| | 395 - Theodosius I, Roman Emperor |
| | 1229 - Albert of Buxhoeveden, German soldier |
| | 1369 - King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328) |
| | 1468 - Skanderbeg, Albanian leader (b. 1405) |
| | 1617 - Faust Vrancic, Croatian inventor (b. 1551) |
| | 1654 - Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (b. 1625) |
| | 1705 - John Ray, English naturalist (b. 1627) |
| | 1718 - Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler |
| | 1737 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662) |
| | 1751 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (b. 1671) |
| | 1826 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806) |
| | 1834 - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762) |
| | 1861 - Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821) |
| | 1863 - Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789) |
| | 1884 - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (b. 1804) |
| | 1886 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (b. 1834) |
| | 1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822) |
| | 1942 - Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884) |
| | 1947 - Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1947) |
| | 1961 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925) |
| | 1964 - T.H. White, English author (b. 1906) |
| | 1967 - Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (b. 1884) |
| | 1970 - Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoonist (b. [[1890]) |
| | 1972 - Betty Smith, American writer and singer (b. 1896) |
| | 1977 - Gary Gilmore, American murderer (executed) (b. 1940) |
| | 1983 - Doodles Weaver, American actor (b. 1911) |
| | 1987 - Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (b. 1908) |
| | 1991 - Olav V of Norway (b. 1903) |
| | 1993 - Albert Hourani, English historian (b. 1915) |
| | 1994 - Helen Stephens, American runner (b. 1918) |
| | 1996 - Amber Hagerman, American kidnapping and murder victim, basis of the Amber Alert system (b. 1986) |
| | 1996 - Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936) |
| | 1997 - Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (b. 1906) |
| | 1998 - Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (b. 1930) |
| | 2001 - Gregory Corso, American poet (b. 1930) |
| | 2001 - Laurent-Desire Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939) |
| | 2002 - Bishop Karas, First Coptic Bishop of St. Antony Monastery |
| | 2002 - Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) |
| | 2003 - Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926) |
| | 2004 - Czeslaw Niemen, Polish musician (b. 1939) |
| | 2004 - Ray Stark, American stage and film producer (b. 1915) |
| | 2004 - Noble Willingham, American actor (b. 1931) |
| | 2004 - Harry Brecheen, Baseball player (b. 1914) |
| | 2005 - Charlie Bell, American fast food executive (b. 1960) |
| | 2005 - Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920) |
| | 2005 - Albert Schatz, American microbiologist (b. 1920) |
| | 2005 - Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919) |
| | 2006 - Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (b. 1930) |