| | 686 - Pope John V |
| | 924 - Ælfweard of Wessex |
| | 1100 - King William II of England |
| | 1222 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156) |
| | 1511 - Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader |
| | 1589 - King Henry III of France (b. 1551) |
| | 1611 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562) |
| | 1696 - Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Scottish military commander (b. 1630) |
| | 1769 - Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (b. 1689) |
| | 1776 - Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (b. 1717) |
| | 1788 - Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (b. 1727) |
| | 1815 - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (murdered) (b. 1763) |
| | 1823 - Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (b. 1753) |
| | 1849 - Governor Muhammad Ali of Egypt (b. 1769) |
| | 1859 - Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796) |
| | 1876 - James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837) |
| | 1889 - Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (b. 1851) |
| | 1890 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (b. 1813) |
| | 1903 - Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian (b. 1850) |
| | 1920 - Ormer Locklear, American stunt pilot (b. 1891) |
| | 1921 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873) |
| | 1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1847) |
| | 1923 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865) |
| | 1934 - Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and President of Germany (b. 1847) |
| | 1936 - Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872) |
| | 1939 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosacrucian mystic (b. 1883) |
| | 1945 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (b. 1863) |
| | 1976 - Fritz Lang, Austrian film director (b. 1890) |
| | 1978 - Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (b. 1899) |
| | 1979 - Thurman Munson, baseball player (b. 1947) |
| | 1986 - Roy Cohn, American politician (b. 1927) |
| | 1988 - Raymond Carver, American writer (b. 1938) |
| | 1988 - Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate (b. 1914) |
| | 1990 - Norman Mclean, American writer (b. 1902) |
| | 1997 - William S. Burroughs, American writer (b. 1914) |
| | 1998 - Shari Lewis, American puppeteer (b. 1933) |
| | 2003 - Don Estelle, British actor (b. 1933) |
| | 2003 - Mike Levey, American television personality (b. 1948) |
| | 2003 - Peter Safar, Austrian physician (b. 1924) |
| | 2004 - Don Tosti, American musician (b. 1923) |
| | 2006 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (b. 1915) |