| | 450 - Theodosius II, Roman Emperor (b. 401) |
| | 1057 - Pope Victor II |
| | 1128 - William Clito, Count of Flanders (b. 1102) |
| | 1230 - Duke Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176) |
| | 1285 - Queen Keran of Armenia, consort of Leo III of Armenia |
| | 1527 - Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador |
| | 1540 - Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman |
| | 1631 - Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569) |
| | 1655 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet (b. 1619) |
| | 1667 - Abraham Cowley, English poet (b. 1618) |
| | 1675 - Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605) |
| | 1685 - Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618) |
| | 1718 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630) |
| | 1741 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678) |
| | 1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685) |
| | 1762 - George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691) |
| | 1794 - Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1758) |
| | 1794 - Louis de Saint-Just, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1767) |
| | 1818 - Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746) |
| | 1835 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768) |
| | 1842 - Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778) |
| | 1844 - Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain (b. 1768) |
| | 1849 - King Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798) |
| | 1869 - Jan Evangelista Purkyne, Czech anatomist (b. 1787) |
| | 1878 - George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (b. 1820) |
| | 1930 - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1862) |
| | 1934 - Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (b. 1868) |
| | 1942 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (b. 1853) |
| | 1957 - Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876) |
| | 1965 - Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author (b. 1894) |
| | 1967 - Karl W. Richter, Lieutenant, USAF, American aviator (b. 1942) |
| | 1968 - Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1879) |
| | 1969 - Ramón Grau, Cuban president (b. 1882) |
| | 1971 - Myril Hoag, baseball player (b. 1908) |
| | 1972 - Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903) |
| | 1972 - Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918) |
| | 1982 - Keith Green, American gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1953) |
| | 1996 - Marguerite "Marge" Ganser, American singer (Shangri-Las) (b. 1948) |
| | 1999 - Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911) |
| | 2000 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist and science historian (b. 1918) |
| | 2002 - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1910) |
| | 2003 - Lady Valerie Goulding, Irish Senator and campaigner for the disabled (b. 1918) |
| | 2004 - Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1916) |
| | 2004 - Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915) |
| | 2004 - Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist (b. 1938) |
| | 2006 - David Gemmell, fantasy writer (b. 1948) |