| | 664 - Deusdedit of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| | 1223 - King Philip II of France (b. 1165) |
| | 1270 - Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| | 1274 - Saint Bonaventure (b. 1221) |
| | 1575 - Richard Taverner, English Bible translator |
| | 1614 - Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint (b. 1550) |
| | 1671 - Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (b. 1599) |
| | 1723 - Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640) |
| | 1742 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (b. 1662) |
| | 1766 - František Maxmilián Kanka, Czech architect (b. 1674) |
| | 1774 - James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine, British field marshal (b. 1682) |
| | 1780 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher (b. 1713) |
| | 1789 - Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (assassinated) (b. 1721) |
| | 1789 - Bernard-René de Launay, governor of the Bastille, murdered during the Storming of the Bastille (b.1740) |
| | 1790 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (b. 1717) |
| | 1817 - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Swiss author (b. 1766) |
| | 1827 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (b. 1788) |
| | 1834 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b. 1763) |
| | 1850 - August Neander, German theologian (b. 1789) |
| | 1881 - Billy the Kid, American outlaw (b. 1859?) |
| | 1887 - Alfred Krupp, German munitions manufacturer (b. 1812) |
| | 1904 - Paul Kruger, Boer resistance leader (b. 1824) |
| | 1907 - William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (b. 1838) |
| | 1917 - Octave Lapize, French cyclist (b. 1887) |
| | 1954 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866) |
| | 1965 - Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Presidential candidate (b. 1900) |
| | 1967 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880) |
| | 1968 - Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (b. 1892) |
| | 1975 - Madan Mohan, Hindi Film's Melodious Music director |
| | 1984 - Ernest Tidyman, American writer (b. 1928) |
| | 1984 - Philippe Wynne, American musician (b. 1941) |
| | 1994 - César Tovar, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1940) |
| | 1996 - Jeff Krosnoff, CART driver. |
| | 1998 - Dick McDonald, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1909) |
| | 1999 - Gar Samuelson, American musician (Megadeth) |
| | 2000 - William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (b. 1920) |
| | 2002 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906) |
| | 2003 - Tex Schramm, American football general manager (b. 1920) |
| | 2003 - Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novellist (b. 1926) |