| | 921 - Richard, Duke of Burgundy |
| | 1067 - Baldwin V of Flanders |
| | 1159 - Pope Adrian IV |
| | 1256 - Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218) |
| | 1414 - William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369) |
| | 1557 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491) |
| | 1574 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479) |
| | 1581 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534) |
| | 1600 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician (b. 1525) |
| | 1615 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer (b. 1529) |
| | 1648 - Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588) |
| | 1685 - Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer (b. 1625) |
| | 1687 - Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614) |
| | 1715 - François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628) |
| | 1715 - King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638) |
| | 1943 - Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief |
| | 1957 - Dennis Brain, English musician (b. 1921) |
| | 1967 - Siegfried Sassoon, English poet (b. 1886) |
| | 1969 - Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (b. 1897) |
| | 1970 - Francois Mauriac, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1885) |
| | 1977 - Ethel Waters, American singer (b. 1896) |
| | 1981 - Albert Speer, Nazi official (b. 1905) |
| | 1982 - Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900) |
| | 1983 - Henry M. Jackson, American politician (b. 1912) |
| | 1985 - Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957) |
| | 1985 - Jay Youngblood, American wrestler |
| | 1988 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911) |
| | 1989 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, American baseball commissioner (b. 1938) |
| | 1989 - Tadeusz Sendzimir, American inventor (b. 1894) |
| | 1994 - Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933) |
| | 1999 - W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist (b. 1951) |
| | 2003 - Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915) |
| | 2004 - Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915) |
| | 2005 - R.L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926) |
| | 2006 - Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918) |
| | 2006 - Bob O'Connor, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b. 1944) |
| | 2006 - Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919) |
| | 2006 - Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934) |