| | 423 - Flavius Honorius, Western Roman Emperor (b. 384) |
| | 778 - Roland, Frankish commander |
| | 1038 - King Stephen I of Hungary |
| | 1040 - King Duncan I of Scotland |
| | 1057 - King Macbeth of Scotland |
| | 1118 - Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1048) |
| | 1196 - Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173) |
| | 1274 - Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (b. 1201) |
| | 1369 - Philippa of Hainault, Queen consort of Edward III of England |
| | 1528 - Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (b. 1485) |
| | 1552 - Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1477) |
| | 1621 - John Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1582) |
| | 1666 - Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German Jesuit missionary (b. 1591) |
| | 1714 - Constantin Brâncoveanu, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1654) |
| | 1728 - Marin Marais, French composer and viol player (b. 1656) |
| | 1758 - Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (b. 1698) |
| | 1799 - Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet (b. 1729) |
| | 1852 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (b. 1760) |
| | 1907 - Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (b. 1831) |
| | 1909 - Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer and sociologist (b. 1866) |
| | 1935 - Wiley Post, American pilot (airplane crash) (b. 1898) |
| | 1935 - Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (airplane crash) (b. 1879) |
| | 1936 - Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1871) |
| | 1951 - Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (b. 1882) |
| | 1953 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875) |
| | 1959 - Blind Willie McTell, American singer (b. 1901 |
| | 1962 - Lei Feng, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1940) |
| | 1967 - René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898) |
| | 1971 - Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born actor (b. 1887) |
| | 1975 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b. 1920) |
| | 1975 - Clay Shaw, John F. Kennedy assassination investigator (b. 1913) |
| | 1982 - Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1903) |
| | 1990 - Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician (b. 1962) |
| | 1995 - John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (b. 1906) |
| | 1999 - Sir Hugh Casson, British architect and artist (b. 1910) |
| | 2001 - Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (b. 1972) |
| | 2003 - Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish songwriter and singer (heart attack) (b. 1957) |
| | 2004 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1916) |
| | 2004 - Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (b. 1941) |
| | 2006 - Te Atairangi Kaahu, Maori Queen (b. 1931) |