| | 1002 - Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980) |
| | 1199 - Yaqub, Almohad Caliph (b. 1160) |
| | 1548 - Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (b. 1490) |
| | 1549 - Johannes Honter, Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian {b. 1498) |
| | 1567 - Jiajing, Emperor of China (b. 1507) |
| | 1570 - James Stewart, Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland (assassinated) |
| | 1622 - William Baffin, English explorer (b. 1584) |
| | 1744 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1668) |
| | 1785 - Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717) |
| | 1789 - Frances Brooke, English writer (b. 1724) |
| | 1789 - John Cleland, English novelist (b. 1709) |
| | 1800 - Edward Rutledge, American statesman (b. 1749) |
| | 1803 - Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1725) |
| | 1805 - Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (b. 1763) |
| | 1806 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759) |
| | 1812 - Robert Craufurd, British general (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1764) |
| | 1833 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (b. 1757) |
| | 1837 - John Field, Irish composer (b. 1782) |
| | 1866 - Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (b. 1785) |
| | 1875 - Charles Kingsley English writer (b. 1819) |
| | 1883 - Gustave Doré, French artist, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1832) |
| | 1893 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1825) |
| | 1922 - Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855) |
| | 1923 - Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849) |
| | 1931 - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (b. 1881) |
| | 1937 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (b. 1898) |
| | 1937 - Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (b. 1876) |
| | 1943 - Alexander Woollcott, American actor, author, and bon vivant (b. 1887) |
| | 1944 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863) |
| | 1971 - Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (b. 1871) |
| | 1973 - Kid Ory, American jazz trombonist (b. 1886) |
| | 1976 - Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, and social activist (b. 1898) |
| | 1978 - Terry Kath, American musician (Chicago) (b. 1946) |
| | 1978 - Jack Oakie, American actor (b. 1903) |
| | 1981 - Samuel Barber, American composer (b. 1910) |
| | 1983 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908) |
| | 1989 - Salvador Dalí, Catalan artist (b. 1904) |
| | 1992 - Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (b. 1924) |
| | 1993 - Thomas A. Dorsey, American singer (b. 1899) |
| | 1994 - Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (b. 1917) |
| | 1994 - Brian Redhead, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929) |
| | 1997 - Richard Berry, American composer and musician (b. 1935) |
| | 1999 - Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (b. 1949) |
| | 2000 - Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967) |
| | 2002 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930) |
| | 2002 - Paul Aars, American racecar driver (b. 1934) |
| | 2002 - Robert Nozick, American philosopher (b. 1938) |
| | 2003 - Nell Carter, American singer and actress (b. 1948) |
| | 2004 - Bob Keeshan, American actor (b. 1927) |
| | 2004 - Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (b. 1920) |
| | 2005 - Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, British politician (b. 1921) |
| | 2005 - Johnny Carson, American television legend (b. 1925) |
| | 2005 - Douglas Knight, American university president (b. 1921) |
| | 2006 - Ernie Baron, Philippine newscaster (b. 1940) |
| | 2006 - Chris McKinstry, Canadian scientist (b. 1967) |