| | 521 - Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (b. 474) |
| | 924 - King Edward the Elder of England |
| | 1070 - Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (b. 1030) |
| | 1086 - King Canute IV of Denmark |
| | 1105 - Rashi, French rabbi and commentator (b. 1040) |
| | 1453 - John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader |
| | 1531 - Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484) |
| | 1566 - Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish priest (b. 1484) |
| | 1571 - Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516) |
| | 1588 - Sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489) |
| | 1645 - Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician |
| | 1704 - Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer |
| | 1709 - Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646) |
| | 1790 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723) |
| | 1791 - Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717) |
| | 1793 - Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat and murderer (b. 1768) |
| | 1794 - John Roebuck, British inventor (b. 1718) |
| | 1845 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764) |
| | 1878 - Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (b. 1812) |
| | 1881 - Jim Bridger, American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer (b. 1804) |
| | 1885 - Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (b. 1811) |
| | 1887 - Dorothea Dix, American social activist (b. 1802) |
| | 1894 - Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist, (b. 1810) |
| | 1894 - Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, French poet (b. 1818) |
| | 1912 - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (b. 1854) |
| | 1917 - Hector Malot, French writer (b. 1830) |
| | 1918 (N.S.) - Family of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1868) |
| | Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna (b. 1872) |
| | Grand Duchess Olga (b. 1895) |
| | Grand Duchess Tatiana (b. 1897) |
| | Grand Duchess Maria (b. 1899) |
| | Grand Duchess Anastasia (b. 1901) |
| | Tsarevich Alexei (b. 1904) |
| | 1928 - Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (b. 1842) |
| | 1935 - George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (b. 1867) |
| | 1944 - William James Sidis, gifted mathematician and child prodigy (b. 1898) |
| | 1945 - Ernst Busch, German field marshal (b. 1885) |
| | 1946 - General Dragoljub Mihailovic, commandant of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland (b. 1893) |
| | 1950 - Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865) |
| | 1959 - Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915) |
| | 1959 - Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (b. 1875) |
| | 1961 - Ty Cobb, baseball player (b. 1886) |
| | 1967 - John Coltrane, American musician (b. 1926) |
| | 1974 - Dizzy Dean, Major League baseball pitcher (b.1910) |
| | 1975 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893) |
| | 1980 - Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890) |
| | 1987 - Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b. 1934) |
| | 1988 - Bruiser Brody, Professional wrestler (b. 1946) |
| | 1995 - Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911) |
| | 1996 - Chas Chandler, bass guitarist (The Animals), record producer and manager (b. 1938) |
| | 2001 - Katharine Graham, American publisher (b. 1917) |
| | 2003 - David Kelly, Welsh UN weapons inspector (b. 1944) |
| | 2003 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914) |
| | 2004 - Pat Roach, British professional wrestler and actor (b. 1937) |
| | 2005 - Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (b. 1927) |
| | 2005 - Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916) |
| | 2005 - Joe Vialls, Australian writer (b. 1944) |
| | 2006 - Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (b. 1936) |
| | 2006 - Mickey Spillane, American author (b. 1918) |