| | 1352 - Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273) |
| | 1500 - John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| | 1596 - Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (b. 1535) |
| | 1613 - Thomas Overbury, English writer (b. 1581) |
| | 1643 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (b. 1566) |
| | 1649 - John Floyd, English Jesuit preacher (b. 1572) |
| | 1700 - André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (b. 1613) |
| | 1701 - Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638) |
| | 1707 - George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (b. 1663) |
| | 1712 - Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician |
| | 1750 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690) |
| | 1794 - Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725) |
| | 1803 - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1719) |
| | 1830 - William Huskisson, first rail fatality |
| | 1842 - Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771) |
| | 1859 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806) |
| | 1864 - John Hanning Speke, British explorer (b. 1827) |
| | 1883 - Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (b. 1801) |
| | 1885 - Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (hit by a train) |
| | 1893 - Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (b. 1807) |
| | 1921 - Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1886) |
| | 1926 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846) |
| | 1930 - Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882) |
| | 1945 - André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (b. 1876) |
| | 1945 - Anton Webern, Austrian composer (b. 1883) |
| | 1965 - Steve Brown, American musician (b. 1890) |
| | 1972 - Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887) |
| | 1973 - Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882) |
| | 1978 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (b. 1898) |
| | 1980 - Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (b. 1929) |
| | 1985 - Cootie Williams, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1910) |
| | 1987 - Steven Tuomi, Murder victim of Jeffery Dahmer (b. 1963) |
| | 1989 - Robert Penn Warren, American writer (b. 1905) |
| | 1991 - John Hoyt, American actor (b. 1904) |
| | 1993 - Ethan Allen, Baseball player (b. 1903) |
| | 2000 - Vincent Canby, American movie critic (b. 1924) |
| | 2003 - Jack Brymer, English clarinetist (b. 1915) |
| | 2003 - Josef Hirsal, Czech novelist (b. 1920) |
| | 2004 - Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (prostate cancer) (b. 1948) |
| | 2004 - Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (b. 1931) |
| | 2005 - Sidney Luft, American movie director (b. 1915) |
| | 2006 - Raymond Baxter, British television presenter (b. 1922) |
| | 2006 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1929) |
| | 2006 - Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (b. 1987) |