Deaths
- 343 – Saint Nicholas (b. 270)
- 672 – Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya (b. ca. 710)
- 1185 – King Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)
- 1352 – Pope Clement VI (b. 1291)
- 1562 – Jan van Scorel Dutch painter and architect (b. 1495)
- 1618 – Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)
- 1658 – Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (b. 1601)
- 1672 – King John II Casimir of Poland (b. 1609)
- 1675 – John Lightfoot, English churchman (b. 1602)
- 1716 – Benedictus Buns, Dutch Carmelite and composer (b. 1642)
- 1718 – Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674)
- 1746 – Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (b. 1665)
- 1771 – Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682)
- 1779 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699)
- 1788 – Jonathan Shipley, British bishop and politician (b. 1714)
- 1855 – William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (b. 1789)
- 1867 – Jean Pierre Flourens, French physician (b. 1794)
- 1868 – August Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821)
- 1878 – Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek artist (b. 1814)
- 1879 – Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American industrialist (b. 1814)
- 1882 – Anthony Trollope, British author (b. 1815)
- 1882 – Alfred Escher, Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819)
- 1889 – Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
- 1892 – Ernst Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist (b. 1816)
- 1921 – Jesse Carleton, American golfer (b. 1862)
- 1924 – Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863)
- 1934 – Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1863)
- 1949 – Leadbelly, American musician (b. 1888)
- 1951 – Harold Ross, American magazine editor (b. 1892)
- 1955 – Honus Wagner, American baseball player (b. 1874)
- 1956 – B. R. Ambedkar, social reformer and architect of the Constitution of India (b. 1891)
- 1956 – John Geiger, American rower (b. 1873)
- 1961 – Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (b. 1925)
- 1964 – Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer (b. 1895)
- 1964 – Consuelo Vanderbilt, American socialite (b. 1877)
- 1972 – Janet Munro, British actress (b. 1934)
- 1976 – João Goulart, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
- 1982 – Jean-Marie Seroney, Kenyan politician (b. 1927)
- 1983 – Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
- 1985 – Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (b. 1917)
- 1988 – Roy Orbison, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter (b. 1936)
- 1989 – Frances Bavier, American actress (b. 1902)
- 1989 – Sammy Fain, American popular music composer (b. 1902)
- 1989 – John Payne, American actor (b. 1912)
- 1990 – Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
- 1990 – Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia's first prime minister (b.1903)
- 1991 – Sir Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
- 1991 – Mimi Smith, maternal aunt and guardian of John Lennon (b. 1906)
- 1993 – Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908)
- 1994 – Heinz Baas, German footballer (b. 1922)
- 1996 – Pete Rozelle, commissioner of the National Football League (b. 1926)
- 1997 – Willy den Ouden, Dutch freestyle swimmer. (b. 1918)
- 1998 – César Baldaccini, French sculptor. (b. 1921)
- 2000 – Werner Klemperer, German actor (b. 1920)
- 2000 – Aziz Mian, Pakistani singer (b. 1942)
- 2001 – Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (b. 1948)
- 2001 – Charles McClendon, Hall of Fame college football coach (b. 1923)
- 2002 – Philip Berrigan, American civil rights activist (b. 1923)
- 2003 – Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (b. 1909)
- 2003 – Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (b. 1918)
- 2003 – Jerry Tuite, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
- 2004 – Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (b. 1921)
- 2005 – William P. Yarborough, Lieutenant General of the US Army and designer of "jump wings" (b. 1912)
- 2005 – Charly Gaul, Luxembourger cyclist (b. 1932)
- 2005 – Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923)
- 2005 – Danny Williams, South African singer (b. 1942)
- 2006 – John Feeney, New Zealand documentary film-director (b. 1922)
- 2006 – Betty Moschona, Greek actress (b. 1927)
- 2007 – Katy French, Irish supermodel and socialite (b. 1983)
- 2010 – Mark Dailey, Canadian television journalist and announcer (b. 1953)
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