| | 582 - Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor |
| | 1167 - Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne |
| | 1204 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (b. 1182) |
| | 1390 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364) |
| | 1430 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404) |
| | 1433 - King John I of Portugal (b. 1357) |
| | 1464 - Pope Pius II (b. 1405) |
| | 1573 - Saito Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548) |
| | 1691 - Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel (b. 1630) |
| | 1704 - Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader (b. 1675) |
| | 1727 - William Croft, English composer (b. 1678) |
| | 1774 - Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician (b. 1716) |
| | 1784 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718) |
| | 1856 - Constant Prévost, French geologist (b. 1787) |
| | 1860 - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774) |
| | 1874 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (b. 1821) |
| | 1905 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840) |
| | 1938 - Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (b. 1876) |
| | 1941 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1854) |
| | 1941 - Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (b. 1894) |
| | 1943 - Joe Kelley, American baseball player (b. 1871) |
| | 1951 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper magnate (b. 1863) |
| | 1955 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861) |
| | 1956 - Bertolt Brecht, German writer (b. 1898) |
| | 1958 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900) |
| | 1972 - Oscar Levant, American actor (b. 1906) |
| | 1972 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor (b. 1905) |
| | 1972 - Jules Romains, French author (b. 1885) |
| | 1978 - Nicolas Bentley, British writer (b. 1907) |
| | 1980 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (b. 1960) |
| | 1981 - Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894) |
| | 1984 - J. B. Priestley, English playwright (b. 1894) |
| | 1984 - Spud Davis, American baseball player (b. 1904) |
| | 1985 - Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899) |
| | 1988 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898) |
| | 1992 - John Sirica, American judge (b. 1904) |
| | 1994 - Elias Canetti, British-Austrian novelist (b. 1905) |
| | 1996 - Tom Mees, American sportscaster (b. 1949) |
| | 1999 - Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (b. 1918) |
| | 2000 - Alain Fournier, French-born computer graphics researcher (b. 1943) |
| | 2002 - Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (b. 1972) |
| | 2003 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929) |
| | 2004 - Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911) |
| | 2005 - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (b. 1932) |
| | 2006 - Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949) |