| | 353 - Decentius, Roman usurper |
| | 472 - Ricimer, Roman general |
| | 849 - Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian |
| | 1227 - Genghis Khan, Mongol leader |
| | 1258 - Theodore II Lascaris, Emperor of the Empire of Nicaea |
| | 1276 - Pope Adrian V |
| | 1318 - Clare of Montefalco, Italian Abbess and religious leader (born c. 1268). |
| | 1430 - Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (drowned) (b. 1406) |
| | 1503 - Pope Alexander VI (b. 1431) |
| | 1559 - Pope Paul IV (b. 1476) |
| | 1563 - Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530) |
| | 1613 - Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer |
| | 1620 - Wanli, Emperor of China (b. 1563) |
| | 1634 - Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590) |
| | 1642 - Guido Reni, Italian painter (b. 1575) |
| | 1645 - Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (b. 1608) |
| | 1683 - Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625) |
| | 1707 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (b. 1640) |
| | 1712 - Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier |
| | 1765 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708) |
| | 1809 - Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and engineer (b. 1728) |
| | 1815 - Chauncey Goodrich, American politician (b. 1759) |
| | 1842 - Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (b. 1779) |
| | 1850 - Honoré de Balzac, French writer (b. 1799) |
| | 1940 - Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive (b. 1875) |
| | 1943 - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (b. 1865) |
| | 1949 - Paul Mares, American musician (b. 1900) |
| | 1963 - Clifford Odets, American playwright (b. 1906) |
| | 1981 - Anita Loos, American screenwriter (b. 1889) |
| | 1983 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (b. 1902) |
| | 1990 - Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (b. 1938) |
| | 1990 - B.F. Skinner, American psychological theorist (b. 1904) |
| | 1994 - Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1914) |
| | 1998 - Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (b. 1950) |
| | 2004 - Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922) |
| | 2005 - Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (b. 1982) |