| | 380 - Peter II, Patriarch of Alexandria |
| | 1145 - Pope Lucius II |
| | 1621 - Michael Praetorius, German composer (b. 1571) |
| | 1637 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1578) |
| | 1738 - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (b. 1684) |
| | 1775 - Peter Dens, Belgian Catholic theologian (b. 1690) |
| | 1781 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (b. 1729) |
| | 1818 - Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian general (b. 1746) |
| | 1835 - Henry Hunt, British politician (b. 1773) |
| | 1844 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1757) |
| | 1847 - Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1794) |
| | 1848 - Hermann von Boyen, Prussian field marshal (b. 1771) |
| | 1849 - Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (b. 1804) |
| | 1857 - Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (b. 1804) |
| | 1869 - Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (b. 1796) |
| | 1911 - Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (b. 1859) |
| | 1928 - H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852) |
| | 1932 - Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (b. 1865) |
| | 1939 - Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter (b. 1878) |
| | 1959 - Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1879) |
| | 1964 - Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (b. 1880) |
| | 1965 - Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919) |
| | 1966 - Gerard Ciolek, Polish architect and historian of gardens (b. 1909) |
| | 1973 - Wally Cox, American actor (b. 1924) |
| | 1973 - Tim Holt, American actor (b. 1919) |
| | 1974 - Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887) |
| | 1981 - Mike Bloomfield, American musician (b. 1944) |
| | 1981 - Karl Richter, German conductor (b. 1926) |
| | 1984 - Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (b. 1908) |
| | 1988 - Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1918) |
| | 1996 - Tommy Rettig, American actor (b. 1941) |
| | 1996 - McLean Stevenson, American actor (b. 1929) |
| | 1998 - Louie Spicolli, American professional wrestler |
| | 1999 - Big L (Lamont Coleman), American rapper (b. 1974) |
| | 1999 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1926) |
| | 2002 - Howard K. Smith, American journalist (b. 1914) |
| | 2002 - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963) |
| | 2004 - Jens Evensen, Norwegian minister and International Court of Justice judge (b. 1917) |
| | 2004 - Jan Miner, American actress (b. 1917) |
| | 2005 - Samuel Francis, American journalist (b. 1947) |