Deaths
- 1145 – Pope Lucius II
- 1621 – Michael Praetorius, German composer (b. 1571)
- 1637 – Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1578)
- 1738 – Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (b. 1684)
- 1775 – Peter Dens, Flemish theologian (b. 1690)
- 1781 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (b. 1729)
- 1818 – Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian general (b. 1746)
- 1835 – Henry Hunt, English politician (b. 1773)
- 1839 – François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, Canadian notary (b. 1803)
- 1842 – Archibald Menzies, Scottish naturalist and surgeon (b. 1754)
- 1844 – Henry Addington, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1757)
- 1847 – Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1794)
- 1848 – Hermann von Boyen, Prussian field marshal (b. 1771)
- 1849 – Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (b. 1804)
- 1857 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (b. 1804)
- 1869 – Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (b. 1796)
- 1905 – Lew Wallace, American general and novelist (b. 1827)
- 1911 – Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (b. 1859)
- 1919 – André Prévost, French tennis player (b. 1880)
- 1924 – Lionel Monckton, English composer (b. 1861)
- 1928 – H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
- 1932 – Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (b. 1865)
- 1933 – Pat Sullivan, Australian cartoonist, animator and producer (b. 1887)
- 1939 – Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter (b. 1878)
- 1948 – Subhadra Kumari Chauhan Indian poet (b.1904)
- 1953 – Oskar Goßler, German rower (b. 1875)
- 1953 – Karl Staaf, Swedish athlete (b. 1881)
- 1956 – Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French attorney (b. 1878)
- 1959 – Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
- 1961 – Bradley Lord, American figure skater (b. 1939)
- 1961 – Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944)
- 1964 – Robert L. Thornton, American businessman and politician (b. 1880)
- 1965 – Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919)
- 1966 – Camilo Torres Restrepo, Colombian priest, guerrilla (b. 1929)
- 1966 – Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect (b. 1909)
- 1970 – Sir Hugh Dowding, English RAF commander (b. 1882)
- 1971 – Dimitrios Loundras, Greek gymnast (b. 1885)
- 1973 – Wally Cox, American actor (b. 1924)
- 1973 – Tim Holt, American actor (b. 1919)
- 1974 – Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887)
- 1981 – Mike Bloomfield, American musician (Electric Flag) (b. 1943)
- 1981 – Karl Richter, German conductor (b. 1926)
- 1984 – Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (b. 1908)
- 1988 – Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
- 1990 – Michel Drach, French film director and producer (b. 1930)
- 1992 – María Elena Moyano, Peruvian activist (b. 1960)
- 1992 – William Schuman, American composer (b. 1910)
- 1996 – Lucio Agostini, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1913)
- 1996 – Tommy Rettig, American actor (b. 1941)
- 1996 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (b. 1929)
- 1998 – Georgios Mylonas, Greek politician (b. 1919)
- 1998 – Louie Spicolli, American wrestler (b. 1971)
- 1999 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1926)
- 1999 – Big L, American rapper (b. 1974)
- 2000 – Angus MacLean, Canadian politician (b. 1914)
- 2002 – Howard K. Smith, American journalist (b. 1914)
- 2002 – Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)
- 2004 – Jens Evensen, Norwegian minister and jurist (b. 1917)
- 2004 – Jan Miner, American actress (b. 1917)
- 2005 – Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
- 2005 – Samuel T. Francis, American journalist (b. 1947)
- 2007 – Walker Edmiston, American actor (b. 1926)
- 2007 – Ray Evans, American songwriter (b. 1915)
- 2008 – Ashley Callie, South African actress (b. 1976)
- 2008 – Amnon Netzer, Iranian-Israeli historian (b. 1934)
- 2009 – Joe Cuba, Puerto-Rican musician (b. 1931)
- 2009 – Dr. Diether H. Haenicke, American university president (b. 1935)
- 2010 – Jeanne M. Holm, American Air Force general (b. 1921)
- 2011 – Fadhel Al-Matrook, Bahraini protester killed by security forces (b. 1979)
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