| | 886 - Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811) |
| | 1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057) |
| | 1123 - King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088) |
| | 1395 - Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349) |
| | 1435 - Isabeau de Bavière, wife of Charles VI of France (b. 1371) |
| | 1442 - John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389) |
| | 1526 - King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (killed in battle) (b. 1506) |
| | 1533 - Atahualpa, last Inca ruler of Peru |
| | 1542 - Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c.1516) |
| | 1657 - John Lilburne, English dissenter |
| | 1712 - Gregory King, English statistician (b. 1648) |
| | 1769 - Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher (b. 1672) |
| | 1780 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713) |
| | 1799 - Pope Pius VI (b. 1717) |
| | 1856 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778) |
| | 1877 - Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler (b. 1801) |
| | 1891 - Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844) |
| | 1904 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1840) |
| | 1930 - William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844) |
| | 1935 - Queen Astrid of Belgium (b. 1905) |
| | 1947 - Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917) |
| | 1966 - Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906) |
| | 1968 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881) |
| | 1972 - Lale Andersen, German singer (b. 1905) |
| | 1975 - Eamon de Valera, first Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (b. 1882) |
| | 1976 - Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (b. 1925) |
| | 1981 - Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (b. 1892) |
| | 1982 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. on this date 1915) |
| | 1987 - Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924) |
| | 1989 - Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909) |
| | 1993 - James Hunt, English Formula 1 world champion b. 1948) |
| | 2002 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920) |
| | 2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.1939) |
| | 2003 - Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936) |
| | 2004 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942) |