| | 14 - Augustus, Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC) |
| | 1186 - Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158) |
| | 1245 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195) |
| | 1284 - Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (b. 1273) |
| | 1297 - Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop (b. 1274) |
| | 1493 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415) |
| | 1580 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (b. 1508) |
| | 1646 - Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian |
| | 1662 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623) |
| | 1753 - Balthasar Neumann, German architect (b. 1687) |
| | 1819 - James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736) |
| | 1822 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (b. 1749) |
| | 1889 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (b. 1838) |
| | 1895 - John Wesley Hardin, American gunfighter (b. 1853) |
| | 1900 - Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (b. 1833) |
| | 1914 - Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844) |
| | 1923 - Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845) |
| | 1929 - Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (b. 1872) |
| | 1936 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish author (b. 1898) |
| | 1944 - Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (b. 1882) |
| | 1945 - Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b.1875) |
| | 1950 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (b. 1871) |
| | 1954 - Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1881) |
| | 1957 - David Bomberg, English painter (b. 1890) |
| | 1957 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1898) |
| | 1959 - Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (b. 1880) |
| | 1967 - Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b. 1884) |
| | 1968 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904) |
| | 1969 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (b. 1886) |
| | 1970 - Pawel Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909) |
| | 1975 - Jim Londos, wrestler (b. 1897) |
| | 1976 - Alastair Sim, Scottish actor and rector of Edinburgh University (b. 1900) |
| | 1977 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890) |
| | 1980 - Otto Frank, Father of Anne Frank (b. 1889) |
| | 1982 - August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908) |
| | 1994 - Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (b. 1901) |
| | 1995 - Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b. 1910) |
| | 2000 - Antonio Pugliese, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1941) |
| | 2003 - Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (b. 1926) |
| | 2003 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948) |
| | 2005 - Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor (b. 1918) |
| | 2005 - Mo Mowlam, British politician (b. 1949) |