| | 1181 - Pope Alexander III (b. 1105?) |
| | 1460 - King James II of Scotland (b. 1430) |
| | 1527 - Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal |
| | 1546 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (b. 1484) |
| | 1546 - Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (b. 1509) |
| | 1604 - Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander |
| | 1621 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (b. 1556) |
| | 1667 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (b. 1599) |
| | 1712 - Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654) |
| | 1720 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (b. 1641) |
| | 1721 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (b. 1648) |
| | 1761 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691) |
| | 1773 - Stanislaw Konarski, Polish writer (b. 1700) |
| | 1780 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (b. 1715) |
| | 1792 - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (b. 1732) |
| | 1797 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (b. 1717) |
| | 1805 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724) |
| | 1857 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804) |
| | 1867 - Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785) |
| | 1877 - William Butler Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (b.1805) |
| | 1879 - Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793) |
| | 1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish rebel (hanged) (b. 1864) |
| | 1917 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (b. 1849) |
| | 1924 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born writer (b. 1857) |
| | 1929 - Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851) |
| | 1929 - Thorstein Veblen, American economist (b. 1857) |
| | 1942 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1872) |
| | 1954 - Colette, French writer (b. 1873) |
| | 1964 - Flannery O'Connor, American writer (b. 1925) |
| | 1966 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925) |
| | 1973 - Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general (b. 1895) |
| | 1977 - Alfred Lunt, American actor (b. 1892) |
| | 1977 - Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (b. 1913) |
| | 1979 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1899) |
| | 1983 - Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930) |
| | 1993 - Swami Chinmayananda, spread the teachings of Vedanta (b. 1916) |
| | 1995 - Ida Lupino, English actress and director (b. 1914) |
| | 1995 - Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933) |
| | 1998 - Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934) |
| | 2001 - Christopher Hewett, British actor (b. 1922) |
| | 2002 - Carmen Silvera, British actress (b. 1922) |
| | 2003 - Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter (b. 1954) |
| | 2004 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908) |
| | 2005 - Françoise d'Eaubonne, French feminist (b. 1920) |
| | 2005 - Steven Vincent, American journalist (b. 1955) |
| | 2006 - Arthur Lee, American psychedelic rock musician (b. 1945) |
| | 2006 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German opera singer (b. 1915) |