| | 1157 - King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105) |
| | 1153 - Bernard of Clairvaux, French theologian (b. 1090) |
| | 1271 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220) |
| | 1581 - Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527) |
| | 1614 - Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560) |
| | 1627 - Jacques Mauduit, French composer (b. 1557) |
| | 1673 - Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier |
| | 1689 - William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier |
| | 1762 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689) |
| | 1763 - Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710) |
| | 1796 - John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721) |
| | 1814 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753) |
| | 1836 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785) |
| | 1838 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781) |
| | 1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1879) |
| | 1940 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (b. 1863) |
| | 1940 - Hermann Obrecht, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1882) |
| | 1943 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize (b. 1857) |
| | 1947 - Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1881) |
| | 1951 - Constant Lambert, British composer and conductor (b. 1905) |
| | 1957 - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888) |
| | 1957 - Nels Stewart, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902) |
| | 1960 - David Barnard Steinman, American civil engineer and bridge designer (b. 1886) |
| | 1964 - Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (b. 1893) |
| | 1978 - Charles Eames, American designer and architect (b. 1907) |
| | 1981 - Michael Devine, the last man to die in the 1981 Irish hunger strike (b. 1954) |
| | 1982 - Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (b. 1899) |
| | 1983 - Benigno S. Aquino Jr., Philippine opposition leader (b. 1932) |
| | 1988 - Ray Eames, American designer, artist and architect (b. 1912) |
| | 1989 - Raul Seixas, Brazillian Singer (b. 1945) |
| | 1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) |
| | 2000 - Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930) |
| | 2003 - Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and aid worker (b. 1946) |
| | 2003 - Wesley Willis, American musician (b. 1963) |
| | 2005 - Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925) |
| | 2005 - Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music (b. 1934) |
| | 2005 - Dalia Rabikovich, Israeli poet (b. 1936) |
| | 2005 - Martin Dillon, Tenor, American opera singer (b. 1957) |
| | 2006 - Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philantropher (b. 1941) |
| | 2006 - Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian Musician,ShehnaiMastro (b. 1916) |
| | 2006 - Joe Rosenthal, photographer of the famous Iwo Jima photograph (b. 1911) |