| | 727 - Saint Frideswide |
| | 1187 - Pope Urban III |
| | 1216 - King John |
| | 1432 - John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1392) |
| | 1587 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541) |
| | 1608 - Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (b. 1551) |
| | 1636 - Marcin Kazanowski, Polish politician |
| | 1682 - Thomas Browne, English writer (b. 1605) |
| | 1723 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (b. 1646) |
| | 1745 - Jonathan Swift, Irish author (b. 1667) |
| | 1790 - Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1724) |
| | 1813 - Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince and Marshal of France (friendly fire) (b. 1763) |
| | 1851 - Marie Thérèse Charlotte (b. 1778) |
| | 1889 - King Louis of Portugal (b. 1838) |
| | 1897 - George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831) |
| | 1901 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829) |
| | 1918 - Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887) |
| | 1936 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (b. 1881) |
| | 1937 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1871) |
| | 1943 - Camille Claudel, French sculptor (b. 1864) |
| | 1950 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (b. 1892) |
| | 1956 - Isham Jones, American musician (b. 1894) |
| | 1960 - George Wallace, Australian vaudevillian and film comedian (b. 1895) |
| | 1973 - Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (b. 1913) |
| | 1983 - Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1944) |
| | 1985 - Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman (b. 1915) |
| | 1986 - Dele Giwa, Nigerian Journalist. |
| | 1986 - Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (b. 1933) |
| | 1987 - Jacqueline Du Pré, English cellist (b. 1945) |
| | 1987 - Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909) |
| | 1988 - Son House, American musician (b. 1902) |
| | 1992 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (b. 1920) |
| | 1994 - Martha Raye, American comedian and actress (b. 1916) |
| | 1995 - Don Cherry, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1936) |
| | 1997 - Glen Buxton, American guitarist (b. 1947) |
| | 1999 - Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer (b. 1900) |
| | 1999 - James C. Murray, American politician (b. 1917) |
| | 2003 - Faith Fancher, American television journalist and activist (b. 1950) |
| | 2003 - Alija Izetbegovic, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (b. 1925) |
| | 2003 - Margaret Murie, American conservationist (b. 1902) |
| | 2003 - Michael Hegstrand, American professional wrestler (b. 1957) |
| | 2004 - Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist (b. 1920) |
| | 2005 - Dallas Cook, American musician (Suburban Legends) (b. 1982) |