| | 702 - Chan Bahlum II, king of the Maya state of Palenque (b. 635) |
| | 1154 - Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett |
| | 1171 - Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138) |
| | 1194 - King Tancred of Sicily |
| | 1258 - Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad |
| | 1408 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342) |
| | 1431 - Pope Martin V (b. 1368) |
| | 1513 - King Christian II of Denmark (b. 1455) |
| | 1524 - Tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya in the northern highlands of Guatemala. |
| | 1579 - Nicholas Bacon, English politician (b. 1509) |
| | 1618 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554) |
| | 1626 - John Dowland, English composer and lutenist (b. 1563) |
| | 1762 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (b. 1723) |
| | 1771 - Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (b. 1678) |
| | 1773 - King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (b. 1701) |
| | 1778 - Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (b. 1711) |
| | 1790 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1741) |
| | 1803 - Marie Dumesnil, French actress (b. 1713) |
| | 1806 - Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (b. 1725) |
| | 1810 - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean national hero (executed) (b. 1767) |
| | 1871 - Paul Kane, Irish-born painter (b. 1810) |
| | 1893 - P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (b. 1818) |
| | 1895 - Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist writer (b. 1818) |
| | 1907 - Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852) |
| | 1916 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1844) |
| | 1920 - Robert Peary, American explorer (b. 1856) |
| | 1961 - Percy Grainger, Australian composer (b. 1882) |
| | 1963 - Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (b. 1914) |
| | 1966 - Chester Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885) |
| | 1968 - Anthony Asquith, British film director and writer (b. 1902) |
| | 1969 - Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883) |
| | 1970 - Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (b. 1885) |
| | 1972 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) |
| | 1972 - Walter Winchell, American journalist (b. 1897) |
| | 1975 - Robert Strauss, American politician and diplomat (b. 1918) |
| | 1976 - René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1887) |
| | 1976 - Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist (b. 1907) |
| | 1980 - J.B. Rhine, American parapsychologist (b. 1895) |
| | 1981 - Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor, socialite (b. 1904) |
| | 1983 - Fritz Köberle, Austrian-Brazilian physician (b. 1910) |
| | 1985 - Clarence Nash, American voice actor (b. 1904) |
| | 1992 - Roberto D'Aubuisson, Salvadoran politician (b. 1944) |
| | 1992 - Dick York, American actor (b. 1928) |
| | 1993 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1916) |
| | 1996 - Solomon Asch, American psychologist (b. 1907) |
| | 1996 - Toru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (b. 1930) |
| | 1999 - Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971) |
| | 1999 - Gene Siskel, American film critic (b. 1946) |
| | 2000 - Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician (b. 1937) |
| | 2001 - Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910) |
| | 2003 - Maurice Blanchot, French author (b. 1907) |
| | 2003 - Orville Freeman, American politician (b. 1918) |
| | 2003 - Harry Jacunski, American football player |
| | 2003 - Ty Longley, American guitarist (Great White) (b. 1971) |
| | 2003 - Mushaf Ali Mir, Pakistan Chief of the Air Staff (b. 1947) |
| | 2005 - Pam Bricker, jazz singer and Thievery Corporation vocalist (b. 1954) |
| | 2005 - Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1944) |
| | 2005 - John Raitt, American actor (b. 1917) |
| | 2005 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (b. 1937) |
| | 2005 - Tom Willmore, English gemoeter (b. 1919) |
| | 2006 - Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (b. 1919) |
| | 2006 - Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (b. 1920) |