| | 1403 - Henry Percy, English soldier (killed in battle) |
| | 1425 - Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1350) |
| | 1688 - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (b. 1610) |
| | 1796 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (b. 1759) |
| | 1798 - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733) |
| | 1870 - Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (b. 1827) |
| | 1889 - Nelson Dewey, American politician, 1st Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1813) |
| | 1899 - Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and military officer (b. 1833) |
| | 1899 - Sri Sarada Devi, Saint and wife of Sri Ramakrishna (b. 1853) |
| | 1932 - Bill Gleason, late 19th century baseball player |
| | 1936 - Georg Michaelis, 6th Chancellor of the German Empire (b. 1857) |
| | 1937 - Louis Vierne, French composer (b. 1870) |
| | 1938 - Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860) |
| | 1943 - Charlie Paddock, American athlete (b. 1900) |
| | 1944 - Claus von Stauffenberg, German army colonel who tried to assassinate Hitler (b. 1907) |
| | 1944 - Ludwig Beck, German Chief of Staff (b. 1880) |
| | 1948 - David Wark Griffith, American film director (b. 1875) |
| | 1967 - Jimmie Foxx, baseball player (b. 1907) |
| | 1967 - Albert Lutuli, South African politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate |
| | 1967 - Basil Rathbone, English actor (b. 1892) |
| | 1968 - Ruth St. Denis, dancer and choreographer (b. 1878) |
| | 1970 - Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907) |
| | 1970 - Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945) |
| | 1972 - Ralph Craig, American athlete (b. 1889) |
| | 1982 - Dave Garroway, American television host (b. 1913) |
| | 1986 - Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892) |
| | 1998 - Alan Shepard, astronaut (b. 1923) |
| | 1998 - Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907) |
| | 2001 - Steve Barton, American actor (b. 1954) |
| | 2003 - John Davies, New Zealand Olympic Committee president (b. 1938) |
| | 2003 - Walter M. "Matt" Jefferies, American film art director (b. 1921) |
| | 2004 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929) |
| | 2004 - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1918) |
| | 2005 - Andrzej Grubba, Polish table tennis player (b. 1958) |
| | 2005 - Long John Baldry, British blues musician (b. 1941) |
| | 2005 - Lord Alfred Hayes, British Wrestling Announcer for WWE (b. 1928) |
| | 2006 - Mako, Japanese-born American actor (b. 1933) |
| | 2006 - Ta Mok, "The Khmer Rouge Butcher", war criminal in Democratic Kampuchea (b. 1926) |