| | 1316 - Infante Ferdinand of Majorca (b. 1278) |
| | 1375 - Charles III of Alençon, French archbishop (b. 1337) |
| | 1472 - Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394) |
| | 1539 - St. Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (b. 1502) |
| | 1666 - Albert VI of Bavaria (b. 1584) |
| | 1676 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (b. 1613) |
| | 1715 - Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1659) |
| | 1719 - Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (b. 1641) |
| | 1773 - Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719) |
| | 1833 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (b. 1765) |
| | 1859 - Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (b. 1777) |
| | 1862 - Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (b. 1800) |
| | 1904 - Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845) |
| | 1908 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (b. 1833) |
| | 1920 - Max Klinger, German artist (b. 1857) |
| | 1927 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853) |
| | 1932 - Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (b. 1880) |
| | 1945 - John Curtin, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885) |
| | 1948 - Georges Bernanos, French writer (b. 1888) |
| | 1957 - Charles Sherwood Noble, American-born inventor |
| | 1965 - Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (b. 1909) |
| | 1966 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885) |
| | 1969 - Walter Gropius, German architect (b. 1883) |
| | 1969 - Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (b. 1884) |
| | 1975 - Otto Skorzeny, German commando who rescued Benito Mussolini (b. 1908) |
| | 1983 - Harry James, American musician (b. 1916) |
| | 1991 - Howard Nemerov, American poet (b. 1920) |
| | 1996 - Erik Wickberg, The Salvation Army general (b. 1904) |
| | 1998 - Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916) |
| | 2002 - Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924) |
| | 2002 - Ted Williams, baseball player (b. 1918) |
| | 2003 - Roman Lyashenko, Russian hockey player (b. 1979) |
| | 2004 - Hugh Shearer, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923) |
| | 2004 - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (b. 1921) |
| | 2005 - James Stockdale, U.S. Navy vice admiral (b. 1923) |
| | 2006 - Kenneth Lay, American businessman and convicted criminal (b. 1942) |