| | 535 - Mochta of Louth, disciple of St. Patrick |
| | 984 - Pope John XIV |
| | 1384 - Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (b. 1340) |
| | 1572 - Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502) |
| | 1580 - Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506) |
| | 1611 - Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. 1548) |
| | 1639 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (b. 1597) |
| | 1643 - Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (b. 1591) |
| | 1648 - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (b. 1583) |
| | 1672 - Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1625) |
| | 1672 - Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1623) |
| | 1680 - William Bedloe, English informer (b. 1650) |
| | 1701 - Charles Sedley, English playwright (b. 1639) |
| | 1707 - Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (b. 1627) |
| | 1773 - Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b. 1701) |
| | 1811 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (b. 1729) |
| | 1823 - Pope Pius VII (b. 1740) |
| | 1825 - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1753) |
| | 1887 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860) |
| | 1904 - René Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (b. 1846) |
| | 1912 - William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army (b. 1829) |
| | 1914 - Pope Pius X (b. 1835) |
| | 1915 - Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1854) |
| | 1917 - Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835) |
| | 1961 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882) |
| | 1965 - Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Civil Rights Martyr (b. 1939) |
| | 1971 - Rashid Minhas, Pakistani Air Force pilot (b. 1951) |
| | 1980 - Joe Dassin, American singer (b. 1938) |
| | 1986 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (b. 1923) |
| | 1997 - Norris Bradbury, American physicist (b. 1909) |
| | 1998 - Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (b. 1915) |
| | 2001 - Sir Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and science fiction writer (b. 1915) |
| | 2001 - Kim Stanley, American actress (b. 1925) |
| | 2005 - Thomas Herrion, American football player (heart disease) (b. 1981) |
| | 2005 - Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer (b. 1970) |
| | 2006 - Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1911) |