| | 1355 - Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death |
| | 1553 - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472) |
| | 1555 - Hugh Latimer, English protestant (martyred) |
| | 1555 - Nicholas Ridley, English protestant (martyred) |
| | 1591 - Pope Gregory XIV (b. 1535) |
| | 1594 - William Cardinal Allen, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1532) |
| | 1621 - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (b. 1562) |
| | 1628 - François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555) |
| | 1649 - Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (b. 1621) |
| | 1655 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591) |
| | 1680 - Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609) |
| | 1750 - Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist (b. 1687) |
| | 1755 - Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (b. 1725) |
| | 1781 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705) |
| | 1793 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) (b. 1755) |
| | 1796 - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726) |
| | 1810 - Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772) |
| | 1865 - Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781) |
| | 1877 - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823) |
| | 1888 - John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815) |
| | 1893 - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808) |
| | 1909 - Jakub Bart-Cišinski, Sorbian writer (b. 1856) |
| | 1937 - Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899) |
| | 1946: |
| | Hans Frank, German war criminal (b. 1900) |
| | Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal (b. 1877) |
| | Alfred Jodl, German military officer (b. 1890) |
| | Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903) |
| | Wilhelm Keitel, German military officer (b. 1882) |
| | Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician (b. 1893) |
| | Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist (b. 1893) |
| | Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal (b. 1894) |
| | Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader (b. 1892) |
| | Julius Streicher, German propagandist (b. 1887) |
| | 1959 - George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, Nobel laureate (b. 1880) |
| | 1962 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (b. 1884) |
| | 1966 - George O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899) |
| | 1968 - Ellis Kinder, baseball player (b. 1914) |
| | 1972 - Hale Boggs, U.S. Congressman from Louisiana (b. 1914) |
| | 1972 - Leo G. Carroll, English actor (b. 1892) |
| | 1973 - Gene Krupa, American musician (b. 1909) |
| | 1974 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, noted Carnatic musician (b. 1895) |
| | 1978 - Dan Dailey, American actor (b. 1913) |
| | 1979 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b. 1903) |
| | 1981 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (b. 1915) |
| | 1982 - Mario del Monaco, Italian tenor (b. 1915) |
| | 1983 - Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (b. 1895) |
| | 1983 - Kelso, American racehorse (b. 1957) |
| | 1986 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b. 1921) |
| | 1989 - Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1915) |
| | 1990 - Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (b. 1919) |
| | 1992 - Shirley Booth, American actress (b. 1898) |
| | 1996 - Eric Malpass, English novelist (b. 1910) |
| | 1996 - Jason Bernard, American actor (b. 1938) |
| | 1997 - James Michener, American writer |
| | 1997 - Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918) |
| | 1998 - Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943) |
| | 1999 - Jean Shepherd, American writer and actor (b. 1921) |
| | 2000 - Mel Carnahan, American politician (b. 1934) |
| | 2002 - Angela Dawson, American murder victim |
| | 2003 - Avni Arbas, Turkish artist (b. 1919) |
| | 2003 - Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1915) |
| | 2003 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926) |
| | 2004 - Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary (b. 1925) |
| | 2005 - "Len" Dresslar, American singer and voice actor (b. 1925) |
| | 2005 - David Reilly, American singer (God Lives Underwater) (b. 1971) |
| | 2006 - Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Ex President of Peru |
| | 2006 - Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921) |
| | 2006 - Ross Davidson, British actor (b 1949) |