| | 1402 - Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan (b. 1351) |
| | 1420 - Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, regent of Scotland |
| | 1592 - Robert Greene, English writer (b. 1558) |
| | 1634 - Edward Coke, English colonial entrepreneur and jurist (b. 1552) |
| | 1653 - Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (b. 1588) |
| | 1658 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England (b. 1599) |
| | 1662 - William Lenthall, English politician (b. 1591) |
| | 1720 - Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1648) |
| | 1729 - Jean Hardouin, French scholar (b. 1646) |
| | 1766 - Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (b. 1686) |
| | 1808 - John Montgomery, American Continental Congressman (b. 1722) |
| | 1857 - John McLoughlin, Canadian trapper (b. 1784) |
| | 1860 - Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (b. 1804) |
| | 1866 - Konstantin Flavitsky, Russian painter (b. 1830) |
| | 1883 - Ivan Turgenev, Russian author (b. 1818) |
| | 1893 - James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1816) |
| | 1903 - Joseph Skipsey, British poet (b. 1832) |
| | 1914 - Albéric Magnard, French composer (b. 1865) |
| | 1948 - Edvard Beneš, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884) |
| | 1962 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (b. 1894) |
| | 1963 - Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (b. 1907) |
| | 1964 - Stewart Holbrook, American author (b. 1893) |
| | 1967 - James Dunn, American actor (b. 1905) |
| | 1970 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach (b. 1913) |
| | 1970 - Al "Blind Owl" Wilson, American musician (Canned Heat) (b. 1943) |
| | 1974 - Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901) |
| | 1980 - Duncan Renaldo, American actor (b. 1904) |
| | 1981 - Alec Waugh, English writer (b. 1898) |
| | 1987 - Morton Feldman, American composer (b. 1926) |
| | 1991 - Frank Capra, American film director (b. 1897) |
| | 1994 - James T. Aubrey, American television executive (b. 1918) |
| | 1996 - Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Australian artist (b. 1910) |
| | 2001 - Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919) |
| | 2001 - Thuy Trang, American actress (b. 1973) |
| | 2003 - Paul Jennings Hill, American anti-abortion murderer (b. 1954) |
| | 2005 - Richard S.R. Fitter, British ornithologist and botanist (b. 1913) |
| | 2005 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924) |