| | 799 - Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (b. 745) |
| | 1037 - King Bermudo III of Leon (b. 1010) |
| | 1063 - Toghrül, Turkish conqueror of Persia and Baghdad |
| | 1199 - Joan of England, Queen consort of Sicily, wife of William II of Sicily (b. 1165) |
| | 1537 - Johann Dietenberger, German theologian |
| | 1588 - Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1532) |
| | 1767 - Charles Townshend, English politician (b. 1725) |
| | 1780 - John Fielding, English magistrate and social reformer (b. 1721) |
| | 1784 - César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (b. 1714) |
| | 1794 - John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724) |
| | 1804 - Richard Somers, American naval officer |
| | 1852 - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796) |
| | 1864 - John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (b. 1825) |
| | 1907 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843) |
| | 1909 - Clyde Fitch, American dramatist and playwright (b. 1865) |
| | 1916 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832) |
| | 1963 - Robert Schuman, French politician (b. 1886) |
| | 1965 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1875) |
| | 1974 - Marcel Achard, French playwright (b. 1899) |
| | 1974 - Creighton Abrams, U.S. Army general (b. 1914) |
| | 1977 - E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (b. 1911) |
| | 1977 - Jean Rostand, French biologist (b. 1894) |
| | 1986 - Hank Greenberg, baseball player (b. 1911) |
| | 1987 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (b. 1908) |
| | 1989 - Georges Simenon, French author (b. 1903) |
| | 1989 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian (b. 1903) |
| | 1990 - Irene Dunne American actress (b. 1898) |
| | 1991 - Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (b. 1926) |
| | 1991 - Dottie West, American singer (b. 1932) |
| | 1991 - Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1913) |
| | 1993 - Hervé Villechaize, French actor (b. 1943) |
| | 1995 - William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919) |
| | 1997 - Aldo Rossi, Italian architect (b. 1931) |
| | 2001 - Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, American radio personality (b. 1962) |
| | 2002 - Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian pianist (b. 1904) |
| | 2003 - Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (b. 1921) |
| | 2003 - Lola Bobesco, Romanian-born violinist (b. 1921) |
| | 2004 - Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (b. 1971) |
| | 2004 - Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (b. 1929) |
| | 2004 - James O. Page, American paramedic (b. 1936) |
| | 2006 - Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator (b. 1920) |
| | 2006 - Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (b. 1942) |
| | 2006 - Steve Irwin - Australian naturalist and television personality (b. 1962) |