| | 869 - Lothair II of Lotharingia (b. 825) |
| | 1445 - Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer |
| | 1553 - Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478) |
| | 1555 - Oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494) |
| | 1588 - Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter |
| | 1604 - Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578) |
| | 1631 - Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579) |
| | 1684 - George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622) |
| | 1759 - Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer |
| | 1827 - George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770) |
| | 1828 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743) |
| | 1879 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797) |
| | 1887 - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808) |
| | 1898 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824) |
| | 1902 - James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836) |
| | 1911 - William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830) |
| | 1933 - Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (b. 1870) |
| | 1940 - Johnny Dodds, American musician (b. 1892) |
| | 1944 - Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (b. 1894) |
| | 1944 - Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (b. 1881) |
| | 1947 - Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (b. 1872) |
| | 1965 - Shirley Jackson, American author (b. 1916) |
| | 1972 - Andrea Feldman, American actor (b. 1948) |
| | 1975 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1928) |
| | 1977 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1889) |
| | 1985 - Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906) |
| | 1987 - Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (b. 1903) |
| | 1991 - James Irwin, astronaut (b. 1930) |
| | 1992 - Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qasim Khoei, considered to be the Supreme Shi'ite authority at the time of his death. |
| | 1996 - Nevill Mott, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1905) |
| | 2004 - Fay Wray, American actress (b. 1907) |
| | 2005 - Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (b. 1922) |
| | 2005 - John H. Johnson, African-American publisher (b. 1918) |
| | 2005 - Gene Mauch, American athlete (b. 1925) |
| | 2005 - Monica Sjöö, Swedish artist (b. 1938) |
| | 2005 - Ilse Werner, German actress (b. 1921) |