Memoirs of Hadrian, The Abyss), dies at 84
- 1990 Don Draper, American actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61
- 1990 Mieke Verstraete [Maria Augustina De Graef], Belgian-Dutch actress (Pleasantly Settled), dies at 79
- 1991 Armand Frappier, French Canadian physician and microbiologist, dies at 87
- 1991 John Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80
- 1992 Dana Andrews, American actor (Battle of the Bulge, Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83
- 1992 Günther Anders, German Jewish philosopher, dies at 90
- 1993 Janet Margolin, American actress (Annie Hall, Take the Money and Run; David and Lisa), dies of ovarian cancer at 50
- 1994 Jan Wiegel, director and producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64
- 1995 Lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63
- 1996 Elizabeth Hill, Russian-English teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96
- 1996 Francesco Siciliani, Italian opera administrator, dies at 85
- 1996 Irving Caesar, American lyricist and theater composer ("Tea for Two"; "Just A Gigilo"; "Sometimes I'm Happy"; "Animal Crackers In My Soup"), dies at 101 [1]
- 1996 Lawrie Miller, New Zealand cricket batsman (13 Tests), dies at 73
- 1996 Ruby Murray, Irish singer ("Heartbeat"; "Softly, Softly"), dies of liver cancer at 61
- 1996 Stanko Todorov, Bulgarian communist politician, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1971-81), dies at 76
- 1996 Wayne Barlow, American composer, dies at 84
- 1997 Reginald Victor Jones, British scientist who worked in military intelligence in WWII, dies at 86
- 1999 Grover Washington Jr., American jazz saxophonist ("Just The Two Of Us"; "Mr Magic"; "Let It Flow"), dies of a heart attack at 56
- 1999 Rex Allen, American singer-songwriter known as the "the Arizona Cowboy", and actor (Frontier Doctor - "Dr. Baxter"), dies at 78
- 2000 Erich Schmid, Swiss composer and conductor, dies at 93
- 2000 Gérard Blain, French director and actor (The Friends, Hatari), dies at 70
- 2002 Angelo "Hank" Luisetti, American collegiate basketball forward (Stanford, 1935-38), 1st to use a one-handed shot, dies at 86
- 2002 James Hazeldine, British stage and screen actor (London's Burning), dies of an aortic dissection at 55
- 2003 David Smith, English cricket fast-medium bowler (5 Tests), dies at 69
- 2003 Ed Devereaux, Australian actor (b. 1925)
American NFL Quarterback (Cleveland Browns), dies of a heart aneurysm at 82
- 2004 Dick Heckstall-Smith, British jazz-blues saxophonist, dies at 70
- 2004 Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist and sculptor (Great American Nudes), dies at 73
- 2005 Jack Anderson, American journalist (Washington Post), dies at 83
- 2005 Jacques Fouroux, French rugby union scrum-half and captain (27 Tests; US Cognac, La Voulte, FC Auch) and coach (France 1981–1990), dies of a heart attack at 58
- 2005 Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist, dies at 76
- 2006 Denis Payton, British rock saxophonist (Dave Clark Five - "Glad All Over"), dies of cancer at 63
- 2006 Esko Nikkari, Finnish actor, dies at 68
- 2006 Larry Sherry, American baseball pitcher (World Series MVP 1959, LA Dodgers), dies at 71
- 2006 Timmie Rogers [Ancrum], American comedian (The Jackie Gleason Show), actor and singer-songwriter ("Back to School Again"; "I Love Ya, I Love Ya, I Love Ya"), dies at 91
- 2008 Dave Smith, American baseball player (b. 1955)
- 2008 Freddy Breck [Gerhard Breker], German schlager singer-songwriter ("Überall auf der Welt"; "Bianca"), and news anchor, dies of cancer at 66
- 2008 Freddy Breck, German schlager singer, composer, record producer and news anchor, dies of cancer at 66
American College/Pro Football quarterback (TCU; NFL C'ship 1937, 42; 4 × First-team All-Pro; 6 × Pro Bowl; 4 × NFL passing yards leader; Washington Redskins), dies at 94
- 2009 Chris Henry, American football player (b. 1983)
- 2009 Dan O'Bannon, Screenwriter, after a short illness (b.1943)
- 2010 Captain Beefheart [Don Van Vliet], American rock musician, complications from multiple sclerosis at 69
- 2010 Mary Tregear, British museum curator (Ashmolean) and Chinese art historian, dies at 86
- 2010 Walt Dropo, American MLB baseball first baseman, 1949-61, AL Rookie of the Year (Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, and 3 other teams), dies at 87
- 2011 Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean morna singer known as "the Barefoot Diva", dies from respiratory failure at 70
Supreme Leader of North Korea (1994-2011), dies of a suspected heart attack at 70
- 2012 Colin Spedding, British biologist and animal welfare advocate (The Natural History of Your Garden), dies at 87 [1]
- 2012 Daniel K. Inouye, American lawyer, politician (US Senator from Hawaii, 1963-2012; US Representative, 1959-63), and decorated WWII army veteran, dies from respiratory complications at 88 [1]
- 2013 Leland Smith, American composer, bassoonist and computer coder who led music publishing into the digital age (SCORE), dies at 88
- 2014 Francis-Paul Demillac [Enyss Djemil], French violinist, composer, and pedagogue, dies at 97
- 2014 Fritz Rudolf Fries, German writer and informant, dies at 79
- 2016 Henry Heimlich, American surgeon and inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, dies at 96
- 2017 Kevin Mahogany, American jazz vocalist ("Double Rainbow"; "Pride And Joy"), dies of diabetes complications at 59 [1] [2]
- 2017 Robert G Wilmers, American banker (M&T Bank), billionaire and philanthropist, dies at 83
- 2018 Galt MacDermot, Canadian musician and composer (Hair), dies at 89
- 2018 Raven Wilkinson, American ballerina, first African American woman to dance with major ballet company, dies at 83
- 2019 Hayden Fry, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (SMU 1962-72, North Texas State University 1973-78, University of Iowa 1979-98), dies from cancer at 90
- 2019 Karin Balzer, German athlete (Olympic gold 80m hurdles 1964; bronze 100m hurdles 1972), dies at 81
- 2020 Pelle Svensson, Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler (World C'ship gold 100kg 1970, 71; Olympic silver 97kg 1964), dies from cancer at 77
- 2020 Stanley Cowell American jazz pianist (Heath Brothers), record label co-founder (Strata-East), and educator, dies from hypovolemic shock at 79
- 2021 Dimitrios Stefanakos, Greek soccer defender (7 caps; Olympiacos FC), dies at 85
- 2021 Eve Babitz, American artist and author (Eve's Hollywood; Slow Days, Fast Company; I Used To Be Charming), dies of Huntington's disease at 78
- 2021 Harry Jacobs, American football linebacker (AFL All Star 1965, 69; AFL C'ship 1964, 65 Buffalo Bills; Boston Patriots, NO Saints), dies at 84
- 2022 Elayne Jones, American classical timpanist and civil rights activist, dies at 94 [1]
- 2022 Manuel Muñoz, Chilean soccer striker (26 caps; CSD Colo-Colo), dies at 94
- 2022 P-22, Californian mountain lion and LA celebrity, put to sleep due to age and injuries at 12 [1]
- 2022 Philip Pearlstein, American abstract landscape and Modernist Realist figure painter, dies at 98
- 2024 Alfa Anderson, American R&B vocalist (Chic - "Le Freak"), dies at 78
- 2024 Rik Van Looy, Belgian cyclist (World Road Race champion 1960, 61; Tour de France Points classification 1963), dies at 90
- 2024 William Labov, American linguist, researcher (sociolinguistics), and educator (University of Pennsylvania, 1976-2015; Columbia, 1964-70), dies at 97 [1]
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