| | 683 - Pope Leo II |
| | 1570 - Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist |
| | 1642 - Maria de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (b. 1573) |
| | 1672 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635) |
| | 1704 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657) |
| | 1749 - William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675) |
| | 1778 - Anna Maria Walburga Mozart née Pertl, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720) |
| | 1790 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (b. 1736) |
| | 1795 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714) |
| | 1795 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716) |
| | 1858 - Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806) |
| | 1863 - George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826) |
| | 1904 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian Zionist (b. 1860) |
| | 1914 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836) |
| | 1918 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844) |
| | 1933 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852) |
| | 1935 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878) |
| | 1942 - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (b. 1856) |
| | 1957 - Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890) |
| | 1969 - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (drowned) (b. 1942) |
| | 1971 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943) |
| | 1977 - Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (b. 1891) |
| | 1979 - Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888) |
| | 1986 - Rudy Vallee, American singer (b. 1901) |
| | 1989 - Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913) |
| | 1993 - Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (b. 1909) |
| | 1993 - Don Drysdale, Baseball player (b. 1936) |
| | 1994 - Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (b. 1934) |
| | 1995 - Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928) |
| | 1998 - Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949) |
| | 1999 - Mark Sandman, American musician (b. 1952) |
| | 2000 - Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944) |
| | 2001 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931) |
| | 2003 - Gaetano Alibrandi, Papal diplomat (b. 1914) |
| | 2004 - Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut (b. 1929) |
| | 2005 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (b. 1914) |
| | 2005 - Gaylord Nelson, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (b. 1916) |
| | 2006 - Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b.1950) |