| | 862 - St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester |
| | 1298 - Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg, King of the Romans |
| | 1504 - Stefan cel Mare, Prince of Moldova (b. 1434) |
| | 1566 - Nostradamus, French astrologer (b. 1503) |
| | 1582 - Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai (b. 1528) |
| | 1591 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520) |
| | 1621 - Thomas Harriot, English astronomer |
| | 1656 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (b. 1611) |
| | 1674 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614) |
| | 1684 - John Rogers, president of Harvard University (b. 1630) |
| | 1743 - Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, second Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| | 1746 - Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (b. 1656) |
| | 1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (b. 1712) |
| | 1778 - Bathsheba Spooner, American murderer |
| | 1833 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine politician (b. 1757) |
| | 1843 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (b. 1755) |
| | 1850 - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1788) |
| | 1912 - Tom Richardson, English cricket player (b. 1870) |
| | 1915 - Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (b. 1830) |
| | 1920 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846) |
| | 1926 - Émile Coué, French psychologist (b. 1857) |
| | 1929 - Gladys Brockwell, American actress (b. 1893) |
| | 1932 - Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889) |
| | 1934 - Ernst Röhm, Nazi official (b. 1887) |
| | 1937 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator (b. 1897) |
| | 1955 - Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873) |
| | 1961 - Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) |
| | 1964 - Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1929) |
| | 1966 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900) |
| | 1969 - Michael DiBiase, wrestler (b. 1923) |
| | 1972 - Joseph Smith, president of the LDS (b. 1876) |
| | 1973 - Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916) |
| | 1973 - Chick Hafey, baseball player (b. 1903) |
| | 1973 - George McBride, baseball player (b. 1880) |
| | 1977 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (b. 1899) |
| | 1986 - Peanuts Lowrey, baseball player (b. 1917) |
| | 1989 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet foreign minister (b. 1909) |
| | 1991 - Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935) |
| | 1991 - Camarón de la Isla, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1950) |
| | 1993 - Fred Gwynne, American Actor (b. 1926) |
| | 1994 - Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (murdered) (b. 1967) |
| | 1997 - Jimmy Stewart, American actor (b. 1908) |
| | 1999 - Mario Puzo, American author (b. 1920) |
| | 2000 - Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952) |
| | 2004 - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese writer (b. 1919) |
| | 2004 - John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (b. 1919) |
| | 2005 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (b. 1915) |
| | 2006 - Jan Murray, American comedian (b. 1916) |