| | 1115 - Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (b. 1046) |
| | 1129 - Shirakawa, Emperor of Japan (b. 1053) |
| | 1394 - Alexander Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan, Scottish prince (b. 1343) |
| | 1568 - Prince Don Carlos of Spain (b. 1545) |
| | 1594 - John Boste, Catholic saint and martyr (b. 1544) |
| | 1739 - Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1686) |
| | 1768 - Nathanial Lardner, English theologian (b. 1684) |
| | 1862 - Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (b. 1782) |
| | 1910 - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (b. 1841) |
| | 1927 - Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892) |
| | 1957 - Sacha Guitry, French actor, director, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1885) |
| | 1965 - Constance Bennett, American actress (b. 1904) |
| | 1969 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (b. 1904) |
| | 1970 - Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman (b. 1897) |
| | 1974 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891) |
| | 1980 - Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925) |
| | 1986 - Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) |
| | 1991 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Yiddish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904) |
| | 1992 - Sam Berger, Canadian football owner (b. 1900) |
| | 1992 - Arletty, French singer and actress (b. 1898) |
| | 1995 - George Rodger, British photojournalist (b. 1908) |
| | 1996 - Mohammed Farah Aidid, Somali warlord (b. 1934) |
| | 1997 - William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1906) |
| | 1997 - Saw Maung, Burmese dictator (b. 1928) |
| | 2001 - Georges Dor, French Canadien author, composer, singer and playwright (b. 1931) |
| | 2005 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (b. 1912) |