| | 1179 - Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (b. 1098) |
| | 1322 - Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249) |
| | 1422 - Constantine II of Bulgaria. |
| | 1563 - Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier |
| | 1574 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (b. 1519) |
| | 1575 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504) |
| | 1621 - Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (b. 1542) |
| | 1630 - Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567) |
| | 1665 - Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605) |
| | 1679 - John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629) |
| | 1727 - Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman (b. 1647) |
| | 1762 - Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist (b. 1687) |
| | 1771 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (b. 1721) |
| | 1803 - Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer (b. 1766) |
| | 1808 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755) |
| | 1836 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748) |
| | 1863 - Alfred de Vigny, French author (b. 1797) |
| | 1873 - Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (b. 1781) |
| | 1879 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814) |
| | 1894 - Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849) |
| | 1907 - Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (b. 1846) |
| | 1933 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877) |
| | 1936 - Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877) |
| | 1938 - Bruno Jasienski, Polish poet (b. 1901) |
| | 1966 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930) |
| | 1972 - Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (b. 1899) |
| | 1973 - Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (b. 1909) |
| | 1980 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925) |
| | 1984 - Richard Basehart, American actor (b. 1914) |
| | 1987 - Harry Locke, British character actor (b. 1913) |
| | 1991 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902) |
| | 1993 - Christian Nyby, American film and television director (b. 1913) |
| | 1996 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918) |
| | 1997 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913) |
| | 2000 - Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976) |
| | 2000 - Paula Yates, English TV personality (b. 1960) |
| | 2003 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951) |
| | 2005 - Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921) |
| | 2006 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924) |