Deaths
- 1119 – Pope Gelasius II
- 1240 – Pelagio Galvani, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (b. c. 1165)
- 1342 – Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)
- 1597 – Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530)
- 1608 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557)
- 1647 – Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565)
- 1676 – Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629)
- 1678 – Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
- 1696 – Tsar Ivan V of Russia, Russian tsar (b. 1666)
- 1706 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)
- 1737 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b. 1666)
- 1743 – André-Hercule de Fleury, French statesman (b. 1653)
- 1763 – Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
- 1820 – King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
- 1829 – Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (b. 1755)
- 1829 – István Pauli (Pável) Hungarian Slovene priest and writer (b. 1760)
- 1847 – Athanasios Christopoulos, Greek poet (b. 1772)
- 1870 – Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
- 1871 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (b. 1786)
- 1888 – Edward Lear, English artist, illustrator, author, and poet (b. 1812)
- 1899 – Alfred Sisley, British impressionist painter (b. 1839)
- 1901 – King Milan I of Serbia (b. 1855)
- 1906 – King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
- 1918 – Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin, Russian-counter revolutionary (b. 1861)
- 1928 – Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)
- 1933 – Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
- 1934 – Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1868)
- 1941 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator (b. 1871)
- 1946 – Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1890)
- 1948 – Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (b. 1900)
- 1950 – Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1885)
- 1951 – Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880)
- 1956 – H. L. Mencken, American journalist (b. 1880)
- 1959 – Winifred Brunton, British-born South African painter (b. 1880)
- 1961 – John F. O'Ryan, American major general (b. 1874)
- 1962 – Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (b. 1875)
- 1963 – Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
- 1964 – Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)
- 1966 – Pierre Mercure, French Canadian composer (b. 1927)
- 1969 – Allen Dulles, American CIA director (b. 1893)
- 1970 – B. H. Liddell Hart, British historian (b. 1895)
- 1975 – Orestis Makris, Greek actor (b. 1898)
- 1977 – Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (b. 1902)
- 1977 – Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954)
- 1980 – Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (b. 1893)
- 1986 – Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1989 – Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (b. 1900)
- 1991 – Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907)
- 1992 – Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915)
- 1993 – Adetokunbo Ademola, Nigerian Chief Justice (b. 1906)
- 1993 – Ron Kostelnik, American football player (b. 1940)
- 1993 – Tofik Bahramov, Baku, Azerbaijan SSR (b. 1925)
- 1994 – Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (b. 1967)
- 1998 – Joseph Alioto, American politician (b. 1916)
- 1999 – Lili St. Cyr, American dancer (b. 1918)
- 2002 – Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b. 1928)
- 2002 – Harold Russell, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1914)
- 2003 – Frank Moss, American politician (b. 1911)
- 2004 – M. M. Kaye, British writer (b. 1908)
- 2004 – Janet Frame, New Zealand writer (b. 1924)
- 2005 – Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen) (b. 1940)
- 2005 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist (b. 1924)
- 2006 – Raul Corrales, Ciego de Avila, Cuba (b. 1925)
- 2007 – Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 2003)
- 2007 – Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim, Iraqi extremist leader (b. 1970)
- 2008 – Raymond Jacobs, American soldier (b. 1925)
- 2008 – Philippe Khorsand, French actor (b. 1948)
- 2008 – Bengt Lindström, Swedish artist (b. 1925)
- 2008 – Margaret Truman, American writer, daughter of Harry S. Truman (b. 1924)
- 2009 – Bill Frindall, English cricket scorer and statistician (b. 1939)
- 2009 – Hélio Gracie, Brazilian martial artist (b. 1913)
- 2009 – John Martyn, Scottish singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
- 2010 – Robert W. McCollum, Waco, Texas (b. 1925)
- 2011 – Milton Babbitt, American composer (b. 1916)
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What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
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