| | 482 - Saint Severinus |
| | 1100 - Antipope Clement III (bc. 1029) |
| | 1107 - Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074) |
| | 1198 - Pope Celestine III (bc. 1106) |
| | 1324 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254) |
| | 1337 - Giotto di Bondone, Italian artist (b. 1267) |
| | 1464 - Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian (b. 1385) |
| | 1557 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522) |
| | 1570 - Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (bc. 1510) |
| | 1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer (b. 1564) |
| | 1707 - John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648) |
| | 1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653) |
| | 1775 - John Baskerville, English printer (b. 1706) |
| | 1789 - Jack Broughton, English boxer (bc. 1703) |
| | 1794 - Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720) |
| | 1815 - Edward Pakenham, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1778) |
| | 1825 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765) |
| | 1854 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768) |
| | 1865 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779) |
| | 1874 - Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814) |
| | 1878 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821) |
| | 1880 - Joshua A. Norton, "Emperor Norton I of the United States" (b. 1811) |
| | 1896 - William Raine Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825) |
| | 1896 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844) |
| | 1901 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873) |
| | 1916 - Ada Rehan, actress (b. 1860) |
| | 1932 - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (b. 1866) |
| | 1934 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880) |
| | 1941 - Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of scouting (b. 1857) |
| | 1942 - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (b. 1869) |
| | 1944 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878) |
| | 1948 - Kurt Schwitters, German painter (b. 1887) |
| | 1950 - Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (b. 1883) |
| | 1956 - Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928) |
| | 1958 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883) |
| | 1963 - Kay Sage, American artist and poet (b. 1898) |
| | 1969 - Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889) |
| | 1970 - Georges Guibourg, French performer (b. 1891) |
| | 1972 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet (b. 1911) |
| | 1975 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913) |
| | 1976 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898) |
| | 1976 - Robert Forgan, British fascist (b. 1891) |
| | 1979 - Sara Carter, American country musician (b. 1898) |
| | 1980 - John Mauchly, American physicist (b. 1907) |
| | 1981 - Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (b. 1925) |
| | 1983 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (b. 1913) |
| | 1986 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906) |
| | 1989 - Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (b. 1940) |
| | 1990 - Terry-Thomas, British actor, comedian (b. 1911) |
| | 1991 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (b. 1960) |
| | 1993 - Eleanor Hibbert, British author (b. 1906) |
| | 1994 - Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915) |
| | 1994 - Harvey Haddix, baseball player (b. 1925) |
| | 1995 - Carlos Monzon, Argentinian boxer (b. 1942) |
| | 1996 - François Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916) |
| | 1997 - Melvin Calvin, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) |
| | 1998 - Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905) |
| | 2000 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918) |
| | 2002 - Alexander Prochorow, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916) |
| | 2002 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932) |
| | 2003 - Ron Goodwin, British composer and conductor (b. 1925) |
| | 2004 - John A. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1930) |
| | 2005 - Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (b. 1952) |
| | 2005 - Warren Spears, American choreographer and dancer |
| | 2005 - Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (b. 1914) |
| | 2006 - Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943) |