| | 1304 - Pope Benedict XI (b. 1240) |
| | 1307 - King Edward I of England (b. 1239) |
| | 1537 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520) |
| | 1572 - King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland (b. 1520) |
| | 1573 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (b. 1507) |
| | 1647 - Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (b. 1586) |
| | 1663 - Thomas Baltzar, German violinist |
| | 1701 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (b. 1631) |
| | 1713 - Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (b. 1632) |
| | 1764 - William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683) |
| | 1776 - Jeremiah Markland, English classical scholar (b. 1693) |
| | 1790 - François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (b. 1721) |
| | 1816 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (b. 1751) |
| | 1855 - Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (b. 1787) |
| | 1865 - Mary Surratt, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1823) |
| | 1865 - Lewis Paine, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1844) |
| | 1865 - David Herold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1842) |
| | 1865 - George Atzerodt, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1833) |
| | 1878 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847) |
| | 1880 - Lydia Child, American novelist and abolitionist (b. 1802) |
| | 1890 - Henri Nestlé, Founder of Nestlé S.A. (b. 1814) |
| | 1901 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (b. 1827) |
| | 1913 - Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b.1841) |
| | 1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer (b. 1859) |
| | 1932 - Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880) |
| | 1932 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844) |
| | 1949 - Bunk Johnson, American musician (b. 1879 or 1889) |
| | 1956 - Gottfried Benn, German poet (b. 1886) |
| | 1964 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete (b. 1904) |
| | 1965 - Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894) |
| | 1971 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925) |
| | 1971 - Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b1901) |
| | 1972 - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1886) |
| | 1972 - King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909) |
| | 1973 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895) |
| | 1973 - Veronica Lake, American actress (b. 1919) |
| | 1975 - Ruffian, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1972) |
| | 1980 - Dore Schary, American film producer and writer (b. 1905) |
| | 1990 - Bill Cullen, American game show host (b. 1920) |
| | 1993 - Mia Zapata, American singer with The Gits (b. 1965) |
| | 2000 - Kenny Irwin, Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969) |
| | 2001 - Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936) |
| | 2003 - Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian-born conductor (b. 1924) |
| | 2006 - Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911) |
| | 2006 - Tom Weir, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster (b. 1914) |
| | 2006 - Syd Barrett, British musician, former member of Pink Floyd. (b. 1946) |