| | 480 BC - Leonidas, King of Sparta |
| | 353 - Magnentius, Roman usurper |
| | 449 - Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople |
| | 897 - Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona |
| | 1204 - King Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199) |
| | 1253 - Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (b. 1194) |
| | 1456 - John Hunyadi, regent of Hungary (b. 1387) |
| | 1464 - Nicholas of Cusa, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1401) |
| | 1519 - Johann Tetzel, German opponent of the Reformation (b. 1465) |
| | 1563 - Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer |
| | 1578 - Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (b. 1502) |
| | 1614 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552) |
| | 1656 - Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (b. 1599) |
| | 1774 - Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (b. 1722) |
| | 1813 - Henry James Pye, English poet (b. 1745) |
| | 1851 - Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (b. 1779) |
| | 1854 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (b. 1798) |
| | 1890 - John Henry Cardinal Newman, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1801) |
| | 1892 - Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813) |
| | 1919 - Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1835) |
| | 1937 - Edith Wharton, American author (b. 1862) |
| | 1939 - Jean Bugatti, Italian automobile designer (b. 1909) |
| | 1953 - Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver (b. 1892) |
| | 1956 - Jackson Pollock, American artist (b. 1912) |
| | 1961 - Antanas Škema, Lithuanian writer, stage actor and director (b. 1910) |
| | 1972 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1899) |
| | 1980 - Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910) |
| | 1982 - Tom Drake, American actor (b. 1918) |
| | 1984 - Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (b. 1892) |
| | 1984 - Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player (b. 1916) |
| | 1988 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929) |
| | 1991 - J.D. McDuffie, NASCAR Driver (b. 1939) |
| | 1994 - Peter Cushing, British actor (b. 1913) |
| | 1995 - Phil Harris, American singer, songwriter and comedian (b. 1904) |
| | 1996 - Rafael Kubelík, Czech-born conductor and composer (b. 1914) |
| | 2000 - Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer (b. 1916) |
| | 2002 - Galen Rowell, photographer, climber (b. 1940) |
| | 2003 - Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923) |
| | 2003 - Herb Brooks, American hockey coach (b. 1937) |
| | 2005 - James Booth, English actor (b. 1927) |
| | 2006 - Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1925) |