Deaths
- 253 – Pope Cornelius
- 635 – Emperor Gaozu of Tang (b. 566)
- 1134 – Niels, King of Denmark (b. 1064)
- 1218 – Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (b. 1160)
- 1291 – Eleanor of Provence, (b. 1223)
- 1483 – Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer (b. 1440)
- 1522 – Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (b. 1451)
- 1533 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France (b. 1496)
- 1579 – Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1541)
- 1593 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (b. 1541)
- 1622 – Péter Révay, Hungarian poet, soldier, and historian (b. 1568)
- 1634 – John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)
- 1638 – Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
- 1665 – Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria (b. 1630)
- 1669 – François de Vendôme, Duc de Beaufort, French soldier (b. 1616)
- 1671 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
- 1673 – Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan, French Musketeer (b. c. 1611)
- 1686 – Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626)
- 1715 – Jean du Casse, French admiral (b. 1646)
- 1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
- 1792 – Thomas Peters, Sierra Leonean revolutionary (b. 1738)
- 1798 – Thomas Sandby, English architect (b. 1721)
- 1822 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German writer (b. 1776)
- 1838 – François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French general (b. 1774)
- 1861 – Abdülmecid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
- 1866 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
- 1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
- 1870 – David Heaton, American politician (b. 1823)
- 1875 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796)
- 1875 – Katherine McKinley, American daughter of William McKinley (b. 1871)
- 1876 – James Calhoun, American lieutenant (b. 1845)
- 1876 – Boston Custer, American soldier (b. 1848)
- 1876 – George Armstrong Custer, American army officer (b. 1839)
- 1876 – Thomas Custer, American army officer, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1845)
- 1876 – Myles Keogh, Irish soldier (b. 1840)
- 1882 – François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
- 1884 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer (b. 1858)
- 1906 – Stanford White, American architect, designed the Washington Square Arch (b. 1853)
- 1916 – Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844)
- 1917 – Géza Gyóni, Hungarian poet (b. 1884)
- 1918 – Jake Beckley, American baseball player (b. 1867)
- 1922 – Satyendranath Dutta, Bengali poet (b. 1882)
- 1932 – Howard Valentine, American track and field athlete (b. 1881)
- 1937 – Colin Clive, English actor (b. 1900)
- 1944 – Dénes Berinkey, Hungarian jurist and politician (b. 1871)
- 1944 – Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (b. 1906)
- 1948 – William C. Lee, American army general (b. 1895)
- 1949 – Buck Freeman, American baseball player (b. 1871)
- 1949 – James Steen, American water polo player (b. 1876)
- 1950 – Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, Irish author (b. 1904)
- 1958 – Alfred Noyes, English poet (b. 1880)
- 1959 – Charles Starkweather, American spree killer (b. 1938)
- 1960 – Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (b. 1869)
- 1971 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
- 1972 – Jan Matulka, American painter (b. 1890)
- 1974 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)
- 1976 – Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
- 1977 – Endre Szervánszky, Hungarian composer (b. 1911)
- 1979 – Dave Fleischer, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1894)
- 1979 – Philippe Halsman, American photographer (b. 1906)
- 1983 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
- 1984 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
- 1985 – Morris Mason, American murderer (b. 1954)
- 1987 – Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1920)
- 1988 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter (Red Hot Chili Peppers and What Is This?) (b. 1962)
- 1990 – Ronald Gene Simmons, American murderer (b. 1940)
- 1992 – Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)
- 1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
- 1996 – Arthur Snelling, English civil servant and diplomat (b. 1914)
- 1997 – Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer and explorer (b. 1910)
- 1998 – Lounès Matoub, Algerian singer, guitarist, and poet (b. 1956)
- 1999 – Fred Feast, English actor (b. 1929)
- 2002 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
- 2003 – Lester Maddox, American politician (b. 1915)
- 2005 – John Fiedler, American actor (b. 1925)
- 2005 – Kâzım Koyuncu, Turkish singer-songwriter and activist (b. 1971)
- 2006 – Jaap Penraat, Dutch resistance fighter (b. 1918)
- 2007 – Jeeva, Indian director (b. 1963)
- 2007 – Mahasti, Iranian singer (b. 1946)
- 2007 – J. Fred Duckett, American sportscaster and educator (b. 1933)
- 2008 – Lyall Watson, South African anthropologist and writer (b. 1939)
- 2009 – Yasmine, Belgian singer (b. 1972)
- 2009 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (b. 1947)
- 2009 – Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (The Jackson 5) (b. 1958)
- 2009 – Sky Saxon, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Seeds) (b. 1937)
- 2009 – Anil Wilson, Indian educationist (b. 1947)
- 2010 – Alan Plater, English playwright (b. 1935)
- 2010 – Richard B. Sellars, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1915)
- 2011 – Margaret Tyzack, English actress (b. 1931)
- 2011 – Goff Richards, English composer and arranger
- 2012 – Shigemitsu Dandō, Japanese jurist (b. 1913)
- 2012 – George Randolph Hearst, Jr., American businessman (b. 1927)
- 2012 – John Koko, American musician (Makaha Sons of Ni'ihau) (b. 1961)
- 2012 – Vyacheslav Ionov, Russian sprinter (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Doris Schade, German actress (b. 1924)
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