| | 41 - Caligula, Roman Emperor (b. 12) |
| | 570 - Saint Ita, Irish nun |
| | 1595 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546) |
| | 1672 - John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594) |
| | 1683 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609) |
| | 1781 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (b. 1718) |
| | 1790 - John Landen, English mathematician (b. 1719) |
| | 1804 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725) |
| | 1915 - Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848) |
| | 1919 - Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (b. 1870) |
| | 1945 - Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (b. 1865) |
| | 1947 - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, (b. 1924) |
| | 1955 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (b. 1900) |
| | 1964 - Jack Teagarden, American musician (b. 1905) |
| | 1967 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (b. 1882) |
| | 1973 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1901) |
| | 1973 - Coleman Francis, American film director (b. 1919) |
| | 1983 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born gangster (b. 1902) |
| | 1987 - Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904) |
| | 1988 - Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904) |
| | 1990 - Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (b. 1923) |
| | 1993 - Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913) |
| | 1994 - Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941) |
| | 1996 - Les Baxter, American musician and composer (b. 1922) |
| | 1996 - Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938) |
| | 1998 - Junior Wells, American musician (b. 1934) |
| | 2000 - Željko Ražnatovic, Serbian leader (b. 1952) |
| | 2000 - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916) |
| | 2001 - Ted Mann, American screenwriter (b. 1916) |
| | 2002 - Steve Gromek, Baseball player (b. 1920) |
| | 2003 - Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (b. 1915) |
| | 2005 - Deem Bristow, American video game voice actor (b. 1947) |
| | 2005 - Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923) |
| | 2005 - Walter Ernsting, German author (b. 1920) |
| | 2005 - Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913) |
| | 2005 - Dan Lee, Canadian animator (b. 1969) |
| | 2005 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (b. 1915) |
| | 2006 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926) |