| | 707 - Pope John VII |
| | 1035 - Sancho III of Navarre |
| | 1101 - Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (b. 1053) |
| | 1141 - Margrave Leopold IV of Austria |
| | 1417 - Pope Gregory XII |
| | 1503 - Pope Pius III (b. 1439) |
| | 1545 - John Taverner, English composer |
| | 1558 - Maria of Austria, wife of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1505) |
| | 1564 - Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520) |
| | 1570 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (b. 1517) |
| | 1604 - Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (b. 1528) |
| | 1646 - Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1607) |
| | 1667 - Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia |
| | 1678 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (b. 1593) |
| | 1739 - Antônio José da Silva, Brazilian-born dramatist (b. 1705) |
| | 1744 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, English friend of Anne of England (b. 1660) |
| | 1770 - John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier (b. 1721) |
| | 1775 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715) |
| | 1817 - Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, French composer (b. 1763) |
| | 1871 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (b. 1791) |
| | 1865 - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784) |
| | 1886 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (b. 1796) |
| | 1889 - Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (b. 1808) |
| | 1893 - Charles Gounod, French composer (b. 1818) |
| | 1911 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist (b. 1857) |
| | 1921 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845) |
| | 1931 - Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847) |
| | 1942 - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862) |
| | 1948 - Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881) |
| | 1959 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete |
| | 1961 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1892) |
| | 1966 - Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman (b. 1878) |
| | 1966 - Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant (Kmart) (b. 1867) |
| | 1973 - Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (b. 1886) |
| | 1973 - Leo Strauss, German-American philosopher (b. 1899) |
| | 1975 - Al Lettieri, American actor (b. 1928) |
| | 1978 - Ramón Mercader, Assassin of Leon Trotsky (b. 1914) |
| | 1982 - Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States (b. 1885) |
| | 1982 - Dwain Esper, American film director (b. 1892) |
| | 1982 - Pierre Mendès-France, French politician (b. 1907) |
| | 1982 - John Robarts, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario (b. 1917) |
| | 1983 - Willie Jones, baseball player (b. 1925) |
| | 2000 - Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926) |
| | 2000 - Gwen Verdon, American dancer and actress (b. 1925) |
| | 2001 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (b. 1922) |
| | 2002 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (b. 1932) |
| | 2002 - Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer (b. 1950) |
| | 2003 - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1939) |
| | 2003 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (b. 1912) |
| | 2004 - Veerappan, Indian bandit and smuggler (b. 1945) |
| | 2005 - John Hollis, British actor (b. 1931) |
| | 2005 - Johnny Haynes, English footballer (b. 1934) |
| | 2006 - Mario Francesco Cardinal Pompedda (b. 1929) |
| | 2006 - Anna Russell, English music satirist (b. 1911) |