| | 1536 - Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader |
| | 1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547) |
| | 1666 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1592) |
| | 1750 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675) |
| | 1763 - John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (b. 1690) |
| | 1767 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist (b. 1719) |
| | 1779 - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (b. 1733) |
| | 1779 - Claudius Smith, American Revolutionary War loyalist (b. 1736) |
| | 1840 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752) |
| | 1892 - Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1813) |
| | 1901 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819) |
| | 1921 - Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (b. 1837) |
| | 1922 - Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837) |
| | 1922 - Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854) |
| | 1922 - Camille Jordan, French mathematician (b. 1838) |
| | 1931 - Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897) |
| | 1945 - Else Lasker-Schuler, German-born poet (b. 1869) |
| | 1950 - Alan Hale, Sr., American actor (b. 1892) |
| | 1959 - Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (b. 1929) |
| | 1967 - Robert Henriques, British writer (b. 1905) |
| | 1968 - Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (b. 1890) |
| | 1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908) |
| | 1975 - Andrew George Burry, Swiss-born manufacturer and businessman (b. 1873) |
| | 1978 - Oliver Leese, British World War II general (b. 1894) |
| | 1978 - Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894) |
| | 1981 - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (b. 1903) |
| | 1987 - R. Budd Dwyer, American politician (b. 1939) |
| | 1988 - Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (b. 1891) |
| | 1993 - Abe Kobo, Japanese writer (b. 1924) |
| | 1994 - Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1922) |
| | 1995 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (b. 1890) |
| | 1995 - Jerry Blackwell, wrestler (b. 1949) |
| | 2000 - Craig Claiborne, American writer and editor (b. 1920) |
| | 2001 - Tommie Agee, baseball player (b. 1942) |
| | 2003 - Bill Mauldin, American World War II cartoonist (b. 1921) |
| | 2004 - Billy May, American composer and musician (b. 1916) |
| | 2004 - Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (b. 1923) |
| | 2004 - Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (b. 1918) |
| | 2005 - César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1943) |
| | 2005 - Carlo Orelli, last surviving Italian veteran of World War I (b. 1894) |
| | 2005 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (b. 1924) |
| | 2005 - Rose Mary Woods, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1917) |
| | 2008 - Heath Ledger, actor |