| | 518 - Anastasius I, Byzantine Emperor |
| | 1228 - Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| | 1386 - Leopold III of Austria (b. 1351) |
| | 1553 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521) |
| | 1654 - Ferdinand IV of Germany (b. 1633) |
| | 1737 - Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1671) |
| | 1742 - John Oldmixon, English historian (b. 1673) |
| | 1746 - Philip V of Spain (b. 1683) |
| | 1747 - Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (b. 1670) |
| | 1766 - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (b. 1720) |
| | 1795 - Henry Seymour Conway, British general and statesman (b. 1721) |
| | 1797 - Edmund Burke, British philosopher and statesman (b. 1729) |
| | 1850 - Báb, Persian founder of the Bábi Faith (b. 1819) |
| | 1850 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (b. 1784) |
| | 1852 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician (b. 1794) |
| | 1856 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (b. 1776) |
| | 1856 - James Strang, Mormon splinter group leader (b. 1813) |
| | 1880 - Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist (b. 1824) |
| | 1903 - Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist (b. 1842) |
| | 1927 - John Drew Jr., American actor (b. 1853) |
| | 1932 - King C. Gillette, American inventor (b. 1885) |
| | 1937 - Oliver Law, first African-American commander of U.S. troops (b. 1899) |
| | 1938 - Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (b. 1870) |
| | 1947 - Lucjan Zeligowski, Polish general (b. 1865) |
| | 1949 - Fritz Bennicke Hart, English-born Australian composer (b. 1874) |
| | 1951 - Harry Heilmann, baseball player (b. 1894) |
| | 1974 - Earl Warren, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1891) |
| | 1979 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress and author (b. 1899) |
| | 1980 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and lyricist (b. 1913) |
| | 1985 - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1896) |
| | 1985 - Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911) |
| | 1992 - Eric Sevareid, American reporter (b. 1912) |
| | 1994 - Bill Mosienko, professional ice hockey player (b. 1921) |
| | 1996 - Melvin Belli, American attorney (b. 1907) |
| | 1999 - Robert de Cotret, Canadian politician (b. 1944) |
| | 2002 - Laurence Janifer, American writer (b. 1933) |
| | 2002 - Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925) |
| | 2004 - Chuck Cadman, Canadian politician (b. 1948) |
| | 2004 - Paul Klebnikov, American journalist (b. 1963) |
| | 2004 - Isabel Sanford, American actress (b. 1917) |
| | 2005 - Yevgenij Grishin, Russian speed skater (b. 1931) |
| | 2005 - Huang Kun, Chinese physicist (b. 1919) |