| | 314 - St. Miltiades |
| | 705 - John VI |
| | 812 - Stauracius, Byzantine Emperor |
| | 844 - Michael I Rhangabes, Byzantine Emperor |
| | 1055 - Constantine IX Monomachos, Byzantine Emperor |
| | 1494 - Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b. 1449) |
| | 1495 - Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1428) |
| | 1641 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (b. 1583) |
| | 1696 - Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (b. 1616) |
| | 1703 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (b. 1632) |
| | 1713 - Pierre Jurieu, French protestant leader (b. 1637) |
| | 1762 - Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor (b. 1695) |
| | 1763 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (b. 1676) |
| | 1771 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (b. 1704) |
| | 1791 - William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717) |
| | 1801 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (b. 1749) |
| | 1843 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer (b. 1779) |
| | 1882 - Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (b. 1810) |
| | 1901 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (b. 1866) |
| | 1902 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862) |
| | 1905 - Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Hasidic rabbi (b. 1847) |
| | 1923 - King Constantine I of Greece (b. 1868) |
| | 1928 - Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840) |
| | 1931 - James Milton Carroll, was a Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852) |
| | 1941 - Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (b. 1868) |
| | 1958 - Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895) |
| | 1966 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b. 1901) |
| | 1966 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889) |
| | 1968 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) |
| | 1970 - Richmal Crompton, British author (b. 1890) |
| | 1978 - Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet (b. 1927) |
| | 1979 - Jack Soo, American actor (b. 1916) |
| | 1980 - Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913) |
| | 1981 - Beulah Bondi, American actress (b. 1888) |
| | 1983 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894) |
| | 1988 - Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, American WW II Marine aviator (b. 1912) |
| | 1991 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) |
| | 1998 - Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926) |
| | 1999 - Fabrizio de André, Italian singer (b. 1940) |
| | 1999 - Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (b. 1921) |
| | 2000 - Ivan Combe, American inventor (b. 1911) |
| | 2000 - Bob Lemon, baseball player (b. 1920) |
| | 2001 - Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (b. 1914) |
| | 2003 - Mickey Finn, English drummer (T. Rex) (b. 1947) |
| | 2003 - Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (b. 1925) |
| | 2003 - Richard Simmons, American actor (b. 1913) |
| | 2005 - Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1938) |
| | 2005 - James Griffin, American musician (Bread) (b. 1943) |
| | 2005 - Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (b. 1913) |
| | 2005 - Fabrizio Meoni Italian motorcyclist (b. 1957). |
| | 2006 - Nixzmary Brown, child abuse icon (b. 1998) |