| | 258 - Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage |
| | 585 - Emperor Bidatsu of Japan (b. 538) |
| | 775 - Constantine V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 718) |
| | 786 - Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph |
| | 891 - Pope Stephen V |
| | 1146 - Zengi, ruler of Syria (b. 1087) |
| | 1164 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan (b. 1119) |
| | 1214 - Albert Avogadro, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (b. 1149) |
| | 1321 - Dante Alighieri, Italian author (b. 1265) |
| | 1404 - Albert IV of Austria (b. 1377) |
| | 1435 - John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (b. 1389) |
| | 1523 - Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459) |
| | 1538 - Henry III of Nassau-Breda, German nobleman (b. 1483) |
| | 1605 - Jan Tarnowski, Archbishop of Krakow (b. 1550) |
| | 1638 - John Harvard, American clergyman (b. 1607) |
| | 1646 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (b. 1591) |
| | 1712 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-born astronomer (b. 1625) |
| | 1743 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (b. 1690) |
| | 1749 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (b. 1675) |
| | 1759 - Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (b. 1712) |
| | 1807 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (b. 1724) |
| | 1836 - Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States (b. 1756) |
| | 1851 - James Fenimore Cooper, American author (b. 1789) |
| | 1852 - Augustus Pugin, English architect (b. 1812) |
| | 1852 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| | 1879 - Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist (b. 1808) |
| | 1898 - William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (b. 1857) |
| | 1901 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843) |
| | 1910 - Huo Yuan Jia, Chinese martial artist |
| | 1927 - Isadora Duncan, American dancer (b. 1877) |
| | 1936 - Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899) |
| | 1937 - Tomáš Masaryk, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1850) |
| | 1942 - Ezra Seymour Gosney, American eugenicist (b. 1855) |
| | 1959 - Wayne Morris, American actor (b. 1914) |
| | 1965 - J.W. Hearne English cricketer (b. 1891) |
| | 1966 - Gertrude Berg, American actress (b. 1899) |
| | 1974 - Warren Hull, American actor (b. 1903) |
| | 1981 - Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (b. 1899) |
| | 1982 - Bachir Gemayel, President-elect of Lebanon (b. 1947) |
| | 1982 - John Gardner, American novelist (b. 1933) |
| | 1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco, American actress (b. 1929) |
| | 1982 - Christian Ferras, French violinist (b. 1933) |
| | 1984 - Janet Gaynor, American actress (b. 1906) |
| | 1989 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (b. 1916) |
| | 1991 - Julie Bovasso, American actor and writer (b. 1930) |
| | 1992 - Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (b. 1903) |
| | 1996 - Juliet Prowse, British actress and dancer (b. 1937) |
| | 1999 - Charles Crichton, English film director (b. 1910) |
| | 2000 - Beah Richards, American actress (b. 1920) |
| | 2003 - Yetunde Price, half-sister of American tennis players Venus and Serena Williams (b. 1972) |
| | 2005 - William Berenberg, American physician (b. 1915) |
| | 2005 - Robert Wise, American filmmaker (b. 1914) |
| | 2005 - Vladimir Volkoff, French writer (b. 1932) |
| | 2006 - Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926) |
| | 2006 - Esme Melville, Australian actress (b. 1918) |