All Deaths

• Daniel J. Evans, American politician, 16th Governor of Washington (born 1925) · 2024
  
• Sayuri, Japanese musician (born 1996) · 2024
  
• Cleo Sylvestre, English actress (born 1945) · 2024
  
• Eduardo Xol, American designer and author (born 1966) · 2024
  
• Maddy Cusack, English football player (born 1995) · 2023
  
• Curtis Hanson, American film director and screenwriter (born 1945) · 2016
  
• Peter Leo Gerety, American bishop (born 1912) · 2016
  
• Mario Caiano, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1933) · 2015
  
• Jagmohan Dalmiya, Indian businessman (born 1940) · 2015
  
• Jack Larson, American actor (born 1928) · 2015
  
• Anatoly Berezovoy, Russian colonel, pilot, and cosmonaut (born 1942) · 2014
  
• Polly Bergen, American actress and singer (born 1930) · 2014
  
• Takako Doi, Japanese scholar and politician (born 1928) · 2014
  
• George Sluizer, French-Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1932) · 2014
  
• James B. Vaught, American general (born 1926) · 2013
  
• Gilles Verlant, Belgian journalist and critic (born 1957) · 2013
  
• Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (born 1935) · 2012
  
• Richard H. Cracroft, American author and academic (born 1936) · 2012
• Tereska Torrès, French soldier and author (born 1920) · 2012
  
• Oscar Handlin, American historian and author (born 1915) · 2011
  
• Burhanuddin Rabbani, Afghan academic and politician, 10th President of Afghanistan (born 1940) · 2011
  
• Leonard Skinner, American soldier and educator (born 1933) · 2010
  
• Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (born 1928) · 2007
• Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (born 1932) · 2006
• Sven Nykvist, Swedish director, producer, and cinematographer (born 1922) · 2006
  
• John W. Peterson, American pilot and songwriter (born 1921) · 2006
• Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian human rights activist, Holocaust survivor (born 1908) · 2005
  
• Brian Clough, English footballer and manager (born 1935) · 2004
  
• Townsend Hoopes, American soldier and historian (born 1922) · 2004
• Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwean politician, 1st Vice-President of Zimbabwe (born 1922) · 2003
  
• Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, Welsh lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Council (born 1941) · 2003
  
• Sergei Bodrov Jr., Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1971) · 2002
  
• Gherman Titov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (born 1935) · 2000
  
• Robert Lebel, Canadian businessman (born 1905) · 1999
  
• Paul Erdős, Hungarian-Polish mathematician and academic (born 1913) · 1996
  
• Reuben Kamanga, Zambian politician, 1st Vice-President of Zambia (born 1929) · 1996
  
• Paul Weston, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1912) · 1996
  
• Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean physician, academic, and diplomat (born 1924) · 1994
  
• Jule Styne, American composer (born 1905) · 1994
  
• Erich Hartmann, German soldier and pilot (born 1922) · 1993
  
• Michael Stewart, American playwright and composer (born 1924) · 1987
• Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1948) · 1984
  
• Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (born 1895) · 1979
  
• Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887) · 1975
  
• Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1943) · 1973
  
• Pierre-Henri Simon, French historian and author (born 1903) · 1972
  
• Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900) · 1971
  
• James Westerfield, American actor (born 1913) · 1971
  
• Alexandros Othonaios, Greek general and politician, 126h Prime Minister of Greece (born 1879) · 1970
  
• Heino Kaski, Finnish pianist and composer (born 1885) · 1957
  
• Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer (born 1865) · 1957
  
• Fiorello H. La Guardia, American lawyer and politician, 99th Mayor of New York City (born 1882) · 1947
  
• Jantina Tammes, Dutch biologist, geneticist, and academic (born 1871) · 1947
  
• Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Brazilian politician, President of Brazil (born 1869) · 1945
  
• William Seabrook, American occultist, journalist, and explorer (born 1884) · 1945
  
• Eduard Wirths, German physician (born 1909) · 1945
  
• Kārlis Ulmanis, Latvian prime minister and president (born 1877) · 1942
  
• Paul Bruchési, Canadian archbishop (born 1855) · 1939
  
• Annie Besant, English theosophist and activist (born 1847) · 1933
  
• Francisco S. Carvajal, Mexican lawyer and politician, president 1914 (born 1870) · 1932
  
• Gombojab Tsybikov, Russian anthropologist and explorer (born 1873) · 1930
  
• George Nichols, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1864) · 1927
  
• Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (born 1844) · 1908
  
• Robert R. Hitt, American politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State (born 1834) · 1906
  
• Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (born 1819) · 1898
  
• Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist and author (born 1802) · 1884
  
• Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (born 1785) · 1863
  
• José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran priest and educator (born 1797) · 1855
  
• Philander Chase, American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College (born 1775) · 1852
  
• Matvei Gedenschtrom, Russian explorer and public servant (born 1780) · 1845
• José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, Consul of Paraguay (born 1766) · 1840
  
• Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (born 1769) · 1839
  
• Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist and scholar (born 1725) · 1815
  
• Robert Emmet, Irish republican (born 1780) · 1803
  
• Fletcher Christian, English lieutenant and mutineer (born 1764) · 1793
  
• Francis Scobell, English politician (born 1664) · 1740
• Kim Seok-ju, Korean scholar and politician (born 1634) · 1684
  
• Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for England (born 1610) · 1643
  
• Johannes Meursius, Dutch historian and scholar (born 1579) · 1639
  
• Jan Gruter, Dutch scholar and critic (born 1560) · 1627
  
• Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (born 1555) · 1625
  
• Lodovico Agostini, Italian priest, composer, and scholar (born 1534) · 1590
• Sir Anthony Babington, English Catholic conspirator (born 1561) · 1586
  
• Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (born 1558) · 1586
• Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (born 1515) · 1565
  
• Pavle Bakić, medieval Serb monarch; last Serb Despot · 1537
  
• Veit Stoss, German sculptor (born c. 1447) · 1533
  
• Agostino Barbarigo, Doge of Venice · 1501
  
• Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, stepson of Edward IV of England (born 1457) · 1501
  
• Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (born 1426) · 1492
  
• Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer (born 1400) · 1460
  
• Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (born 1371) · 1440
  
• Louis I, Duke of Anjou (born 1339) · 1384
  
• Ibn Taymiyyah, Syrian theologian and scholar (born 1263) · 1328
• Jan Prandota, Bishop of Kraków · 1266
• Michael of Chernigov (born 1185) · 1246
  
• Conrad II of Salzwedel, German nobleman and bishop · 1241
• Adelog of Hildesheim, German bishop · 1190
  
• Hermann II, Count Palatine of Lotharingia (born 1049) · 1085
  
• Gozbald, bishop of Würzburg · 855