| | 355 - Claudius Silvanus, Roman usurper |
| | 1151 - Geoffrey of Anjou (b. 1113) |
| | 1312 - King Ferdinand IV of Castile (b. 1285) |
| | 1496 - King Ferdinand II of Naples (b. 1469) |
| | 1548 - Catherine Parr, final wife of Henry VIII of England (born c. 1512) |
| | 1552 - Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh Guru (b. 1504) |
| | 1559 - Robert Estienne, French printer (b. 1503) |
| | 1632 - Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia |
| | 1644 - Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman (b. 1579) |
| | 1654 - Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi (b. 1579) |
| | 1655 - François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (b. 1601) |
| | 1657 - Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish field marshal (b. 1606) |
| | 1719 - John Harris, English writer |
| | 1729 - William Burnet, British-born American statesman (b. 1688) |
| | 1777 - Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia |
| | 1799 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (b. 1717) |
| | 1809 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (b. 1737) |
| | 1840 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (b. 1765) |
| | 1857 - William Lewis Herndon, American captain |
| | 1881 - Sidney Lanier, American writer (b. 1842) |
| | 1892 - John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet (b. 1807) |
| | 1920 - Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician, premier of the province of Quebec (b. 1855) |
| | 1921 - Alfred William Rich, watercolour painter (b. 1856) |
| | 1939 - Kyoka Izumi, Japanese novelist (b. 1873) |
| | 1943 - J. P. Morgan, Jr., American financier (b. 1867) |
| | 1951 - Maria Montez, Dominican actress (b. 1912) |
| | 1954 - Bud Fisher, American cartoonist, Mutt and Jeff (b. 1885) |
| | 1955 - Ham Fisher, American cartoonist, Joe Palooka (b. 1900) |
| | 1959 - Maurice Duplessis, Québec Prime Minister (b. 1890) |
| | 1962 - Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese historical novelist (b. 1892) |
| | 1962 - Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian singer (b. 1895) |
| | 1962 - Isak Dinesen, Danish author (b. 1885) |
| | 1962 - Morris Louis, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1912) |
| | 1969 - Everett Dirksen, American politican (b. 1896) |
| | 1971 - Spring Byington, American actress (b. 1886) |
| | 1976 - Daniel F. Galouye, American author (b. 1920) |
| | 1978 - Keith Moon, English drummer (The Who) (b. 1946) |
| | 1982 - Ken Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1931) |
| | 1984 - Joe Cronin, Major League Baseball player and manager (b. 1906) |
| | 1985 - Rodney Robert Porter, British biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917) |
| | 1991 - Edwin Mattison McMillan, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1907) |
| | 1994 - James Clavell, Australian-born American author (b. 1924) |
| | 1994 - Godfrey Quigley, British actor (b. 1923) |
| | 1994 - Terence Young, British film director (b. 1915) |
| | 1994 - Dennis Morgan, American actor (b. 1908) |
| | 1997 - Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire (b. 1930) |
| | 1999 - Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist (b. 1949) |
| | 2001 - Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (b. 1930) |
| | 2002 - Erma Franklin, American singer (b. 1938) |
| | 2002 - Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (b. 1961) |
| | 2003 - The Great Antonio, Canadian eccentric (b. 1925) |
| | 2003 - Warren Zevon, American musician (b. 1947) |
| | 2004 - Bob Boyd, American baseball player (b. 1925) |
| | 2005 - Hope Garber, Canadian actress (b. circa 1924) |
| | 2005 - Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (b. 1933) |
| | 2006 - Robert Earl Jones, American actor, father of James Earl Jones (b. 1910) |