Deaths
- 301 – Sima Lun, Chinese usurper of the Jin Dynasty (b. 249)
- 535 – Patriarch Epiphanius of Constantinople
- 754 – Saint Boniface, English missionary, bishop, and martyr
- 1017 – Emperor Sanjō of Japan (b. 976)
- 1118 – Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester (b. 1049)
- 1296 – Edmund Crouchback, English son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)
- 1316 – Louis X of France (b. 1289)
- 1383 – Dmitry of Suzdal (b. 1324)
- 1568 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (b. 1522)
- 1625 – Orlando Gibbons, English composer (b. 1583)
- 1667 – Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1607)
- 1688 – Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1667)
- 1716 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682)
- 1722 – Johann Kuhnau, German composer and musician (b. 1660)
- 1738 – Isaac de Beausobre, French pastor (b. 1659)
- 1791 – Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-Canadian politician, 22nd Governor of Quebec (b. 1718)
- 1816 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1741)
- 1819 – Bodawpaya, Burmese king (b. 1745)
- 1825 – Odysseas Androutsos, Greek soldier (b. 1788)
- 1826 – Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
- 1866 – John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (b. 1815)
- 1900 – Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)
- 1902 – Louis J. Weichmann, American clerk, witness in Abraham Lincoln assassination trial (b. 1842)
- 1906 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
- 1910 – O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
- 1913 – Chris von der Ahe, German-American businessman (b. 1851)
- 1916 – Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, English field marshal (b. 1850)
- 1920 – Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)
- 1921 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862)
- 1930 – Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b. 1885)
- 1947 – Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor and director (b. 1884)
- 1967 – Arthur Biram, Israeli philosopher and educator (b. 1878)
- 1975 – Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916)
- 1976 – Violet Wilkey, American actress (b. 1903)
- 1993 – Conway Twitty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1933)
- 1996 – Acharya Kuber Nath Rai, Indian writer (b. 1933)
- 1998 – Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
- 1998 – Sam Yorty, American politician, 37th Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
- 1999 – Mel Tormé, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (b. 1925)
- 2000 – Don Liddle, American baseball player (b. 1925)
- 2001 – Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish medical researcher (b. 1908)
- 2002 – Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)
- 2002 – Dee Dee Ramone, American singer-songwriter and bassist (Ramones) (b. 1951)
- 2003 – Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945)
- 2003 – Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904)
- 2004 – Iona Brown, English violinist and conductor (b. 1941)
- 2004 – Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)
- 2005 – Susi Nicoletti, German actress (b. 1918)
- 2005 – Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican politician (b. 1949)
- 2006 – Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b. 1909)
- 2007 – Povel Ramel, Swedish singer, pianist, composer, and author (b. 1922)
- 2009 – Jeff Hanson, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1978)
- 2009 – Boris Pokrovsky, Russian director (b. 1912)
- 2011 – Leon Botha, South African painter and DJ (b. 1985)
- 2012 – Ray Bradbury, American author (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Lucky Diamond, American dog model (b. 1997)
- 2012 – Caroline John, English actress (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Hal Keller, American baseball player and executive (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Mihai Pătraşcu, Romanian computer scientist (b. 1982)
- 2012 – Athinodoros Prousalis, Greek actor (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Charlie Sutton, Australian footballer (b. 1924)
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