| | 810 - Pepin, King of Italy (b. 773) |
| | 975 - King Edgar of England |
| | 1153 - Pope Eugene III |
| | 1538 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish explorer (b. 1475) |
| | 1623 - Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554) |
| | 1689 - Edward Wooster, English Connecticut pioneer (b. 1622) |
| | 1695 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (b. 1629) |
| | 1716 - Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634) |
| | 1721 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (b. 1649) |
| | 1726 - John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673) |
| | 1784 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (b. 1735) |
| | 1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792) |
| | 1826 - Luther Martin, American statesman (b. 1748) |
| | 1850 - Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774) |
| | 1855 - Sir William Edward Parry, English Arctic explorer (b. 1790) |
| | 1859 - King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (b. 1799) |
| | 1898 - Soapy Smith, American con artist (b. 1860) |
| | 1905 - Walter Kittredge, American musician (b. 1834) |
| | 1917 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877) |
| | 1933 - Anthony Hope, British author (b. 1863) |
| | 1934 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (b. 1848) |
| | 1939 - Havelock Ellis, British physician (b. 1859) |
| | 1943 - Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (b. 1899) |
| | 1950 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher (b. 1878) |
| | 1956 - Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist (b. 1881) |
| | 1957 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (b. 1879) |
| | 1967 - Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (b. 1893) |
| | 1967 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (b. 1913) |
| | 1973 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877) |
| | 1979 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906) |
| | 1979 - Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917) |
| | 1981 - Wild Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (b. 1902) |
| | 1986 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (b. 1909) |
| | 1987 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896) |
| | 1988 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (b. 1905) |
| | 1990 - Howard Duff, American actor (b. 1913) |
| | 1991 - Thomas Lynch, English Artist. |
| | 1994 - Kim Il Sung, North Korean leader (b. 1912) |
| | 1999 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (b. 1930) |
| | 2001 - John O'Shea, New Zealand film director (b. 1920) |
| | 2002 - Ward Kimball, American animator (b. 1914) |
| | 2004 - Paula Danziger, American author (b. 1944) |
| | 2006 - June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917) |