- 644 Omar I, 2nd Caliph of Islam (634-44), oversaw conquest of Persia and Egypt, murdered at 59 or 60
- 899 Arnulf of Carinthia, last emperor of Austria-France, dies
- 1292 John Peckham, English archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 62
- 1521 Christina of Saxony, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, dies at 59
- 1596 Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico
- 1625 Christina of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen consort of Sweden as the wife of King Charles IX, dies at 52
- 1626 John Davies, English poet (b. 1569)
- 1632 Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer, dies at 71
- 1643 John Pym, English statesman (b. 1583)
- 1649 Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit, missionary to the Hurons and one of the eight Canadian Martyrs, killed by a Huron apostate at 36 [1]
- 1652 Joris van Geel, Belgian missionary in Africa (earliest know dictionary of Congolese Bantu), murdered at 35 [1]
- 1680 Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician (b. 1606)
- 1681 Gerard Terborch, the Younger, Dutch painter/etcher, dies
- 1691 Richard Baxter, English clergyman, theologian and leading Nonconformist, dies at 76
- 1695 Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist, dies at 69
- 1709 Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (Timocrates), dies at 74
- 1722 Elisabeth Charlotte "Liselotte", German-French duchess of Orleans, dies at 70
- 1744 Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle, duchess de Châteauroux, French mistress of King Louis XV of France, dies at 28
- 1745 Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist notorious for stealing the work of others, dies at 62
- 1746 Charles Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Derwentwater, British politician, dies at 53
- 1756 William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, British statesman and diplomat
- 1768 Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter, dies at 66
- 1779 Nathan Alcock, English physician (b. 1707)
- 1785 Antonio Maria Mazzoni, Italian opera composer, dies at 68
- 1811 Eliza Poe, English-American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar Allan Po, dies of tuberculosis at 23 or 24
- 1818 Petrus de Wacker van Zon, Dutch lawyer, jurist, and writer - as Bruno Dalberg, dies at 60
- 1830 H Benjamin Constant, French politician/writer, dies at 63
- 1831 James Hoban, architect who designed White House, dies
- 1850 Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian statesman, dies at 80
- 1854 George Cayley, English inventor who founded science of aerodynamics (built 1st glider to carry a person), dies at 80
- 1859 Thomas De Quincey, English writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater), dies at 74
- 1870 Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor, dies at 65
- 1874 Franz Wilhelm Ferling, German oboist and composer (48 études for oboe), dies at 78
- 1880 Charles Fisher, Canadian politician and jurist (Premier of the Colony of New Brunswick 1854-56, 1857-61), dies at 72 [1]
- 1885 William Henry Vanderbilt, American businessman, member of the Vanderbilt family, dies at 64
- 1894 Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician considered the founding father of Russian mathematics, dies at 73
- 1894 Willem Jan Frans Nuyens, Dutch physician and Roman Catholic historian, dies at 71
- 1896 Ernst Engel, German statistician and economist (Law of Engel), dies at 75
- 1900 Henry Russell, English pianist and composer, dies at 87
- 1900 James Roosevelt I, American horse breeder and father of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, dies at 72
King of Sweden (1872-1907), King of Norway (1872-1905) and poet, dies at 78
- 1910 George Doherty Johnston, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 78
- 1914 Maximilian von Spee, German Vice Admiral and commander of the German East Asia Squadron during World War I, killed in the Battle of the Falkland Islands at 53 along with two of his sons
- 1917 Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, British mathematician and astronomer, dies at 67
- 1917 Mendele Moykher Sforim [Sholem Abramovich], Lithuanian-Jewish writer (Dos Vinshfingeril (The Wishing Ring)), dies at 81
- 1923 Dom Joseph Pothier, French monk and musicologist, dies at 88
- 1924 (Franz) Xaver Scharwenka, German pianist, educator, and composer (Mataswintha), dies at 74
- 1926 Jan Six, Dutch art historian and art collector (Six Collection), dies at 69
- 1933 Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, Japanese admiral and politician (Prime Minister of Japan 1913-1914, 1923-1924), dies at 81
- 1934 Bernhard Seklas, German pianist, composer, conductor, and pedagogue thought to be the first jazz instructor, dies at 62
- 1937 Pavel Florensky, Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher and mathematician, shot and killed in a Bolshevik purge at 55
- 1938 Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (Sergeant Studer detective novels), dies of a stroke at 42
- 1939 Ernest Schelling, American child piano prodigy, conductor, and composer (A Victory Ball), dies of a cerebral embolism at 63
- 1940 George Exton Lloyd, Anglican Bishop and theologian (b. 1861)
- 1941 Frank "Pop" Morgenweck, American Basketball HOF contributor (team owner/coach in 18 cities), dies at 66
American architect known as the "architect of Detroit", dies at 73
- 1945 Alexander Siloti, Russian pianist and composer, dies at 82
- 1945 Richard M. Jones, American jazz pianist, accompanist, songwriter ("Trouble In Mind"), record producer (Louis Armstrong) and label manager (Okeh; Decca; Mercury), dies at 53
- 1948 Matthew Charlton, Australian politician, leader of the Australian Labor Party (1922-28), dies at 82
- 1951 Bobby Lowe, American baseball second baseman (first player to hit 4 HRs in one MLB game, 1894 Boston Beaneaters), dies at 86
- 1952 Charles Lightoller, British mariner (Second Officer of HMS Titanic), WWI Royal Navy officer, WWII Small Vessels Pool volunteer, dies of heart disease at 78
- 1954 Gladys George, American actress (Roaring Twenties), dies at 50
- 1955 Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist (Der Toncharakter), dies at 69
- 1956 Edgar Bainton, British-Australian composer (And I Saw a New Heaven; The Vindictive Staircase), and educator, dies at 76
- 1956 Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, British princess and granddaughter of Queen Victoria, dies at 84
- 1957 Reginald Sheffield, British actor (Suspicion; Of Human Bondage; Second Chance), dies at 56
American Baseball HOF outfielder (World Series 1912, 15, 20; AL MVP 1912; career batting average .345 [6th all-time]; Cleveland Indians) and manager (Cleveland Indians 1919-26), dies at 70
- 1961 William Beatton Moonie, Scottish composer (The Weird of Colbar; Echoes of Perthshire), dies at 71
- 1963 Field Marshal Sarit Dhanarajata, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908)
- 1967 John Mills, Sr., American jazz and pop singer (The Mills Brothers, 1936-56 - "Paper Doll", "Up A Lazy River", "The Glow-Worm"), dies at 85
Jr., 1st African-American astronaut and U.S. Air Force major, dies in a crash of an F-104 Starfighter while training at 32
- 1969 Vincenzo Davico, Italian composer (Polifemo; Requiem per la morte d’un povero), dies at 80
- 1970 Christopher Kelk Ingold, English chemist (Cahn–Ingold–Prelog priority rules), dies at 77
- 1972 George Collins, (Rep-Ill), dies at 47, in airplane crash
- 1974 Hugues Panassié, French jazz critic, record producer, and impresario (Hot Club de France), dies at 62
- 1975 Gary Thain, New Zealand bassist (Uriah Heep, 1972-75), dies of respiratory failure due to a heroin overdose, at 27
Israeli teacher, stateswoman and 4th Prime Minister of Israel (1969-74) known as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics, dies in of lymphatic cancer at 80
British musician, pop star and member of The Beatles (Imagine), shot and murdered outside of his home in NYC by Mark David Chapman at 40
- 1981 "Big" Walter [Horton], American blues harmonica player (Everybody's Fishin'), dies of heart failure at about 60 [year of birth disputed]
- 1982 André Kamperveen, Suriname footballer, politician, administrator, and pro-democracy advocate murdered by the military at 58
- 1982 Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist and communist advocate, murdered by the military at 31
- 1982 Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, and pro-democracy advocate murdered by the military
- 1982 Frank Wijngaarde, Suriname journalist and pro-democracy advocate murdered by the military
- 1982 Gerard Leckie, Suriname scholar and pro-democracy advocate murdered by the military at 39
- 1982 Harald Riedewald, Suriname attorney and pro-democracy advocate murdered by the military
- 1982 John Baboeram, Suriname lawyer and pro-democracy advocate murdered by the military
- 1982 Jozef Slagveer, Suriname journalist, and pro-democracy advocate murdered by the military
- 1982 Kenneth Goncalves, Suriname deacon and pro-democracy advocate murdered by the military
- 1982 Leslie Rahman, Suriname journalist, and pro-democracy advocate murdered by the military
- 1982 Marty Robbins, American country singer (Devil Woman; I Walk Alone), dies of complications following cardiac surgery at 57
- 1982 Surendre Rambocus, Suriname army lieutenant, and pro-democracy advocate murdered by the military at 29
- 1983 Slim Pickens [Louis Burton Lindley Jr], American rodeo performer and actor (Dr Strangelove; Blazing Saddles), dies following surgery at 64
- 1984 Luther Adler, American actor (D.O.A., The Desert Fox), dies at 81
- 1984 Razzle [Nicholas Dingley], British drummer (Hanoi Rocks), dies at 24
- 1984 Robert Jay Mathews, White Nationalist (b. 1953)
- 1987 José Casanova, Peruvian soccer midfielder (10 caps; Alianza Lima), dies in Alianza Lima air disaster at 23
- 1987 José González, Peruvian soccer goalkeeper (20 caps; Alianza Lima), dies in Alianza Lima air disaster at 33
- 1987 Marcos Calderón, Peruvian soccer coach (Peru 1975-79; Copa América 1975), dies in Alianza Lima air disaster at 59
- 1988 Anne Seymour, actress (Misty, Chevy Mystery Show), dies at 79
- 1988 Gene Quill, American jazz alto saxophonist (Phil Woods, Quincy Jones, Gerry Mulligan), dies at 60
- 1988 Herbert "Tubo" Rhoad, American baritone a cappella singer (The Persuasions - "Street Corner Symphony"; Frankly A Cappella: The Persuasions Sing Zappa), dies at 44
- 1989 Hans Hartung, German-French painter, dies at 85
- 1990 Boris Kochno, Russian ballet dancer (La Chatte) and librettist, dies at 86
- 1990 Martin Ritt, American actor and director (The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Slugger's Wife, End of the Game), dies at 76
- 1990 Pony Sherrell Metcalf, American singer, dies of heart attack at undisclosed age
- 1991 (Wilbur) "Buck" Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (Count Basie; Billie Holiday; Lester Young), and bandleader, dies at 80
- 1991 Kimberly Bergalis, got AIDS from health care worker, dies at 23
- 1992 William Shawn, American magazine editor (New Yorker, 1952-87), dies at 85
- 1993 Andre Cerf, French actor and filmmaker (Nana), dies at 93
- 1993 Carlotta Monti [Montijo], American actress and memoirist (W. C. Fields & Me), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 86
- 1994 Antônio Carlos Jobim [Tom Jobim], Brazilian singer-songwriter and composer (Getz/Gilberto), dies from pulmonary embolism at 67
- 1994 Israel Aaron Maisels, South African lawyer and communal leader, dies at 89
- 1995 Ernest L. Boyer, American educator and chancellor (NY's State Universities-SUNY), dies at 67
- 1995 George J. Lewis, Mexican actor (Don-Zorro), dies at 91
- 1995 John Gillett, British film critic and researcher, dies at 70
- 1995 Mikki Doyle, journalist, dies at 79
- 1996 Dorothy Schroeder, American baseball shortstop in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (1943-54), pictured in the Women in Baseball exhibit at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, New York, dies at 68
- 1996 Howard Rollins, American actor (Bannister-Wildside, Ed Harding-Another World), dies of AIDS related lymphoma complications at 46
- 1996 Marin Sorescu, Romanian poet, playwright and artist (Iona, House under surveillance), dies of a heart attack at 60
- 1997 Bob Bell, clown (WGN's 1st Bozo), dies at 75
- 1997 Léon Poliakov, French historian (The Aryan Myth), dies at 87
- 1997 Nicholas Polunin, British botanist and environmentalist, dies at 88
- 1999 Péter Kuczka, Hungarian writer, poet, and editor of science fiction, dies at 76
- 2000 Marvin Leath, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 11th district), dies at 69
- 2001 Don Tennant, American advertising executive (b. 1922)
- 2003 Rubén González, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1919)
- 2004 "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, American heavy metal guitarist (Pantera), shot and killed by crazed fan Nathan Gale while performing on stage at 38
- 2004 Nathan Gale, American murderer (Heavy metal Pantera's concert murder), dies at 25
- 2005 Donald James Martino, American classical composer (Notturno - Pulitzer Prize, 1974), dies at 74
- 2005 Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and writer (The Secret Agent's Blunder), dies at 90
- 2006 José Uribe, Dominican baseball player (b. 1959)
- 2006 Martha Tilton, American big band singer (Benny Goodman; Jimmy Dorsey), dies at 91 [1]
- 2007 Gerardo García Pimentel, Mexican journalist
- 2008 Oliver Postgate, English animator, puppeteer and writer, dies at 83
- 2008 Robert Prosky, Polish-American actor and comedian (Christine, Thief), dies at 77
- 2009 Luis Días, Dominican Composer (b. 1952).
- 2010 Murray Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey centre and NCAA coach (Detroit Red Wings; coach University of Denver 1956-77, 5 NCAA C'ships), dies at 94
- 2011 Dick Sims, American Hammond B-3 organist (Bob Seger; Eric Clapton), dies of cancer at 60
- 2011 Minoru Miky, Japanese composer for traditional Japanese instruments, dies at 84
- 2011 Zelman Cowen, Australian legal scholar (Governor General of Australia 1977-82), dies at 92
- 2013 Don Mitchell, American actor, dies at 70
- 2013 John Cornforth, Australian-British chemist (Nobel Prize 1975), dies at 96
- 2013 Sándor Szokolay, Hungarian composer and pedagogue, dies at 82
- 2014 Knut Nystedt, Norwegian organist, choral composer, and conductor, dies at 99
- 2015 Bonnie Lou [Mary Joan Okum] American rockabilly musician ("Tennessee Mambo"), dies at 91
- 2015 Mattiwilda Dobbs, American soprano, dies at 90
- 2016 Florence Finch, Filipino-American war hero who fought against the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, dies at 101 [1]
American astronaut who was the 1st American to orbit the earth and politician (Senator D-Ohio), dies at 95
- 2016 Joseph Mascolo, American actor (Stefano DiMera in "Days of Our Lives"), dies at 87
- 2016 Sheila Quinn, British nurse and adviser (British Red Cross), dies at 96
- 2018 Evelyn Berezin, American computer pioneer, invented first word processor, dies at 93
- 2018 Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Russian 'Grandmother of Russian Human Rights', dies at 91
- 2018 Roger the ripped kangaroo, famous for crushing a metal bucket like a paper cup, dies at 12 in Alice Springs of old age
- 2018 Rosanell Eaton, American voting rights advocate, dies at 97
- 2019 Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street (1969-2018), dies at 85
American rapper and singer-songwriter (All Girls Are the Same, Lucid Dreams), dies at 21 of a seizure at Chicago airport caused by toxic levels of oxycodone and codeine
American economist and Chairman of the US Federal Reserve (1979-87), dies at 92
- 2019 Rene Auberjonois, American actor and voice artist (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, God of War), dies of lung cancer at 79
- 2019 Rogério Pipi, Portuguese soccer forward (15 caps; Benfica), dies at 97
- 2020 Alejandro Sabella, Argentine soccer midfielder (8 caps; River Plate, Sheffield United, Estudiantes) and manager (Argentina 2011-14), dies from heart disease at 66
- 2020 Harold Budd, American avant-garde ambient pianist and composer (The Pavilion of Dreams), dies of COVID-19 at 84 [1]
- 2021 Barry Harris, American bebop jazz pianist (Cannonball Adderly; Lee Morgan; "The Bird of Red and Gold"), and educator, dies of COVID-19 complications at 91 [1]
- 2021 Jacques Zimako, French soccer forward (13 caps; Saint-Étienne, Sochaux, Bastia), dies at 69
- 2021 Lars Høgh, Danish soccer goalkeeper (8 caps; OB 603 games) and GK coach (Denmark, Brøndby IF), dies from pancreatic cancer at 62
- 2021 Ralph Tavares, Cape Verdean-American R&B and soul singer (Tavares - "Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel"), dies at 79
- 2021 Robbie Shakespeare, Jamaican reggae bassist (Sly & Robbie - "DJ Riot"), dies of kidney failure at 68
- 2022 Jackie McLeod, Canadian ice hockey right wing (World C'ship gold 1961; New York Rangers) and coach (Canada 1966-69, Olympic bronze 1968), dies at 92
- 2022 Miodrag Ješić, Serbian soccer defender (8 caps Yugoslavia; FK Partizan, Altay) and manager (FK Partizan, CSKA Sofia, FK Sarajevo), dies in a car accident at 64
- 2022 Tony Allen, English soccer left-back (3 caps; Stoke City 417 games), dies at 83
- 2023 Clyde Butts, West Indian cricket spin bowler (7 Tests, 10 wickets; Guyana), dies in a motor accident at 66
- 2023 Joe Solomon, West Indian cricket batsman (27 Tests, 1 x 100, 9 x 50, HS 100no; British Guiana, Berbice), dies at 93
- 2023 Paul Webb, American college basketball coach (Randolph–Macon College 1956-75, Old Dominion University 1975-85), dies at 94
- 2023 Ryan O'Neal, American actor (Love Story; Paper Moon; What's Up, Doc?), dies at 82 [1]
- 2024 Anthony Lloyd, British jurist (Lord Justice of Appeal, 1984-93), and member of the House of Lords, dies at 95
- 2024 Elizabeth Bainbridge, British opera singer (Covent garden, 1964-92), dies at 94
- 2024 Erwin Nypels, Dutch economist and D66 party politician (Minister of Housing, 1982; Member of Parliament, 1967-72 and 1982-89), dies at 91
- 2024 Nikos Sarganis, Greek soccer goalkeeper (58 caps; Olympiacos 144 games, Panathinaikos), dies at 70
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