| | 408 - Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359) |
| | 1155 - Konoe, Emperor of Japan (b. 1139) |
| | 1188 - Ferdinand II, King of Leon (b. 1137) |
| | 1241 - Gregory IX, Italian religious leader, 178th Pope (b. c. 1143) |
| | 1280 - Nicholas III, Italian religious leader, 188th Pope (b. c. 1216) |
| | 1304 - John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247) |
| | 1350 - Philip VI, King of France (b. 1293) |
| | 1485 - Richard III, King of England (b. 1452) |
| | 1553 - John Dudley, English admiral and politician (b. 1501) |
| | 1572 - Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528) |
| | 1584 - Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530) |
| | 1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (b. 1577) |
| | 1599 - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. c. 1553) |
| | 1607 - Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572) |
| | 1609 - Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525) |
| | 1652 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583) |
| | 1680 - John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613) |
| | 1701 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628) |
| | 1711 - Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644) |
| | 1752 - William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667) |
| | 1773 - George Lyttelton, English writer and politician (b. 1709) |
| | 1793 - Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (b. 1713) |
| | 1797 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724) |
| | 1806 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732) |
| | 1818 - Warren Hastings, British Governor-General of India (b. 1732) |
| | 1828 - Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroscientist (b. 1758) |
| | 1850 - Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (b. 1802) |
| | 1861 - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831) |
| | 1891 - Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834) |
| | 1903 - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830) |
| | 1915 - Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi bishop of Bergamo |
| | 1918 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868) |
| | 1922 - Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary (b. 1890) |
| | 1926 - Charles W. Eliot, American President of Harvard University (b. 1834) |
| | 1940 - Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist, spiritualist, pioneer in wireless telegraphy (b. 1851) |
| | 1942 - Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (b. 1880) |
| | 1953 - Jim Tabor, baseball player (b. 1916) |
| | 1958 - Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881) |
| | 1967 - Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (b. 1903) |
| | 1974 - Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter (b. 1908) |
| | 1976 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (b. 1902) |
| | 1977 - Sebastian Cabot, English-born actor (b. 1918) |
| | 1978 - Jomo Kenyatta, first Prime Minister of Kenya (b. c. 1892) |
| | 1979 - James T. Farrell, American novelist (b. 1904) |
| | 1980 - James Smith McDonnell, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1899) |
| | 1989 - Huey P. Newton, American activist (b. 1942) |
| | 1991 - Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (b. 1924) |
| | 2003 - Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss-born figure skating trainer (b. 1914) |
| | 2003 - Generosa Ammon, widow of Ted Ammon (b. 1956) |
| | 2003 - Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (b. 1906) |
| | 2004 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960) |
| | 2005 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929) |
| | 2006 - Bruce Gary, American rock drummer, producer (The Knack) (b. 1951) |