| | 412 - Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria |
| | 898 - Lambert, Holy Roman Emperor |
| | 1002 - Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946) |
| | 1326 - Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (b. 1261) |
| | 1389 - Pope Urban VI |
| | 1564 - Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (b. 1514) |
| | 1715 - Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (b. 1675) |
| | 1730 - Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (b. 1658) |
| | 1788 - Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (b. 1735) |
| | 1810 - Alfred Moore, American judge (b. 1755) |
| | 1811 - Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter (b. 1735) |
| | 1817 - Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish and Lithuanian national hero |
| | 1819 - Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744) |
| | 1820 - Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (b. 1771) |
| | 1837 - Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman and poet (b. 1760) |
| | 1880 - Victorio, Apache leader |
| | 1891 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer (b. 1837) |
| | 1900 - Zdenek Fibich, Czech composer (b. 1850) |
| | 1917 - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (b. 1876) |
| | 1918 - Shirdi Sai Baba, Indian guru (b. circa 1838) |
| | 1934 - Raymond Poincaré, French statesman (b. 1860) |
| | 1945 - Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of Vichy France (executed) (b. 1883) |
| | 1946 - Hermann Göring, German air force commander (suicide) (b. 1893) |
| | 1948 - Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863) |
| | 1959 - Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1880) |
| | 1960 - Clara Kimball Young, American actress (b. 1890) |
| | 1964 - Cole Porter, American composer (b. 1891) |
| | 1976 - Carlo Gambino, American Gangster (b. 1902) |
| | 1980 - Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900) |
| | 1988 - Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist (b. 1892) |
| | 1994 - Sarah Kofman, French philosopher (b. 1934) |
| | 2000 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912) |
| | 2001 - Zhang Xueliang, Chinese ruler of Manchuria (b. 1901) |
| | 2003 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) |
| | 2003 - Ben Metcalfe, Canadian environmental activist (b. 1919) |
| | 2005 - Jason Collier, American basketball player (b. 1977) |
| | 2005 - Matti Wuori, Finnish politician (b. 1945) |