| | 19 BC - Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC) |
| | 454 - Aëtius, Roman general (bc. 396) |
| | 1217 - Lembitu of Lehola, Estonian soldier |
| | 1327 - King Edward II of England (b. 1284) |
| | 1397 - Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (executed) (b. 1346) |
| | 1542 - Juan Boscán Almogáver, Spanish poet |
| | 1558 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500) |
| | 1576 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (b. 1501) |
| | 1586 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (b. 1517) |
| | 1626 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (b. 1543) |
| | 1719 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647) |
| | 1743 - Jai Singh II, King of Amber-Juiper (b. 1688) |
| | 1748 - John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686) |
| | 1796 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769) |
| | 1798 - George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1733) |
| | 1832 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (b. 1771) |
| | 1860 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788) |
| | 1874 - Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (b. 1794) |
| | 1897 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (b. 1819) |
| | 1904 - Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader (b. 1840) |
| | 1906 - Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1838) |
| | 1926 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857) |
| | 1938 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic Croatian writer (b. 1874) |
| | 1939 - Armand Calinescu Romanian prime-minister (assassinated) (b. 1893) |
| | 1954 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858) |
| | 1957 - King Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872) |
| | 1966 - Paul Reynaud, French politician (b. 1878) |
| | 1971 - Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887) |
| | 1972 - Henry de Montherlant, French writer (b. 1896) |
| | 1974 - Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894) |
| | 1974 - Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (b. 1918) |
| | 1976 - Orlando Letelier, Chilean diplomat (b. 1932) |
| | 1987 - Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (b. 1951) |
| | 1988 - Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914) |
| | 1995 - Rudy Perpich, American politician (b. 1928) |
| | 1998 - Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete (b. 1959) |
| | 2002 - Robert L. Forward, American physicist and writer (b. 1932) |
| | 2004 - Barry Noble Wakeman, American naturalist and educator (b. 1939) |
| | 2006 - Edward Albert, American actor, son of Eddie Albert (b. 1951) |
| | 2006 - Boz Burrell, English rock musician (b. 1946) |