| | 612 BC - Sinsharishkun, Assyrian king |
| | 258 - Saint Lawrence, martyr |
| | 1535 - Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (b. 1509) |
| | 1633 - Anthony Munday, English writer (b. 1553) |
| | 1637 - Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (b. 1582) |
| | 1653 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1598) |
| | 1655 - Alfonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat (b. 1572) |
| | 1723 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1656) |
| | 1759 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain (b. 1713) |
| | 1784 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (b. 1713) |
| | 1802 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist (b. 1724) |
| | 1806 - Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737) |
| | 1839 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (b. 1758) |
| | 1862 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (b. 1829) |
| | 1875 - Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808) |
| | 1896 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (b. 1848) |
| | 1915 - Henry Moseley, English physicist (b. 1887) |
| | 1920 - Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (b. 1835) |
| | 1928 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (b. 1897) |
| | 1929 - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878) |
| | 1945 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882) |
| | 1948 - Montague Summers, English writer (b. 1880) |
| | 1958 - Frank Demaree, baseball player (b. 1910) |
| | 1963 - Estes Kefauver, American politician, United States Congressman & Senator from Tennessee (b. 1903) |
| | 1963 - Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1877) |
| | 1969 - Leno LaBianca, American businessman (murdered) (b. 1925) |
| | 1969 - Rosemary LaBianca, American housewife (murdered) (b. 1930) |
| | 1976 - Bert Oldfield, Australian test cricketer (b. 1894) |
| | 1979 - Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1889) |
| | 1980 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1917) |
| | 1993 - Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (Mayhem) (b. 1968) |
| | 1997 - Conlon Nancarrow, American composer (b. 1912) |
| | 2002 - Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (b. 1962) |
| | 2002 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1926) |
| | 2003 - Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer |
| | 2005 - Lee Seung Seop, Korean gamer |