| | 664 - Amr ibn al-A'as, Muslim general (bc. 583) |
| | 1088 - Berengar of Tours, French theologian (bc. 999) |
| | 1448 - Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (b. 1418) |
| | 1537 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510) |
| | 1537 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481) |
| | 1616 - Philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur (bc. 1550) |
| | 1689 - Seth Ward, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1671) |
| | 1711 - Philipp van Almonde, Dutch admiral (b. 1646) |
| | 1718 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (b. 1664) |
| | 1718 - Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (b. 1648) |
| | 1724 - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist (b. 1653) |
| | 1731 - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (b. 1672) |
| | 1734 - John Dennis, English critic and dramatist (b. 1657) |
| | 1813 - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764) |
| | 1840 - Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (b. 1752) |
| | 1852 - Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind (b. 1809) |
| | 1855 - Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779) |
| | 1884 - Gregor Johann Mendel, Austrian geneticist (b. 1822) |
| | 1885 - Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian writer and scientist (b. 1812) |
| | 1913 - Frederick Hitch, English Victoria Cross Winner (b. 1856) |
| | 1918 - Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845) |
| | 1919 - Max Heindel, Danish astrologer and mystic (b. 1865) |
| | 1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858) |
| | 1922 - Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (b. 1842) |
| | 1928 - Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (b. 1876) |
| | 1937 - André Besette, Canadian religious figure (b. 1845) |
| | 1941 - Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (b. 1882) |
| | 1942 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president (b. 1876) |
| | 1944 - Ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857) |
| | 1945 - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863) |
| | 1949 - Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1883) |
| | 1972 - Chen Yi, Chinese military commander and politician (b. 1901) |
| | 1978 - Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899) |
| | 1981 - A.J. Cronin, Scottish writer (b. 1896) |
| | 1981 - Karl Dönitz, German WWII Admiral (b. 1891) |
| | 1990 - Ian Charleson, Scottish actor (b. 1949) |
| | 1990 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904) |
| | 1992 - Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1917) |
| | 1993 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1938) |
| | 1995 - Joe Slovo, South African politician (b. 1926) |
| | 1996 - Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian leader (b. 1966) |
| | 1997 - Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (b. 1912) |
| | 2000 - Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931) |
| | 2004 - Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1954) |
| | 2004 - Charles Dumas, American athlete (b. 1937) |
| | 2004 - Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (b. 1921) |
| | 2005 - Lois Hole, Lt. Governor of Alberta (b. 1933) |
| | 2005 - Louis Robichaud, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1925) |
| | 2006 - Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933) |
| | 2006 - Hugh Thompson, Jr., decorated Vietnam War helicopter pilot (b. 1943) |