| | 578 - Justin II, Byzantine Emperor |
| | 877 - Charles the Bald (b. 823) |
| | 1056 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017) |
| | 1112 - Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler |
| | 1214 - King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155) |
| | 1285 - King Philip III of France (b. 1245) |
| | 1528 - Richard Fox, English churchman |
| | 1540 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (b. 1488) |
| | 1564 - Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer |
| | 1565 - Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (b. 1522) |
| | 1606 - Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546) |
| | 1714 - Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (b. 1630) |
| | 1740 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721) |
| | 1791 - Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739) |
| | 1805 - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b. 1738) |
| | 1813 - Tecumseh, Shawnee leader |
| | 1837 - Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1783) |
| | 1861 - Antoni Melchior Fijalkowski, Polish bishop (b. 1778) |
| | 1880 - Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819) |
| | 1913 - Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856) |
| | 1918 - Roland Garros, French pilot (shot down) (b. 1888) |
| | 1930 - Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (b. 1875) |
| | 1933 - Renée Adorée, French actress (b. 1898) |
| | 1933 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general (b. 1862) |
| | 1936 - J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (tuberculosis) (b. 1898) |
| | 1938 - Saint Faustina Polish religious (b. 1905) |
| | 1940 - Ballington Booth, Salvation Army Officer and co-founder of Volunteers of America (b. 1857) |
| | 1941 - Louis Dembitz Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1856) |
| | 1943 - Leon Roppolo, American musician (b. 1902) |
| | 1950 - Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (b. 1885) |
| | 1969 - Walter Hagen, American golfer (b. 1892) |
| | 1976 - Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903) |
| | 1976 - Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1929) |
| | 1981 - Gloria Grahame, American actress (b. 1923) |
| | 1983 - Earl Tupper, American inventor (b. 1907) |
| | 1986 - Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898) |
| | 1986 - James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b. 1919) |
| | 1992 - Eddie Kendricks, American singer (b. 1939) |
| | 1993 - Jim Holton, Scottish footballer (b. 1951) |
| | 1995 - Linda Gary, American voice-actress (b. 1944) |
| | 1996 - Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer (b. 1925) |
| | 1997 - Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962) |
| | 2000 - Catalin Haldan, Romanian football player (b. 1976) |
| | 2001 - Mike Mansfield, American politician (b. 1903) |
| | 2002 - Chuck Rayner, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1920) |
| | 2003 - Denis Quilley, British actor (b. 1927) |
| | 2003 - Dan Snyder, Canadian hockey player (b. 1978) |
| | 2003 - Timothy Treadwell, bear enthusiast featured in Grizzly Man (b. 1957) |
| | 2004 - Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921) |
| | 2004 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916) |
| | 2004 - William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine nominee (b. 1941) |
| | 2006 - Antonio Peña, Mexican founder of lucha libre promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (b. 1953) |