| | 985 - Pope Boniface VII |
| | 1031 - King Robert II of France (b. 972) |
| | 1156 - Emperor Toba of Japan (1103) |
| | 1160 - Peter Lombard, French theologian |
| | 1320 - King Oshin of Armenia (b. 1282) |
| | 1351 - Margaretha Ebner, German visionary (b. 1291) |
| | 1387 - Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (poisoned) (b. 1356) |
| | 1398 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (b. 1374) |
| | 1453 - Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler |
| | 1454 - King John II of Castile (b. 1405) |
| | 1524 - Claude of France, wife of Louis XII of France (b. 1499) |
| | 1616 - Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, English soldier |
| | 1704 - Peregrine White, first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1620) |
| | 1752 - Johann Christoph Pepusch, German composer (b. 1667) |
| | 1816 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (b. 1743) |
| | 1866 - Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (b. 1826) |
| | 1870 - Jules de Goncourt, French writer (b. 1830) |
| | 1897 - Jean Ingelow, English poet (b. 1820) |
| | 1901 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (b. 1840) |
| | 1903 - Pope Leo XIII (b. 1810) |
| | 1908 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president (b. 1835) |
| | 1922 - Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b. 1856) |
| | 1923 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878) |
| | 1926 - Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy, head of the Soviet secret police (b. 1877) |
| | 1927 - King Ferdinand of Romania (b. 1865) |
| | 1937 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1874) |
| | 1941 - Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b. 1867) |
| | 1944 - Mildred Harris, American actress (b. 1901) |
| | 1945 - Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871) |
| | 1951 - King Abdullah I of Jordan (b. 1882) |
| | 1951 - Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of Germany (b. 1882) |
| | 1953 - Dumarsaid Estime, President of Haiti (b. 1900) |
| | 1953 - Jan Struther, British author (b. 1901) |
| | 1959 - William D. Leahy, American admiral (b. 1875) |
| | 1967 - Albert Lutuli, South African civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize |
| | 1973 - Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1940) |
| | 1982 - Okot p'Bitek, Ugandan poet (b. 1931) |
| | 1983 - Frank Reynolds, American television news anchor (b. 1923) |
| | 1990 - Herbert Jenkins, Atlanta's longest serving police chief (b. 1907) |
| | 1991 - Earl Robinson, American singer and composer (b. 1910) |
| | 1993 - Vincent Foster Jr., White House deputy counsel (b. 1945) |
| | 1997 - John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (b. 1949) |
| | 1999 - Sandra Gould, American actress (b. 1916) |
| | 2000 - Gregory Hill (also known as Malaclypse the Younger,) American writer (b. 1941) |
| | 2003 - Nicolas Freeling, English writer (b. 1927) |
| | 2004 - Adi Lady Lala Mara, Fiji chieftainess, wife of Kamisese Mara (b. 1931) |
| | 2005 - James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (b. 1920) |
| | 2005 - Charles Chibitty, World War II Comanche code talker (b. 1921) |
| | 2005 - Finn Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1926) |
| | 2005 - Kayo Hatta, American film director (b. 1958) |
| | 2005 - Alfred Hayes, British-born wrestling announcer (b. 1928) |
| | 2006 - Gérard Oury, French filmmaker (b. 1919) |