| | 79 - Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23) |
| | 1042 - Michael V, Byzantine Emperor) (b. 1015) |
| | 1103 - King Magnus III of Norway (b. 1073) |
| | 1217 - Eustace the Monk, French mercenary and pirate (bc. 1170) |
| | 1540 - Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503) |
| | 1542 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483) |
| | 1572 - Victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: |
| | 1572 - Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (b. 1519) |
| | 1572 - Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist (b. 1515) |
| | 1572 - Charles de Téligny, French Huguenot soldier (bc. 1535) |
| | 1595 - Thomas Digges, English astronomer (b. 1546) |
| | 1647 - Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (b. 1586) |
| | 1664 - Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (bc. 1610) |
| | 1679 - Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz, French churchman and agitator (b. 1614) |
| | 1680 - Thomas Blood, Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels (b. 1618) |
| | 1683 - John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616) |
| | 1759 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (b. 1715) |
| | 1779 - Kosmas Aitolos, Greek Orthodox martyr (b. 1714) |
| | 1831 - August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760) |
| | 1832 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796) |
| | 1841 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author (b. 1788) |
| | 1888 - Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (b. 1822) |
| | 1921 - Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (b. 1886) |
| | 1940 - Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German television pioneer (b. 1860) |
| | 1946 - James Clark McReynolds, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862) |
| | 1954 - Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (b. 1882) |
| | 1956 - Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (b. 1898) |
| | 1958 - Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (b. 1876) |
| | 1967 - Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (b. 1882) |
| | 1967 - Lam Bun, Hong Kong radio commentator (murdered) (b. 1930) |
| | 1974 - Alexander de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer (b. 1894) |
| | 1978 - Louis Prima, American band leader (b. 1910) |
| | 1979 - Hanna Reitsch, German pilot (b. 1912) |
| | 1980 - Yootha Joyce, British actress (b. 1927) |
| | 1985 - Paul Creston, American composer (b. 1906) |
| | 1987 - Malcolm Kirk, wrestler (b. 1936) |
| | 1990 - Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (b. 1941) |
| | 1991 - Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (b. 1904) |
| | 1995 - Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-born photographer (b. 1898) |
| | 1998 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1910) |
| | 2003 - Sir Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer (b. 1910) |
| | 2004 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926) |
| | 2006 - Léopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor (b. 1916) |