| | 1278 - King Otakar II of Bohemia |
| | 1346 - Killed in the Battle of Crécy: |
| | Charles II of Alençon (b. 1297) |
| | Louis I of Flanders (b. 1304) |
| | John I, Count of Luxemburg (b. 1296) |
| | Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320) |
| | 1349 - Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| | 1551 - Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516) |
| | 1595 - Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1531) |
| | 1666 - Frans Hals, Dutch painter |
| | 1714 - Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1632) |
| | 1723 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632) |
| | 1785 - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716) |
| | 1850 - Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1773) |
| | 1865 - Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (b. 1791) |
| | 1915 - John Bunny American comedian (b. 1863) |
| | 1930 - Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (b. 1883) |
| | 1944 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, German anti-Nazi diplomat (executed) |
| | 1945 - Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (b. 1890) |
| | 1946 - Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887) |
| | 1958 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (b. 1872) |
| | 1968 - Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1899) |
| | 1974 - Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (b. 1902) |
| | 1976 - Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888) |
| | 1978 - Charles Boyer, French actor (b. 1899) |
| | 1978 - José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (b. 1916) |
| | 1979 - Mika Waltari, Finnish author (b. 1908) |
| | 1980 - Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (b. 1874) |
| | 1980 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908) |
| | 1981 - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884) |
| | 1981 - Lee Elhardt Hays, american folksinger (b. 1914) |
| | 1986 - Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923) |
| | 1987 - Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) |
| | 1988 - Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (b. 1957) |
| | 1989 - Irving Stone, American author (b. 1903) |
| | 1990 - Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (b. 1913) |
| | 1998 - Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) |
| | 2003 - Jim Wacker, American football coach (b. 1937) |
| | 2004 - Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1957) |
| | 2005 - Denis D'Amour, Canadian guitarist (Voivod) (b. 1960) |
| | 2005 - Robert Denning, American interior designer (b. 1927) |
| | 2006 - Rainer Barzel, former President of the German Bundestag (b. 1924) |
| | 2006 - Clyde Walcott, West Indian cricketer (b. 1926) |