| | 93 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (b. 40) |
| | 634 - Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph |
| | 1176 - Emperor Rokujo of Japan (b. 1164) |
| | 1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot (executed) |
| | 1387 - King Olav IV of Norway (b. 1370) |
| | 1507 - Jean Molinet, French writer (b. 1435) |
| | 1519 - Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot |
| | 1540 - Guillaume Budé, French scholar |
| | 1591 - Luis Ponce de León, Spanish poet and mystic (b. 1527) |
| | 1618 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585) |
| | 1628 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592) |
| | 1652 - John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600) |
| | 1723 - Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (b. 1639) |
| | 1806 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (b. 1736) |
| | 1813 - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (b. 1766) |
| | 1819 - Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (b. 1785) |
| | 1866 - Auguste Barthelemy, French poet (b. 1796) |
| | 1926 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895) |
| | 1927 - Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist (executed) (b. 1891) |
| | 1927 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (executed) (b. 1888) |
| | 1937 - Albert Roussel, French composer (b. 1869) |
| | 1955 - Reginald Tate, British actor (b. 1896) |
| | 1960 - Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (b. 1895) |
| | 1962 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist (b. 1885) |
| | 1962 - Hoot Gibson, American actor (b. 1892) |
| | 1963 - Glen Gray, Jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (b. 1900) |
| | 1966 - Francis X. Bushman, American actor (b. 1883) |
| | 1971 - Shamu,Beloved Orca fromSea World |
| | 1974 - Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (b. 1888) |
| | 1982 - Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913) |
| | 1990 - David Rose, American composer and orchestra leader (b. 1910) |
| | 1995 - Dwayne Goettel, Canadian musician (b. 1964) |
| | 1997 - John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917) |
| | 1999 - James White, Northern Irish science fiction writer (b. 1928) |
| | 2001 - Peter Maas, American novelist (b. 1929) |
| | 2002 - Hoyt Wilhelm, baseball player (b. 1922) |
| | 2003 - Imperio Argentina, Argentine singer and actress (b. 1906) |
| | 2003 - Bobby Bonds, baseball player and manager (b. 1946) |
| | 2003 - Jack Dyer, Australian footballer (b. 1913) |
| | 2003 - John Geoghan, American Catholic priest |
| | 2005 - Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927) |
| | 2005 - Ninjalicious Canadian Author and Urban Explorer (b. 1973) |
| | 2006 - Maynard Ferguson, jazz trumpet player and band leader (b. 1928) |