| | 681 - Pope Agatho |
| | 1094 - Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029) |
| | 1276 - Pope Gregory X (bc. 1210) |
| | 1645 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1573) |
| | 1698 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (b. 1637) |
| | 1707 - Philibert, comte de Gramont, French writer (b. 1621) |
| | 1754 - Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (b. 1691) |
| | 1761 - Edward Boscawen, British admiral (b. 1711) |
| | 1775 - Yemelyan Pugachev, Russian rebel |
| | 1777 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719) |
| | 1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707) |
| | 1794 - Georg Forster, German scientist and revolutionary (d. 1754) |
| | 1811 - Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (b. 1764) |
| | 1828 - François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (b. 1750) |
| | 1833 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752) |
| | 1851 - Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775) |
| | 1862 - Samuel Colt, American inventor (b. 1814) |
| | 1866 - Pyotr Pletnyov, Russian poet (b. 1792) |
| | 1883 - Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor (b. 1833) |
| | 1895 - Benjamin Godard, French composer (b. 1849) |
| | 1904 - Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824) |
| | 1917 - William F. Cody, American frontiersman (b. 1846) |
| | 1934 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting the Reichstag fire (b. 1909) |
| | 1941 - Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879) |
| | 1941 - Sir John Lavery, Northern Irish artist (b. 1856) |
| | 1941 - Joe Penner, Hungarian-born comedian and actor (b. 1904) |
| | 1951 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885) |
| | 1951 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (b. 1890) |
| | 1957 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889) |
| | 1961 - Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894) |
| | 1970 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (b. 1925) |
| | 1971 - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (b. 1883) |
| | 1972 - Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (b. 1897) |
| | 1976 - Howlin' Wolf, American musician (b. 1910) |
| | 1978 - Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist (b. 1924) |
| | 1980 - George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894) |
| | 1980 - Bo Rein, former college football coach at North Carolina State and LSU (b. 1945) |
| | 1980 - Hughie Critz, baseball player (b. 1900) |
| | 1981 - Katherine Alexander, American actress (b. 1898) |
| | 1981 - Richard Boone, American actor (b. 1917) |
| | 1981 - Fawn M. Brodie, American historian (b. 1915) |
| | 1982 - Paul Lynde, American comedian (b. 1926) |
| | 1986 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901) |
| | 1987 - Sir David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1904) |
| | 1997 - Elspeth Huxley, British journalist and writer (b. 1907) |
| | 1997 - Sheldon Leonard, American producer, actor, and director (b. 1907) |
| | 1997 - Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907) |
| | 2000 - Sam Jaffe, American producer (b. 1901) |
| | 2004 - Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1941) |
| | 2004 - Alexandra Ripley, American author (b. 1934) |
| | 2005 - Gene Baylos, American comedian (b. 1906) |
| | 2005 - Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (b. 1909) |
| | 2005 - Margherita Carosio, Italian soprano (b. 1908) |
| | 2005 - James Forman, American civil rights leader (b. 1928) |
| | 2005 - Erwin Hillier, British cinematographer (b. 1911) |
| | 2005 - Gordon John "Jack" Horner, American sports journalist (b. 1912) |
| | 2005 - Joséphine-Charlotte, Grandduchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927) |