| | 532 - Pope Boniface II |
| | 1174 - Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135) |
| | 1586 - Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (killed in battle) (b. 1554) |
| | 1660 - Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601) |
| | 1673 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630) |
| | 1757 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683) |
| | 1776 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681) |
| | 1780 - William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705) |
| | 1786 - Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723) |
| | 1806 - Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian independence leader (b. 1758) |
| | 1836 - Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782) |
| | 1837 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1778) |
| | 1849 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician and composer (b. 1810) |
| | 1868 - Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775) |
| | 1887 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (b. 1824) |
| | 1889 - Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828) |
| | 1910 - Julia Ward Howe, American composer and abolitionist (b. 1819) |
| | 1931 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884) |
| | 1934 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1852) |
| | 1958 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876) |
| | 1962 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (b. 1882) |
| | 1963 - Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (b. 1865) |
| | 1967 - Henry Pu Yi, last Emperor of China (b. 1906) |
| | 1970 - Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec (assassinated) (b. 1921) |
| | 1970 - Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897) |
| | 1972 - Prince George of Yugoslavia (b. 1887) |
| | 1972 - Turk Broda, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1914) |
| | 1973 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (b. 1926) |
| | 1979 - S. J. Perelman, American writer (b. 1904) |
| | 1981 - Albert Cohen, Swiss author (b. 1895) |
| | 1984 - Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (b. 1899) |
| | 1991 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and television performer (b. 1919) |
| | 1992 - Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b. 1912) |
| | 1998 - Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist |
| | 1998 - Joan Hickson, British actress (b. 1906) |
| | 2000 - Leo Nomellini, wrestler (b. 1924) |
| | 2001 - Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli politician (b. 1926) |
| | 2001 - Jay Livingston, American songwriter (b. 1915) |
| | 2002 - Derek Bell, Irish harpist (The Chieftans) (b. 1935) |
| | 2004 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (b. 1952) |
| | 2005 - Ba Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904) |
| | 2005 - Franky Gee, European techno artist (b. 1962) |
| | 2006 - Daniel Emilfork, French actor (b. 1924) |
| | 2006 - Christopher Glenn, American newscaster (b. 1938) |