| | 41 - Caligula, Emperor of Rome (b. 12) |
| | 772 - Pope Stephen III (b. 720) |
| | 1125 - David IV of Georgia (b. 1073) |
| | 1366 - Alfonso IV of Aragon (b. 1299) |
| | 1376 - Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader |
| | 1473 - Conrad Paumann, German composer |
| | 1595 - Ferdinand II of Austria (b. 1529) |
| | 1626 - Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (b. 1580) |
| | 1639 - Georg Jenatsch, Swiss politician (b. 1596) |
| | 1666 - Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (b. 1588) |
| | 1709 - George Rooke, English admiral (b. 1650) |
| | 1769 - François de Chevert, French general (b. 1695) |
| | 1856 - Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, Polish Hasidic leader (b. 1775) |
| | 1877 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796) |
| | 1882 - Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1808) |
| | 1883 - Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (b. 1812) |
| | 1895 - Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician (b. 1849) |
| | 1911 - David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (b. 1867) |
| | 1920 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884) |
| | 1924 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894) |
| | 1924 - Vladimir Lenin, Founder of the Bolshevik Party, and father of the revolution |
| | 1932 - Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder (b. 1842) |
| | 1939 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (b. 1867) |
| | 1943 - John Burns, English politician (b. 1858) |
| | 1955 - Ira Hayes, American World War II hero (b. 1923) |
| | 1960 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886) |
| | 1961 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor (b. 1884) |
| | 1965 - Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1874) |
| | 1966 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (b. 1909) |
| | 1970 - Caresse Crosby, American poet (b. 1891) |
| | 1971 - Bill W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895) |
| | 1973 - J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1897) |
| | 1975 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (b. 1902) |
| | 1978 - Herta Oberheuser, Nazi doctor (b. 1911) |
| | 1983 - George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899) |
| | 1986 - L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911) |
| | 1986 - Flo Hyman, American volleyball player (b. 1954) |
| | 1986 - Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (b. 1921) |
| | 1989 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer (b. 1946) |
| | 1990 - Madge Bellamy, American actress (b. 1899) |
| | 1991 - John M. Kelly, Irish politician and academic (b. 1931) |
| | 1992 - Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (b. 1950) |
| | 1993 - Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1908) |
| | 1998 - Walter D. Edmonds, American author (b. 1903) |
| | 2000 - Bobby Duncum, Jr., wrestler (b. 1965) |
| | 2003 - Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (b. 1921) |
| | 2004 - Leônidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1913) |
| | 2005 - June Bronhill, Australian singer (b. 1929) |
| | 2005 - Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1933) |
| | 2005 - Chalkie White, English rugby coach (b. 1929) |
| | 2006 - Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965) |