Deaths
- 1460 – James II of Scotland (b. 1430)
- 1527 – Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
- 1546 – Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect, designed the Apostolic Palace (b. 1484)
- 1546 – Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (b. 1509)
- 1604 – Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish diplomat
- 1621 – Guillaume du Vair, French writer (b. 1556)
- 1667 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss architect, designed San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Agnese in Agone (b. 1599)
- 1712 – Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)
- 1720 – Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (b. 1641)
- 1721 – Grinling Gibbons, English sculptor and woodcarver (b. 1648)
- 1761 – Johann Matthias Gesner, German scholar (b. 1691)
- 1773 – Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (b. 1700)
- 1780 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (b. 1715)
- 1792 – Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (b. 1732)
- 1797 – Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English military commander (b. 1717)
- 1805 – Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724)
- 1819 – Simon Knéfacz, Croatian writer (b. 1752)
- 1835 – Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1767)
- 1839 – Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (b. 1763)
- 1857 – Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)
- 1866 – Gábor Klauzál, Hungarian politician (b. 1804)
- 1867 – Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
- 1877 – William B. Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
- 1879 – Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
- 1916 – Roger Casement, Irish rebel (b. 1864)
- 1917 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (b. 1849)
- 1924 – Joseph Conrad, Polish-English writer (b. 1857)
- 1925 – William Bruce, Australian cricketer (b. 1864)
- 1929 – Emile Berliner, German-American inverter and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851)
- 1929 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (b. 1857)
- 1942 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
- 1946 – Francis Newton, American golfer (b. 1874)
- 1949 – Ignotus, Hungarian editor and writer (b. 1869)
- 1954 – Colette, French writer (b. 1873)
- 1958 – Peter Collins, English race car driver (b. 1931)
- 1964 – Flannery O'Connor, American writer (b. 1925)
- 1966 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)
- 1971 – Ernst Eklund, Swedish actor (b. 1882)
- 1972 – Giannis Papaioannou, Turkish-Greek musician and composer (b. 1913)
- 1973 – Richard Marshall, American general (b. 1895)
- 1975 – Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet and photographer (b. 1901)
- 1977 – Makarios III, Greek archbishop and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Cyprus (b. 1913)
- 1977 – Alfred Lunt, American actor (b. 1892)
- 1979 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
- 1979 – Angelos Terzakis, Greek writer (b. 1907)
- 1983 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)
- 1990 – Betty Amann, German-American actress (b. 1905)
- 1995 – Ida Lupino, English actress and director (b. 1914)
- 1995 – Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933)
- 1996 – Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral (b. 1939)
- 1997 – Pietro Rizzuto, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
- 1998 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934)
- 1999 – Byron Farwell, American historian (b. 1921)
- 2001 – Christopher Hewett, English actor (b. 1922)
- 2002 – Carmen Silvera, English actress (b. 1922)
- 2003 – Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1954)
- 2004 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)
- 2004 – Bob Murphy, American sportscaster (b. 1924)
- 2005 – Françoise d'Eaubonne, French activist (b. 1920)
- 2006 – Arthur Lee, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Love) (b. 1945)
- 2006 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-English soprano (b. 1915)
- 2007 – John Gardner, English author (b. 1926)
- 2008 – Skip Caray, American sportscaster (b. 1939)
- 2008 – Erik Darling, American singer-songwriter (The Tarriers and The Rooftop Singers) (b. 1933)
- 2008 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (b. 1918)
- 2009 – Nikolaos Makarezos, Greek army officer (b. 1919)
- 2011 – Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (b. 1945)
- 2012 – John Berry, English motorcycle racing promoter and manager (b. 1944)
- 2012 – Martin Fleischmann, Czech-English chemist (b. 1927)
- 2012 – Paul McCracken, American economist (b. 1915)
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