| | 1362 - Louis of Durazzo, Italian soldier (b. 1324) |
| | 1387 - Franz Ackerman, Flemish statesman (b. 1330) |
| | 1461 - Charles VII of France (b. 1403) |
| | 1525 - Richard Wingfield, English diplomat |
| | 1540 - John Zápolya, King of Hungary |
| | 1619 - Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (b. 1559) |
| | 1645 - Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (b. 1587) |
| | 1676 - Pope Clement X (b. 1590) |
| | 1713 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780) |
| | 1734 - Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England |
| | 1789 - Joseph-François Foulon, French administrator (b. 1715) |
| | 1802 - Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist (b. 1771) |
| | 1826 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (b. 1746) |
| | 1832 - Napoleon II of France (b. 1811) |
| | 1852 - Auguste Marmont, French marshal (b. 1774) |
| | 1902 - Mieczyslaw Cardinal Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (b. 1822) |
| | 1904 - Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846) |
| | 1908 - William Randal Cremer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1828) |
| | 1915 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer and inventor (b. 1827) |
| | 1916 - James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (b. 1849) |
| | 1918 - Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (b. 1898) |
| | 1920 - William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1849) |
| | 1922 - Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854) |
| | 1932 - Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853) |
| | 1932 - Florenz Ziegfeld, theatrical producer (b. 1867) |
| | 1934 - John Dillinger, American bank robber (b. 1903) |
| | 1950 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874) |
| | 1958 - Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian writer (b. 1895) |
| | 1967 - Carl Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878) |
| | 1968 - Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist (b. 1908) |
| | 1974 - Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (b. 1900) |
| | 1979 - Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929) |
| | 1989 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935) |
| | 1990 - Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (b. 1932) |
| | 1992 - Wayne McLaren, portrayed the Marlboro Man (b. 1940) |
| | 1998 - Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929) |
| | 2000 - Eric Christmas, British actor (b. 1916) |
| | 2003 - Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1966) |
| | 2003 - Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964) |
| | 2003 - Wahome Muthahi, Kenyan humourist (b. 1954) |
| | 2004 - Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933) |
| | 2004 - George Kidd, Canadian diplomat (b. 1917) |
| | 2005 - Eugene Record American songwriter (b. 1940) |
| | 2006 - José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (b. 1965) |
| | 2006 - James E. West, mayor of Spokane, Washington (b. 1950) |