| | 96 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51) |
| | 887 - Pietro I Candiano, Doge of Venice (killed in battle) |
| | 1180 - King Louis VII of France (b. 1120) |
| | 1598 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1536) |
| | 1630 - Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (b. 1552) |
| | 1663 - St Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (b. 1603) |
| | 1675 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1604) |
| | 1721 - Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (b. 1664) |
| | 1722 - André Dacier, French classical scholar (b. 1651) |
| | 1783 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (b. 1707) |
| | 1783 - Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718) |
| | 1792 - August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (b. 1704) |
| | 1827 - Robert Pollok, Scottish poet (b. 1789) |
| | 1860 - Joseph Locke, English railway builder and civil engineer (b. 1805) |
| | 1872 - King Charles XV / Carl IV of Sweden and Norway (b. 1826) |
| | 1891 - William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817) |
| | 1896 - Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (b. 1819) |
| | 1905 - George MacDonald, Scottish writer and minister (b. 1824) |
| | 1924 - Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (b. 1846) |
| | 1939 - Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885) |
| | 1944 - Robert G. Cole American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division (b. March 19, 1915) |
| | 1949 - Frank Morgan, American actor (b. 1890) |
| | 1956 - Adélard Godbout, premier of Quebec (b. 1892) |
| | 1959 - Benjamin Péret, French surrealist author |
| | 1961 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish United Nations Secretary-General, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1905) |
| | 1964 - Clive Bell, English art critic (b. 1881) |
| | 1964 - Sean O'Casey, Irish writer (b. 1880) |
| | 1967 - John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) |
| | 1970 - Jimi Hendrix, American musician (b. 1942) |
| | 1977 - Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888) |
| | 1980 - Katherine Anne Porter, American novelist |
| | 1981 - Dale Buggins, Australian motorcycle Stuntman (b. 1963) |
| | 1994 - Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954) |
| | 1997 - Jimmy Witherspoon, blues singer (b. 1920) |
| | 2001 - Ernie Coombs, Canadian entertainer (b. 1927) |
| | 2002 - Bob Hayes, American athlete (b. 1942) |
| | 2002 - Mauro Ramos, Brazilian football player (b. 1930) |
| | 2003 - Emil Fackenheim, German Holocaust survivor and philosopher (b. 1916) |
| | 2003 - Bob Mitchell, British politician (b. 1927) |
| | 2004 - Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (b. 1929) |
| | 2004 - Russ Meyer, American film director (b. 1922) |
| | 2005 - Michael Park, British Rally co-driver (b. 1966) |