| 1. | 1400 - Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (executed) (b. 1374) |
| 2. | 1451 - Count Amadeus VIII of Savoy (b. 1383) |
| 3. | 1536 - Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1485) |
| 4. | 1566 - Louis de Blois, Flemish mystic (b. 1506) |
| 5. | 1619 - Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (bc. 1547) |
| 6. | 1625 - Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (bc. 1560) |
| 7. | 1658 - Theophilus Eaton, Connecticut colonist (b. 1590) |
| 8. | 1694 - Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English royalist general (bc. 1618) |
| 9. | 1700 - Raphael Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (b. 1618) |
| 10. | 1758 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686) |
| 11. | 1767 - Thomas Clap, first president of Yale University (b. 1703) |
| 12. | 1770 - Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695) |
| 13. | 1783 - William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700) |
| 14. | 1786 - Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715) |
| 15. | 1830 - Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769) |
| 16. | 1864 - Caleb Blood Smith, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808) |
| 17. | 1872 - James Fisk, American entrepreneur (b. 1834) |
| 18. | 1878 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794) |
| 19. | 1892 - Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (b. 1852) |
| 20. | 1893 - Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist, mathematician, and poet (b. 1835) |
| 21. | 1913 - Jack Boyle, baseball player (b. 1866) |
| 22. | 1919 - Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist and philantropist (b. 1843) |
| 23. | 1920 - Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849) |
| 24. | 1943 - Nikola Tesla, Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer (b. 1856) |
| 25. | 1951 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886) |
| 26. | 1964 - Cyril Davies, American musician (b. 1932) |
| 27. | 1972 - John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914) |
| 28. | 1984 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)) |
| 29. | 1986 - Juan Rulfo, Mexican novelist (b. 1917) |
| 30. | 1988 - Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913) |
| 31. | 1989 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (b. 1901) |
| 32. | 1990 - Bronko Nagurski, American football player (b. 1908) |
| 33. | 1995 - Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926) |
| 34. | 1996 - Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (b. 1930) |
| 35. | 1998 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.1906) |
| 36. | 2000 - Gary Albright, professional wrestler (b. 1963) |
| 37. | 2002 - Naughtia Childs porn star (suicide) (b. 1979) |
| 38. | 2002 - Jon Lee, Welsh drummer (Feeder) (suicide) (b. 1968) |
| 39. | 2002 - Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935) |
| 40. | 2005 - Pierre Daninos, French novelist (b. 1913) |
| 41. | 2005 - Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932) |
| 42. | 2006 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer and explorer (b. 1912) |