| | 1125 - Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian writer |
| | 1221 - Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1201) |
| | 1266 - Birger jarl, Swedish statesman and founder of Stockholm (b. 1210) |
| | 1422 - King Charles VI of France (b. 1368) |
| | 1500 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1442) |
| | 1505 - Paul Scriptoris, German mathematician |
| | 1558 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian humanist scholar (b. 1484) |
| | 1600 - Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (b. 1557) |
| | 1623 - William Wade, English statesman and diplomat (b. 1546) |
| | 1662 - Henry Lawes, English composer (b. 1595) |
| | 1687 - Sir Edmund Waller, English poet (b. 1606) |
| | 1765 - Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (b. 1691) |
| | 1775 - Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1721) |
| | 1777 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (b. 1720) |
| | 1805 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1758) |
| | 1872 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist (b. 1794) |
| | 1873 - Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (b. 1807) |
| | 1896 - James Henry Greathead, British engineer (b. 1844) |
| | 1904 - Isabelle Eberhardt, explorer and writer who spent a lot of time in North Africa (b. 1877) |
| | 1931 - Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian writer (b. 1862) |
| | 1944 - Alois Kayser, German missionary to Nauru (b. 1877) |
| | 1965 - Bill Black, American musician (b. 1926) |
| | 1969 - Jack Kerouac, American novelist (b. 1922) |
| | 1969 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (b. 1882) |
| | 1975 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (b. 1887) |
| | 1978 - Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet politician (b. 1895) |
| | 1980 - Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist (b. 1906) |
| | 1984 - François Truffaut, French film director (b. 1932) |
| | 1986 - Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge (b. 1922) |
| | 1992 - Jim Garrison, American attorney (b. 1921) |
| | 1995 - Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (b. 1967) |
| | 1995 - Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (b. 1919) |
| | 1995 - Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (b. 1916) |
| | 2003 - Fred Berry, American actor (b. 1951) |
| | 2003 - Luis A. Ferré, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1940) |
| | 2003 - Louise Day Hicks, American politician (b. 1916) |
| | 2003 - Elliott Smith, American musician (b. 1969) |
| | 2005 - Tara Correa-McMullen, American actress (b. 1989) |