1536 Anne Boleyn, Queen of England (1533-36), second wife of Henry VIII, beheaded at the Tower of London on charges of adultery, incest and treason aged between 28 to 35
1610 Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550)
1637 Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher, dies at 48
1647 Sebastian Vrancx, Flemish painter (captain of vigilante), dies
1653 Carel Reyniersz, gov-gen of Neth East Indies, dies at 48
1715 Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman, dies at 54
1777 Button Gwinnett, British-born American politician, and signer of the Declaration of Independence,dies from wounds incurred in a duel with rival Lachlan McIntosh at 42
1795 Josiah Bartlett, American physician and statesman (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 65
1795 James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson and diarist, dies at 54
1798 William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English nobleman and politician, dies at 75
1800 French Bosbeeck, veterinarian/robber, hanged
1801 Herman H Vitringa, politician (National Meetings), dies
1821 Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)
1825 Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French political philosopher (b. 1760)
1845 Maria EJ Versfelt, mistress of general Moreau/marshal Ney, dies at 68
1864 Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (The Scarlet Letter), dies at 59
1868 Benjamin Guinness, Irish brewer and philanthropist, dies at 69
1872 Johan van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Wordbook), dies at 44
1876 Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch statesman and historian, dies at 74
1885 Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (b. 1809)
1895 Jose J Marti y Perez, Spanish/Cuban poet (Versos sencillos), dies
1898 William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Liberal: 1868-74, 1880-86, 1892-94), dies of heart failure at 88
1901 Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st president of the Republic South Africa, dies at 81
1904 Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
1907 Benjamin Baker, English civil engineer who designed the bridge over the Firth of Forth, Scotland and the London underground, dies at 67
1912 Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (The Outpost), dies at 64
1912 Eduard Adolf Strasburger, German botanist (Angiosperms), dies at 68
1915 John Simpson Kirkpatrick stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I (b. 1892)
1918 Gervais Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace, dies at 33
1921 Edward Douglass White, American politician and jurist (9th Chief Justice of the United States), dies at 75
1922 Heinrich I Quincke, German internist (postural drainage), dies at 79
1928 Max Scheler, German philosopher, dies at 53
1935 T. E. Lawrence [Lawrence of Arabia], British author, soldier and diplomat famous for his liaison role in Arabia during WWI, dies at 46, in a motorcycle accident in Dorset, England
1942 Nicoline Magdalene Roll Anker, Norwegian author (Enken), dies at 69
1943 Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and one of the founders of the Estonian National Museum, dies at 77
1944 Godfrey Wilson, British Anthropologist of social change and colonial problems in Africa, commits suicide as a conscientious objector in WW II
1945 Philipp Bouhler, German nazi leader (b. 1889)
1946 Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)
1953 Damaso Berenguer, Spanish soldier and politician (122nd Prime Minister of Spain), dies at 79
1954 Aart A van Schelven, church historian (Willem of Orange), dies at 73
1962 Gabriele Münter, German expressionist painter
1965 Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer (Znaki Zycia), dies
1966 Tortoise, reportedly given to Tonga's King by Captain James Cook in 1773, dies at around 193
1970 Tadeusz Breza, Polish writer (The Bronze Gate), dies at 64
1971 Ogden Nash, American humorous poet (I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Masquerade Party), dies at 68
1983 Jean Rey, Belgian politician and President of the European Commission dies at 80
1984 John Betjeman, poet (Mount Zion) and English Poet Laureate (1972-1984), dies at 77
1987 James Tiptree Jr. [Alice Sheldon], American sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful), dies at 71
1989 Abel Herzberg, Russian-Dutch Jewish lawyer (Eichmann in Jerusalem), dies at 95
1989 CLR James, West Indian writer and journalist (b. 1901)
1991 Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch), dies
1993 Nemesio Antunes, Chilean painter, dies at 75
1993 Richard Murphy, director (3 Stripes in the Sun), dies of stroke at 81
1994 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American 1st lady (1961-63), dies of cancer at 64
1994 Jacques Ellul, French writer and philosopher, dies at 82
1995 Robert S. Dietz, American geophysicist who proposed a theory of seafloor spreading in 1961, dies at 80
1997 Millie, dog of US President George H. W. Bush (Millie's Book), dies at 12
1998 Sōsuke Uno, Japanese prime minister (b. 1922)
2000 Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut, dies at 66
2002 John Gorton, Australian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (1968-71), dies at 90
2002 Walter Lord, American author (A Night to Remember), dies at 84
2007 Dean Eyre, New Zealand politician (b. 1914)
2008 Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright, (b. 1928)
2009 Robert F. Furchgott, American pharmacologist (Nobel 1998), dies at 92
2009 Herbert York, American physicist (b. 1921)
2011 Garret FitzGerald, Irish politician and former Taoiseach (b. 1926)
2014 Michael Aldrich, British inventor (Online shopping), dies at 72
2020 Richard Anuszkiewicz, American artist 'new wizard of op', dies at 89
