Deaths
- 517 – Timothy I, Patriarch of Constantinople
- 582 – Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. c. 512)
- 1168 – Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (b. 1104)
- 1419 – Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1350)
- 1605 – Adam Loftus, English Protestant archbishop in Ireland (b. c. 1513)
- 1617 – Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (b. 1555)
- 1673 – François Caron, French explorer (b. 1600)
- 1676 – John Winthrop, the Younger, American politician (b. 1606)
- 1693 – Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer (b. 1627)
- 1695 – George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer (b. 1633)
- 1697 – Charles XI of Sweden (b. 1655)
- 1717 – Jean Jouvenet, French painter (b. 1647)
- 1735 – William Derham, English minister and writer (b. 1657)
- 1735 – Samuel Wesley, English poet (b. 1662)
- 1765 – Edward Young, English poet (b. 1683)
- 1794 – Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1759)
- 1794 – Camille Desmoulins, French journalist and politician (b. 1760)
- 1834 – Richard Goodwin Keats, English Royal Navy admiral (b. 1757)
- 1864 – Alaric Alexander Watts, English poet and journalist (b. 1797)
- 1900 – Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician (b. 1822)
- 1923 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier (b. 1866)
- 1928 – Roy Kilner, English cricketer (b. 1890)
- 1932 – Phar Lap, New Zealand Racehorse (b. 1926)
- 1936 – Chandler Egan, American golfer (b. 1884)
- 1941 – Sir Nigel Gresley, English engineer (b. 1876)
- 1943 – Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist (b. 1869)
- 1945 – Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (b. 1897)
- 1945 – Huldreich Georg Früh, Swiss composer (b. 1903)
- 1946 – Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (b. 1898)
- 1952 – Charles Collett, English engineer (b. 1871)
- 1964 – Douglas MacArthur, American general (b. 1880)
- 1967 – Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1890)
- 1967 – Mischa Elman, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1891)
- 1969 – Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian military officer (b. 1903)
- 1969 – Shelby Storck, American newscaster, actor, producer, and director (b. 1917)
- 1970 – Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist (b. 1891)
- 1972 – Brian Donlevy, American actor (b. 1901)
- 1972 – Isabel Jewell, American actress (b. 1907)
- 1973 – John Coleman, Australian footballer (b. 1928)
- 1974 – A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b. 1882)
- 1975 – Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese political and military leader, first President of the Republic of China (b. 1887)
- 1976 – Howard Hughes, American aviator (b. 1905)
- 1976 – Wilder Penfield, Canadian surgeon (b. 1891)
- 1979 – Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (b. 1893)
- 1981 – Bob Hite, American singer (Canned Heat) (b. 1945)
- 1982 – Abe Fortas, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1910)
- 1983 – Danny Rapp, American musician (Danny & the Juniors) (b. 1941)
- 1987 – Jan Lindblad, Swedish naturalist, writer, photographer (b. 1932)
- 1989 – María Cristina Gómez, Salvadoran Teacher (b. 1938)
- 1991 – John Tower, American politician (b. 1925)
- 1991 – Sonny Carter, American astronaut (b. 1947)
- 1992 – Sam Walton, American businessman and entrepreneur, founder of Walmart and Sam's Club (b. 1918)
- 1993 – Divya Bharti, Indian Bollywood actress (b. 1974)
- 1994 – Kurt Cobain, musician (Nirvana) (b. 1967)
- 1995 – Françoise Loranger, Canadian playwright and radio producer (b. 1913)
- 1997 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)
- 1998 – Cozy Powell, English musician (b. 1947)
- 1999 – Paul David, French-Canadian cardiologist (b. 1919)
- 2000 – Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)
- 2001 – Brother Theodore, German comedian (b. 1906)
- 2002 – Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains, Class of '99, Mad Season, and Alice N' Chains) (b. 1967)
- 2004 – Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician (b. 1936)
- 2004 – Sławomir Rawicz, Polish soldier (b. 1915)
- 2005 – Saul Bellow, Canadian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
- 2005 – Dale Messick, American comic artist (b. 1906)
- 2005 – Debralee Scott, American actress (b. 1953)
- 2005 – John Sichel, English director (b. 1937)
- 2006 – Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941)
- 2007 – Mark St. John, American musician (Kiss and White Tiger) (b. 1956)
- 2007 – Darryl Stingley, American football player (b. 1951)
- 2007 – Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (b. 1923)
- 2007 – Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (b. 1908)
- 2007 – Poornachandra Tejaswi, Kannada writer (b. 1938)
- 2008 – Charlton Heston, American actor (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Constantine Papadakis, Greek-American businessman and president of Drexel University (b. 1946)
- 2012 – Jim Marshall, English businessman, founder of Marshall Amplification (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Barney McKenna, Irish musician (The Dubliners) (b. 1939)
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