| | 1512 - Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460) |
| | 1514 - William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460) |
| | 1557 - Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494) |
| | 1685 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603) |
| | 1694 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651) |
| | 1726 - Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688) |
| | 1833 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox saint (b. 1759) |
| | 1892 - George Airy, British Astronomer Royal (b. 1801) |
| | 1893 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805) |
| | 1904 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (b. 1821) |
| | 1913 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855) |
| | 1917 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832) |
| | 1924 - Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (b. 1834) |
| | 1939 - Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864) |
| | 1960 - Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (b. 1919) |
| | 1963 - Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904) |
| | 1974 - Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905) |
| | 1977 - Errol Garner, American musician (b. 1921) |
| | 1986 - Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903) |
| | 1986 - Bill Veeck, baseball executive (b. 1914) |
| | 1990 - Alan Hale Jr., American actor (b. 1918) |
| | 1995 - Siad Barre, President of Somalia (b. 1919) |
| | 1996 - Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (b. 1915) |
| | 2000 - Nat Adderley, American musician and composer (b. 1931) |
| | 2000 - Patrick O'Brian, British novelist (b. 1914) |
| | 2000 - Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., U.S. admiral, 19th Chief of Naval Operations (b. 1920) |
| | 2001 - Teri Diver, American actress (b. 1971) |
| | 2004 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (b. 1927) |
| | 2004 - Jess Collins, American artist (b. 1923) |
| | 2005 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (b. 1913) |
| | 2005 - Frank Kelly Freas, American artist (b. 1922) |
| | 2005 - Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, American politician(b. 1934) |
| | 2005 - Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (b. 1911) |
| | 2005 - Edo Murtic, Croatian painter (b. 1921) |