| | 1165 - Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143) |
| | 1201 - Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161) |
| | 1235 - Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165) |
| | 1629 - Domenico Allegri, Italian composer |
| | 1786 - Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712) |
| | 1803 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b. 1741) |
| | 1803 - François Devienne, French composer (b. 1759) |
| | 1808 - John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722) |
| | 1836 - Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790) |
| | 1838 - Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764) |
| | 1857 - Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798) |
| | 1877 - Crazy Horse, Sioux chief (b. 1849) |
| | 1898 - Sarah Edmonds, Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841) |
| | 1901 - Ignacij Klemencic, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853) |
| | 1902 - Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician (b. 1821) |
| | 1906 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844) |
| | 1912 - Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845) |
| | 1917 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872) |
| | 1920 - Robert Harron, American actor (b. 1893) |
| | 1930 - Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849) |
| | 1948 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881) |
| | 1965 - Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882) |
| | 1966 - Dezso Lauber, Hungarian athlete (b. 1879) |
| | 1970 - Jochen Rindt, Formula 1 driver, the first ever posthumous world champion (b. 1942) |
| | 1973 - Jack Fournier, baseball player (b. 1889) |
| | 1975 - Georg Ots, Estonian singer (b. 1920) |
| | 1979 - Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (b. 1884) |
| | 1982 - Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910) |
| | 1988 - Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913) |
| | 1990 - Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896) |
| | 1991 - Dottie West, singer/songwriter (b. 1932) |
| | 1992 - Fritz Leiber, American author (b. 1910) |
| | 1995 - William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919) |
| | 1997 - Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (b. 1912) |
| | 1997 - Mother Teresa, Albanian missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910) |
| | 1998 - Leo Penn, American film director (b. 1921) |
| | 1999 - Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (b. 1914) |
| | 1999 - Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (b. 1921) |
| | 2001 - Vladimir Zerjavic, Croatian UN statistician (b. 1912) |
| | 2003 - Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian singer (b. 1927) |