| | 882 - King Louis III of France (b. 863) |
| | 1063 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd |
| | 1364 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (b. 1313) |
| | 1572 - Isaac Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1534) |
| | 1579 - Stanislaus Hosius, Polish Catholic cardinal (b. 1504) |
| | 1633 - Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1562) |
| | 1678 - Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican musician and composer (b. 1619) |
| | 1743 - John Hervey, Lord Hervey, English statesman and writer (b. 1696) |
| | 1778 - Charles Clémencet, French historian (b. 1703) |
| | 1792 - Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1732) |
| | 1799 - Richard Howe, British admiral (b. 1726) |
| | 1868 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (b. 1788) |
| | 1880 - Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician (b. 1816) |
| | 1895 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820) |
| | 1911 - Bob Caruthers, baseball player (b. 1864) |
| | 1923 - Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian slavist (b. 1835) |
| | 1929 - Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (b. 1847) |
| | 1946 - Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863) |
| | 1952 - Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (b.1917) |
| | 1955 - Carmen Miranda, Portuguese actress and singer (b. 1909) |
| | 1957 - Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1877) |
| | 1959 - Edgar Guest, English poet (b. 1881) |
| | 1960 - Arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874) |
| | 1962 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress (b. 1926) |
| | 1963 - Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898) |
| | 1964 - Art Ross, professional ice hockey player and executive (b. 1886) (Art Ross Trophy) |
| | 1978 - Jesse Haines, baseball player (b. 1893) |
| | 1984 - Richard Burton, British actor (b. 1925) |
| | 1991 - Paul Brown, American football coach (b. 1908) |
| | 1992 - Jeff Porcaro, American drummer (b. 1954) |
| | 1992 - Soichiro Honda, founder of the Honda Motor Company (b. 1906) |
| | 1998 - Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Communist dictator from 1956 to 1989 (b. 1911) |
| | 2000 - Sir Alec Guinness, British actor (b. 1914) |
| | 2000 - Otto Buchsbaum, writer and ecological activist (b. 1920) |
| | 2002 - Josh Ryan Evans, actor (b. 1982) |
| | 2002 - Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (b. 1916) |
| | 2005 - Polina Astakhova, Russian gymnast (b. 1936) |
| | 2005 - Jim O'Hora, American football coach (b. 1915) |
| | 2005 - Raul Roco, Philippine senator (b. 1941) |
| | 2006 - Susan Butcher, American Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion (b. 1954) |