Roman emperor (306-312), drowns at the Battle of Milvian Bridge at 34
- 1138 Boleslaw III Wrymouth [scheefmond], Duke of Poland, dies at 52
- 1225 Jien, Japanese poet and historian, dies at 70
- 1312 Elisabeth of Tirol, German queen
- 1412 Margaret I of Denmark, wife of Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1353)
- 1468 Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan (1450-68), dies at 43
- 1520 Pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian pirate and freedom fighter
- 1568 Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)
- 1627 Jahangir, 4th Mughal Emperor of India (1605-27), dies at 58
- 1637 Foppe van Aitzema, diplomat, dies at about 57
- 1639 Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587)
- 1646 William Dobson, English portrait painter, dies at about 35 (b. 1610)
- 1649 Blanche Arundell, English noblewoman (led defense of Wardour Castle during English Civil War), dies at 65 or 66 [1]
- 1661 Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (b. 1518)
- 1676 Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
English mathematician and cryptographer who introduced ∞ as a symbol for infinity, dies at 86
English empiricist philosopher; influential Enlightenment thinker and "Father of Liberalism" (Two Treatises of Government), dies at 72
- 1708 Prince George of Denmark, Prince Consort of Anne of England, dies at 55
- 1716 Stephen Fox, English politician, dies at 89
- 1740 Anna Ivanova, Empress of Russia (1730-40), dies of a kidney stone at 47
- 1754 Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (Versuch einiger Poem), dies at 46
- 1755 Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer, dies at 65
- 1763 Heinrich von Brühl, German statesman, dies at 63
- 1768 Michel Blavet, French court flautist/composer, dies at 68
- 1779 Raphael Weiss, German composer and priest, dies at 66
- 1792 John Smeaton, British civil engineer, dies at 68
- 1792 Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist, died at 82
- 1800 Artemas Ward, American politician and soldier (major general during the American Revolutionary War), dies at 72
- 1806 Charlotte Turner Smith, British poet and novelist (b. 1749)
- 1841 Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
- 1852 Gerhard Moritz Roentgen, Dutch industrialist (founder of Fijenoord dockyard), dies at 57
- 1854 James P Carrell, composer, dies at 67
- 1857 Louis Eugène Cavaignac, French soldier and politician (b. 1802)
- 1875 William Howard Glover, English composer, dies at 56
- 1877 Johann Herbeck, Austrian composer and conductor (conducted premiere of Franz Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony"), dies at 45
- 1877 Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)
- 1879 Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer (b. 1799)
- 1897 Hercules Robinson, British colonial administrator (Ceylon, Fiji, New Zealand, South Africa), dies at 72
- 1899 Grant Allen, Canadian writer (Woman Who Did), dies at 51
- 1899 Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American inventor who invented the linotype machine that revolutionized printing, dies of tuberculosis at 45
- 1900 Max Müller, German-born British orientalist, dies at 76 (b. 1823)
- 1905 Alphonse Allais, French humorist and author (Le chat noir), dies at 51
- 1914 Adelgunde of Bavaria, German princess and wife of Duke of Modena, dies at 91
- 1914 Richard Heuberger, Austrian opera composer, dies at 64
- 1916 Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (Father of Weather Bureau), dies at 77
- 1916 Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891)
- 1917 Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1831)
- 1918 Edward Bouchet, American Physicist, 1st African American to receive US Ph.D, dies at 66
- 1918 Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (Fondamenti per la teorica delle funzioni di variabili reali), dies at 72
- 1919 Ted Wainwright, English cricket all-rounder (5 Tests; Yorkshire CCC), dies at 54
- 1922 Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer and poet (Flemish Motion), dies at 81
- 1927 (Joseph) Eaton Faning, British organist and composer (The Vikings; Mock Turtles), dies at 77
Chancellor of the German Empire (1900-09), dies at 80
- 1929 Hermann Ungar, Moravian writer, dies while undergoing an appendectomy at 36
- 1939 Alice Brady, American silent and talkie film actress (My Man Godfrey; The Gay Divorcee; Zenobia), dies of cancer at 46
- 1940 Andrea d' Angeli, Italian composer, dies at 71
- 1944 Helen Magill White, American educator and 1st woman to earn a Ph.D. in the U.S., dies at 90
- 1944 Iman Jacob van den Bosch, Dutch WWII resistance fighter, shot and executed at Westerbork Transit camp at 53
- 1952 Billy Hughes, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (Labor, Nationalist: 1915-23), dies at 90
- 1957 Tony Morabito, American football executive who founded and co-owned the San Francisco 49ers, dies of a heart attack at 47
- 1959 Abe Waddington, English cricket fast bowler (2 Tests, 1 wicket; Yorkshire CCC), dies at 66
- 1959 Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)
- 1959 Egon Kornauth, Austrian classical pianist, composer, and teacher, dies at 68
- 1962 Pierre Froidebise, Belgian organist, composer, and musicologist, dies at 48
- 1963 Mart Saar, Estonian composer, dies at 81
- 1964 Reginald Horace Blyth, Zen teacher/scholar, dies in Japan at 66
- 1965 Ben Barka, Moroccan opposition leader, kidnapped & murdered in Paris
- 1965 Earl Bostic, American jazz alto saxophonist ("Flamingo"; "Temptation"), dies at 52
- 1968 Henricus W. J. M. Keuls, Dutch lawyer and poet (Dancing Lamp), dies at 85
- 1969 Constance Dowling, actress (Blind Spot), dies of cardiac arrest at 49
- 1970 Baby Huey [James Ramey], American rock and soul singer (Baby Huey & Babysitters), dies of a drug-related heart attack at 26
- 1970 Eduardo López-Chávarri y Marco, Spanish composer, music critic and lawyer, dies at 99
- 1971 Yves de La Casiniere, French composer, dies at 74
- 1973 Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883)
- 1973 Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)
- 1975 Georges Carpentier, French boxer (world light heavyweight champion 1920-22; 1st $1m gate v J Dempsey), dies of a heart attack at 81
- 1975 Oliver Nelson, American saxophonist, jazz and soundtrack composer, arranger, bandleader, and record producer (The Blues and the Abstract Truth; The Six Million Dollar Man), dies of a heart attack at 43
- 1977 Kaj Birket-Smith, Danish philologist and anthropologist (studied Inuit and Eyak), dies at 84
- 1980 Leon Janney (Ramon), American actor (Charly, Stolen Paradise, Hawk), dies of cancer at 63
- 1984 Giuseppe Savagnone, Italian composer, dies at 81
- 1984 Knut Nordahl, Swedish soccer midfielder (26 caps; AS Roma; Olympic gold 1948), dies at 64
- 1986 John Braine, English novelist (Life at the Top), dies at 64
- 1986 Marga Klompé, Dutch 1st female minister (CRM), dies at 74
- 1987 Andre Masson, French surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91
- 1989 Darel Dieringer, American auto racer (181 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races for 7 wins and 79 top 10 finishes), dies at 63
- 1989 Henry Hall, British bandleader (BBC Dance Orchestra), dies at 91
- 1990 Frankie Masters [Masterman], American banjo player, guitarist, vocalist, and big band bandleader ("Scatter-Brain"), dies at 86
- 1990 Nobutaka Shikanai, Japanese media CEO (Fujisankei Communications Group), dies of liver failure at 78 [1]
- 1991 Dudley McConnell, American space scientist, headed NASA's Earth Science Division, dies at 55
- 1991 George Treweeke, Australian Rugby League second rower (7 Tests, South Sydney), dies at 86
- 1991 Lydia Hodson Copeland, America's Jr Miss (1972), dies at 37
- 1991 Sylvia Fine Kaye, US lyricist and composer, dies at 78
- 1991 [Lawrence] G. L. Vitto American DJ and TV host, dies at 69
- 1992 Joan Maloney Rio, dancer, dies of cancer at 57
- 1993 Carmino Baelen, Belgian sleder, dies at 22
- 1993 Doris Duke, American heiress (American Tobacco Company), philanthropist (Independent Aid; Doris Duke Foundation), and socialite, dies of cardiac arrest following a stroke at 80
- 1994 Sjlomo Goren, Polish/Israeli supreme rabbi, dies
- 1995 Allan Leslie Merson, historian, dies at 79
- 1995 Katsumasa Sakioka, Japanese-American property tycoon, dies at 96 [1]
- 1996 (Moritz) "Morey" Amsterdam, American comedian, cellist, and actor (The Dick Van Dyke Show - "Buddy"), dies at 87
- 1996 Jack Tinker, British drama critic, dies at 58
- 1996 William Downie Forrest, Scottish foreign correspondent (Spanish Civil War, WWII), dies at 94 [1]
- 1997 Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
- 1997 Toni Carabillo, writer (Feminist Chronicles), dies of lymphoma at 71
- 1998 Ghulam Ahmed, Indian cricket spin bowler (22 Tests, 68 wickets, BB 7/49, 1 x 50; Hyderabad), dies at 76
- 1998 James Goldman, American screenwriter and playwright (The Lion in Winter), dies of a heart attack at 71
English Poet and translator (British Poet Laureate 1984-98), dies at 68
- 1999 Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet (El hombre deshabitado, one of the Generation of 27), dies at 96 [1]
- 1999 Robert Linn, American classical composer and educator, dies at 74
- 2000 Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (b. 1912)
- 2000 Lída Baarová [Ludmila Babková], Czech actress (Die Fledermaus, Virginity), dies after a long illness at 86
- 2001 Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer (b. 1910)
- 2002 Erling Persson, Swedish entrepreneur (H&M stores), dies at 85
- 2002 Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
- 2004 Gil Mellé, American jazz saxophonist and composer, dies at 72
- 2004 Jimmy McLarnin, Irish boxer (NYSAC, NBA, The Ring welterweight world champion 1933-35; International Boxing HOF), dies at 96
- 2005 Bob Broeg, American sportswriter (St. Louis Cardinals for St. Louis Post-Dispatch; National Sportscasters and Sportswriters HOF), dies at 87
- 2005 Eugene K. Bird, German prison director (b. 1926)
- 2005 Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean singer and musician (b. 1922)
- 2005 Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor (b. 1929)
- 2005 Raymond Hains, French artist (b. 1926)
- 2005 Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
- 2006 Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter ("One Day at a Time"), dies of heart disease at 86
American Basketball HOF coach (9xNBA C'ship; NBA Coach of the Year 1965 Boston Celtics; 11×NBA All-Star Game HC) and executive (President Boston Celtics 7× NBA C'ship), dies of a heart attack at 89
Jamaican boxer (WBC heavyweight champion 1986), dies from blows to the head by his nephew at 52
- 2007 Porter Wagoner, American country singer, discovered Dolly Parton ("Y'All Come"; "A Satisfied Mind"), dies of lung cancer at 80
- 2008 George Sopkin, American cellist (Fine Arts Quartet, 1941-79), and teacher, dies at 94
- 2010 Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist (b. 1934)
- 2010 Gerard Kelly, Scottish actor (b. 1959)
- 2010 James MacArthur, American actor (Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0), dies at 72
- 2010 Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlander statesman (b. 1938)
- 2010 Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist (b. 1932)
- 2010 Michael Sharvell-Martin, British stage and screen character actor (Dave Allen At Large), dies of esophageal cancer at 66
- 2011 Beryl Davis, British-American cabaret and big band singer (Quintette du Hot Club de France, Glenn Miller's US Army Air Force Orchestra), dies of complications from Alzheimer's disease at 87
- 2012 Jack Dellal, British property investor and multi-millionaire (Allied Commercial Holdings), dies from natural causes at 83
- 2013 Ike Skelton, American politician, dies from pneumonia at 81
- 2013 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, 1st Prime Minister of Poland (1989-90), dies at 86
- 2013 Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese Baseball HOF first baseman (JBL MVP 1941, 51, 55 Tokyo Kyojin/Yomiuri Giants) and manager (11×Japan Series C'ship; Yomiuri Giants), dies at 93
- 2014 Galway Kinnell, American author, dies from leukemia at 87
- 2018 Richard James Gill, Australian conductor and music educator, dies from cancer at 76
- 2019 Al Bianchi, American basketball guard (Syracuse Nationals / Philadelphia 76ers), ABA Coach of the Year 1971 and NY Knicks general manager (1987-91), dies from heart failure at 87
- 2019 Zoltán Jeney, Hungarian composer and educator (Franz Liszt Academy, 1995-2019), dies at 76
- 2020 Billy Joe Shaver, American country singer-songwriter ("When I Get My Wings"), dies of a stroke at 81
- 2020 Bobby Ball [Harper], British comic, actor, singer and television host (Cannon and Ball; The Last of Summer Wine), dies at 76
- 2020 Leanza Cornett, American TV host and Miss America winner, dies at 49
- 2020 Miguel Ángel Castellini, Argentine boxer (WBA, lineal light middleweight titles 1976-77), dies from COVID-19 at 73
- 2021 David C. Johnson, American composer, flautist, educator, and electronic music performer (Stockhausen), dies at 81
- 2021 Dick Szymanski, American football center (Pro Bowl 1955, 62, 64; Baltimore Colts) and executive (GM Baltimore Colts 1977-82), dies at 89
- 2022 D. H. Peligro [Darren Henley], American punk rock drummer (Dead Kennedys, Red Hot Chili Peppers,1988), dies from head injury after a fall at 63
- 2022 Vince Dooley, American College Football HOF coach (NCAA C'ship, AFCA Coach of the Year, Eddie Robinson COY; AD University of Georgia 1979-2004), dies at 90
- 2023 Audrey Schuh, American operatic soprano, dies at 92
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