- 69 Aulus Vitellius, Roman Emperor for 8 months, executed by the troops of his successor Vespasian in Rome at 54
- 1100 Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia
- 1419 Antipope Pope John XXIII [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15) who opposed Pope Gregory XII and is considered an antipope by the Catholic Church, dies at 81
- 1550 Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III
- 1603 Mehmed III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1595-1603), dies at 37
- 1646 Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)
- 1660 André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician and priest (Cylindricorum et annularium), dies at 48
- 1668 Stephen Day, English-born colonial printer (The Psalms in Meter - 1st book printed in American colonies), dies at about 58
- 1681 Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611)
- 1708 Hedvig Sophia, Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, dies at 27
- 1721 Nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery
- 1723 Jacques Basnage, French historian and vicar (History of the Reformed Churches), dies at 70
- 1738 Constantia Jones, British prostitute, executed on theft allegations at 30
- 1738 Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer, dies at 56
- 1745 Jan Dismas Zelenka, Bohemian composer, dies at 66
- 1767 John Newberry, English publisher, dies
- 1788 Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714)
- 1797 Giovanni Marco Rutini, Italian composer, dies at 74
- 1806 William Vernon, American merchant in the slave trade and outfitter of the Continental navy, dies at 87
- 1809 William Cooper, American judge and developer (founded Cooperstown, New York), dies at 55
- 1815 Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest and independence leader, executed by Spaniards at 50
- 1828 Rachel Jackson, wife of Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (1828-37), dies of a heart attack at 61 [1]
- 1828 William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium), dies at 62
- 1832 Ishmail Spicer, American composer, dies at 72
- 1863 Michael Corcoran, Union brigadier general, dies at 36
- 1867 Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer who was one of the founders of modern projective geometry, dies at 79
- 1867 Théodore Rousseau, French painter, dies at 55
- 1870 Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish Romantic poet (Rimas y leyendas), dies of an illness at 34
- 1873 Charles Lenox Remond, African-American orator and abolitionist, dies at 63
- 1874 Johann Peter Pixis, German pianist and composer, dies at 86
- 1875 Nikolai Titov, Russian Major General, violinist, and composer, dies at 75
British novelist (Adam Bede; Middlemarch; Silas Marner), dies of kidney disease at 61
- 1893 Benedikt Randhartinger, Austrian composer, dies at 91
- 1893 Johann Czerski, German chaplain, dies at 80
- 1899 Dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies
- 1902 Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Austro–German psychiatrist and author (Psychopathia Sexualis), dies at 62
- 1908 Marie Jungius, Dutch fairy tale writer, feminist and founder of the National Bureau for Women's Labor, dies at 44
- 1917 Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American saint (1st American saint, founded Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart), dies at 67
- 1918 Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author and painter, dies at 83
- 1918 Randolph Bourne, American writer (Education and Living), dies at 32
- 1923 Arthur H. Bird, American composer, dies at 67
- 1939 Ma Rainey [Gertrude Pridgett], American singer known as the "Mother of the Blues", dies of a heart attack at 53
- 1940 Nathanael West, American novelist ("Miss Lonelyhearts"; "The Day of the Locust"), dies at 37 in a car crash after running a stop light
- 1941 Leopoldo Mugnone, Italian opera composer and conductor, dies at 83
- 1944 Harry Langdon, American comedian (The Strong Man; Tramp, Tramp, Tramp), dies at 60
- 1945 Otto Neurath, Austrian-British philosopher (Foundation of Social Sciences), dies at 63
- 1947 Therese Brandl, German Nazi concentration camp guard (Auschwitz), and convicted war criminal, executed by hanging in Kraków, Poland at 45
- 1950 Julius Weismann, German pianist, conductor, and composer (Schwanenweiß), dies at 70
- 1950 Walter Damrosch, German-American conductor (New York Symphony, 1885-1928; commissioned Gershwin's Piano Concerto), and composer (The Man Without A Country), dies at 88 [1]
- 1951 Powell Weaver, American composer, dies at 61
- 1958 Fjodor W Gladkow, Russian author (Cement), dies at 75
- 1959 Gilda Gray [Marianna Michalska], Polish-American stage and screen actress (Piccadilly), and dancer (The Shimmy), dies of a heart attack at 58
- 1961 Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinal who helped organize a rescue network for Jewish people during the Holocaust, dies at 89
- 1964 Bonifacio Gil Garcia, Spanish composer and folklorist, dies at 66
- 1965 Al Ritz [Albert Joachim], American vaudevillian (The Ritz Brothers), dancer and actor (The Gorilla;, Hi'ya, Chum; Straight, Place and Show), dies of a heart attack at 64
- 1965 Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster, dies at 52
American suffragist (National Woman's Party) and women's rights advocate, dies at 87
- 1966 Robert Keith [Rolland Keith Richey], American character actor (Guys and Dolls; The Wild One; Battle Circus; Branded), dies at 68
- 1967 Lee Krieger, American actor (Clambake, One Way Wahini), dies at 48
- 1968 Louise Granville, Australian actress (How Green Paid the Rent), dies of influenza at 73
- 1969 Ilse Steppat, actress (Invisible Terror), dies at 52
- 1969 Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American director (Shanghai Express), dies at 75
- 1971 Fred Guy, American jazz banjo player and guitarist (Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra; Duke Ellington's Washingtonians), dies at 74
- 1971 Godfried Bomans, Dutch humorist, TV personality and writer (Eric), dies at 58
- 1971 Renee Evans, entertainer, dies of a heart attack at 63
- 1973 Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia, composer, dies at 87
- 1973 James Anderson, Australian tennis player (Australasian C'ship 1922, 24, 25), dies at 79
- 1974 Fosco Giachetti, Italian actor (Wastrel, We the Living), dies at 74
- 1976 Martin Luis Guzman, Mexican novelist (Eagle & the Serpent), dies at 89
- 1977 Johann Nepomuk David, Austrian-German composer, dies at 82
- 1979 Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer and President (20th Century Fox), dies at 77
- 1984 Viola Wells [Evans], American jazz, blues, and gospel singer, dies at 82
- 1985 (Dennes) D. Boon, American punk rock singer and guitarist (The Minutemen), dies in a van accident at 27
- 1986 Celius Dougherty, American pianist and composer, dies at 84
- 1986 David Penhaligon, British Liberal Party politician for Truro (1974-86), dies from car crash at 42
- 1987 Alice Terry [Taaffe], actress (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse), dies
English golfer (British Open 1934, 1937, 1948), dies at 80
- 1987 Leonidas Zoras, Greek conductor and composer, dies at 82
- 1988 (Thomas) "Tucker" Smith, American stage and screen dancer, singer and actor (West Side Story - "Ice"), dies of cancer at 52
Brazilian environmental activist and rubber tapper, assassinated at 44 by rancher Darcy Alves
- 1988 Frank Essed, Surinamese politician and forestry scientist (Operation Grasshopper), dies after being hit by a car at 69
Irish-French writer (Molloy, Nobel Prize for Literature 1969), dies at 83
- 1990 Cecil Effinger, American oboist, composer, and inventor of a music typewriter, dies at 76
- 1990 Ken Irvine, Australian rugby league winger (31 Tests; NSW 24 games; North Sydney RLFC, Manly-Warringah RLFC; record first-grade career tries–212), dies from chronic myeloid leukaemia at 50
- 1991 Ernst Krenek, Austrian-American concert, opera, and electronic music composer (Johnny Spielt Auf: Orpheus and Eurydike; Fibonacci-Mobile), dies at 91
- 1992 Frederick W Franz, CEO (Watch Tower), dies at 99
- 1992 Harry Bluestone, British-American jazz and session violinist, bandleader, and music publisher, dies from Parkinson's disease at 85
- 1992 Ted Willis, prolific English screenwriter (It's Great to be Young), dies at 74
- 1993 Alexander Mackendrick, director (Whiskey Galore!), dies at 81
- 1993 Don DeFore, American actor (George-Hazel, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), dies of cardiac arrest at 76
- 1995 (Thelma) "Butterfly" McQueen, American dancer, and actress (Gone With the Wind; Flame of Barbary Coast), dies in a house fire at 84 [1]
- 1995 James Meade, English economist (Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, 1977), dies at 88
- 1996 Hetta Empson, South African-British artist, dies at 81
- 1997 Douglas Ranger, British surgeon, dies at 81
- 1997 Hugh Edward Conway Seymour, 8th Marquess of Hertford, dies at 67
- 1997 Hugh Seymour, 8th Marquess of Hertford, British aristocrat, dies at 67
- 1997 John Pinkerton, English computer scientist who designed the first business computer in England, the LEO computer, dies at 78
- 1997 Johnny Coles, American jazz trumpeter (Little Johnny C), dies at 71
- 1997 Juzo Itami, Japanese director, commits suicide at 64
- 1998 Michelle Thomas, American actress (b. 1969)
- 1998 Virginia Graham, American TV personality (Girl Talk, Where Was I), dies at 86
- 2002 Hugh Desmond Hoyte, Guyanese politician and President of Guyana (1985-92), dies at 73
- 2002 Joe Strummer, British lead singer of the punk band "The Clash" (Rock the Casbah), dies at age 50
- 2002 Kenneth Tobey, American actor (The Thing from Another World, Innerspace, Whirlybirds), dies of natural causes at 85
- 2003 Chandu Sarwate, Indian cricket all-rounder (9 Tests, HS 37, 3 wickets; Maharashtra, Hindus, Holkar, Madhya Pradesh), dies at 83
- 2003 Dave Dudley, American country singer (Six Days on the Road), dies at 75
- 2003 Rose Hill, British actress and operatic soprano ('Allo 'Allo!, Nicholas Nickleby, Shot in the Dark), dies at 89
- 2004 Doug Ault, American baseball player (b. 1950)
- 2005 T. Cooper Evans, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa), dies at 81
- 2006 Dennis Linde, American songwriter ("Burning Love"; "Goodbye Earl"), dies of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at 63
- 2006 Elena Mukhina, Russian gymnast (3 x World C'ship gold 1978; 2 x World Cup gold 1977), dies of complications from quadriplegia at 46
- 2006 Galina Ustvolskaya, Russian composer, dies at 87
- 2006 Phillip Pine, American actor (Set-Up, Under the Ground), dies at 86
- 2007 Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer and playwright known for his "Breakfast Table" newspaper column, dies at 75
- 2007 Joe Ames, American singer and actor (The Ames Brothers Show), dies at 86
- 2007 Julien Gracq [Louis Poirier], French writer (Andre Breton), dies at 97
- 2008 Lansana Conté, Guinean politician, dies at 74
- 2009 Luis Francisco Cuéllar, Colombian politician (b. 1940)
- 2010 Fred Foy, American radio and television announcer (b. 1921)
- 2011 Bettye Danoff, American golfer (co-founder LPGA Tour), dies at 88
- 2011 James Ramseur, one of Bernhard Goetz's assailants in 1984, overdoses on drugs at 45
- 2011 Vasant Ranjane, Indian cricket fast bowler (7 Tests, 19 wickets, BB 4/72; Maharashtra, Railways), dies at 74
- 2012 Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter (Olympic gold Middle-heavyweight 1956, 60), dies at 88
- 2013 Ed Herrmann, American baseball catcher (MLB All Star 1974 Chicago White Sox; caught Larry Dierker no-hitter 1975 Houston Astros), dies from prostate cancer at 67
- 2014 (John) "Joe" Cocker, English rock vocalist ("With A Little Help From My Friends"; "Cry Me A River"; "You Are So Beautiful"), dies of lung cancer at 70
- 2014 Brandon Stoddard, American producer and President of ABC Entertainment (1985-95), dies of cancer at 77
- 2014 Joseph Sargent [Giuseppe Sorgente], American film director (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Jaws: The Revenge), dies of complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 89
- 2015 Carson Van Osten, American power pop-rock bassist (Nazz - "Open My Eyes", "Hello It's Me), and comic strip artist (Disney), dies at 70
- 2015 Derek Ezra, Baron Ezra, British politician, Liberal Democrat Life Peer and Chairman of the National Coal Board, dies at 96 [1]
- 2016 Bill Price, British audio engineer (Tom Jones; Wings: Sparks; Elton John), and record producer (The Clash; Sex Pistols; Waterboys), dies of cancer at 72
- 2016 Margaret Pereira, English forensic scientist (Nicholls and Pereira method), dies at 88
- 2016 Miruts Yifter 'Yifter the Shifter', Ethiopian runner (Olympic golds 1980), dies at 72
- 2018 Frank Brake, British entrepreneur (Brake Bros. Frozen Food), multi-millionaire, and philanthropist, dies at 80
- 2018 Paddy Ashdown, British MP, leader of Liberal Democrats (1988-1999), dies of bladder cancer at 77
- 2018 Roberto Suazo Córdova, President of Honduras (1982-86), dies at 91
- 2019 Fritz Künzli, Swiss soccer striker (44 caps; FC Zürich, FC Winterthur, FC Lausanne-Sport), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 73
- 2019 Tony Britton, British actor (The Day of the Jackal; There's a Girl in My Soup), dies at 95
- 2020 Claude Brasseur [Espinasse], French actor (Bande à part; La Boum; Pardon Mon Affaire), dies at 84
- 2021 Bob Keselowski, American auto racer (ARCA Hooters SuperCar Series 1989) and team owner (K Automotive Racing), dies from cancer at 70
- 2021 Jürg Wyttenbach, Swiss pianist, composer, and conductor, dies at 86
- 2021 Robin Le Mesurier [Halliley], British session and touring guitarist (The Wombles; Rod Stewart; Johnny Hallyday), dies of cancer at 68
- 2022 Anton Tkáč, Slovak track cyclist (Olympic gold Czechoslovakia men's match sprint 1976; World C'ship gold 1974, 78), dies at 71
- 2022 Ronnie Lamont, Irish rugby union #8, flanker (12 Tests Ireland; 4 Tests British & Irish Lions), dies at 81
- 2022 Thom Bell, American session musician, arranger and Grammy Award-winning "Philadelphia soul" producer (Delfonics; Stylistics; The Spinners), dies at 79
- 2022 Walter "Wolfman" Washington, American funk, R&B, and blues guitarist (Johnny Adams; The Roadmasters), dies of tonsil cancer at 79 [1]
- 2023 Laura Lynch, American bluegrass and country musician and songwriter (Dixie Chicks, 1989-95), killed in a car crash at 65 [1]
- 2024 Geoffrey Deuel, American actor (Chisum, Terminal Island), dies of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 81
- 2024 Stuart A. Rice, American chemist, researcher, and educator (University of Chicago, 1957-2014), dies at 92
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