| | 251 - Decius, Roman Emperor (b. 207) |
| | 251 - Herennius Etruscus, Roman Emperor (b. ca. 227) |
| | 868 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (b. 828) |
| | 1109 - King Alfonso VI of Castile (b. 1040) |
| | 1277 - Baibars, Mameluk sultan of Egypt (b. 1223) |
| | 1592 - Marc Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer |
| | 1614 - Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559) |
| | 1622 - William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, British politician (b. 1575) |
| | 1681 - Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (b. 1629) |
| | 1708 - Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706) |
| | 1774 - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English statesman (b. 1705) |
| | 1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1730) |
| | 1784 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710) |
| | 1819 - Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (b. 1752) |
| | 1860 - Charles Goodyear, American inventor (b. 1800) |
| | 1863 - John Fulton Reynolds, Union General, American Civil War (b. 1820) |
| | 1894 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (b. 1819) |
| | 1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (b. 1811) |
| | 1925 - Erik Satie, French composer (b. 1866) |
| | 1944 - Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (b. 1930) |
| | 1948 - Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (b. 1904) |
| | 1950 - Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (b. 1873) |
| | 1961 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894) |
| | 1964 - Pierre Monteux, French conductor (b. 1875) |
| | 1965 - Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903) |
| | 1971 - William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890) |
| | 1974 - Juan Perón, President of Argentina (b. 1895) |
| | 1981 - Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese writer (b. 1921) |
| | 1981 - Rushton Moreve, American bass player (b. 1948) |
| | 1983 - R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect and philosopher (b. 1903) |
| | 1984 - Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born educator (b. 1904) |
| | 1991 - Michael Landon, American actor (b. 1936) |
| | 1992 - Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissauan politician (b. 1933) |
| | 1995 - Wolfman Jack, American radio personality (b. 1939) |
| | 1996 - William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1904) |
| | 1997 - Robert Mitchum, American actor (b. 1917) |
| | 1999 - Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-born film director (b. 1908) |
| | 1999 - Guy Mitchell, American popular singer (b. 1927) |
| | 1999 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candy magnate (b. 1904) |
| | 1999 - Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910) |
| | 2000 - Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920) |
| | 2001 - Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922) |
| | 2003 - Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (b. 1930) |
| | 2003 - Wesley Mouzon, American boxer (b. 1927) |
| | 2003 - N!xau, Namibian actor (b. 1944) |
| | 2004 - Peter Barnes, English writer (b. 1931) |
| | 2004 - Marlon Brando, American actor (b. 1924) |
| | 2005 - Luther Vandross, American singer (b. 1951) |
| | 2005 - Obie Benson, American musician (b. 1936) |
| | 2006 - Fred Trueman English cricketer (b. 1931) |