| | 842 - Al-Mu'tasim, Abbasid caliph (b. 794) |
| | 1066 - Edward The Confessor, King Of England |
| | 1400 - John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English politician (executed) (bc. 1350) |
| | 1465 - Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (b. 1394) |
| | 1477 - Charles, Duke of Burgundy (killed in battle) (b. 1433) |
| | 1524 - Marko Marulic, Croatian poet (b. 1450) |
| | 1527 - Felix Manz, Swiss leader (executed) (b. 1498) |
| | 1588 - Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (b. 1528) |
| | 1589 - Catherine de Medici, queen of Henry II of France (b. 1519) |
| | 1655 - Pope Innocent X (b. 1574) |
| | 1740 - Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (b. 1667) |
| | 1762 - Empress Elizabeth of Russia (b. 1709) |
| | 1771 - John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (b. 1710) |
| | 1846 - Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (b. 1812) |
| | 1858 - Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766) |
| | 1891 - Emma Abbott, American soprano (b. 1849) |
| | 1904 - Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (b. 1839) |
| | 1910 - Léon Walras, French economist (b. 1834) |
| | 1922 - Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (b. 1874) |
| | 1933 - John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 30th President of the United States (b. 1872) |
| | 1937 - Marie Booth, child of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1864) |
| | 1941 - Amy Johnson, English aviator (b. 1903) |
| | 1943 - George Washington Carver, American educator (b. 1860) |
| | 1951 - Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (b. 1899) |
| | 1954 - Rabbit Maranville, baseball player (b. 1891) |
| | 1956 - Mistinguett, French singer (b. 1875) |
| | 1963 - Rogers Hornsby, baseball player (b. 1896) |
| | 1970 - Max Born, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882) |
| | 1970 - Roberto Gerhard, Catalan composer (b. 1896) |
| | 1971 - Douglas Shearer, Canadian film engineer (b. 1899) |
| | 1979 - Charles Mingus, American musician (b. 1922) |
| | 1981 - Harold C. Urey, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1893) |
| | 1981 - Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher (b. 1901) |
| | 1982 - Hans Conried, American actor (b. 1917) |
| | 1988 - Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947) |
| | 1990 - Arthur Kennedy, American actor (b. 1914) |
| | 1991 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet (b. 1922) |
| | 1994 - Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill, American politician (b. 1912) |
| | 1996 - Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian terrorist (b. 1966) |
| | 1998 - Sonny Bono, American entertainer (b. 1935) |
| | 2001 - Nancy Parsons, American actress (b. 1942) |
| | 2003 - Roy Jenkins, British politician (b. 1920) |
| | 2003 - Jean Kerr, American author (b. 1923) |
| | 2004 - Tug McGraw, baseball player (b. 1944) |
| | 2005 - Danny Sugerman, American music manager (The Doors) (b. 1954) |