| | 701 - Pope Sergius I |
| | 1000 - Olaf I of Norway |
| | 1087 - King William I of England |
| | 1087 - William the Conqueror |
| | 1398 - King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334) |
| | 1487 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447) |
| | 1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (fell from a horse) (b. 1433) |
| | 1513 - King James IV of Scotland (b. 1473) |
| | 1569 - Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter |
| | 1596 - Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen |
| | 1612 - Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570) |
| | 1676 - Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer and founder of Montreal (b. 1612) |
| | 1680 - Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602) |
| | 1755 - Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694) |
| | 1806 - William Paterson, Signer of the U.S. Constitution, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1745) |
| | 1815 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738) |
| | 1841 - A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (b. 1778) |
| | 1891 - Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813) |
| | 1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842) |
| | 1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864) |
| | 1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848) |
| | 1915 - Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850) |
| | 1941 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869) |
| | 1960 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911) |
| | 1976 - Mao Zedong, Leader of China (b. 1893) |
| | 1978 - Jack Warner, Canadian-born film studio founder (b. 1892) |
| | 1978 - Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892) |
| | 1980 - John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920) |
| | 1981 - Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst (b. 1901) |
| | 1985 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) |
| | 1989 - Robert Hodgson, English Footballer |
| | 1990 - Doc Cramer, baseball player (b. 1905) |
| | 1990 - Samuel Doe, President of Liberia |
| | 1993 - Helen O'Connell, American singer (b. 1920) |
| | 1994 - Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927) |
| | 1996 - Bill Monroe, American bluegrass singer and composer (b. 1911) |
| | 1997 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907) |
| | 1997 - Richie Ashburn, Major League Baseball player (b. 1927) |
| | 1999 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter, baseball player (b. 1946) |
| | 1999 - Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922) |
| | 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader |
| | 2003 - Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936) |
| | 2003 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1908) |
| | 2004 - Roland Sherwood "Ernie" Ball, American businessman (b. 1930) |
| | 2005 - John Wayne Glover, English serial killer (b. 1932) |
| | 2006 - Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927) |
| | 2006 - Richard Burmer, American composer, sound designer and electronic musician (b. 1955) |
| | 2006 - Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979) |
| | 2006 - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930) |