- 335 St. Silvester I, Catholic Pope, dies in office
- 406 Godigisel, King of the Vandals, dies in battle against the Romans leading a vast horde across the Rheine
- 439 Melania the Younger, Roman monastery founder and saint, dies at about 56
- 1164 Margrave Ottokar III of Styria (b. 1124)
- 1194 Duke Leopold V of Austria (killed at a tournament) (b. 1157)
- 1297 Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1249)
- 1302 Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1238)
- 1382 Daigaku, Zen teacher/46th head of Engakuji, dies in Kamakura Japan
- 1384 John Wycliffe, English religious reformer, Oxford Professor and bible translator, dies at about 56
- 1424 Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, English military leader
- 1460 Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England, executed at 17
- 1460 Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, English nobleman who supported the Yorkist cause during the War of the Roses, beheaded at 60
- 1510 Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, dies at 38
- 1535 William Skeffington, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1465)
- 1568 Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (daimyō), dies at 75
- 1575 Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist, dies at 73
- 1583 Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologist, dies at 59
- 1610 Ludolph van Ceulen, German-Dutch mathematician who calculated π to 35 places, dies at 70
- 1616 Jacques Le Maire, pirate/explorer (Lemaire Strait), dies at 31
- 1640 John Francis Regis, French priest and Roman Catholic saint, dies of pneumonia at 43
- 1647 Giovanni Maria Trabaci, composer, dies
- 1650 Dorgon, Manchu prince (Prince-Regent for Shunzhi Emperor, 1643-50) who introduced compulsory wearing of hair in queues for Han men, dies during a hunting trip at 38
- 1652 Frances Cecil, 2nd wife of English earl of Shaftesbury, dies
- 1673 Oliver St John, English statesman and judge
- 1679 Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608)
- 1691 Dudley North, English financier and economist (wrote work advocating for free-trade), dies at 50
English astronomer and 1st Astronomer Royal, dies at 73
- 1733 Hubert K Poot, Dutch poet (Akkerleven (Field Life); Minnezangen (Love Songs)), dies at 44
- 1742 Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine (1716-42), dies at 81
Irish General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, dies in attack on Quebec at 37
- 1783 Gualtherus van Doeveren, Dutch physician, and educator (University of Groningen, Leiden University). dies of gout at 53
- 1799 Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer, dies at 76
- 1802 Francis Lewis, Welsh-American merchant and US Founding Father (signed the Declaration of Independence), dies at 89
- 1802 Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen, German composer, dies at 53
- 1809 Franz Ignaz Beck, composer, dies at 75
- 1818 Jean-Pierre Duport, French composer and cellist, dies at 77
- 1848 Oliver Shaw, early American composer, dies at 69
- 1859 Luigi Ricci, Italian composer, dies at 54
- 1862 James Edward Rains, American lawyer and Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in Battle of Stone's River at 29
- 1862 Joshua Woodrow Sill, US Union brigadier general, dies in Battle of Stone's River at 31
- 1864 George Mifflin Dallas, American politician (11th Vice President of the United States) and United States Minister to Russia, dies at 72
- 1872 Aleksis Kivi, Finnish writer and poet (Kanervala), dies at 38
- 1877 Alberto Mazzucato, composer, dies at 64
- 1877 Gustave Courbet, French realist painter (Demoiselles the la Seine), dies at 58
- 1880 Arnold Ruge, German political philosopher and writer, dies at 78
- 1882 Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney and 37th Prime Minister of France (1881-82), dies at 44
- 1886 Charles Pierre Schimpf, Dutch general and governor of Suriname (1855-59), dies at 73
- 1888 Samson Raphael Hirsch, German Orthodox rabbi and intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism, dies at 80
- 1889 Ion Creanga, Moldavian-born Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie) author, dies at 52
- 1890 Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (Costa Rica's first woman in the military), dies at 74
- 1893 Jacob Gijsbert de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch vicar and theologian, dies at 74
- 1894 Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician (Stieltjes-integral), dies at 38
- 1896 Leland Hone, Irish cricket wicketkeeper (1 Test; first Irishman to represent England; MCC), dies at 43
- 1900 Hannibal Goodwin, Episcopal priest who patented a method for making film used in Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, dies at 78
- 1907 Jules de Trooz, Belgium politician and Prime Minister of Belgium (1907), dies in office at 50
- 1910 Archibald Hoxsey, American pioneer aviator (worked for the Wright brothers), dies at 26
- 1910 John Bevins Moisant, American pioneer aviator, first to cross English Channel with passenger and a cat, killed in New Orleans whose present day airport was originally name for him, dies at 42
- 1910 John Creed Moore, American Confederate Army general (Battles of Corinth and Vicksburg) and teacher, dies at 86
- 1916 Alice Ball, African American chemist (developed treatment for leprosy), dies at 24
- 1916 Ernst Rudorff, composer, dies at 76
- 1920 Albert Roelofs, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 43
- 1921 Boies Penrose, American politician (U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (1897-1921)), dies at 61
- 1921 József Kiss, Hungarian literary (Zsido Dalok), dies at 78
- 1922 Richard Zeckwer, German-American organist, composer (The Bride of Messina), and educator (Philadelphia Musical Academy, 1876-1917), dies at 72
- 1936 Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Span philosopher/poet (Cancionero), dies at 72
- 1936 William Frederick Archdall Ellison, Irish clergyman and astronomer (director of the Armagh Observatory), dies at 72
- 1938 Richard Nicolaas Roland Holst, Dutch artist and painter, dies at 70
- 1941 Sigwart Aspestrand, Norwegian composer, dies at 85
- 1945 Don Douglas, Scottish actor (The Black Castle), dies at 40
- 1946 Frederik "Frits" Tartaud, Dutch actor, and husband of Dutch actress Alida Klein, dies at 89
- 1947 Franz Ritter von Epp, German general and Nazi official (Reichsstatthalter for Bavaria 1933-45), dies awaiting trial at Nuremberg at 79
British auto racer (world land and water speed record holder), dies of a stroke at 63
- 1949 Raimond Valgre [Tiisel], Estonian popular music composer and musician ("A Little Story in the Music", "Saaremaa Waltz"), dies at 36
- 1950 Charles Koechlin, French composer (The Jungle Book), dies at 83
- 1950 Karl Renner, Austrian President (1918-20, 45-50), dies at 80
- 1951 H. Guy Bedwell, American thoroughbred trainer (North American champion in wins x 7; earnings 1918-19; first Triple Crown winner, Sir Barton), dies at 76
- 1951 Maxim Litvinov [Meir Genoch Moiseyevich Wallach] Russian statesman, revolutionary and diplomat (People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs.1930-39, Soviet Ambassador to the US 1940-43), dies at 75
- 1951 Philipp Abraham Kohnstamm, Dutch philosopher and physicist, dies at 76
- 1953 Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer and founder (KLM), dies at 64
- 1954 Peter Van Anrooy, Dutch conductor and composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie), dies at 75
- 1958 Hermann Unger, German composer, music journalist, pedagogue and administrator (Rheinische Musikschule), dies at 72
- 1960 Germaine Loosveldt, Flemish-Belgian stage and screen actress (Met den helm geboren), dies at 69
- 1960 Semyon Bogatyrev, Russian and Soviet musicologist and composer (completed a symphony abandoned by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky), dies at 70
- 1960 Semyon Semyonovich Bogatiryov, composer, dies at 70
- 1964 Gertrude Michael, American actress (Cleopatra, Menace, Club Havana, caged), dies from undisclosed causes at 53
- 1964 Ólafur Thors, Icelandic Prime Minister (5 times between 1942-63), dies at 72
- 1966 Nipo T. Strongheart, Native American activist, lecturer and film consultant (Pony Soldier), dies at 75
- 1966 Pieter Geyl, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch Race), dies at 79
- 1967 Arthur Mailey, Australian cricket spin bowler (21 Tests, 99 wickets; 10/66 v Gloucestershire 1921), dies at 81
- 1968 Carl Ahues, German Chess Master (1950), dies at 85
- 1968 George Lewis [Joseph Zenon], American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (Bunk Johnson; Preservation Hall Jazz Band; "Burgundy Street Blues"), dies at 68
- 1968 Sabin Drăgoi, Romanian composer, dies at 74
- 1969 Joseph A Yablonski, American labor leader, and candidate for United Mine Workers (UMW) president, murdered in his home by hitmen hired by then-president of UMW. at 59
- 1969 Salvatore Baccaloni, Italian operatic bass buffo singer (Metropolitan Opera, 1940-62), and actor (Merry Andrew; Rock-a-Bye Baby), dies at 69
- 1970 Cyril Scott, English composer and author (Alchemist), dies at 91
- 1971 Marin Sais, American actress (b. 1890)
- 1971 Pete Duel [Deuel], American stage and screen actor (Gidget; Love on a Rooftop; Alias Smith and Jones), commits suicide at 31
- 1971 Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist "Father of the Indian Space Program", dies of a cardiac arrest at 52
- 1974 Donalee Tabern, American scientist and inventor of Pentothal - world's most widely used anesthetic, dies at 74 [1]
- 1975 Donal Michalsky, American composer, dies in a fire at 47
- 1977 Nora Marlowe, actress (Sara-Gov & JJ), dies at 62
- 1977 Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, ruler of Kuwait (b. 1924)
- 1980 Arthur Wellard, English cricket all-rounder (2 Tests, 7 wickets, BB 4/81; Somerset CCC), dies at 78
- 1980 Bob Shawkey, American baseball pitcher (World Series 1923, 27; AL ERA leader 1920, New York Yankees), dies at 90
Canadian writer and 'prophet of the digital age' (the medium is the message), dies at 69
- 1980 Raoul Walsh, American film director (The Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry), dies of a heart attack at 93
- 1981 Frantisek Chaun, Czech pianist, composer, painter, and actor, dies at 60
- 1982 Kurt Otto Friedrichs, German-American mathematician, and educator (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), dies at 82
- 1983 Frank Link, actor (Burns & Schreiber Comedy Show), dies at 46
American pop-rock star ("Hello Mary Lou"; "It's Late"; "Garden Party") and actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), dies in a plane crash at 45
- 1985 Mal Matheson, New Zealand cricket fast bowler (2 Tests) and rugby union Test referee (Australia v NZ 1946), dies at 79
- 1985 Sam Spiegel, American film producer (On the Waterfront, The Bridge on the River Kwai), dies at 84
- 1986 Lester Trimble, American composer, music critic and educator, dies at 63
- 1986 Lloyd Haynes, American actor (Room 222- "Pete Dixon"), and screenwriter, dies of lung cancer at 52 [1]
- 1987 Leo Steiner, American restaurateur and co-owner of the Carnegie Deli, dies at 48 (b. circa 1939)
- 1987 Randall Garrett, American author (Too Many Magicians; Takeoff!), dies after a long illness at 60
- 1990 Dalton Cathey, American actor dies of AIDS at 44
- 1990 George Allen, American Pro Football HOF coach, 1966-78 (NFL Coach of the Year 1967, 71; Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins), dies of heart failure at 72
- 1990 Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev, Soviet Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, Soyuz 18A), dies at 62
- 1991 Felicja Blumental, Polish-Brazilian concert pianist (Villa-Lobos' Piano Concerto No. 5; Penderecki's Partita for Harpsichord), dies at 83
- 1991 Georges Poulet, French-Belgian critic (Temps Humain), dies at 89
- 1992 Denis Barnett, British air chief marshal (WWII, Suez Canal), dies at 86
- 1993 Arthur Dreifuss, director and producer (Murder in Amsterdam), dies at 85
- 1993 Brandon Teena, American trans man and hate crime victim, murdered at 21
- 1993 Lambert Fokkema, founder Dutch Export Combination, dies at 80
American businessman (President of IBM, 1952-71), and US Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1979-81), dies of a stroke at 79
- 1993 Zviad Gamsachurdia, President of Georgia SSR (1991-1993), suicide at 54
- 1993 Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first President of Georgia (1991-92), dies from gunshot wound at 54 [disputed]
- 1994 BAM "Bob" Schreiner, airline owner (S Aviation Group), dies at 79
- 1994 Harri Webb, Welsh poet and nationalist, dies at 74
- 1994 Leigh Bowery, Australian performance artist and designer, dies of AIDS at 33
- 1994 Leo Fuchs, Polish-born Jewish American actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, Avalon), dies at 83
- 1994 Marjorie Sweeting, English geomorphologist, dies at 74
American football end (LA Rams, Calgary Stampeders) and actor (Posse, Cotton Club, Vigilante, Scream), dies of lung cancer at 80
- 1995 Calvin/Hobbes, (comic strip), dies
- 1995 Eduardo Hernández Moncada, Mexican composer and pianist, dies at 96
- 1996 61 law enforcement officers, killed by felons in US this year
- 1996 Ann Susan Hills, freelance journalist, dies at 55
- 1996 David Sinclair, actor (Love & Hate), dies at 62
- 1996 Frederico Davia, Italian operatic basso singer, and artistic director, dies at 63
- 1996 Michael Roberts, English historian ("The Military Revolution: 1560-1660"), dies at 88
- 1996 Philip Manson-Bahr, English zoologist and specialist in tropical medicine, dies at 85
- 1996 Wesley Addy, American actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Bostonians, Loving), dies at 83
- 1997 76 law enforcement officers, killed by felons in US this year
- 1997 Billie Dove [Lilian Bohny], American actress (Black Pirate, Stolen Bride), dies at 96
- 1997 Dominique de Menil, French-American arts patron (Menil Collection Houston) and human rights advocate, dies at 89
- 1997 Floyd Cramer, American Country Music Hall of Fame pianist ("Last Date", "On the Rebound"), dies of cancer at 64
- 1997 Michael Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, dies in ski accident at 39
- 1999 Elliot Richardson, American attorney and administrator (Secretary of Defense, 1973; Attorney General, 1973; Ambassador to UK, 1975-76; Secretary of Commerce, 1976-77), and WWII veteran, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 79
- 2000 Alan Cranston, American politician (US Senator from California, 1969-93), dies at 86
- 2000 Eddy Shaver, American country-rock guitarist and songwriter, dies of a heroin overdose at 38
- 2000 José Greco, Italian-born American flamenco dancer and choreographer, dies of heart failure at 82
- 2001 Eileen Heckart, American actress (Butterflies Are Free, Doll's House, Trauma Center), dies of lung cancer at 82
- 2001 John Grigg, 2nd Baron Altrincham, British writer and historian, dies at 77
- 2002 D. J. Enright, English poet and novelist (Some Men are Brothers), dies at 82
- 2002 Kevin Macmichael, Canadian guitarist, songwriter and record producer (Cutting Crew - "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"), dies of lung cancer at 51
- 2003 Arthur R. von Hippel German physicist (pioneer in the study of dielectrics, ferromagnetic and ferroelectric materials, and semiconductors and was a codeveloper of radar during World War II), dies at 105
- 2003 Paula Raymond, American actress and model (The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms), dies at 79
- 2004 Gérard Debreu, French-American economist (Nobel 1983), dies at 83
- 2005 Enrico di Giuseppe, American tenor, dies of cancer at 73
- 2005 Phillip Whitehead, British politician (b. 1937)
- 2006 Liese Prokop, Austrian pentathlete (Olympic silver 1968), dies at 65
- 2007 Bill Idelson, American actor (b. 1919)
- 2007 Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect, industrial engineer, furniture and product designer, dies at 90
- 2007 Kathryn Ish, American actress (b. 1936)
- 2007 Markku Peltola, Finnish actor (The Man Without A Past), and art-rock bassist and singer (Motelli Skronkle), dies at 51
- 2007 Michael Goldberg, American painter (b. 1924)
- 2007 Milton L. Klein, Canadian politician (b. 1910)
- 2007 Tommy Dickson, British footballer (b. 1929)
- 2007 Tony Elliott, American football player (b. 1959)
- 2008 Donald E. Westlake, American author (The Hunter), dies at 75
- 2009 Earl Gaines, American R&B, soul, and electric blues singer (It's Love Baby (24 Hours a Day)), dies at 74
- 2011 Omus Hirshbein, classical music impresario and music director, dies at 77
- 2011 Penny Halsall [Penelope Jones], British romance novelist under pen names of Caroline Courtney, Melinda Wright, Lydia Hitchcock, Penny Jordan, and Annie Groves, dies of cancer at 65
- 2013 Al Porcino, American big band jazz and session trumpeter (Woody Herman, Stan Kenton), dies after a fall at 88
- 2013 James Avery, American actor, dies from complications from surgery at 68
- 2013 John Fortune [John C. Wood], English satirist and comedian (Bremner, Bird and Fortune), dies at 74
- 2014 Charles Kelly, British police (Chief Constable of Staffordshire, 1976-96), dies of cancer at 84
- 2014 Edward Herrmann, American actor, director, and writer (Gilmore Girls, Annie, Richie Rich, The Lost Boys) dies from brain cancer at 71
- 2015 Beth Howland, American actress (Alice - "Vera"; Company), dies at 74
- 2015 Dal Richards, Canadian musician, bandmaster and composer who discovered singer Michael Bublé, dies at 96 [1]
American Grammy Award-winning pop vocalist ('This Will Be"; "Pink Cadillac"; "Miss You Like Crazy"; "Unforgettable"), dies of heart failure at 65
- 2015 Wayne Rogers, American actor (M*A*S*H, 1972-75 - "Capt. 'Trapper' John McIntyre"; House Calls), dies of pneumonia at 82
- 2016 William Christopher, American comedian and actor (M*A*S*H & AfterMASH - "Father Mulcahy"), dies at 84
- 2017 Maurice Peress, American conductor (Kansas City Philharmonic, 1974-80), dies at 87
- 2018 Dean Ford (Thomas McAleese), Scottish singer-songwriter (Marmalade), dies from complications relating to Parkinson's disease at 72 [1]
- 2018 Richard Marks, American film editor (Apocalypse Now; Broadcast News), dies at 75
- 2018 Urban "Urbie" Green, American jazz trombonist (Woody Herman; Buck Clayton; Hugo Montenegro), dies at 92
- 2019 Basil Watts, English rugby league second rower (5 Tests Great Britain, 1 England; World Cup 1954; York RLFC), dies at 93
- 2019 Christian Kellens, Belgian jazz trombonist, dies at 94
- 2020 Joan Micklin Silver, American film director (Hester Street; Crossing Delancey), dies at 85
- 2020 Richard Thornburgh, 76th United States Attorney General (1988-91) and 41st Governor of Pennsylvania (dealt with Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown), dies at 88 [1]
- 2020 Tommy Docherty, Scottish soccer midfielder (25 caps; Preston North End) and manager (Chelsea, QPR, Scotland, Manchester United), dies at 92
American Emmy Award-winning comic actress with the longest TV career of a female entertainer (The Mary Tyler Moore Show - "Sue Ann Nivens"; Golden Girls - "Rose"; The Proposal), dies after suffering a stroke at 99 [1]
- 2021 Billy Turner Jr., American thoroughbred trainer (Triple Crown 1977 Seattle Slew), dies from prostate cancer at 81
- 2021 Juraj Filas, Slovak composer (Oratio Spei/ (Prayer of Hope), dies of COVID-19 at 66
- 2021 Liisa Pohjola, Finnish concert pianist and music professor, dies at 85
- 2022 Anita Pointer, American pop and R&B singer (The Pointer Sisters - "He's So Shy"; "I'm So Excited"), dies at 74
- 2022 Barry Lane, English golfer (European Masters 1993; Andersen Consulting World C'ship of Golf 1995), dies from cancer at 62
German Catholic Pope (2005-13), dies at 95 [1]
- 2022 Jeremiah Green, American drummer (Modest Mouse), dies of cancer at 45
- 2022 Sergei Bautin, Belarusian ice hockey defenceman (Olympic gold Unified Team 1992; Winnipeg Jets, Detroit Red Wings, San Jose Sharks), dies at 55
- 2023 Ana Ofelia Murguía, Mexican actress (Mamá Coco-Coco; La Reina de la Noche), dies at 90
American auto racer (NASCAR Cup Series 1976, 77, 78; Daytona 500 1968, 77, 83, 84), dies at 84 [1]
- 2023 Shecky Greene [Fred Sheldon Greenfield], American stand-up comedian and actor (Love Machine; Combat), dies at 97 [1]
- 2024 Arnold Rüütel, Estonian agronomist and politician (President of Estonia, 2001-06), dies at 96
- 2024 Buddy MacKay, American politician (Rep-D-FL, 1983-89), Governor of Florida for 24 days, dies at 91
- 2024 Tom Johnson, American minimalist composer (The Four-Note Opera; Nine Bells; An Hour for Piano), and music critic (Village Voice, 1971-83), dies at 85
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