| | 1153 - Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England (b. 1130) |
| | 1304 - Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243) |
| | 1510 - Edmund Dudley, English statesman (b. 1462) |
| | 1657 - Robert Blake, British admiral (b. 1599) |
| | 1673 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641) |
| | 1676 - Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen, German novelist (b. 1621) |
| | 1720 - Anne Lefèvre, French scholar (b. 1654) |
| | 1723 - Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668) |
| | 1768 (N. S.) - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1703) |
| | 1785 - Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. 1710) |
| | 1786 - King Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1712) |
| | 1834 - Husein Gradašcevic, Bosnian rebel leader (b. 1802) |
| | 1850 - Don José de San Martín, Argentine general (b. 1778) |
| | 1850 - Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (b. 1799) |
| | 1875 - Wilhelm Bleek, linguist (b. 1827) |
| | 1880 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (b. 1810) |
| | 1896 - Bridget Driscoll, world's first automobile fatality |
| | 1901 - Edmond Audran, French composer (b. 1842) |
| | 1918 - Moisei Uritsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1873) |
| | 1920 - Ray Chapman, baseball player (b. 1891) |
| | 1925 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer of Romanian origin (b. 1848) |
| | 1940 - Billy Fiske, American aviator and Olympic athlete (b. 1911) |
| | 1954 - Billy Murray, recording artist (b. 1877) |
| | 1962 - Peter Fechter trying to cross the Berlin Wall (b. 1944) |
| | 1969 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1888) |
| | 1971 - Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880) |
| | 1973 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928) |
| | 1973 - Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939) |
| | 1973 - Conrad Aiken, American author (b. 1889) |
| | 1979 - Vivian Vance, actress (b. 1909) |
| | 1983 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896) |
| | 1987 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi deputy (b. 1894) |
| | 1988 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 6th President of Pakistan (b. 1924) |
| | 1990 - Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (b. 1918) |
| | 1992 - Al Parker, actor (b. 1952) |
| | 2004 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (b. 1918) |
| | 2005 - John Bahcall, astrophysicist (b. 1934) |