Deaths
- 1248 – King Sancho II of Portugal (b. 1207)
- 1428 – Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (b. 1370)
- 1564 – Hosokawa Ujitsuna, Japanese military commander (b. 1514)
- 1584 – Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and drawer (b. 1539)
- 1695 – François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (b. 1628)
- 1752 – Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (b. 1704)
- 1761 – Stephen Hales, English physiologist (b. 1677)
- 1773 – Anton Losenko, Russian painter (b. 1737)
- 1782 – Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (b. 1698)
- 1786 – Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher (b. 1729)
- 1804 – Charlotte Lennox, English author and poet (b. c.1730)
- 1821 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, American saint (b. 1774)
- 1825 – King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1751)
- 1863 – Roger Hanson, American Confederate general (b. 1827)
- 1874 – Thomas Gregson, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1798)
- 1877 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (b. 1794)
- 1882 – John William Draper, English scientist, photographer (b. 1811)
- 1883 – Antoine Eugène Alfred Chanzy, French general (b. 1823)
- 1891 – Antoine Labelle, Quebec catholic priest (b. 1833)
- 1896 – Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (b. 1821)
- 1901 – Nikolaos Gyzis, Greek painter (b. 1842)
- 1903 – Gulstan Ropert, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1839)
- 1903 – Topsy the elephant (b. c. 1875)
- 1910 – Léon Delagrange, French aviator and sculptor (b. 1873)
- 1919 – Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1843)
- 1920 – Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (b. 1843)
- 1924 – Alfred Grünfeld, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1852)
- 1931 – Art Acord, American actor (b. 1890)
- 1931 – Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife (b. 1867)
- 1931 – Maulana Mohammad Ali, Indian Muslim leader, activist, scholar, journalist and poet (b. December 1878)
- 1940 – Flora Finch, British-American silent-film comedienne (b. 1867)
- 1941 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher, Nobel laureate (b. 1859)
- 1944 – Kai Munk, Danish playwright and pastor (b. 1898)
- 1945 – Harold Fraser, American golfer (b. 1872)
- 1947 – Julian Ashby Burruss, American academic (b. 1876)
- 1960 – Albert Camus, Algerian-born philosopher and Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
- 1961 – Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
- 1962 – Hans Lammers, German SS officer (b. 1879)
- 1965 – T. S. Eliot, American-born British Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
- 1967 – Donald Campbell, English motorboat racer (b. 1921)
- 1969 – Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (b. 1908)
- 1970 – Jean-Étienne Valluy, French general (b. 1899)
- 1971 – Arthur Ford, American clairaudient (b. 1896)
- 1974 – Epameinondas Thomopoulos, Greek artist (b. 1878)
- 1975 – Carlo Levi, Italian painter, writer and activist (b. 1902)
- 1981 – Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1914)
- 1985 – Brian Horrocks, British general (b. 1895)
- 1985 – Lovro von Matacic, Croatian conductor (b. 1899)
- 1986 – Christopher Isherwood, English writer (b. 1904)
- 1986 – Phil Lynott, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy) (b. 1949)
- 1988 – Lily Laskine, French harpist (b. 1893)
- 1990 – Henry Bolte, Australian politician (b. 1908)
- 1990 – Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer (b. 1903)
- 1993 – Charles Bridgford, Australian politician (b. 1910)
- 1994 – Rahul Dev Burman, Indian musician (b. 1939)
- 1995 – Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (b. 1942)
- 1995 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist (b. 1907)
- 1996 – Ramón Vinay, Chilean operatic tenor (b. 1911)
- 1997 – Harry Helmsley, American real estate mogul (b. 1909)
- 1998 – John Gary, American singer (b. 1932)
- 1998 – Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
- 1999 – Iron Eyes Cody, American actor (b. 1904)
- 2000 – Tom Fears, American football player (b. 1922)
- 2000 – Spyros Markezinis, Greek politician (b. 1909)
- 2001 – Les Brown, American bandleader (b. 1912)
- 2001 – Yoshika, Japanese fashion model (b. 1983)
- 2003 – Hanno Drechsler, German politician (b. 1931)
- 2003 – Conrad Hall, American cinematographer (b. 1927)
- 2003 – Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (b. 1923)
- 2003 – Sabine Ulibarri, American writer (b. 1919)
- 2004 – Joan Aiken, English author (b. 1924)
- 2004 – Brian Gibson, English film director (b. 1944)
- 2004 – Jake Hess, American singer (b. 1927)
- 2004 – Jeff Nuttall, English writer (b. 1933)
- 2004 – John Toland, American historian (b. 1912)
- 2005 – Humphrey Carpenter, English author (b. 1946)
- 2005 – Guy Davenport, American author and scholar (b. 1927)
- 2005 – Ali al-Haidri, Iraqi governor of Baghdad
- 2005 – Frank Harary, American mathematician (b. 1921)
- 2005 – Robert Heilbroner, American economist (b. 1919)
- 2005 – Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
- 2005 – Alton Tobey, American artist (b. 1914)
- 2006 – John Hahn-Petersen, Danish actor (b. 1930)
- 2006 – Milton Himmelfarb, American sociographer (b. 1918)
- 2006 – Robert Howard White, New Zealander politician (b. 1914)
- 2006 – Irving Layton, Romanian born Canadian poet (b. 1912)
- 2006 – Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubaian politician and statesman (b. 1946)
- 2007 – Ben Gannon, Australian theatre producer (b. 1952)
- 2007 – Gren, Welsh newspaper cartoonist (b. 1934)
- 2007 – Helen Hill, American filmmaker (b. 1970)
- 2007 – Lewis Hodges, British Air Chief Marshal (b. 1918)
- 2007 – Steve Krantz, American film and TV producer (b. 1923)
- 2007 – Gáspár Nagy, Hungarian poet and writer (b. 1949)
- 2007 – Sandro Salvadore, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
- 2007 – Jan Schröder, Dutch cyclist (b. 1941)
- 2007 – Marais Viljoen, South African politician (b. 1915)
- 2007 – Osman Waqialla, Sudanese artist and calligrapher (b. 1925)
- 2008 – Joyce Carlson, American artist (b. 1923)
- 2008 – Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan print editor (b. 1932)
- 2008 – Jimmy Nah, Singaporan comedian and actor (b. 1968)
- 2008 – Yannis Tamtakos, Greek political activist (b. 1908)
- 2009 – Gert Jonke, Austrian poet, playwright and novelist (b. 1946)
- 2009 – Giselle Salandy, Trinidadian female boxer (b. 1987)
- 2010 – Johan Ferrier, Surinamian politician (b. 1910)
- 2010 – Casey Johnson, American heiress and socialite (b. 1979)
- 2010 – Rory Markas, American sportscaster (b. 1955)
- 2010 – Sandro, Argentine songwriter (b. 1945)
- 2010 – Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese Businessman, and Survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings (b. 1916)
- 2011 – Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisian vegetable vendor and activist (b. 1984)
- 2011 – Mick Karn, Cypriot-born British musician (Japan) (b. 1958)
- 2011 – Dick King-Smith English Author (b. 1922)
- 2011 – Coen Moulijn, Dutch footballer (b. 1937)
- 2011 – Alireza Pahlavi, Iranian Prince and younger son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (b. 1966)
- 2011 – Gerry Rafferty, British musician and songwriter (The Humblebums and Stealers Wheel) (b. 1947)
- 2011 – Salmaan Taseer, Governor of Punjab (b. 1944)
- 2012 – Harry Fowler, British actor (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Kerry McGregor, British singer and reality contestant (b. 1974)
- 2012 – Carmen Naranjo, Costa Rican novelist, poet and essayist (b. 1928)
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