| | 542 - Saint Caesarius of Arles |
| | 1312 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1262) |
| | 1394 - Chokei, Emperor of Japan (b. 1343) |
| | 1450 - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395) |
| | 1521 - Josquin Des Prez, Flemish composer |
| | 1545 - Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487) |
| | 1572 - Claude Goudimel, French composer |
| | 1577 - Titian, Italian artist |
| | 1590 - Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521) |
| | 1635 - Félix Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562) |
| | 1664 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598) |
| | 1748 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (b. 1700) |
| | 1773 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721) |
| | 1875 - William Chapman Ralston, American banker (b. 1826) |
| | 1909 - Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (b. 1842) |
| | 1929 - Herman Potocnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892) |
| | 1931 - Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856) |
| | 1931 - Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846) |
| | 1944 - Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman (b. 1915) |
| | 1948 - Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862) |
| | 1949 - Leaders of Second East Turkestan Republic die in a plane crash. |
| | 1958 - Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901) |
| | 1963 - Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877) |
| | 1963 - W.E.B. DuBois, American civil rights activist and scholar (b. 1868) |
| | 1963 - Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1888) |
| | 1964 - Gracie Allen, American actress and comedienne |
| | 1965 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887) |
| | 1967 - Brian Epstein, English manager of The Beatles (b. 1934) |
| | 1968 - Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (b. 1906) |
| | 1969 - Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (b. 1884) |
| | 1969 - Erika Mann, German writer and daughter of Thomas Mann (b. 1905) |
| | 1971 - Bennett Cerf, American publisher and television personality (b. 1898) |
| | 1971 - Margaret Bourke-White, American photo-journalist (b. 1906) |
| | 1975 - Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892) |
| | 1976 - Mukesh, Indian playback singer (b. 1923) |
| | 1979 - Earl Mountbatten, British admiral and statesman (assassinated) (b. 1900) |
| | 1980 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (b. 1947) |
| | 1988 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b. 1907) |
| | 1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (b. 1954) |
| | 1997 - Brandon Tartikoff, American television producer (b. 1949) |
| | 2001 - Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (assassinated) (b. 1938) |
| | 2002 - Richard Ricci, American handyman (b. 1953) |
| | 2003 - Pierre Poujade, French politician (b. 1920) |
| | 2004 - Willie Crawford, baseball player (b. 1946) |
| | 2005 - Seán Purcell, Gaelic Footballer (b. 1929) |
| | 2006 - Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian Film Director (b. 1922) |
| | 2006 - Maria Capovilla, Oldest woman alive from 2004-2006. (b. 1889) |
| | 2006 - Jesse Pintado, Napalm Death Guitarist (b. 1969) |