| | 632 - Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda |
| | 638 - Pope Honorius I |
| | 642 - Pope John IV |
| | 1095 - Margrave Leopold II of Austria (b. 1050) |
| | 1176 - William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician |
| | 1320 - Michael IX Palaeologus, co-ruling Eastern Roman Emperor |
| | 1491 - Fritz Herlen, German artist |
| | 1492 - Piero della Francesca, Italian painter |
| | 1565 - Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520) |
| | 1576 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1527) |
| | 1590 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543) |
| | 1600 - Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535) |
| | 1632 - Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549) |
| | 1646 - François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France (b. 1579) |
| | 1678 - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621) |
| | 1679 - William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617) |
| | 1685 - Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (b. 1628) |
| | 1730 - King Frederick IV of Denmark (b. 1671) |
| | 1758 - Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680) |
| | 1845 - Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780) |
| | 1870 - Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1807) |
| | 1898 - Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (b. 1816) |
| | 1915 - Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865) |
| | 1924 - Anatole France, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844) |
| | 1940 - Tom Mix, American actor (b. 1880) |
| | 1946 - Joseph Stilwell, U.S. general (b. 1883) |
| | 1954 - George Welch, American pilot (b. 1918) |
| | 1956 - Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (b. 1872) |
| | 1958 - Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907) |
| | 1960 - Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician (b. 1898) |
| | 1965 - Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899) |
| | 1967 - Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist politician leader |
| | 1969 - Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (b. 1912) |
| | 1970 - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (b. 1930) |
| | 1971 - Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1893) |
| | 1971 - Gene Vincent, Pioneering American rock'n'roll musician (b. 1935) |
| | 1978 - Nancy Spungen, Girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious b. 1958) |
| | 1983 - The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager |
| | 1984 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (bombing victim) (b. 1925) |
| | 1985 - Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (b. 1910) |
| | 1985 - Ricky Wilson, American musician; member of The B-52's (b. 1953) |
| | 1987 - Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas (b. 1887) |
| | 1988 - Ruth Manning-Sanders, author of children's books (b. 1895) |
| | 1989 - Carmen Cavallaro, American popular pianist (b. 1913) |
| | 1989 - Jay Ward, American animator (Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc.) (b. 1920) |
| | 1991 - Arkady Strugatsky, Russian Novelist (b. 1925) |
| | 1993 - Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1902) |
| | 1993 - Tofik Bakhramov, Russian footballer (b. 1926) |
| | 1994 - Gérald Godin, Québécois poet and politician (b. 1938) |
| | 1996 - Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (b. 1911) |
| | 1996 - René Lacoste, French tennis player (b. 1904) |
| | 1997 - John Denver, American singer (b. 1943) |
| | 1998 - Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976) |
| | 1998 - Mario Beaulieu, French Canadian politician (b. 1930) |
| | 1999 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936) |
| | 2001 - Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (b. 1907) |
| | 2002 - Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician (b. 1916) |
| | 2002 - Audrey Mestre, French diver (b. 1974) |
| | 2003 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician (b. 1914) |
| | 2003 - Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (b. 1928) |
| | 2003 - Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931) |
| | 2005 - C. Delores Tucker, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1927) |