| | 1227 - Qiu Chuji, Chinese Taoist (b. 1148) |
| | 1373 - Saint Birgitta, Swedish saint (b. 1303) |
| | 1403 - Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (executed) (born 1343) |
| | 1531 - Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers |
| | 1584 - John Day, English printer (b. 1522) |
| | 1692 - Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613) |
| | 1727 - Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain |
| | 1757 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1685) |
| | 1764 - Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (b. 1703) |
| | 1773 - George Edwards, English naturalist (b. 1693) |
| | 1781 - John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (b. 1724) |
| | 1793 - Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1721) |
| | 1853 - Andries Pretorius, Boer leader (b. 1798) |
| | 1878 - Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician (b. 1804) |
| | 1885 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822) |
| | 1916 - Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852) |
| | 1920 - Conrad Kohrs, German-born rancher (b. 1835) |
| | 1923 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878) |
| | 1924 - Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (b. 1850) |
| | 1930 - Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer (b. 1878) |
| | 1942 - Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer (suicide) (b. 1880) |
| | 1948 - D. W. Griffith, American film director (b. 1875) |
| | 1951 - Henri Philippe Pétain, leader of Vichy France (b. 1856) |
| | 1951 - Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (b. 1884) |
| | 1955 - Cordell Hull, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871) |
| | 1966 - Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920) |
| | 1968 - Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875) |
| | 1971 - Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1910) |
| | 1973 - Eddie Rickenbacker, American pilot (b. 1890) |
| | 1980 - Sarto Fournier, Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908) |
| | 1980 - Keith Godchaux, American pianist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1948) |
| | 1982 - Vic Morrow, American actor (b. 1929) |
| | 1983 - Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899) |
| | 1985 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (b. 1923) |
| | 1989 - Donald Barthelme, American author (b. 1931) |
| | 1993 - James Jordan, father of Michael Jordan |
| | 1997 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (b. 1904) |
| | 1999 - King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929) |
| | 2001 - Eudora Welty, American author (b. 1909) |
| | 2002 - Leo McKern, Australian actor (b. 1920) |
| | 2002 - Dr. William L. Pierce, American author and activist (b. 1933) |
| | 2002 - Chaim Potok, American novelist and rabbi (b. 1929) |
| | 2003 - James E. Davis, New York City councilman (murdered) (b. 1962) |
| | 2004 - Mehmood, Indian actor (b. 1932) |
| | 2004 - Carlos Paredes, Portuguese musician and composer (b. 1925) |
| | 2004 - Serge Reggiani, French singer and actor (b. 1922) |