| | 1189 - King Henry II of England (b. 1133) |
| | 1218 - Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166) |
| | 1249 - King Alexander II of Scotland (b. 1198) |
| | 1415 - Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer (b. 1369) |
| | 1476 - Regiomantus, German astronomer (b. 1436) |
| | 1480 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (b. 1416) |
| | 1533 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (b. 1474) |
| | 1535 - Sir Thomas More, English philosopher (b. 1478) |
| | 1553 - King Edward VI of England (b. 1537) |
| | 1583 - Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| | 1585 - Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (b. 1552) |
| | 1684 - Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614) |
| | 1758 - George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general |
| | 1762 - Tsar Peter III of Russia (b. 1728) |
| | 1768 - Conrad Beissel, German-born religious leader (b. 1690) |
| | 1813 - Granville Sharp, British abolitionist (b. 1735) |
| | 1835 - John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1755) |
| | 1854 - Georg Ohm, German physicist (b. 1789) |
| | 1868 - Sanosuke Harada, Shinsengumi Captain (b. 1840) |
| | 1893 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850) |
| | 1901 - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819) |
| | 1902 - St. Maria Goretti, Italian saint (b. 1890) |
| | 1916 - Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840) |
| | 1922 - Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (b. 1863) |
| | 1932 - Kenneth Grahame, English author (b. 1859) |
| | 1960 - Aneurin Bevan, British politician (b. 1897) |
| | 1961 - Scott LaFaro, American musician (b. 1936) |
| | 1961 - Woodall Rodgers, American politician (b. 1890) |
| | 1962 - William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1897) |
| | 1962 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1872) |
| | 1966 - Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1892) |
| | 1971 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (b. 1901) |
| | 1972 - Brandon De Wilde, American actor (b. 1942) |
| | 1973 - Otto Klemperer, German conductor (b. 1885) |
| | 1982 - Bob Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1905) |
| | 1986 - Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908) |
| | 1989 - János Kádár, Hungarian politician (b. 1912) |
| | 1998 - Roy Rogers, American actor (b. 1911) |
| | 1992 - Buddy Rogers, Professional wrestler (b. 1921) |
| | 1999 - Carl Gunter Jr, American politician (b. 1938) |
| | 1999 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (b. 1901) |
| | 1999 - Barry Winchell, American soldier (b. 1977) |
| | 2002 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (b. 1932) |
| | 2002 - John Frankenheimer, American film director (b. 1930) |
| | 2003 - Buddy Ebsen, American actor (b. 1908) |
| | 2004 - Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (b. 1932) |
| | 2005 - L. Patrick Gray III, American FBI director (b. 1916) |
| | 2005 - Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1913) |
| | 2005 - Richard Verreau, Canadian tenor (b. 1926) |
| | 2005 - Bruno Augenstein, German-born mathematician (b. 1923) |
| | 2006 - Kasey Rogers, American motocross racer (b. 1926) |