| | 371 - St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. c. 283) |
| | 527 - Emperor Justin I (b. c. 450) |
| | 1137 - King Louis VI of France (b. 1081) |
| | 1227 - Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179) |
| | 1402 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341) |
| | 1457 - Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (bc. 1406) |
| | 1464 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386) |
| | 1541 - Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493) |
| | 1546 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506) |
| | 1557 - Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490) |
| | 1580 - Albrecht Giese IV, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524) |
| | 1589 - Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567) |
| | 1675 - Weetamoo, sachem of Pocasetts a band of the Wamponoag Indians her death winding up the end of King Philip's War |
| | 1714 - Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665) |
| | 1787 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696) |
| | 1796 - Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720) |
| | 1798 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753) |
| | 1812 - Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763) |
| | 1851 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775) |
| | 1866 - John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790) |
| | 1917 - Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879) |
| | 1918 - John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854) |
| | 1920 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856) |
| | 1964 - Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934) |
| | 1966 - Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (shot by police) (b. 1941) |
| | 1967 - Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900) |
| | 1970 - Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913) |
| | 1970 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1883) |
| | 1973 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882) |
| | 1977 - Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929) |
| | 1981 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923) |
| | 1989 - John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937) |
| | 1990 - Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897) |
| | 1990 - Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947) |
| | 1996 - Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940) |
| | 1996 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897) |
| | 1997 - Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915) |
| | 1999 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897) |
| | 2001 - Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974) |
| | 2003 - Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922) |
| | 2003 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962) |
| | 2004 - Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913) |
| | 2005 - Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928) |
| | 2005 - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923) |
| | 2005 - Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920) |
| | 2005 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918) |
| | 2006 - Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924) |