- 472 Ricimer, Germanic Roman general (kingmaker in the Western Roman Empire), dies
- 1186 Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158)
- 1245 Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195)
- 1284 Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (b. 1273)
- 1297 Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop (b. 1274)
- 1493 Frederick III of Innsbruck, Holy Roman Emperor (1452-1493), dies at 77 probably of blood loss after his leg is amputated
- 1580 Andrea Palladio [Andrea di Pietro della Gondola], Italian architect (Il Redentore, Venice), dies at 71
- 1601 Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia and Moldovia (Romanian national hero), assassinated at 42 or 43
- 1646 Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian
- 1650 Abraham de Verwer, Dutch painter, buried at about 55
- 1654 Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi and scholar (Tosefot Yom Tov), dies (b. c. 1579)
- 1657 Frans Snyders, Flemish painter of animals, dies at 77
- 1680 Jean Eudes, French catholic priest, founder of the Eudists, dies at 78
- 1691 Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Pasha, Turkish grand vizer, dies in the Battle of Slankamen (b. 1637)
- 1699 José Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal, dies at 69
- 1719 Karl H. Freiherr von Canstein, German lawyer, dies at 52
- 1753 Balthasar Neumann, German Baroque architect (Würzburg Residence), dies at 66
- 1765 Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Swedish Chemist who discovered nickel and tungsten, dies at 42
- 1838 James Geddes, American Engineer (Erie Canal), dies at 75
- 1856 Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist, dies at 39
- 1876 George Smith, English archaeologist and assyriologist (cuneiform script), dies of fever at 36
- 1883 Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (US Attorney General 1857-60, US Secretary of State 1860-61), dies at 73
- 1887 Alvan Clark, American astronomer and maker of the Dearborn Observatory telescope, the largest telescope in the world at the time, dies at 83
- 1888 Spencer Fullerton Baird, American naturalist and ornithologist (Wood's Hole Station), dies at 65
- 1889 Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (Contes cruels), dies at 60
- 1895 John Wesley Hardin, American outlaw and gunfighter (claimed to have killed 27 men), shot dead in a saloon at 42
- 1896 Josiah Dwight Whitney, American Geologist who led the California Geological Survey (Mount Whitney and Whitney Glacier are named for him), dies at 76
- 1909 Rembt Tobias Hugo Pieter Liebrecht Alexander van Boneval Faure, Dutch lawyer, teacher (Leiden University, 1859-92), and politician (member of the Senate of the States General. 1894-1904), dies at 83
- 1914 Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus, dies at 69
- 1923 Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (Pareto’s law of income distribution, popularised the term 'elite'), dies at 75
- 1931 Aristides Agramonte y Simoni, Cuban-American Physician, Pathologist and Bacteriologist (yellow fever), dies at 63
- 1939 Johannes Marinus Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher, dies at 70
German field marshal during World War II (Invasion of Poland, Battle of France, Operation Barbarossa), commits suicide at 61
- 1945 Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (founder of Villa Lo Burgos), dies at 69
- 1947 Ernst Laqueur, Dutch chemist and psychologist (sexual hormones), dies at 67
- 1950 Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist and electrical engineer (Giorgi system of measurement), dies at 78
- 1954 Alcide de Gasperi, 30th Prime Minister of Italy (1945-53), dies at 73
- 1957 Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1898)
- 1957 David Bomberg, English painter, dies at 66
- 1959 Jacob Epstein, American-English sculptor (Adam, Jacob & the Angel), dies at 78
- 1960 Lewis Bernstein Namier, English historian, dies at 72
- 1962 Kerstin Hesselgren, Swedish politician, 1st woman in Swedish parliament, dies at 90
- 1967 Carl Wilhelm de Vries, Dutch jurist, dies at 84
- 1967 Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born American inventor and sci-fi writer (1960 Hugo), dies at 83
- 1967 Isaac Deutscher, Polish-English historian (Stalin/Trotsky biography), dies at 60
- 1970 Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian, dies at 60
- 1971 Walther Victor, German writer, dies at 76
- 1974 Rodger Davies, United States ambassador to Cyprus, murdered at 53 by Greek Cypriot gunmen during a demonstration outside the U.S. Embassy in Nicosia
- 1980 American farmer and inventor of center-pivot irrigation, US's most widely used irrigation system, dies at 86 [1]
- 1980 Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, dies at 91
- 1983 Aleksandar Ranković, Yugoslavic partisan and 1st Vice President of Yugoslavia (1963-66), dies at 73
- 1986 Jaap [Jacobus Albertus Wilhelmus] Burger, Dutch politician and chairman (PvdA), dies at 81
- 1990 Anna Rutgers Van de Loeff-Basenau, Dutch children's book writer, dies at 80
- 1992 Donald William Kerst, American Physicist who developed the betatron (device to accelerate electron beams), dies of a brain tumor at 80
- 1993 Lucinda Ballard, US costume designer, wife of Howard Dietz, dies at 90
- 1994 John George Hughes, British academic and 9th bishop of Kensington (1987-1994), dies at 59
- 1994 Ladislav Fuks, Czech writer, dies at 70
American chemist, engineer and peace activist (1954 Nobel prize for Chemistry, 1962 Nobel Peace Prize), dies at 93
- 1994 Nancy Lancaster, American British decorator (Colefax and Fowler), dies at 96
- 1994 Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet poet, dies at 64
- 1994 Walter Bartley, English biochemist, dies at 78
- 1998 Vasily Arkhipov, Soviet-Russian naval officer who saved the world by refusing to launch a nuclear torpedo from submarine B-59 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, dies of kidney cancer at 72
- 2000 Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo littérateur and religious figure (birth date unknown)
- 2001 Donald Woods, South African journalist, anti-apartheid activist and author (Biko, Asking for Trouble), dies at 67
- 2003 Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
- 2003 Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
- 2005 Mo Mowlam, British Labour Party politician (Member of Parliament for Redcar), dies at 55
- 2008 Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian politician (3rd President of Zambia), dies at 59
- 2011 Gun Hägglund, Swedish news presenter (b. 1932)
- 2013 José Sarria, American political activist, drag queen and 1st openly gay candidate for public office in the US (1961), dies of adrenal cancer at 90
- 2016 Donald Henderson, American epidemiologist, led world campaign that eradicated smallpox, dies at 82
- 2017 Charles R. Bentley, American pioneer or polar science, dies from complications of Parkinson’s disease at 87
- 2018 Vaughn Beals, American CEO (Harley Davidson. 1981-96), dies at 90
- 2020 Slade Gorton, American politician (Sen-R-WA, 1981-87, 1989-2001), dies at 92
- 2021 Chuck Close, American painter and photographer, dies of congestive heart failure at 81
- 2023 John Warnock, American computer scientist, and businessman (co-founder of Adobe Systems), dies at 82
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