| | 211 - Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome (b. 146) |
| | 708 - Pope Sisinnius |
| | 856 - Rabanus Maurus, Bishop of Mainz |
| | 869 - Saint Cyril, Greek missionary to the Slavs (b. 827) |
| | 1508 - Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar (b. 1459) |
| | 1590 - Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (b. 1517) |
| | 1615 - Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (b. 1552) |
| | 1615 - Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian physicist (b. 1535) |
| | 1694 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (b. 1651) |
| | 1713 - Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (b. 1671) |
| | 1774 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701) |
| | 1799 - Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (b. 1728) |
| | 1781 - Josef Myslivecek, Czech composer (b. 1737) |
| | 1894 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker (b. 1814) |
| | 1905 - Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (b. 1841) |
| | 1928 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1853) |
| | 1933 - Archibald Sayce, English educator (b. 1846) |
| | 1936 - Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (b. 1895) |
| | 1940 - Nikolai Yezhov, Head of Soviet NKVD (b. 1895) |
| | 1944 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1867) |
| | 1944 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (b. 1872) |
| | 1958 - Henry Kuttner, American author (b. 1915) |
| | 1959 - Una O'Connor, Irish actress (b. 1880) |
| | 1967 - Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1886) |
| | 1968 - Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926) |
| | 1968 - Gilbert H. Grosvenor, American president of the National Geographic Society (b. 1875) |
| | 1969 - Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1905) |
| | 1974 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1894) |
| | 1975 - Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908) |
| | 1977 - Brett Halliday, American writer (b. 1904) |
| | 1982 - Alex Harvey, Scottish musician (b. 1935) |
| | 1983 - Karen Carpenter, American singer and musician (Carpenters) (anorexia) (b. 1950) |
| | 1984 - Anna Anderson, claimant to the throne of Russia |
| | 1987 - Liberace, American musician (b. 1919) |
| | 1987 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (b. 1902) |
| | 1990 - Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1917) |
| | 1992 - Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (b. 1911) |
| | 1995 - Godfrey Brown, British athlete and teacher (b. 1915) |
| | 1995 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (b. 1921) |
| | 2000 - Carl Albert, American politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1908) |
| | 2000 - Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1941) |
| | 2001 - J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (b. 1924) |
| | 2001 - Iannis Xenakis, Greek-born composer (b. 1922) |
| | 2005 - Ossie Davis, American actor (b. 1917) |
| | 2006 - Betty Friedan, American feminist (b. 1921) |
| | 2006 - Myron Waldman, American animator (b. 1908) |