| | 918 - Count Baldwin II of Flanders (b. 865) |
| | 954 - King Louis IV of France (b. 920) |
| | 1167 - Empress Matilda, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1102) |
| | 1197 - Henry II of Champagne (b. 1166) |
| | 1308 - Emperor Go-Nijo of Japan (b. 1285) |
| | 1419 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (assassinated) (b. 1371) |
| | 1482 - Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and patron of arts |
| | 1519 - John Colet, English churchman and educator |
| | 1559 - Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (b. 1501) |
| | 1591 - Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (b. 1542) |
| | 1604 - William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545) |
| | 1607 - Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer and organist (b. 1545) |
| | 1669 - Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England (b. 1609) |
| | 1676 - Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609) |
| | 1680 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (b. 1610) |
| | 1749 - Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706) |
| | 1759 - Ferdinand Konšcak, Croatian explorer (b. 1703) |
| | 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759) |
| | 1801 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (b. 1780) |
| | 1851 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b. 1787) |
| | 1867 - Simon Sechter, Austrian composer (b. 1788) |
| | 1898 - Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1837) |
| | 1905 - Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861) |
| | 1915 - Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec (b. 1822) |
| | 1931 - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869) |
| | 1935 - Huey Long, American politician (b. 1893) |
| | 1937 - Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892) |
| | 1948 - King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (b. 1861) |
| | 1961 - Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880) |
| | 1961 - Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (b. 1928) |
| | 1965 - Father Divine, American religious leader (b. 1880) |
| | 1966 - Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891) |
| | 1971 - Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932) |
| | 1975 - George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) |
| | 1976 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer (b. 1905) |
| | 1979 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (b. 1922) |
| | 1983 - Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) |
| | 1983 - John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1915) |
| | 1985 - Jock Stein, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1922) |
| | 1991 - Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908) |
| | 1996 - Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1923) |
| | 1997 - Jack Adkisson, professional wrestler (b. 1929) |
| | 1998 - Carl Forgione, actor (b. 1944) |
| | 1999 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927) |
| | 2000 - Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist and writer. (b. 1921) |
| | 2001 - DJ Uncle Al, A Miami, Florida DJ. |
| | 2004 - Brock Adams, American politician (b. 1927) |
| | 2005 - Clarence Gatemouth Brown, American guitarist and singer (b. 1924) |
| | 2006 - Patty Berg, American female golf player (b. 1918) |
| | 2006 - King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (b. 1918) |
| | 2006 - Daniel Wayne Smith, son of Playboy model, Anna Nicole Smith (b. 1986) |