Deaths
- 323 BC–Alexander the Great, Macedonian king (b. 356 BC)
- 1075 – Ernest, Margrave of Austria (b. 1027)
- 1190 – Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1122)
- 1424 – Ernest, Duke of Austria (b. 1377)
- 1552 – Alexander Barclay, English poet (b. 1476)
- 1556 – Martin Agricola, German composer (b. 1486)
- 1580 – Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (b. c. 1524)
- 1607 – John Popham, English politician (b. 1531)
- 1654 – Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
- 1680 – Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
- 1692 – Bridget Bishop, English-American first person to be executed during the Salem witch trials (b. 1632)
- 1735 – Thomas Hearne, English antiquarian (b. 1678)
- 1776 – Hsinbyushin, Burmese king (b. 1736)
- 1776 – Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (b. 1722)
- 1791 – Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720)
- 1831 – Hans Karl von Diebitsch, German-Russian field marshal (b. 1785)
- 1836 – André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
- 1849 – Thomas Robert Bugeaud, French marshal and politician (b. 1784)
- 1896 – Amelia Dyer, English murderer (b. 1829)
- 1898 – Tuone Udaina, Croatian-Italian barber, last speaker of the Dalmatian language
- 1899 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)
- 1901 – Robert Williams Buchanan, Scottish poet and novelist (b. 1841)
- 1902 – Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
- 1909 – Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822)
- 1912 – Anton Aškerc, Slovenian priest and poet (b. 1856)
- 1918 – Arrigo Boito, Italian composer (b. 1842)
- 1923 – Pierre Loti, French sailor (b. 1850)
- 1924 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian politician (b. 1885)
- 1926 – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish-Catalan architect, designed the Park Güell (b. 1852)
- 1929 – Hélène Smith, French psychic (b. 1861)
- 1930 – Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
- 1934 – Frederick Delius, English composer (b. 1862)
- 1937 – Robert Borden, Canadian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
- 1940 – Marcus Garvey, Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, and activist, founded the Black Star Line (b. 1887)
- 1944 – Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
- 1946 – Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878)
- 1947 – Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)
- 1949 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
- 1955 – Margaret Abbott, American golfer (b. 1876)
- 1958 – Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist (b. 1880)
- 1959 – Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian politician (b. 1883)
- 1963 – Timothy Birdsall, English cartoonist (b. 1936)
- 1967 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
- 1971 – Michael Rennie, English actor (b. 1909)
- 1973 – William Inge, American playwright (b. 1913)
- 1974 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1900)
- 1976 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (b. 1873)
- 1982 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German actor and director (b. 1945)
- 1982 – Addie Harris McPherson, American singer (The Shirelles) (b. 1940)
- 1986 – Merle Miller, American author (b. 1919)
- 1987 – Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (b. 1943)
- 1988 – Louis L'Amour, American author (b. 1908)
- 1991 – Jean Bruller, French writer (b. 1902)
- 1992 – Zak Hernández, American soldier (b. 1970)
- 1992 – Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese composer and pianist (b. 1931)
- 1993 – Arleen Auger, American soprano (b, 1939)
- 1993 – Les Dawson, English comedian (b. 1934)
- 1996 – George Hees, Canadian politician (b. 1910)
- 1996 – Jo Van Fleet, American actress (b. 1914)
- 1998 – Jim Hearn, American baseball player (b. 1921)
- 1998 – Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
- 2000 – Hafez al-Assad, Syrian politician, President of Syria (b. 1930)
- 2000 – Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
- 2001 – Mike Mentzer, American bodybuilder (b. 1951
- 2001 – Leila Pahlavi, Iranian daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (b. 1970)
- 2002 – John Gotti, American mobster (b. 1940)
- 2003 – Donald Regan, American businessman and politician, 66th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1918)
- 2003 – Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)
- 2003 – Phil Williams, Welsh politician and scientist (b. 1939)
- 2004 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer (b. 1930)
- 2004 – Xenophon Zolotas, Greek politician (b. 1904)
- 2005 – Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer, designed the Pitts Special (b. 1915)
- 2007 – Augie Auer, New Zealand scientist and meteorologist (b. 1940)
- 2008 – Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani-Soviet author (b. 1928)
- 2009 – Tenniel Evans, English actor (b. 1926)
- 2009 – Stelios Skevofilakas, Greek footballer (b. 1940)
- 2010 – Basil Schott, American Archbishop (b. 1939)
- 2011 – Brian Lenihan, Jnr, Irish Politician (b. 1959)
- 2012 – Piero Bellugi, Italian conductor (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Will Hoebee, Dutch songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
- 2012 – Georges Mathieu, French painter (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Joshua Orwa Ojode, Kenyan politician (b. 1958)
- 2012 – Elvis J. Perrodin, American jockey (b. 1956)
- 2012 – George Saitoti, Kenyan politician, mathematician, and businessman, founded the African Mathematical Union (b. 1945)
- 2012 – Sudono Salim, Chinese-Indonesian businessman, founded Bank Central Asia (b. 1916)
- 2012 – Eugene Selznick, American volleyball player and coach (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Gordon West, English footballer (b. 1943)
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“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
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