| | 48 BC - Pompey the Great, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC) |
| | 972 - Pope John XIII |
| | 1511 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1481) |
| | 1625 - Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (b. 1579) |
| | 1635 - Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571) |
| | 1649 - Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (b. 1574) |
| | 1683 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister finance (b. 1619) |
| | 1708 - Sir John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1623) |
| | 1748 - Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669) |
| | 1782 Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, Wife of Thomas Jefferson |
| | 1783 - Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710) |
| | 1808 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723) |
| | 1868 - Pierre Adolphe Rost, Louisiana judge, Confederate commissioner (b. 1797) |
| | 1902 - Frederick Augustus Abel, English chemist (b. 1827) |
| | 1907 - Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839) |
| | 1950 - Olaf Stapledon, British writer and philosopher (b. 1886) |
| | 1951 - James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (d. 1867) |
| | 1952 - Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898) |
| | 1962 - Hanns Eisler, German-born composer (b. 1898) |
| | 1966 - Margaret Sanger, American birth control activist (b. 1879) |
| | 1966 - Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1901) |
| | 1969 - Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (b. 1892) |
| | 1974 - Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (b. 1896) |
| | 1984 - Ernest Tubb, American singer (b. 1914) |
| | 1985 - Johnny Desmond, American singer (b. 1919) |
| | 1986 - Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1895) |
| | 1988 - Leroy Brown, professional wrestler (b. 1950) |
| | 1990 - Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916) |
| | 1990 - Tom Fogerty, American singer (b. 1941) |
| | 1994 - Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. 1944) |
| | 1998 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910) |
| | 1999 - René Lecavalier, French television play-by-play hockey broadcaster (b. 1918) |
| | 2000 - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth (b. 2000) |
| | 2003 - Harry Goz, American actor (b. 1932) |
| | 2005 - Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet (b. 1929) |