| | 1567 - Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat |
| | 1630 - Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556) |
| | 1636 - Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552) |
| | 1697 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640) |
| | 1744 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683) |
| | 1750 - Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686) |
| | 1795 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (b. 1732) |
| | 1799 - Gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722) |
| | 1823 - Edward Jenner, English physician (b. 1749) |
| | 1824 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (b. 1791) |
| | 1855 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808) |
| | 1869 - Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846) |
| | 1870 - Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1785) |
| | 1885 - Edward Davy, English inventor (b. 1806) |
| | 1885 - Charles George Gordon, British general (b. 1833) |
| | 1886 - David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807) |
| | 1891 - Nikolaus August Otto, German inventor (b. 1833) |
| | 1893 - Abner Doubleday, credited inventor of baseball (b. 1819) |
| | 1904 - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (b. 1846) |
| | 1933 - Alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853) |
| | 1942 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (b. 1868) |
| | 1943 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (b. 1880) |
| | 1943 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist (b. 1887) |
| | 1947 - Grace Moore, American soprano (b. 1898) |
| | 1947 - Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Westrobothnia, (b. 1906) |
| | 1952 - Horloogiyn Choybalsan, leader of Mongolia (b. 1895) |
| | 1961 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (b. 1900) |
| | 1962 - Lucky Luciano, American mobster (b. 1897) |
| | 1968 - Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher (b. 1883) |
| | 1968 - Yvor Winters, American poet (b. 1900) |
| | 1973 - Edward G. Robinson, American actor (b. 1893) |
| | 1979 - Nelson Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (b. 1908) |
| | 1984 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (b. 1913) |
| | 1990 - Lewis Mumford, American historian (b. 1895) |
| | 1992 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1912) |
| | 1993 - Jan Gies, Dutch resistance leader (b. 1905) |
| | 1993 - Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1922) |
| | 1996 - Harold Brodkey, American author (b. 1930) |
| | 1996 - Dave Schultz, American wrestler (b. 1959) |
| | 1997 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (b. 1904) |
| | 1998 - Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher (b. 1898) |
| | 2000 - Don Budge, American tennis player (b. 1915) |
| | 2000 - Kathleen Hale, British author (b. 1898) |
| | 2000 - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born author (b. 1912) |
| | 2001 - Al McGuire, American basketball coach (b. 1928) |
| | 2001 - Jessica Michalik, Australian victim of Big Day Out (b. 1985) |
| | 2003 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (b. 1917) |
| | 2003 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (b. 1931) |
| | 2004 - Fred Haas, American golfer (b. 1916) |
| | 2004 - Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979) |