- 274 St Felix I, dies and ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1218 Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, English politician, dies at about 56 (b. 1162)
- 1408 John Hawley of Dartmouth, English merchant, mayor and pirate (possible model for Chaucer’s shipman), dies at 68 [1]
- 1460 Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne killed in Battle of Wakefield at 49 (b. 1411)
- 1525 Jacob Fugger, 'Fugger the Rich', German banker and merchant (so rich he financed kings and influenced politics), dies at 66
- 1572 Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (Palazza Marino, Milan), dies at 60
- 1573 Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer (b. 1504)
- 1591 Pope Innocent IX [Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti], 230th Catholic pope (1591), dies at 72
- 1621 Saint Job of Maniava, Ukrainian Orthodox Saint (b. 1550)
- 1644 Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (found boiling point temperature). dies at 65
- 1662 Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria and Regent of the Tyrol, dies at 34
- 1691 Robert Boyle, Irish scientist (b. 1627)
- 1769 Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier (b. 1685)
- 1777 Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bayern (1745-77), dies at 50
- 1788 Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter and etcher, dies at 86
- 1796 Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French composer, dies at 45
- 1821 Angelo Maria Benincori, Italian composer, dies at 42
- 1825 Peter Grønland, Danish composer, dies at 64
- 1828 Waldemar Thrane, Norwegian violinist, composer (Fjeldeventyret), and conductor, dies at 38
- 1832 Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies
- 1865 Henry Winter Davis, American politician and unionist, dies at 48
- 1870 Juan Prim, Spanish general and politician (Prime Minister, 1869-70), assassinated at 56
- 1886 William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 68
- 1893 Samuel White Baker, English explorer (Ceylon & Egypt), dies at 72
- 1894 Amelia Jenks Bloomer, American reformer who campaigned for temperance and women’s rights, dies at 76
- 1895 LP Hartley, British writer, dies
- 1899 James Paget, English surgeon (disease of Paget), dies at 85
- 1906 Angela Burdett-Coutts, English philanthropist extrordinaire and "the richest heiress in England", dies at 92
- 1906 Josephine Butler (née Grey), British feminist and social reformer (campaigned against the slave trade and Contagious Diseases Acts), dies at 78
- 1908 Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian lawyer, journalist and senator (b. 1844)
- 1912 Alfred von Kiderlen-Wächter, German foreign minister, dies at 60
Russian monk and confidant of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, assassinated by conservative Russian aristocrats at 47
- 1941 El Lissitzky, Russian avant-garde artist (Book design for "Of Two Squares", Proun), dies at 51 [1] [2]
- 1942 Neville Henderson, British diplomat and Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Nazi Germany (1937-39), dies at 60
- 1943 Hobart Bosworth, American actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade), dies at 76
- 1944 Romain Roland, French writer/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78
- 1946 Charles Wakefield Cadman, American composer (Shanewis (or The Robin Woman); The Sky Hawk), dies at 65
- 1947 Han [Henricus Antonius] van Meegeren, Dutch painter and art forger (Vermeer), dies at 58
- 1950 Arthur Davison, American businessman (co-founder of the Harley-Davidson Motor Company), dies in a car crash at 69
- 1952 Ivan Olbracht, writer, dies
- 1955 Rex Ingamells, Australian poet and editor, know for the Jindyworobak movement, dies in a car accident at 42 [1]
- 1956 Ruth Draper, American actress and dramatist (The Italian Lesson), dies at 72
- 1959 Maria Baers, Flemish social worker and founder of the Christian Workers' Women's Movement (KAV), dies at 76
- 1961 Jacobus "Ko" van den Bosch, Dutch actor (Amsterdamned)/dir, dies at 53
- 1964 Andrés Soriano, Spanish Filipino industrialist (San Miguel Brewery, Philippine Airlines), dies of pancreatic cancer at 66
- 1966 Christian Herter, American Republican politician, 59th Governor of Massachusetts (1953-57) and US Secretary of State (1959-61), dies at 71
- 1967 Bert Berns, American songwriter ("Twist And Shout"; "Piece Of My Heart"; "Hang On Sloopy") and producer ("Under The Boardwalk"; "Brown-Eyed Girl"), dies of heart failure at 38
Canadian diplomat and 1st Canadian-born Governor General of Canada (1952-59), dies at 80
- 1970 Lenore Ulric, American silent film and Broadway actress (Notorious, Better Woman), dies at 78
American boxer (world heavyweight champion 1962-64), dies of lung congestion and heart failure at 40; foul play suspected
- 1971 Dorothy Comingore [Linda Winters], American actress (Citizen Kane), dies after illness at 58
- 1971 Jan Mul, Dutch composer, dies at 60
- 1971 Melba Rae, American actress (Search for Tomorrow) (b. 1922)
- 1973 Henri-Paul Busser, composer, dies at 101
- 1977 "St. Louis" Jimmy Oden, American blues singer-songwriter ("Goin' Down Slow", "Take the Bitter with the Sweet"), dies of pneumonia at 74
American composer, mostly for theater (Rodgers & Hart - "Pal Joey"; "Babes In Arms"; Rodgers & Hammerstein - "Oklahoma!"; "South Pacific"; "The King And I"; "The Sound Of Music") and 1st EGOT (Emmy; Grammy; Oscar; and Tony awards winner), dies at 77
- 1981 Alfie Anido, Filipino model and actor (Temptation Island), dies under mysterious circumstances on his 22nd birthday
- 1982 Alberto Vargas, Peruvian-American painter, primarily of "pin-up girls", dies at 86
- 1984 Massa, oldest gorilla on record (b. 1930)
- 1986 Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (b. 1905)
- 1986 Jiri Jaroch, Czech composer, dies at 66
- 1988 Isamu Noguchi, Japanese-American sculptor (1963 Fine Arts Medal, Noguchi table), dies at 84
- 1988 Yuli Daniel, Russian writer and dissident convicted of anti-Soviet agitation, dies at 63
- 1989 Etienne Leroux, Afrikaans author (Een vir Azazel), dies at 67
- 1989 Lenore Lemmon, girlfriend of "Superman" George Reeves (b. 1923)
- 1989 Madoline Thomas, actress (Girl in the Canal), dies
- 1992 Caesar Domela, Dutch painter, and son of politician Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, dies at 92
- 1992 Ling-Ling, 1st panda China gave US, dies at 23
- 1993 Arthur "Schneeze" Rollini, American big band jazz tenor saxophonist, dies at 81
- 1993 Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (Contribution to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay), dies at 86
- 1993 Irving Paul Lazar, American talent agent, dies of kidney failure at 86
- 1993 Mack David, American songwriter (Bachelor in Paradise), dies at 81
- 1994 Lloyd James Austin, Australian linguist and literary scholar, dies at 79
- 1995 Aleksi Machavariani, Soviet Georgian conductor, and composer (Den moei Rodini (Day of My Motherland); Five Monologues), dies at 82
- 1995 Clarence Satchell, American funk saxophonist (Ohio Players - "Fire";"Love Rollercoaster"), dies of a brain aneurysm at 55
- 1995 Doris Grau, American script supervisor, actress and voice artist (Point Blank, King Kong), dies from respiratory failure at 71
- 1995 Heiner Müller, German dramatist (Ten Days That Shook The World; The Battle), and theater director, dies of throat cancer at 66
- 1995 Ralph Flanagan [Flenniken], American big band leader, composer, and arranger ("Singing Winds", "Slow Poke"), dies at 81
- 1995 Roger W Suddards, solicitor, dies at 65
- 1996 (Marvin John) "Jack" Nance, American stage and screen actor (Eraserhead; Twin Peaks), dies at 53
- 1996 Lew Ayres, American actor (All Quiet on Western Front; Holiday; Dr. Kildare (films); Johnny Belinda), dies at 88
- 1996 Robert Grant-Ferris, British Conservative Party politician and RAF officer, dies at 89 [1]
- 1997 Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese novelist (b. 1926)
- 1998 George Webb, British actor (Keeping Up Appearances), dies of natural causes at 86
- 1998 Johnny Moore, American singer (The Drifters) (b. 1934)
- 1999 Donald Eugene Webb, American murderer (record length on FBI Most Wanted List), dies in hiding at 68
- 1999 Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer, dies at 90
- 1999 Sarah Knauss, oldest American supercentenarian and 3rd oldest person in the world (born 1880), dies at 119 years, 97 days
- 2000 Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (Casablanca), dies at 91
- 2000 Lionel Hebert, American golfer (PGA Championship 1957), dies at 72
- 2001 Ralph Sutton, American stride and Dixieland jazz pianist and composer, dies at 79
- 2002 Mary Brian, American actress (b. 1906)
- 2002 Mary Wesley, English novelist (b. 1912)
- 2003 Anita Mui, Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress, "Madonna of the East", dies of cancer at 40
- 2003 David Bale, South African-born activist (b. 1941)
- 2003 John Gregory Dunne, American writer, dies of a heart attack at 71
- 2003 Nora Heysen, Australian artist, first female Australian war artist, dies at 92
- 2004 Artie Shaw [Arthur Arshawsky], American bandleader, jazz clarinetist ("Begin the Beguine"), and actor, dies at 94
- 2005 Eddie Barlow, South African cricket all-rounder (30 Tests, 6 x 100, HS 201, 40 wickets; Transvaal, Eastern Province, Derbyshire CCC), dies after a brain haemorrhage at 65
- 2005 Rona Jaffe, American novelist (Mazes & Monsters), dies at 74
- 2006 Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
President of Iraq (1979-2003), hanged in Baghdad at 69
- 2006 Terry Peck, Falkland Islander (b. 1938) who acted as a scout for 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment in the Falklands War
- 2007 Bert Bolin, Swedish meteorologist (1st Chairman Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change), dies at 82
- 2008 Derek Wadsworth, British jazz composer and arranger, dies at 69
- 2008 Dick Green, Canadian actor
- 2009 Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia, dies at 69
- 2009 Rowland S. Howard, Australian guitarist (The Birthday Party) (b. 1959)
- 2010 Bobby Farrell, Aruban singer (Boney M) (b. 1949)
- 2010 Ellis Clarke, First President of Trinidad & Tobago (1976-87), dies at 93
- 2010 Michael Allinson, British-American stage and film actor (Man of the Century; Syriana), dies at 90
- 2010 Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (b. 1927)
- 2010 Roger Milliken, American millionaire (CEO of Milliken & Company), dies at 95
- 2011 Eva Zeisel, Hungarian-born ceramic designer, dies at 105
- 2011 Mirko Tremaglia, fiercely nationalist Italian politician, dies at 85
- 2011 Robert Horton, British businessman and CEO (BP), dies at 72
- 2012 Carl Woese, American microbiologist (defining the Archaea) and academic, dies of pancreatic cancer at 84
- 2012 Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist (Nobel 1986), dies at 103
- 2014 Deborah Bone, English mental health nurse who was the inspiration for the song "Disco 2000" by Jarvis Cocker, dies of multiple myeloma cancer at 51
- 2014 Erik Hansen, Danish canoeist (Olympic gold K-1 1000m 1960; World C'ship gold 1963), dies at 74
German-American actress and 1st actor to win multiple Academy Awards (The Great Ziegfeld 1936, The Good Earth 1937), dies at 104
- 2014 Patrick Gowers, British choral and film score composer (Viri Galilaei; Hamlet; Smiley's People), dies at 78
- 2014 Yolande Donlan, British-American actress (Jigsaw, Expresso Bongo, Penny Princess), dies at 94
- 2015 Donald Barron, Scottish accountant and CEO (Midland Bank), dies at 94
- 2015 Doug Atkins, American College/Pro Football HOF defensive end (Uni of Tennessee; NFL C'ship 1954, 63; First-team All-Pro 1963; 8×Pro Bowl; Cleveland Browns, Chicago Bears, NO Saints), dies at 85
- 2015 Howard Davis Jr., American boxer (Olympic gold lightweight 1976), dies from lung cancer at 59
- 2016 Tyrus Wong, Chinese-born American artist, film illustrator for Disney (Bambi) and Hallmark card designer, dies at 106 [1]
- 2018 Larry Austin, American classical and electronic composer and educator, dies at 88
- 2018 Mrinal Sen, Bengali film director (In Search of Famine), dies at 95
- 2019 Charles Williams, Lord Williams of Elvel, British and politician (Member of the House of Lords, 1985-2019), dies at 86
- 2019 Elizabeth Sellars, Scottish actress ("Chalk Garden"; "A Voyage Round My Father"), dies at 98 [1]
- 2019 Gertrude Himmelfarb, American conservative historian, dies at 97
- 2019 Johnny Ward, English rugby league hooker (4 Tests Great Britain, 3 England; Castleford 262 games), dies at 78
- 2020 Alto Reed [Thomas Cartmell], American saxophonist (Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band), dies of colon cancer at 72
- 2020 Eugene Wright, American jazz bassist (The Dave Brubeck Quartet), sometimes known as "The Senator", dies at 97 [1]
- 2020 Samuel Little, American serial killer (who confessed to 93 murders), dies at 80 [1]
- 2021 Gottfried Michael Koenig, German-Dutch composer, educator, and electronic music pioneer, dies at 95
- 2021 Karel Loprais, Czech rally driver (Dakar Rally truck category 1988, 94, 95, 98, 99, 2001), dies from COVID-19 at 72
- 2021 Sam Jones, American College/Basketball HOF guard (North Carolina Central Uni; 10 × NBA C'ships; NBA All-Star 1962, 64–66, 68; Boston Celtics), dies at 88
American broadcast journalist and 1st female nightly network news anchor (Today; 20/20; ABC-TV; The View), dies at 93 [1]
- 2022 Brian Glencross, Australian field hockey defender (93 caps; Olympic bronze 1964, silver 1968) and coach (Australia women Olympic gold 1988; Champions Trophy 1989, 91), dies of neurological disease at 81
- 2022 Bruce Roberts, American curler (World C'ship 1976; US C'ship 1966, 1967, 1976, 1977, 1984), dies at 80
- 2022 Don West, American professional wrestling announcer, dies of lymphoma at 59
- 2022 John Dellow, British law enforcement officer (Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner, 1982-87; Deputy Commissioner, 1987-91), dies at 91
- 2022 Vladimer Barkaia, Georgian soccer striker (2 caps USSR; Dinamo Tbilisi 226 games), dies at 85
- 2023 Tom Wilkinson, English stage and screen BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning actor (The Full Monty; John Adams; Michael Clayton), dies at 75 [1]
- 2024 Fraser Stoddart, Scottish-American chemist, 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work developing molecular machines, dies at 82
- 2024 Hugo Sotil, Peruvian soccer striker (62 caps; Deportivo Municipal, Barcelona, Alianza Lima), dies from kidney and liver failure at 75
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