| | 460 - Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine Empress |
| | 1570 - João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496) |
| | 1631 - Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550) |
| | 1640 - John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585) |
| | 1652 - Antonio Coello, Spanish writer |
| | 1713 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652) |
| | 1740 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685) |
| | 1865 - Champ Ferguson, Confederate guerilla |
| | 1890 - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821) |
| | 1900 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846) |
| | 1910 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (b. 1843) |
| | 1920 - Max Bruch, German composer (b. 1838) |
| | 1926 - Eugene Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. 1855) |
| | 1935 - Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863) |
| | 1936 - Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866) |
| | 1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874) |
| | 1967 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878) |
| | 1968 - Bud Flanagan, British wartime entertainer (b. 1896) |
| | 1972 - Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1885) |
| | 1977 - Members of the American rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in a plane crash: |
| | Cassie Gaines (b. 1948) |
| | Steve Gaines (b. 1949) |
| | Ronnie Van Zant (b. 1948) |
| | 1983 - Peter Dudley, British actor |
| | 1983 - Yves Thériault, French Canadian author (b. 1915) |
| | 1984 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896) |
| | 1984 - Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) |
| | 1987 - Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903) |
| | 1988 - Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (b. 1922) |
| | 1989 - Anthony Quayle, English actor (b. 1913) |
| | 1990 - Joel McCrea, American actor (b. 1905) |
| | 1994 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913) |
| | 1995 - Christopher Stone, American actor (b. 1942) |
| | 2001 - Ted Ammon, American financier (b. 1949) |
| | 2002 - Barbara Berjer, American actress (b. 1920) |
| | 2003 - Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918) |
| | 2004 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (b. 1923) |
| | 2004 - Chuck Hiller, baseball player (b. 1934) |
| | 2005 - Shirley Horn, American singer (b. 1934) |
| | 2005 - Endon Mahmood, First Lady of Malaysia (breast cancer) (b. 1941) |
| | 2005 - Eva Svankmajerova, Czech artist (b. 1940) |
| | 2006 - Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910) |