| | 1156 - Bishop Henry, patron saint of Finland |
| | 1479 - King John II of Aragon (b. 1397) |
| | 1568 - Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator |
| | 1612 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1552) |
| | 1666 - Anna of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France and regent (b. 1601) |
| | 1707 - Humphrey Hody, English theologian (b. 1659) |
| | 1709 - François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (b. 1624) |
| | 1739 - Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (b. 1659) |
| | 1745 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1697) |
| | 1751 - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (b. 1665) |
| | 1770 - Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722) |
| | 1779 - David Garrick, English actor (b. 1717) |
| | 1810 - Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (b. 1722) |
| | 1819 - King Charles IV of Spain (b. 1748) |
| | 1848 - Christian VIII of Denmark (b. 1786) |
| | 1850 - Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (b. 1779) |
| | 1873 - The Venerable Father Basil Anthony Marie Moreau, Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799) |
| | 1891 - David Kalakaua, King of Hawaii (b. 1836) |
| | 1900 - John Ruskin, art critic (b. 1819) |
| | 1901 - Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (b. 1826) |
| | 1907 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834) |
| | 1920 - Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (b. 1876) |
| | 1936 - King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865) |
| | 1944 - James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (b. 1860) |
| | 1947 - Josh Gibson, African-American baseball player (b. 1911) |
| | 1954 - Fred Root, English cricketer (b. 1890) |
| | 1962 - Robinson Jeffers, American poet (b. 1887) |
| | 1965 - Alan Freed, American disk jockey (b. 1922) |
| | 1979 - Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (b. 1925) |
| | 1971 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, American actor, director, writer, and producer (b. 1880) |
| | 1973 - Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician (b. 1885) |
| | 1983 - Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933) |
| | 1984 - Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904) |
| | 1988 - Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Pashtun Nationalist & non-violent freedom fighter (b. 1890) |
| | 1990 - Hayedeh, Persian singer (b. 1942) |
| | 1990 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (b. 1907) |
| | 1993 - Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress (b. 1929) |
| | 1994 - Matt Busby, Scottish football manager (b. 1909) |
| | 1996 - Gerry Mulligan, American musician (b. 1927) |
| | 1997 - Curt Flood, baseball player (b. 1938) |
| | 1998 - Bobo Brazil, American professional wrestler (b. 1924) |
| | 2003 - Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (b. 1903) |
| | 2003 - Nedra Volz, American actress (b. 1908) |
| | 2003 - Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (b. 1947) |
| | 2004 - Guinn Smith, American athlete (b. 1920) |
| | 2005 - Per Borten, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913) |
| | 2005 - Roland Frye, American literary critic and theologian |
| | 2005 - Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, Polish journalist, writer, and politician (b. 1913) |
| | 2005 - Miriam Rothschild, British zoologist, entomologist, and author (b. 1908) |