| | 701 - Pope Sergius I |
| | 780 - Leo IV, Byzantine Emperor |
| | 1397 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester. |
| | 1425 - King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361) |
| | 1539 - John Stokesley, English churchman |
| | 1603 - George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician (b. 1547) |
| | 1613 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (b. 1566) |
| | 1637 - Robert Fludd, English mystic (b. 1574) |
| | 1644 - John Coke, English politician (b. 1563) |
| | 1644 - Francis Quarles, English poet (b. 1592) |
| | 1645 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (b. 1580) |
| | 1656 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (b. 1574) |
| | 1682 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606) |
| | 1721 - Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686) |
| | 1739 - Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (b. 1668) |
| | 1755 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (b. 1715) |
| | 1761 - Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (b. 1698) |
| | 1780 - Enoch Poor, American Continental Army general (b. 1736) |
| | 1784 - Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736) |
| | 1811 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741) |
| | 1853 - Frédéric Ozanam, founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813) |
| | 1882 - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809) |
| | 1888 - Annie Chapman, widely believed to be the second victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1841) |
| | 1894 - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (b. 1821) |
| | 1933 - King Faysal I of Iraq (b. 1883) |
| | 1943 - Julius Fucik, Czech journalist (executed) (b. 1903) |
| | 1948 - Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer (b. 1876) |
| | 1949 - Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864) |
| | 1965 - Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (b. 1922) |
| | 1965 - Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881) |
| | 1969 - Bud Collyer, American television game show host (b. 1908) |
| | 1969 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (b. 1868) |
| | 1973 - Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, member of the Grateful Dead (b. 1945) |
| | 1977 - Zero Mostel, American actor (b. 1915) |
| | 1979 - Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938) |
| | 1980 - Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908) |
| | 1981 - Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (b. 1901) |
| | 1981 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907) |
| | 1983 - Antonin Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904) |
| | 1985 - John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1887) |
| | 1991 - Alex North, American composer (b. 1910) |
| | 2002 - Laurie Williams, West Indian cricketer (b. 1968) |
| | 2003 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress (b. 1986) |
| | 2003 - Vadim Schneider, Canadian/French actor (b. 1986) |
| | 2003 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (b. 1902) |
| | 2004 - Frank Thomas, American animator (b. 1913) |
| | 2005 - Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer and footballer (b. 1932) |
| | 2006 - Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915) |
| | 2006 - Peter Brock, Australian racecar driver and TV personality (rally accident) (b. 1945) |
| | 2006 - Frank Middlemass, actor (b. 1919) |
| | 2006 - Erk Russell, American football coach (b. 1923) |