| | 98 - Nerva, Roman Emperor (b. 35) |
| | 1490 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (b. 1435) |
| | 1629 - Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (b. 1560) |
| | 1638 - Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist |
| | 1731 - Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (b. 1655) |
| | 1740 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b. 1692) |
| | 1814 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1762) |
| | 1816 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (b. 1724) |
| | 1851 - John James Audubon, French-American naturalist, ornithologist, and painter (b. 1789) |
| | 1857 - Dorothea Lieven, Russian noblewoman (b. 1785) |
| | 1860 - János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1802) |
| | 1880 - Edward Middleton Barry, English architect (b. 1830) |
| | 1901 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813) |
| | 1910 - Thomas Crapper, English inventor (b. 1836) |
| | 1919 - Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (b. 1877) |
| | 1921 - Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian winner of the Victoria Cross (b. 1891) |
| | 1940 - Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (b. 1894) |
| | 1956 - Erich Kleiber, Argentine conductor (b. 1890) |
| | 1967 - Crew of Apollo 1: |
| | Roger Chaffee (b. 1935) |
| | Virgil "Gus" Grissom (b. 1926) |
| | Edward White (b. 1930) |
| | 1970 - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b. 1908) |
| | 1971 - Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (b. 1913) |
| | 1972 - Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911) |
| | 1972] - Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (b. 1888) |
| | 1973 - William Nolde, last American combat casualty of Vietnam War (b. 1929) |
| | 1975 - Bill Walsh, American producer and writer (b. 1913) |
| | 1983 - Louis de Funès, French actor (b. 1914) |
| | 1986 - Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (b. 1914) |
| | 1988 - Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian author (b. 1938) |
| | 1989 - Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (b. 1888) |
| | 1992 - Allan Jones, American actor and singer (b. 1908) |
| | 1993 - André the Giant, professional wrestler and actor (b. 1946) |
| | 1994 - Claude Akins, American actor (b. 1918) |
| | 1996 - Ralph Yarborough, American politician (b. 1903) |
| | 2000 - Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist (b. 1930) |
| | 2003 - Henryk Jablonski, President of communist People's Republic of Poland (b. 1909) |
| | 2004 - Jack Paar, American television show host (b. 1918) |
| | 2004 - Salvador Laurel, 9th Vice President of the Philippines (b.1928) |
| | 2006 - Johannes Rau, 8th Bundespräsident (President of Germany) (b. 1931) |