Deaths
- 311 – Pope Peter of Alexandria (b. 3rd century)
- 1034 – King Malcolm II of Scotland (b. 980)
- 1120 – William Adelin, son of Henry I of England (b. 1104)
- 1185 – Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)
- 1326 – Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1264)
- 1374 – Emperor Philip II of Taranto of Constantinople (b. 1329)
- 1456 – Jacques Cœur, French merchant
- 1517 – Marcus Musurus, Greek scholar and pholosopher (b. 1470)
- 1560 – Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (b. 1466)
- 1626 – Edward Alleyn, English actor (b. 1566)
- 1694 – Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer (b. 1605)
- 1700 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (b. 1643)
- 1748 – Isaac Watts, British hymnwriter (b. 1674)
- 1755 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (b. 1687)
- 1785 – Richard Glover, British poet (b. 1712)
- 1865 – Heinrich Barth, German explorer (b. 1821)
- 1881 – Theobald Boehm, German flute maker (b. 1794)
- 1884 – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)
- 1885 – King Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857)
- 1885 – Thomas Hendricks, 21st Vice President of the United States (b. 1819)
- 1907 – George Sheldon, American diver (b. 1874)
- 1909 – Edward P. Allen, American politician (b. 1839)
- 1920 – Gaston Chevrolet, French-born American race car driver (b. 1892)
- 1944 – Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American baseball commissioner (b. 1866)
- 1944 – Kunio Nakagawa, Japanese military commander (b. 1898)
- 1947 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (b. 1876)
- 1948 – Kanbun Uechi, Japanese karate master (b. 1877)
- 1949 – Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, American entertainer (b. 1878)
- 1950 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
- 1950 – Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finnish linguist and diplomat (b. 1873)
- 1955 – Herman Hoogland, Dutch draughts world-champion (b. 1891)
- 1955 – Louis Lachenal, French alpinist (b. 1921)
- 1956 – Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet film director (b. 1894)
- 1957 – Prince George of Greece (b. 1869)
- 1959 – Gérard Philipe, French actor (b. 1922)
- 1961 – Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (b. 1866)
- 1963 – Alexander Marinesko, Russian naval captain (b. 1913)
- 1965 – Dame Myra Hess, British pianist (b. 1890)
- 1968 – Upton Sinclair, American journalist, politician, and writer (b. 1878)
- 1968 – Paul Siple, American explorer (b. 1908)
- 1970 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (b. 1925)
- 1972 – Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (b. 1886)
- 1973 – Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born British actor (b. 1928)
- 1974 – Nick Drake, British singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
- 1974 – U Thant, Burmese diplomat and UN Secretary-General (b. 1909)
- 1978 – Elaine Esposito, American coma victim (b. 1934)
- 1981 – Jack Albertson, American actor (b. 1907)
- 1984 – Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian statesman (b. 1913)
- 1985 – Franz Hildebrandt, German theologian (b. 1909)
- 1985 – Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (b. 1926)
- 1987 – Harold Washington, American politician (b. 1922)
- 1989 – Alva R. Fitch, American soldier (b. 1907)
- 1990 – Merab Mamardashvili, Georgian philosopher (b. 1930)
- 1991 – Eleanor Audley, American actress (b. 1905)
- 1995 – Alan Nicholls, English footballer (b. 1973)
- 1995 – Léon Zitrone, French journalist and television host (b. 1914)
- 1997 – Hastings Banda, Malawian politician (b. c. 1898)
- 1998 – Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (b. 1906)
- 1998 – Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
- 1999 – Valentín Campa, Mexican worker leader (b. 1904)
- 2000 – Hugh Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1917)
- 2001 – Harry Devlin, American artist and children's book illustrator (b. 1918)
- 2001 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, spiritual leader (b. 1941)
- 2002 – Karel Reisz, Czech theater director (b. 1926)
- 2005 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)
- 2005 – Richard Burns, British rally driver (b. 1971)
- 2006 – Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist (b. 1931)
- 2006 – Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (b. 1920)
- 2006 – Valentín Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979)
- 2006 – Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner, American actress and children's book publisher (b. 1916)
- 2006 – Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot (b. 1919)
- 2006 – Antonis Vratsanos, Greek World War II figure (b. 1919)
- 2007 – Kevin DuBrow, American singer (b. 1955)
- 2007 – Peter Lipton, American science philosopher (b. 1954)
- 2010 – Alfred Balk, American magazine editor and journalist (b. 1930)
- 2010 – Peter Christopherson English musician and video director/designer (b. 1955)
- 2010 – C. Scott Littleton, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1933)
- 2010 – Bernard Matthews, British poultry industry figure (b. 1930)
- 2011 – Coco Robicheaux, American blues musician (b. 1947)
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