| | 651 - Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop and missionary |
| | 1056 - Theodora, Byzantine Empress (b. 981) |
| | 1234 - Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (b. 1212) |
| | 1372 - Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (b. 1301) |
| | 1422 - King Henry V of England (b. 1387) |
| | 1645 - Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet (b. 1566) |
| | 1654 - Ole Worm, Danish physician (b. 1588) |
| | 1688 - John Bunyan, English writer (b. 1628) |
| | 1730 - Gottfried Finger, Czech composer (b. 1660?) |
| | 1741 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681) |
| | 1772 - William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695) |
| | 1782 - George Croghan, American colonist |
| | 1795 - François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player (b. 1726) |
| | 1799 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (b. 1720) |
| | 1814 - Arthur Phillip, British admiral, first Governor of New South Wales (b. 1738) |
| | 1867 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet (b. 1821) |
| | 1888 - Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, widely believed to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1845) |
| | 1920 - Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist (b. 1832) |
| | 1941 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (b. 1892) |
| | 1952 - Henri Bourassa, French Canadian political leader (b. 1868) |
| | 1963 - Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882) |
| | 1967 - Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (b. 1891) |
| | 1969 - Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923) |
| | 1973 - John Ford, American film director (b. 1894) |
| | 1978 - John Wrathall, President of Rhodesia (b. 1913) |
| | 1979 - Sally Rand, American dancer and actress (b. 1904) |
| | 1985 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899) |
| | 1986 - Henry Moore, English sculptor (b. 1898) |
| | 1986 - Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (b. 1900) |
| | 1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1961) |
| | 1997 - Dodi Fayed, Egyptian-born film producer (b. 1955) |
| | 2002 - Lionel Hampton, American vibraphone player (b. 1908) |
| | 2002 - George Porter, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920) |
| | 2004 - Carl Wayne, English singer (b. 1943) |
| | 2005 - Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1908) |
| | 2005 - Michael Sheard, British actor (b. 1940) |
| | 2006 - Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian soccer player (b. 1983) |