Deaths
- 1162 – Géza II of Hungary (b. 1130)
- 1176 – Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)
- 1312 – Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)
- 1573 – Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
- 1619 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b. 1547)
- 1704 – Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (b. 1632)
- 1742 – Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
- 1807 – Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b. 1721)
- 1809 – Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London (b. 1731)
- 1832 – Georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b. 1769)
- 1835 – John Nash, English architect (b. 1752)
- 1866 – Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (b. 1796)
- 1871 – Daniel Auber, French composer (b. 1782)
- 1878 – Joseph Henry, American scientist (b. 1797)
- 1884 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (b. 1809)
- 1885 – Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)
- 1901 – Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín", Spanish novelist and literary critic (b. 1851)
- 1903 – Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister (b. 1864)
- 1916 – Sholom Aleichem, Russian author (b. 1859)
- 1921 – Jean Aicard, French poet and novelist (b. 1848)
- 1925 – Boris Savinkov, Russian writer and terrorist (b. 1879)
- 1926 – Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (b. 1857)
- 1930 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1861)
- 1937 – Ekaterina Geladze, Georgian mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
- 1938 – Charles Edouard Guillaume, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
- 1941 – Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (b. 1891)
- 1945 – Tubby Hall, American jazz drummer (b. 1895)
- 1957 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (b. 1886)
- 1961 – Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
- 1962 – Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (b. 1893)
- 1963 – Alois Hudal, Austrian-born Catholic bishop who assisted Nazi war criminals in escaping (b. 1885)
- 1972 – Dan Blocker, American actor (b. 1928)
- 1974 – Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican writer (b. 1902)
- 1975 – Bob Wills, American musician (b. 1905)
- 1977 – Mickey Spillane, Irish-American gangster (b. 1934)
- 1985 – Leatrice Joy, American actress (b. 1893)
- 1988 – Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1929)
- 1992 – F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (b. 1909)
- 1994 – Duncan Hamilton, British racing driver (b. 1920)
- 1999 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
- 2000 – Paul Bartel, American actor (b. 1938)
- 2000 – Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1951)
- 2001 – R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
- 2001 – Jason Miller, American playwright (b. 1939)
- 2002 – Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
- 2002 – Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (b. 1925)
- 2005 – George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)
- 2005 – Michael Ross, American serial killer (b. 1959)
- 2005 – Eddie Barclay, French record producer (b. 1921)
- 2006 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (b. 1949)
- 2008 – Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Sheikh of Kuwait (b. 1930)
- 2008 – Ron Stone, American television reporter (b. 1936)
- 2009 – Frank Aletter, American character actor (b. 1926)
- 2009 – Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer, one of the first to summit K2 (b. 1914)
- 2009 – Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer, Belgian-born member of the Rabbinical Court of the Edah HaChareidis, Jerusalem (b. 1934)
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