| | 1253 - Dogen, Japanese Zen Buddhist (b. 1200) |
| | 1345 - Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281) |
| | 1399 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366) |
| | 1520 - Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1465) |
| | 1554 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer |
| | 1566 - Johannes Agricola, German protestant reformer (b. 1494) |
| | 1607 - Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (b. 1535) |
| | 1658 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (b. 1607) |
| | 1662 - John Biddle, English theologian (b. 1615) |
| | 1703 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b. 1622) |
| | 1774 - Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705) |
| | 1776 - Nathan Hale, hung by the British as a spy (b. 1755) |
| | 1777 - John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699) |
| | 1828 - Shaka Zulu, Zulu leader |
| | 1852 - William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (b. 1783) |
| | 1872 - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (b. 1801) |
| | 1873 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1801) |
| | 1881 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831) |
| | 1952 - Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first President of Finland (b. 1865) |
| | 1956 - Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877) |
| | 1957 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885) |
| | 1961 - Marion Davies, American actress (b. 1897) |
| | 1969 - Adolfo López Mateos, president of Mexico (b. 1909) |
| | 1981 - Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (b. 1893) |
| | 1987 - Dan Rowan, American actor and comedian (b. 1922) |
| | 1988 - Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (b. 1914) |
| | 1989 - Irving Berlin, American songwriter (b. 1888) |
| | 1992 - Aurelio López, baseball player (b. 1948) |
| | 1993 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b. 1903) |
| | 1996 - Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b. 1914) |
| | 1996 - Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballet dancer and director (b. 1924) |
| | 1999 - George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927) |
| | 2001 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920) |
| | 2002 - Jan de Hartog, Dutch-born writer (b. 1914) |
| | 2003 - Gordon Jump, American television actor (b. 1932) |
| | 2003 - Hugo Young, British journalist (b. 1938) |
| | 2004 - Ray Traylor, professional wrestler (b. 1962) |
| | 2006 - Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player |