| | 1324 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267) |
| | 1342 - King Charles I of Hungary |
| | 1546 - Anne Askew, English protestant (burned at the stake) (b. 1521) |
| | 1557 - Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1515) |
| | 1594 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (b. 1558) |
| | 1630 - Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1562) |
| | 1647 - Masaniello, Italian rebel (b. 1622) |
| | 1664 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (b. 1616) |
| | 1686 - John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612) |
| | 1691 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (b. 1641) |
| | 1729 - Johann David Heinichen, German composer (b. 1683) |
| | 1770 - Francis Cotes, English painter (b. 1726) |
| | 1831 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763) |
| | 1796 - George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718) |
| | 1882 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818) |
| | 1916 - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845) |
| | 1917 - Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (b. 1847) |
| | 1918 - Czar Nicholas the Second |
| | 1949 - Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet (b. 1866) |
| | 1953 - Hilaire Belloc, French writer (b. 1870) |
| | 1960 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1881) |
| | 1960 - John P. Marquand, American novelist (b. 1893) |
| | 1979 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912) |
| | 1981 - Harry Chapin, American musician (b. 1942) |
| | 1985 - Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1917) |
| | 1989 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908) |
| | 1990 - Sidney Torch, British Composer, Conductor and Organist (b. 1908) |
| | 1991 - Robert Motherwell, American painter (b. 1915) |
| | 1991 - Frank Rizzo, American politican (b. 1920) |
| | 1994 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918) |
| | 1995 - Stephen Spender, British poet (b. 1909) |
| | 1996 - John Panozzo, American musician (STYX) (b. 1948) |
| | 1996 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician, (b. 1921) |
| | 1998 - John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915) |
| | 1999 - Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr. (b. 1966) |
| | 1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., American publisher (b. 1960) |
| | 2001 - Maurice De Bevere, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923) |
| | 2001 - Terry Gordy, Professional wrestler (b. 1961) |
| | 2002 - John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925) |
| | 2003 - Celia Cruz, Cuban musician (b. 1924) |
| | 2003 - Carol Shields, Canadian author (b. 1935) |
| | 2005 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920) |
| | 2005 - Prince Gu of Korea (b. 1931) |
| | 2005 - Camillo Felgen - Luxembourgish singer, lyricist, and entertainer (b. 1920) |
| | 2006 - Bob Orton, Sr., American wrestler (b. 1929) |