| | 1100 - Godfrey of Bouillon, French crusader |
| | 1488 - Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432) |
| | 1591 - Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (b. 1550) |
| | 1608 - Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1546) |
| | 1610 - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (b. 1573) |
| | 1623 - Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554) |
| | 1639 - Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, German general (b. 1604) |
| | 1665 - Stefan Czarniecki, Polish general (b. 1599) |
| | 1695 - Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1634) |
| | 1698 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (b. 1633) |
| | 1721 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (b. 1684) |
| | 1730 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644) |
| | 1792 - John Paul Jones, American naval commander (b. 1747) |
| | 1817 - Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775) |
| | 1863 - Robert Gould Shaw, American military officer (b. 1837) |
| | 1872 - Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (b. 1806) |
| | 1884 - Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (b. 1829) |
| | 1892 - Thomas Cook, English travel agent (b. 1808) |
| | 1918 - Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna (b. 1864) |
| | 1937 - Julian Bell, British poet, killed in the Spanish Civil War (b. 1908) |
| | 1944 - Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet, author and artist (b. 1870) |
| | 1948 - Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian and politician (b. 1877) |
| | 1949 - Vítezslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870) |
| | 1952 - Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect (b. 1862) |
| | 1953 - Lucy Booth, the fifth daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1868) |
| | 1963 - Jack Solomon, restaurateur, co-founder Gallagher's Steak House (b. 1896) |
| | 1968 - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) |
| | 1969 - Mary Jo Kopechne, American aide to Robert F. Kennedy |
| | 1985 - Shahnawaz Bhutto, son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto |
| | 1988 - Nico, German-born model and singer (b. 1938) |
| | 1989 - Donnie Moore, baseball player (suicide) (b. 1954) |
| | 1990 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (b. 1897) |
| | 1990 - Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist, (b. 1896) |
| | 1995 - Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (b. 1970) |
| | 1997 - Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1928) |
| | 2001 - James Hatfield, American author (b. 1958) |
| | 2001 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian automotive engineer (b. 1920) |
| | 2002 - Victor Emery, British theoretical physicist (b. 1933) |
| | 2004 - Paul Foot, British journalist (b. 1937) |
| | 2005 - William Westmoreland, U.S. Army general (b. 1914) |