- 378 Great Jaguar Paw, Ruler of the Maya city of Tikal, disposed and presumed killed by the invasion of Teotihuacan General Siyaj K'ak'
- 973 Ekkehard I, monk of St Gallen (Vita Waltharii manu fortis), dies
- 1163 Ladislaus II, Árpád dynasty King of Hungary and Croatia (1162-63), dies at about 31 [exact birthdate uncertain]
- 1236 Sava [Rastko], son of Serbia's king and saint, dies at 64
- 1301 Andrew III, Venetian King of Hungary and Croatia (1290-1301), dies at 50 ending the Arpad dynasty in Hungary
- 1331 Odoric of Podenone, Italian Franciscan friar and explorer (travelled to India, Borneo and China) (b. 1286)
- 1623 Paolo Sarpi, Italian church historian and politician, dies at 70
- 1640 Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge (b. 1578)
- 1648 Casparus Barleaus, Dutch humanist, theologist and poet (Muiderkring), dies at 63
- 1676 Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, dies at 73
- 1679 Jacques de Billy, French Jesuit mathematician (number theory), dies at 76
- 1701 Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord, dies at 72
- 1766 Frederick V, King of Denmark-Norway (1746-66), dies at 42
- 1772 Princess Mary of Great Britain, dies at 48
- 1786 Meshech Weare, American farmer, lawyer, and Governor of New Hampshire, dies at 72
- 1786 Michael Arne, English composer (b. 1740 or 1741)
- 1802 Marie Allard, French ballerina (Auguste Vestris), dies at 59
- 1817 Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer, dies at 87
- 1819 John Wolcot, English satirist (Peter Pindar), dies at 80
- 1822 Franz Innocenz Joseph Kobell, German landscape painter, dies at 72
- 1825 George Dance the Younger, English architect (b. 1741)
- 1830 Johann Georg Repsold, German scientific instrument maker, astronomer, and fireman, dies fighting a fire at 59
- 1833 Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint, dies at 73
- 1850 Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch merchant and ship owner, dies at 93
- 1867 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather), dies at 86
- 1872 Greyfriars Bobby, a Skye-Terrier who spent 14 years guarding the grave of his owner John Gray, dies at 16
- 1874 Johann Philipp Reis, German Physicist and Inventor, dies of lung disease at 40
- 1887 Friedrich von Amerling, Austrian painter, dies at 83
- 1887 Peter Donders, Dutch Roman Catholic missionary to Suriname, dies at 77
- 1888 Stephen Heller, Hungarian composer and pianist, dies at 74
- 1889 Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (b. 1834)
- 1890 Francesco D'Arcais, Italian composer, dies at 59
- 1892 Henry Edward Manning, English Roman Catholic Cardinal (Archbishop of Westminster 1865-92), dies at 83
- 1892 Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, British prince and second in line to the throne dies during the 1889-1890 pandemic at 28
- 1892 Robert Ransom Jr, American Confederate general (Battle of Fredericksburg), dies at 63
English author (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 65
- 1901 Charles Hermite, French mathematician (proof that e is transcendental), dies at 78
- 1901 Mandell Creighton, British historian and a bishop of the Church of England, dies at 57
- 1901 Victor Balaguer, Catalan Spanish historian, politician, author, dies at 76
- 1902 Cato M. Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician and chemist (law of mass action), dies at 65
- 1905 Ernst Abbe, German physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company), dies at 64
- 1907 Karl von Perfall, German composer, dies at 82
- 1907 Sir James Fergusson, British politician, and governor of South Australia, New Zealand and Bombay (b. 1832)
- 1908 Holger Drachmann, Danish writer (Modern Breakthrough Movement), dies at 61
- 1909 Zinovy Rozhestvensky, Russian Imperial Navy Vice-Admiral (Battle of Tsushima - loss to Japan devastates fleet, ends Russo-Japanese War), dies of a heart attack at 60
- 1912 Otto Liebmann, German philosopher (Kant & Epigones), dies at 71
- 1915 Richard Meux Benson, founder of Anglican religious order (b. 1824)
- 1916 Otto Ammon, German anthropologist and sociologist (schedelmetingen), dies at 73
- 1920 John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (Co-Founder of Dodge Brothers Company), dies at 55
- 1923 Zübeyde Hanım, Mother of Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (b. 1857)
- 1924 Arne Garborg, Norwegian playwright (Mannfolk), dies at 72
- 1929 Cornelis Lely, Dutch civil engineer (Zuiderzee dam and dyke works), and politician (Governor of Suriname, 1902-05; Senator, 1910-13), dies at 74
- 1931 William Ernst Johnson, British mathematician (exchangability), dies at 72
- 1935 Heinrich Schenker, Austrian musicologist (Urlinie) know for his Schenkerian analysis of music, dies at 66
- 1937 Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist, dies at 47
- 1942 Porfirio Barba-Jacob [Miguel Ángel Osorio], Colombian poet and writer (Poemas intemporales), dies of tuberculosis at 58
- 1943 Adolf Sandberger, German composer and musicologist, dies at 78
- 1944 Mohammed Emin Yurdakul, Turkish poet, dies at about 74
- 1945 Sándor Vándor, Hungarian Jewish composer, murdered in the Holocaust at 43 [1]
- 1947 Bill Hewitt, American Pro Football HOF end (4 × First-team All-Pro; Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles; one last players to not wear a helmet), dies in a car crash at 37
- 1948 Anna "Ans" van Dike, Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator, executed at 42
- 1949 Joaquín Turina, Spanish pianist and composer (Rima), dies at 66
- 1952 Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (Peace Symphony; Paradise and Peri), and educator, dies at 73
- 1956 Siegfried Frederick Nadel, Austrian-British anthropologist (Nuba), dies at 52
American actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny), dies of cancer of the esophagus at 57
- 1959 G. D. H. Cole, English political theorist and socialist, dies at 69
- 1961 Ernest Thesiger, English actor (Brass Monkey, Ghoul), dies at 81
- 1961 Henry Geehl, English composer, dies at 79
- 1963 Gustav Regler, German writer, dies at 64
- 1965 Jeanette MacDonald, American soprano (When I'm Calling You), dies at 63
- 1966 Bill Carr, American athlete (Olympic gold 400m, 4 x 400m 1932), dies at 56
Soviet Russian rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (Sputnik; Voskhod), dies during surgery at 59
- 1967 Renato Lunelli, Italian organist, composer, and musicologist, dies at 71
- 1968 Dorothea Mackellar, Australian poet (My Country) (b. 1885)
- 1970 John J "Johnny" Murphy, American baseball pitcher (NY Yankees), dies at 61
- 1970 William Feller, Croatian-American mathematician known for probability theory, dies at 63
- 1971 Ethel Glenn Hier, American composer, dies at 82
- 1972 Frederik IX, King of Denmark (1947-72), dies at 72
- 1974 Josef Smrkovský, Czechoslovak communist politician, dies at 62
- 1976 Abdul Razak bin Hussain, Malaysian politician, Prime Minister of Malaysia (1970-77), dies at 53
- 1977 Anaïs Nin, French author (Henry and June), dies of cervical cancer at 73
British-Australian radio, stage, and BAFTA and Academy Award-winning screen actor (Network; The Nun's Story; Raid on Entebbe), dies of a heart attack at 60
- 1978 Blossom Rock [Edith Marie Blossom MacDonald], American actress (Grandmamma-The Addams Family), dies at 81
- 1978 Harold Abrahams, British athlete (Olympic gold 100m, silver 4x100m 1924; depicted in film "Chariots of Fire"), dies at 78
- 1978 Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American mathematician (Gödel's incompleteness theorems), dies at 71
- 1978 Robert Heger, German conductor and composer, dies at 91
- 1979 Thomas DeSimone, American gangster associate of the Lucchese crime family, missing thought murdered (b. 1950)
- 1980 Robert Ardrey, American author (b. 1908)
- 1981 John O'Grady, Australian writer (Nino Culotta) (b. 1907)
American drama critic (The New York Times), dies at 89
- 1984 Mary Zeldenrust-Noordanus, Dutch sexuologist (NVSH), dies at 55
- 1984 Paul Ben Haim [Frankenburger], Israeli composer, dies at 86
- 1985 Jetta Goudal, French actress (White Gold), dies at 86
- 1986 Daniel Balavoine, French pop-rock and world music singer-songwriter ("S.O.S. d'un terrien en détresse"; "Sauver l'amour"), dies in a helicopter crash in Africa at 33
- 1986 Donna Reed, American actress (From Here to Eternity; It's a Wonderful Life; The Donna Reed Show), dies of cancer at 64
- 1986 Walter Leblanc, Belgian avant-garde painter and visual artist, dies in a car accident at 53
- 1987 Alton Purnell, American Dixieland jazz pianist, and singer, dies at 75
- 1987 Douglas Sirk, German American film director (All That Heaven Allows), dies at 86
Soviet leader who was briefly leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death (1953-55), dies in obscurity at 86
- 1989 George Kilpatrick, Canadian-British bible scholar (University of Oxford), dies at 78
- 1990 David Arkin, American actor (I Love You Alice B Toklas), takes his own life at 49
- 1990 Mani Madhava Chakyar, Koodiyattam artist and Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899)
- 1991 Gordon Bryant, Australian Labor Party politician (Member of Parliament, 1955-80), dies at 76
- 1991 Sallah Kharaf [Abu Iyad], Palestine deputy head of the PLO under Arafat, assassinated at 57 or 58
- 1993 Elisabeth Antoinette de Vreugd, chambermaid for Dutch Queen, dies at 98
- 1993 Manfred Lachs, Polish lawyer (Intl Court of Justice), dies
- 1994 Esther Ralston, American actress (Tin Pan Alley, San Francisco Docks), dies at 91
- 1994 Federica Montseny, Spanish anarchist and government Minister of Health (1936), dies at 80
- 1994 Zino Davidoff, Ukrainian--Swiss tobacco entrepreneur (cigars; desktop humidors), dies at 87
- 1995 Alexander Gibson, British conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera, dies at 68
- 1995 Mark Finch, English LGBT film festival organizer, commits suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge at 33
- 1995 Ruby Starr [Constance Henrietta Mierzwiak], American rock singer (Black Oak Arkansas), dies of a brain tumor at 44
- 1995 Stafford William Somerfield, British newspaper editor, dies at 84
- 1996 Eric Briault, British educationalist who advocated for comprehensives, dies at 84
- 1996 Jacques LeBrun, French yachtsman (Olympic gold - Snowbird class, 1932), dies at 85
- 1996 Pamelo Mounk'a, Congolese musician, dies at 50
- 1997 Dollard Ménard, French Canadian general (b. 1913)
- 1997 King Hu, Chinese film director, (wuxia films), dies at 64
- 1999 Aldo van Eyck, Dutch architect (City Hall), dies at 80
- 1999 Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)
- 1999 Robin Bailey, British actor (See No Evil, I Didn't Know You Cared), dies of respiratory failure at 79
- 2000 Charles Pick, British publisher and chair of the Heinemann Group, dies from brain tumour at 82
- 2000 Tony Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury, British crossbencher peer and scientist, dies at 91
- 2001 Burkhard Heim, German physicist (b. 1925)
- 2003 Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter, dies at 100
- 2004 Ron O'Neal, American actor (Super Fly), dies of cancer at 66
- 2004 Uta Hagen, German-American actress and theatre practitioner (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), dies at 84
- 2004 Valfar, Norwegian heavy metal musician (Windir), dies in a snowstorm at 25
- 2005 Charlotte MacLeod, American writer (b. 1922)
- 2005 Conroy Maddox, English painter (b. 1912)
- 2005 Jesús-Rafael Soto, Venezuelan kinetic artist (b. 1923)
- 2005 Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b. 1940)
- 2006 Henri Colpi, French New Wave film editor and director, dies at 84
- 2006 Jim Gary, American sculptor known for whimsical monumental art and sculptors of large, colorful dinosaurs made from discarded automobile parts, dies of complications from a cerebral hemorrhage at 66
- 2006 Mark Philo, English footballer, dies in a car crash at 21
American Oscar and Emmy Award-winning actress (Lolita; A Place in the Sun; A Patch of Blue; The Poseidon Adventure), dies of heart failure at 85
- 2007 Barbara Kelly, Canadian-born actress (What's My Line?, United Kingdom), dies at 83
- 2007 Darlene Conley, American actress (Sally Spectra in "The Bold and the Beautiful"), dies of cancer at 72
- 2008 Judah Folkman, American pediatric surgeon and cancer researcher (angiogenesis), dies of a heart attack at 74
- 2009 Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin, dies at 71
- 2009 Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II, Naked Gun), dies of congestive heart failure at 88
- 2010 Bobby Charles [Guidry], Cajun-American swamp rock singer-songwriter ("See You Later, Alligator", "Walkin' to New Orleans"), dies at 71
- 2010 Petra Schürmann, German model and TV announcer, Miss World 1956 (b. 1935)
- 2011 Ben Wada, Japanese television producer (NHK), dies at 80
- 2011 Trish Keenan, lead vocalist of English band Broadcast (b. 1968)
- 2013 Conrad Bain, Canadian actor (Maude, Diff'rent Strokes), dies from natural causes at 89
- 2013 Giorgio Alverà, Italian bobsledder (World C'ship gold Two-man 1975), dies at 69
- 2014 Flavio Testi, Italian composer and musicologist, dies at 91
- 2014 Juan Gelman, Argentine poet, dies at 84
- 2014 Mae Young, American professional wrestler and one of the pioneers in women's wrestling (National Wrestling Alliance, WWF), dies at 90
English actor (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Die Hard, Harry Potter), dies of cancer at 69
- 2016 Leonid Zhabotinsky, Ukrainian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR +90 kg 1964, 68: World C'ships gold 1964, 65, 66, 68), dies at 77
- 2016 René Angélil, Canadian music executive, actor and director (Omertà; L'apparition), and husband of Céline Dion, dies of throat cancer at 73
Chinese economist and linguist known as the "father of pinyin", dies at 111
- 2018 Dan Gurney, American race-car driver, coach and team owner (All American Racers), dies from complications of pneumonia at 86
- 2018 François Morel, Canadian pianist, conductor, and composer (Antiphonie; Me duele España), dies at 91
- 2018 Hugh Wilson, American screenwriter, film director (The First Wives Club; Blast from the Past), and TV series creator (WKRP in Cincinnati; Frank's Place), dies of lung cancer and emphysema at 74
- 2018 Marlene VerPlanck [Pampinella], American jazz and pop vocalist, dies of pancreatic cancer at 84
- 2021 Peter Mark Richman {Marvin Jack Richman], American character actor (Three's Company - "Rev. Snow"; Dynasty - "Andrew"), dies at 93
- 2022 Dallas Frazier, American country music songwriter ("Alley Oop"; "Elvira"; "There Goes My Everything"), dies from stroke complications at 82
- 2022 John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover, English businessman (Chairman and CEO of Sainsburys), dies at 94
- 2022 Ron Goulart, American sci-fi author (Deadwalk; Plunder), and pop culture historian, dies of respiratory failure at 89
- 2023 Carl Hahn, German automotive executive (CEO of Volkswagen Group), dies at 96
- 2024 Christophe Boesch, French-Swiss primatologist (studied and championed chimpanzees), dies at 72 [1]
- 2024 Joan Coxsedge (née Rocherster), Australian anti-war activist, politician (he Victorian Legislative Council , 1979-92), and artist, dies at 93
- 2024 Norm Snead, American football quarterback (Pro Bowl 1962, 63, 65, 72; NFL completion % leader 1972 NY Giants; Philadelphia Eagles), dies at 84
- 2025 Jeannot Szwarc, French film director (Jaws 2, Somewhere in Time), dies of respiratory failure at 87
- 2025 Thomas P. Salmon, American lawyer and politician, 75th Governor of Vermont (1973-77), dies at 92
- 2025 Tony Slattery, British actor and comedian (Whose Line Is It Anyway?), dies from complications of a heart attack at 65
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