| | 526 - Theodoric the Great (b. 454) |
| | 1158 - King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134) |
| | 1428 - Emperor Shoko of Japan (b. 1401) |
| | 1483 - King Louis XI of France (b. 1423) |
| | 1580 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528) |
| | 1617 - Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586) |
| | 1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535) |
| | 1751 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661) |
| | 1856 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (b. 1811) |
| | 1879 - John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (b. 1831) |
| | 1896 - Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824) |
| | 1907 - Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857) |
| | 1928 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864) |
| | 1935 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873) |
| | 1938 - Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877) |
| | 1940 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856) |
| | 1941 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874) |
| | 1943 - Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch Catholic priest (b. 1890) |
| | 1946 - Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian fascist (executed) (b. 1907) |
| | 1946 - Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890) |
| | 1949 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877) |
| | 1961 - Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877) |
| | 1963 - Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy (b. 1911) |
| | 1970 - Del Moore, American comedian (b. 1916) |
| | 1981 - Vera-Ellen, American actress (b. 1921) |
| | 1985 - Taylor Caldwell, English-born author (b. 1900) |
| | 1989 - Seymour Krim, American Journalist, Essayist, and Literary Critic (b. 1922) |
| | 1991 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925) |
| | 1994 - Lindsay Anderson, English film director (b. 1923) |
| | 1995 - Fischer Black, American economist (b. 1938) |
| | 1995 - Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942) |
| | 1999 - Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist (b. 1910) |
| | 2003 - Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921) |
| | 2003 - Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917) |
| | 2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906). |
| | 2004 - Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949) |
| | 2006 - Glenn Ford, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1916) |
| | 2006 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) |