| | 238 - Pupienus, Roman Emperor |
| | 238 - Balbinus, Roman Emperor |
| | 1030 - Olaf II of Norway (b. 995) |
| | 1099 - Pope Urban II (b. 1042) |
| | 1108 - Philip I of France (b. 1052) |
| | 1507 - Martin Behaim, German-born navigator and geographer (b. 1459) |
| | 1612 - Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554) |
| | 1644 - Pope Urban VIII (b. 1568) |
| | 1752 - Peter Warren, British admiral |
| | 1781 - Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713) |
| | 1792 - René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714) |
| | 1813 - Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (b. 1771) |
| | 1833 - William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (b. 1759) |
| | 1839 - Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (b. 1755) |
| | 1844 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1791) |
| | 1856 - Robert Schumann, German composer (b. 1810) |
| | 1857 - Thomas Dick, a Scottish scientific teacher and writer (b. 1774). |
| | 1887 - Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman (d. 1813) |
| | 1890 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853) |
| | 1900 - King Umberto I of Italy (b. 1844) |
| | 1913 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1838) |
| | 1938 - Nikolai Krylenko, Russian/Soviet jurist and politician (b. 1885) |
| | 1951 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author (b. 1883) |
| | 1954 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879) |
| | 1970 - John Barbirolli, English conductor (b. 1899) |
| | 1973 - Roger Williamson, English racing driver (b. 1948) |
| | 1974 - Cass Elliot, American musician (b. 1941) |
| | 1974 - Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899) |
| | 1975 - James Blish, American writer (b. 1921) |
| | 1976 - Mickey Cohen, American gangster (b. 1913) |
| | 1979 - Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher (b. 1898) |
| | 1979 - Bill Todman, American television producer (b. 1916) |
| | 1981 - Robert Moses, New York public works official (b. 1888) |
| | 1982 - Harold Sakata, Japanese-American actor (b. 1920) |
| | 1982 - Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist and inventor (b. 1889) |
| | 1983 - Luis Buñuel, Spanish director (b. 1900) |
| | 1983 - Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896) |
| | 1983 - David Niven, English actor (b. 1910) |
| | 1984 - Fred Waring, American band leader and inventor (b. 1900) |
| | 1990 - Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (b. 1911) |
| | 1994 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1910) |
| | 1994 - Megan Kanka, rape victim, basis of Megan's Law (b. 1986) |
| | 1996 - Jason Thirsk, American bassist (Pennywise) (b. 1967) |
| | 1996 - Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (b. 1920) |
| | 1998 - Jerome Robbins, American choregrapher (b. 1918) |
| | 2001 - Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913) |
| | 2001 - Wau Holland, German hacker (b. 1951) |
| | 2003 - Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (b. 1937) |
| | 2004 - Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress (b. 1923) |