| | 30 BC - Cleopatra (b. 69 BC) |
| | 875 - Louis II Holy Roman Emperor (b. 825) |
| | 1424 - Yongle, Emperor of China (b. 1460) |
| | 1484 - George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (b. 1395) |
| | 1484 - Pope Sixtus IV (b. 1414) |
| | 1512 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (b. 1463) |
| | 1577 - Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (b. 1513) |
| | 1588 - Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), Italian composer (b. 1543) |
| | 1612 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer |
| | 1633 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (b. 1561) |
| | 1648 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1615) |
| | 1674 - Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (b. 1602) |
| | 1676 - Metacom, sachem of Wampanoag]]s his death ended King Phillip's War |
| | 1689 - Pope Innocent XI (b. 1611) |
| | 1778 - Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, British general and politician (b. 1714) |
| | 1809 - Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal (b. 1738) |
| | 1810 - Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725) |
| | 1827 - William Blake, English poet and artist (b. 1757) |
| | 1848 - George Stephenson, British locomotive designer (b. 1781) |
| | 1864 - Sakuma Shozan, Japanese reformer (b. 1811) |
| | 1865 - William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (b. 1785) |
| | 1891 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (b. 1819) |
| | 1900 - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (b. 1836) |
| | 1901 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer (b. 1832) |
| | 1914 - John Philip Holland, Irish submarine designer (b. 1840) |
| | 1918 - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (b. 1872) |
| | 1922 - Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (b. 1871) |
| | 1928 - Leoš Janácek, Czech composer (b. 1854) |
| | 1934 - Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect (b. 1856) |
| | 1935 - Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (b. 1851) |
| | 1943 - Bobby Peel, English cricketer (b. 1857) |
| | 1948 - Harry Brearley, English inventor (b. 1871) |
| | 1952 - David Bergelson, Yiddish language writer (b. 1884) |
| | 1955 - Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1875) |
| | 1955 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1887) |
| | 1959 - Mike O'Neill, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1877) |
| | 1964 - Ian Fleming, English novelist (b. 1908) |
| | 1973 - Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1881) |
| | 1973 - Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1898) |
| | 1979 - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1906) |
| | 1982 - Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905) |
| | 1982 - Salvador Sanchez, Mexican boxer (b. 1959) |
| | 1982 - Varlam Shalamov, Russian writer (b. 1907) |
| | 1982 - Joe Tex, American singer (b. 1933) |
| | 1985 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (plane crash) (b. 1941) |
| | 1985 - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951) |
| | 1985 - 520 passengers and crew die on Japan Airlines Flight 123 when it crashed after severe structural faliure which caused hydraulic failure rendering the controls useless. |
| | 1988 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haitian-American artist |
| | 1988 - Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja, religious Guru from India (b. 1895) |
| | 1989 - William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1910) |
| | 1989 - Samuel Okwaraji, Nigerian international footballer (b. 1964) |
| | 1990 - Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (b. 1903) |
| | 1992 - John Cage, American composer (b. 1912) |
| | 1997 - Luther Allison, American musician (b. 1939) |
| | 2000 - Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913) |
| | 2002 - Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (b. 1916) |
| | 2004 - Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1919) |
| | 2004 - Peter Woodthorpe, British actor (b. 1931) |
| | 2005 - John Loder, co-founder of the anarcho-punk band CRASS (b. 1946) |