| | 258 - Saint Pope Sixtus II |
| | 523 - Saint Pope Hormisdas |
| | 1162 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona |
| | 1195 - Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129) |
| | 1221 - Saint Dominic, Spanish founder of the Dominicans (b. 1170) |
| | 1272 - King Stephen V of Hungary |
| | 1414 - King Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377) |
| | 1458 - Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378) |
| | 1623 - Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife) (b. 1556) |
| | 1628 - Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573) |
| | 1637 - Ben Jonson, English writer (b. 1572) |
| | 1645 - Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (b. 1575) |
| | 1657 - Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Polish-Lithuanian noble |
| | 1660 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599) |
| | 1679 - John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629) |
| | 1694 - Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612) |
| | 1695 - François de Harlay de Champvallon, French Catholic archbishop (b. 1625) |
| | 1753 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711) |
| | 1759 - Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704) |
| | 1794 - Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714) |
| | 1815 - James A. Bayard (elder), United States Senator from Delaware (b. 1767) |
| | 1828 - Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman |
| | 1850 - Edward Walsh, Irish poet (b. 1805) |
| | 1866 - John Mason Neale, English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (b. 1818) |
| | 1893 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811) |
| | 1904 - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825) |
| | 1914 - Ellen Louise Wilson, first wife of President Woodrow Wilson (b. 1860) |
| | 1920 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator, first flight in independent Poland (b. 1890) |
| | 1931 - Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (b. 1903) |
| | 1945 - Prince Wu of Korea (b. 1912) |
| | 1945 - Richard Bong, America's all time Ace of Aces (b. 1920) |
| | 1945 - Hiram Johnson, American politician (b. 1866) |
| | 1946 - Tony Lazzeri, baseball player (b. 1903) |
| | 1959 - Preston Sturges, American playwright, screenwriter, and director (b. 1898) |
| | 1964 - Sir Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1893) |
| | 1966 - Cordwainer Smith, American writer (b. 1913) |
| | 1969 - Theodor Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903) |
| | 1973 - Fulgencio Batista, Cuban dictator (b. 1901) |
| | 1973 - Memphis Minnie, American blues singer (b. 1897) |
| | 1974 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925) |
| | 1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (b. 1903) |
| | 1978 - Pope Paul VI (b. 1897) |
| | 1979 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911) |
| | 1983 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944) |
| | 1985 - Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana (b. 1923) |
| | 1987 - Ira Eaker, American Air Force leader (b. 1896) |
| | 1987 - Quinn Martin, American television producer (b. 1922) |
| | 1991 - Harry Reasoner, American reporter (b. 1923) |
| | 1993 - Tex Hughson, baseball player (b. 1916) |
| | 1994 - Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1928) |
| | 1998 - Andre Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906) |
| | 2001 - Jorge Amado de Faria, Brazilian writer (b. 1912) |
| | 2001 - Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930) |
| | 2002 - Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930) |
| | 2004 - Rick James, American musician (b. 1948) |
| | 2005 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (b. 1928) |
| | 2005 - Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946) |
| | 2005 - Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1927) |