1520 – Raphael Sanzio, Italian painter and master builder (Sistine Madonna, School of Athens), dies on his 37th birthday
1593 – John Greenwood, English Separatist Puritan, hanged for “devising and circulating seditious books” at about 37 (d.1556, exact date uncertain)
1935 – Edward Arlington Robinson, American poet, dies
1985 – Mark Lothar [Lothar Hundertmark], German composer (The Story of the Lazy Bear), dies at 82
1992 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-American scientist and sci-fi writer (I Robot; Foundation Trilogy), dies from kidney failure at 72
1994 – Dick Cary, American jazz musician, dies at 77
2011 – Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Pakistani Sindhi scholar (compiled first Sindhi-English dictionary), dies at 93
2018 – Daniel Akaka, American educator and politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii), dies at 93
2020 – Fred Singer, Austrian-American physicist and climate change doubter, dies at 95
2021 – Hans Küng, Swiss theologian and critic of the Vatican, dies at 93