| | 586 - Radegund, wife of Clotaire I |
| | 900 - Zwentibold, last King of Lotharingia (b. 870) |
| | 1134 - Piroska of Hungary, Empress consort of John II Comnenus |
| | 1382 - Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358) |
| | 1523 - Gerard David, Flemish painter |
| | 1617 - Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1540) |
| | 1667 - Jeremy Taylor, Irish author and bishop (b. 1613) |
| | 1686 - Louis Maimbourg, French-born historian (b. 1610) |
| | 1744 - John Cruger, Dutch-born Mayor of New York (b. 1678) |
| | 1749 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (b. 1719) |
| | 1755 - Francesco Durante, Italian composer (b. 1684) |
| | 1826 - René Laënnec, French physician (b. 1781) |
| | 1863 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (b. 1798) |
| | 1865 - Ignaz Semmelweis, Austro-Hungarian physician (b. 1818) |
| | 1910 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse (b. 1820) |
| | 1912 - Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842) |
| | 1917 - Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1860) |
| | 1946 - H. G. Wells, English writer (b. 1866) |
| | 1948 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (b. 1897) |
| | 1958 - Otto Witte, acrobat and King of Albania (b. 1868) |
| | 1965 - Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899) |
| | 1984 - Tigran Petrosian, Georgian chess player (b. 1929). |
| | 1989 - Tim Richmond, American race car driver (b. 1955) |
| | 1994 - Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1905) |
| | 1995 - Jan Kresadlo, Czech-born writer (b. 1926) |
| | 1995 - Mickey Mantle, baseball player (b. 1931) |
| | 1996 - David Tudor, American pianist and composer (b. 1926) |
| | 1999 - Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian, murdered (b. 1960) |
| | 2003 - Ed Townsend, American songwriter and producer (b. 1929) |
| | 2004 - Julia Child, American chef and television personality (b. 1912) |
| | 2005 - David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942) |
| | 2006 - Payao Poontarat, Thai Olympic boxer (b. 1957) |
| | 2006 - Tony Jay, English actor (b. 1933) |