| 1. | 1248 - Henry II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1207) |
| 2. | 1328 - King Charles IV of France (b. 1294) |
| 3. | 1542 - Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1480) |
| 4. | 1563 - Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia (died of fever) |
| 5. | 1590 - Lawrence Humphrey, English clergyman and educator |
| 6. | 1691 - Pope Alexander VIII (b. 1610) |
| 7. | 1718 - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (b. 1660) |
| 8. | 1733 - King Augustus II of Poland (b. 1670) |
| 9. | 1734 - John Floyer, English physician and writer (b. 1649) |
| 10. | 1743 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (b. 1657) |
| 11. | 1761 - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (b. 1682) |
| 12. | 1768 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (b. 1685) |
| 13. | 1793 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (b. 1717) |
| 14. | 1851 - Mary Shelley, English author (b. 1797) |
| 15. | 1893 - George Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824) |
| 16. | 1897 - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist (b. 1826) |
| 17. | 1903 - George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist (b. 1819) |
| 18. | 1908 - King Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863) |
| 19. | 1928 - Hughie Jennings, baseball player (b. 1869) |
| 20. | 1944 - Piet Mondriaan, Dutch painter (b. 1872) |
| 21. | 1957 - Friedrich Paulus, German general (b. 1890) |
| 22. | 1958 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1888) |
| 23. | 1959 - Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (b. 1873) |
| 24. | 1963 - Fleetwood Lindley, the last living person to see Abraham Lincoln's face (b. 1888) |
| 25. | 1966 - Hedda Hopper, American gossip columnist (b. 1885) |
| 26. | 1966 - Buster Keaton, American actor (b. 1895) |
| 27. | 1970 - Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1921) |
| 28. | 1976 - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1901) |
| 29. | 1976 - George Whipple, American scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1878) |
| 30. | 1980 - Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (b. 1930) |
| 31. | 1981 - Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1892) |
| 32. | 1981 - Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (b. 1908) |
| 33. | 1986 - Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1902) |
| 34. | 1988 - Heather O'Rourke, American actress (b. 1975) |
| 35. | 1989 - Elaine de Kooning, American artist (b. 1918) |
| 36. | 1991 - Carol Dempster, American actress (b. 1901) |
| 37. | 1997 - Herb Caen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1916) |
| 38. | 1999 - Paul Mellon, American philanthropist (b. 1907) |
| 39. | 2002 - Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer, and writer (b. 1925) |
| 40. | 2003 - Michael P. Anderson, astronaut, Crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1959) |
| 41. | 2003 - David Brown, astronaut, Crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1956) |
| 42. | 2003 - Kalpana Chawla, astronaut, Crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1961) |
| 43. | 2003 - Laurel Clark, astronaut, Crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1961) |
| 44. | 2003 - Rick D. Husband, astronaut, Crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1957) |
| 45. | 2003 - Willie McCool, astronaut, Crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1961) |
| 46. | 2003 - Ilan Ramon, astronaut, Crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1954) |
| 47. | 2003 - Mongo Santamaria, Cuban percussionist and band leader (b. 1922) |
| 48. | 2005 - John Vernon, Canadian actor (b. 1932) |