| | 783 - Bertrada of Laon, wife of Pippin III (b. 720) |
| | 1441 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (b. 1394) |
| | 1536 - Erasmus, Dutch writer and philosopher |
| | 1584 - Steven Borough, English explorer (b. 1525) |
| | 1664 - Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (b. 1610) |
| | 1682 - Jean Picard, French astronomer (b. 1620) |
| | 1693 - John Ashby, English admiral |
| | 1712 - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1626) |
| | 1742 - Evaristo Abaco, Italian composer (b. 1675) |
| | 1749 - Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois, Governor of New France |
| | 1773 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German flutist and composer (b. 1697) |
| | 1804 - Alexander Hamilton, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1755) |
| | 1845 - Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (b. 1808) |
| | 1910 - Charles Stewart Rolls, British engineer and aviator (b. 1887) |
| | 1918 - Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (b. 1864) |
| | 1926 - Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (b. 1868) |
| | 1931 - Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1866) |
| | 1935 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (b. 1859) |
| | 1944 - Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American general, Received Medal of Honor, (b. 1887) |
| | 1945 - Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (b. 1895) |
| | 1945 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (b. 1871) |
| | 1949 - Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860) |
| | 1950 - Elsie De Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (b. 1865) |
| | 1962 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader (b. 1907) |
| | 1983 - Chris Wood, British musician, played with Traffic, (b. 1944) |
| | 1993 - Dan Eldon, British photojournalist (b. 1970) |
| | 1996 - John Chancellor, American television journalist (b. 1927) |
| | 1996 - Jonathan Melvoin, American musician and keyboardist (Smashing Pumpkins) (b. 1961) |
| | 1999 - Bill Owen, British actor (b. 1914) |
| | 2003 - Benny Carter, American musician (b. 1907) |
| | 2004 - Betty Oliphant, co-founder of National Ballet of Canada (b. 1918) |
| | 2005 - Lord John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, Cheif executive of British Airways since its privitisation. (b. *1917) |