- 29 John the Baptist, beheaded
- 886 Basilius I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies
- 1093 Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
- 1123 Eystein I, King of Norway (1103-23) portrayed as the "peace king" who ruled alongside his brothers Sigurd the Crusader and Olaf Magnusson, dies of an illness at around 34 or 35
- 1395 Albert III, Duke of Austria (1365-95), dies at 45
- 1442 John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
- 1523 Ulrich von Hutten, German knight, scholar and poet (led Imperial Knights against Roman Catholic Church), dies of syphilis at 35
- 1526 Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemia, dies in accident at 20
- 1542 Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516)
- 1572 Claude Goudimel, French composer, music theorist, music editor and publisher, dies between 52 and 58 [birthdate disputed]
- 1625 John Fletcher, English Jacobean playwright (followed Shakespeare as playwright for the Kings Men), dies at 45
- 1653 Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49
- 1657 John Lilburne, English dissenter
- 1712 Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63
- 1738 Georg Reutter, Austrian composer and organist, dies at 81
- 1758 Gerard van Loon, Dutch numismatist, dies at 75
Pius VI (1717-1799)
Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 71
Charles Napier (1782-1853)
British soldier and Major General of the Bombay Army who conquered Sindh and became its Governor (1843-47), dies at 71
Brigham Young (1801-1877)
American religious leader (Latter-day Saints), dies of peritonitis at 76
- 1880 Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Bvt Major General (Union Army), dies at 47
- 1880 Paul Octave Hébert, American Brigadier General and 14th Governor of Louisiana, dies at 61
- 1889 Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)
- 1891 Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)
- 1893 Aleksey Apukhtin, Russian poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 [OS=8/17]
- 1899 Catharine Parr Traill, English-Canadian writer and naturalist (The Backwoods of Canada), dies at 97 [1]
- 1903 William Henry Penrose, American Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at 71
- 1904 Murad V, 33rd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876), dies at 63
- 1909 Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies at 67
- 1910 Johan Eilerts de Haan, Dutch naval officer and explorer (Lucie River, Suriname), dies, likely due to malaria, at 44
- 1916 Johann Oskar Backlund, Swedish-Russian astronomer (planets/asteroids), dies at 64
- 1918 Max Dauthendey, German painter and author (Raubmenschen), dies at 51
- 1921 Joel Asaph Allen, American zoologist (Allen's rule) and first curator of birds and mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, dies at 83
- 1928 Richard Haldane, British viscount and lord-chancellor (Life of A Smith), dies at 72
- 1930 William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)
- 1931 David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder, dies at 64
- 1933 Frank Cavanagh, American football player and coach, dies at 57
- 1933 Georgy Eduardovich Konyus, Russian composer, and music theorist, dies at 70
- 1935 Astrid of Sweden, Queen of the Belgians, first wife of King Leopold III (1934-35), dies in a car accident at 29
- 1935 Charles Lee Williams, English composer (Gloucester Cathedral), dies at 82
- 1938 Bela Kun, Hungarian Communist revolutionary (de facto head of Hungarian Soviet Republic 1919), executed during the 'Great Purge' in Russia at 52
- 1940 Arthur De Greef, Belgian composer, dies at 77
- 1941 Henri Louis, French officer/resistance fighter, executed at 40
- 1941 Jan Louis Guillaume Doornik, Dutch resistance fighter (Free French Forces), executed for treason by Nazi occupiers of France at 36
- 1946 J E Feenstra, Nazi military police commandant, executed
- 1946 John Steuart Curry, American painter and lithographer (Baptism in Kansas), dies of a heart attack at 48
- 1946 Milan Harašta, Czech composer, dies at 26
- 1957 Louis Diat, French-American chef (Ritz-Carlton Hotel NYC, 1910-51), culinary writer and cookbook author, credited with inventing vichyssoise soup, dies at 72
- 1960 Alexander Gauge, British actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood), dies at 46
- 1960 Hazza el-Majali, Prime Minister of Jordan is assassinated
- 1960 Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (Grand Hotel), dies at 72
- 1965 Paul Waner, American Baseball HOF right fielder (NL MVP 1927; NL batting champion 1927, 34, 36; MLB All-Star 1933–35, 37; Pittsburgh Pirates), dies at 62
- 1966 Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906)
- 1968 Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner, dies at 87
- 1968 Victor Sutherland, American actor (Captive City), dies at 79
- 1970 Mary Clare, British actress, dies at 78
- 1972 Lale Andersen [Elisabeth Bunnenberg], German singer and actress (Der Pott), dies at 67
- 1972 René Leibowitz, Polish-French jazz pianist, classical composer, conductor, and educator, dies at 59
- 1973 (James) Stringer Davis, British stage and screen character actor (Murder Most Foul), and veteran of both World Wars, dies at 74
- 1973 Michael Dunn, American short actor (Justine, Boom, Madigan), dies at 38
- 1973 Stringer Davis, English actress (Mouse on the Moon; Miranda), dies at about 77
Éamon de Valera (1882-1975)
Irish republican politician and President of Ireland (1937-48, 51-54, 57-59), dies at 92
- 1975 Leland T. Weed, American singer and actor, dies at 74
- 1976 Jimmy Reed, American blues singer ("Soulin'"; "Big Boss Man"), dies of epileptic seizure at 50
- 1976 Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher, dies at 77
- 1977 Edward Sinclair, English actor (Dad's Army), dies at 63
- 1977 Jean Hagen, actress (Dead Ringer, Shaggy Dog, Arena), dies at 54
- 1979 Mary Marquet, French actress (Landru, Paris Canaille), dies at 84
- 1979 Samuel I. Newhouse Sr., American businessman and publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour), dies at 84
- 1980 Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, French politician and Nazi collaborator (anti-Semite minister in WWII Vichy government), dies at 92
- 1981 Lowell Thomas, American newscaster (High Adventure), dies in Pawling, NY at 89
Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982)
Swedish actress (Casablanca, Gaslight), dies on her 67th birthday
- 1982 Lehman Engel, American conductor and composer (A Streetcar Named Desire), dies at 71
- 1982 Nahum Goldmann, American president of Zionist World Organization, dies at 87
- 1983 Simon Oakland [Weiss], American stage and screen character actor (Toma; Kolchak), dies of colon cancer at 68
- 1983 William Goyen, American writer, dies at 68
- 1984 Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian statesman (b. 1901)
- 1985 Alexander Abramsky, Soviet composer, dies at 87
- 1985 Evelyn Ankers, American actress (Black Beauty, Jungle Woman), dies at 67
- 1985 Patrick Barr, English actor (Black Orchid, On the Run), dies at 77
- 1987 Archie Campbell, American country recording artist, comedian, and writer (Hee Haw), dies of a heart attack at 72
Lee Marvin (1924-1987)
American actor (Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou), dies of a heart attack at 63
- 1989 Peter Scott, British naturalist and explorer, dies at 79
- 1990 Sandy, dog in the play Annie, dies at 16
- 1991 Dallas Adams, British painter, writer and actor (Terror from Within), dies
- 1991 Daniel Ocko, American actor dies of a respiratory condition at 78
- 1991 Dixie Dunbar [Charlotte King], American singer and actress, dies of a heart attack at 72
- 1991 Kathryn Cravens, American early news correspondent, dies at 92
- 1991 Libero Grassi, Italian underwear manufacturer/anti mafia, dies
- 1992 Mary Norton, English children book author (Borrowers), dies at 88
- 1992 Teddy Turner, English comedian (Coronation Street), dies at 75
- 1993 Dorian Corey, American actor (Paris is Burning), dies of AIDS at 56
- 1993 Henry J "Harry" Smeets, dealer of Volkskrant, dies at 56
- 1994 Arthur Ernest Mourant, British hematologist, dies at 90
- 1994 Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian Catholic priest, shot dead
- 1994 Marea Hartman, English athletics administrator who integrated women's sports, dies at 74
- 1994 Michael Peters, American choreographer and dancer (Dreamgirls; Michael Jackson), dies of complications from AIDS at 46
- 1994 Phillip Gilmore, American actor (Malcolm X), dies at 38
- 1994 Tushar Kanti Ghosh, Indian journalist and world's oldest and longest serving newspaper editor (Amrita Bazar Patrika), dies at 95
- 1995 Frank Perry, American film director (Diary of Mad Housewife, David & Lisa), dies at 65
- 1995 Harry Broadhurst, British Royal Air Force commander and flying ace of the Second World War, dies at 89
- 1995 Jack Stoddart, designer/socialist, dies at 70
- 1995 Pierre Max Dubois, French composer (Turlututu; Voulez-vous jouer au cirque?), conductor, and music educator, dies at 65
- 1995 Thomas Strittmatter, German writer, dies at 33
- 1996 Jean Davies, British naval officer (Director of WRNS), dies at 87
- 1996 Tera de Marez Oyens, Dutch composer, dies at 64
- 1998 Charlie Feathers, American country music and rockabilly singer-songwriter, and musician ("Can't Hardly Stand It"), dies at from stroke complications at 66
- 1999 Jaime Fields, American NFL and WLAF linebacker (KC Chiefs, Scotland Claymores), dies in a hit-and-run automobile accident at 29
- 2001 (Graeme) "Shirley" Strachan, Australian singer (Skyhooks - "Ego Is Not A Dirty Word"; "Jukebox in Siberia"), TV host (Shirl's Neighbourhood), and carpenter (Our House), dies as pilot in a helicopter crash at 49
- 2001 Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (Holy Innocents, Camorra), dies at 76
- 2002 Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (To Serve Them All My Days), dies at 82
- 2002 Paul Tripp, American TV host (Mr I Magination), songwriter (Tubby the Tuba), and children's book writer (Rabbi Santa Claus), dies at 91
- 2003 Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b. 1939)
- 2003 Michel Constantin, French film actor, dies at 79
- 2003 Patrick Procktor, English artist, dies at 67
- 2004 Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (The Hague Philharmonic, 1980-1991; St. Louis Symphony, 1996-2002), dies from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS - Lou Gehrig's Disease) at 62
- 2005 Barry Cowsill, American rock bassist (The Cowsills - "We Can Fly"), drowned during Hurricane Katrina at 50
- 2007 Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
- 2007 Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (1975-77), dies at 89
- 2007 Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian soccer striker (33 caps; Zanaco FC), dies from heart failure at 28
- 2007 James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (b. 1914)
- 2007 Pierre Messmer, French politician (Prime Minister of France 1972-74 under Georges Pompidou), dies at 91
- 2007 Richard Jewell, American security guard (central figure in 1996 Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta bombing), dies from kidney failure at 44
- 2008 Geoffrey Perkins, British comedy producer (b. 1953)
- 2009 Chris Connor [Mary Jean Loutsenhizer], American jazz singer ("I Wonder What Became of Me"), dies of cancer at 81
- 2009 Frank Gardner, Australian auto racer (European F5000 1971; British Touring Car Championship 1967-68, 73), dies at 77
- 2009 Simon Dee, British television broadcaster (Dee Time), dies at 74
- 2010 Hans Ulrich Humpert, German composer, dies at 69
- 2011 David "Honeyboy" Edwards, American delta blues guitarist, dies at 96
- 2014 Björn Waldegård, Swedish rally driver (World Rally Championship 1979), dies from cancer at 70
- 2015 Wayne Dyer, American psychologist and author (Universe Within You), dies at 75
Gene Wilder (1933-2016)
American actor (Blazing Saddles; Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; Silver Streak; Young Frankenstein), dies at 83
- 2017 Dmitri Kogan, Russian concert violinist (Five Great Violins), dies of cancer at 38
- 2017 Janine Charrat, French ballerina and choreographer, dies at 93
- 2017 Larry Elgart, American big band jazz alto saxophonist, and bandleader ("Bandstand Boogie"; "Hooked On Swing"), dies at 95
- 2018 Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer (Paul Taylor Dance Company), dies at 88 [1]
- 2018 Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett, English jurist and Labour politician who was Minister of State for Northern Ireland (1976-79), dies at 70 [1]
- 2019 Randy Romero, American jockey (Breeder's Cup 1987-89; Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame 2010), dies from kidney and liver cancer at 61
- 2020 Clifford Robinson, American basketball center (NBA All-Star 1994; 6th Man of Year Award 1993; Phoenix Suns, Portland Trail Blazers), dies from lymphoma at 53
- 2020 Jürgen Schadeberg, German-born South African photographer who photographed apartheid struggle, dies at 89
- 2021 Ed Asner, American Emmy Award-winning actor (The Mary Tyler Moore Show - "Mr. Grant"; Lou Grant, Roots; Up), and activist, dies at 91
- 2021 Jacques Rogge, Belgian sports administrator (8th President International Olympic Committee 2001-13), dies at 79
- 2021 Lee "Scratch" Perry, [Rainford Hugh Perry] Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter and producer (The Upset;ers), dies at 85
- 2021 Ron Bushy, American rock drummer (Iron Butterfly - “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”), dies of esophageal cancer at 79
- 2022 Charlbi Dean [Kriek], South African actress (Spud films), dies of bacterial sepsis at 32
- 2022 Ernie Zampese, American football coach (San Diego State University 1967–75; SD Chargers asst. head coach 1983-85), dies at 86
- 2022 Rigoberto Riasco, Panamanian boxer (Lineal & WBC Super bantamweight champion 1976), dies at 69
- 2023 Mike Enriquez, Filipino broadcast journalist, dies of cardiac arrest during routine dialysis treatment at 71
- 2023 Waldemar Victorino., Uruguayan soccer forward (33 caps; CA Cerro, Cagliari, Newell's Old Boys, Colón de Santa Fe, LDU Portoviejo), dies at 71
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