| | 1282 - Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (b. 1204) |
| | 1283 - Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236) |
| | 1499 - Johann Cicero, elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455) |
| | 1514 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (b. 1477) |
| | 1543 - Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491) |
| | 1562 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514) |
| | 1571 - Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510) |
| | 1598 - Jasper Heywood, English translator (b. 1553) |
| | 1677 - Aernout van der Neer, Dutch cartoonist and painter (b. 1603) |
| | 1757 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657) |
| | 1757 - Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (b. 1688) |
| | 1766 - Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705) |
| | 1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718) |
| | 1800 - Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762) |
| | 1805 - Noble Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723) |
| | 1848 - Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750) |
| | 1858 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798) |
| | 1873 - Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808) |
| | 1876 - Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801) |
| | 1877 - Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799) |
| | 1878 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820) |
| | 1895 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (b. 1812) |
| | 1901 - Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830) |
| | 1908 - Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832) |
| | 1908 - Abraham Goldfaden, Russian-born actor (b. 1840) |
| | 1911 - Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (b. 1853) |
| | 1918 - Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844) |
| | 1923 - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888) |
| | 1931 - Wayne Munn, wrestler (b. 1896) |
| | 1936 - John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1899) |
| | 1939 - Johann Strauss III, Austrian conductor (b. 1866) |
| | 1939 - Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist, children's book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann (b. 1880) |
| | 1946 - Countee Cullen, American poet (b. 1903) |
| | 1947 - Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (b. 1893) |
| | 1961 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867) |
| | 1971 - Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876) |
| | 1972 - Ted Shawn, American dancer (b. 1891) |
| | 1975 - Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897) |
| | 1975 - Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician (b. 1901) |
| | 1981 - Kazimierz Serocki, Polish composer (b. 1922) |
| | 1984 - Wolfgang Staudte, German director (b. 1906) |
| | 1985 - Robert Mayer, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879) |
| | 1987 - Marion Hutton, American singer (b. 1919) |
| | 1987 - Arthur Lake, American actor (b. 1905) |
| | 1989 - Bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898) |
| | 1990 - Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907) |
| | 1992 - Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910) |
| | 1993 - Svetoslav Roerich, Russian painter (b. 1904) |
| | 1994 - Johnny Temple, baseball player (b. 1927) |
| | 1995 - Peter Cook, British actor, satirist, writer, and comedian (b. 1937) |
| | 1995 - Souphanouvong, President of Laos (b. 1909) |
| | 1997 - Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909) |
| | 1997 - Jesse White, American actor (b. 1917) |
| | 1998 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1918) |
| | 2000 - Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909) |
| | 2001 - Maurice Prather, American motion picture and still photographer (b. 1926) |
| | 2003 - Will McDonough, American sports journalist (b. 1935) |
| | 2005 - Gonzalo Gavira, Mexican film sound technician (b. 1925) |
| | 2006 - Andy Caldecott, Australian KTM motorcyclist (b. 1964), during the 9th stage (Dakar Rally) |
| | 2006 - Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (b. 1937) |