| | 796 - Offa, King of Mercia |
| | 811 - Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (killed in battle) |
| | 1380 - Emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322) |
| | 1471 - Pope Paul II (b. 1417) |
| | 1592 - Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524) |
| | 1611 - Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542) |
| | 1680 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English writer (b. 1647) |
| | 1712 - Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (b. 1631) |
| | 1723 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660) |
| | 1863 - Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas (b. 1793) |
| | 1867 - King Otto of Greece (b. 1815) |
| | 1919 - Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836) |
| | 1925 - Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (b. 1848) |
| | 1925 - William Jennings Bryan, American politician (b. 1860) |
| | 1932 - Frederick S. Duesenberg automotive pioneer (b. 1876) |
| | 1935 - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871) |
| | 1941 - Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (b. 1875) |
| | 1942 - Roberto Arlt, Argentinian writer (b. 1900) |
| | 1952 - Eva Perón, wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (b. 1919) |
| | 1953 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883) |
| | 1969 - Frank Loesser, American composer (b. 1910) |
| | 1971 - Diane Arbus, American photographer (suicide) (b. 1923) |
| | 1977 - Karac Plant, Robert Plant's son, stomach infection (b. 1972) |
| | 1980 - Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (b. 1928) |
| | 1984 - George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (b. 1901) |
| | 1984 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906) |
| | 1986 - Averell Harriman, American diplomat (b. 1891) |
| | 1988 - Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (b. 1919) |
| | 1992 - Mary Wells, American singer (b. 1943) |
| | 2001 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913) |
| | 2001 - Rex Barber, American WW II aviator (b. 1917) |
| | 2005 - Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (b. 1925) |