| | 472 - Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire |
| | 937 - King Rudolph II of Burgundy |
| | 969 - Olga of Kiev |
| | 1174 - King Amalric I of Jerusalem (b. 1136) |
| | 1302 - Robert II of Artois, French soldier (b. 1250) |
| | 1535 - Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (b. 1484) |
| | 1581 - Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval hero |
| | 1665 - Kenelm Digby, English privateer (b. 1603) |
| | 1679 - William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619) |
| | 1688 - Narai, King of Siam |
| | 1766 - Elizabeth Farnese, wife of Philip V of Spain (b. 1692) |
| | 1774 - Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-born New York pioneer |
| | 1775 - Simon Boerum, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724) |
| | 1797 - Ienachita Vacarescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740) |
| | 1804 - Alexander Hamilton, United States Secretary of the Treasury (duel) (b. 1757) |
| | 1806 - James Smith, American signer of the Declaration of Indpendence |
| | 1825 - Thomas P. Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War soldier (b. 1744) |
| | 1844 - Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800) |
| | 1920 - Empress Eugénie de Montijo of France (b. 1826) |
| | 1937 - George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898) |
| | 1959 - Charlie Parker, English cricketer (b. 1882) |
| | 1966 - Delmore Schwartz, American Poet (b. 1913) |
| | 1971 - John W. Campbell, American writer and editor (b. 1910) |
| | 1974 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891) |
| | 1987 - Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963) |
| | 1989 - Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor (b. 1907) |
| | 1994 - Gary Kildall, American computer programmer (b. 1942) |
| | 1994 - Savannah American actress (b. 1970 |
| | 1999 - Helen Forrest, American singer (b. 1917) |
| | 2000 - Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b. 1913) |
| | 2000 - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921) |
| | 2001 - Herman Brood, Dutch singer and artist (suicide) (b. 1946) |
| | 2004 - Laurance Rockefeller, American conservationist and philanthropist (b. 1910) |
| | 2005 - Gretchen Franklin, English actress (b. 1911) |
| | 2005 - Frances Langford, American actress and singer (b. 1914) |