| | 42 BC - Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman senator (b. 85 BC) |
| | 930 - Daigo, Emperor of Japan (b. 885) |
| | 1456 - Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (b. 1386) |
| | 1550 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (b. 1480) |
| | 1581 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529) |
| | 1616 - Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563) |
| | 1688 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (b. 1610) |
| | 1730 - Anne Oldfield, English actress (b. 1683) |
| | 1764 - Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer (b. 1683) |
| | 1774 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist (b. 1715) |
| | 1869 - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799) |
| | 1872 - Théophile Gautier, French writer (b. 1811) |
| | 1885 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (b. 1829) |
| | 1910 - Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand (b. 1853) |
| | 1915 - W. G. Grace, English cricketer (b. 1848) |
| | 1921 - John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (b. 1840) |
| | 1939 - Zane Grey, American author (b. 1872) |
| | 1942 - Ralph Rainger, American composer (b. 1901) |
| | 1944 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877) |
| | 1950 - Al Jolson, American singer and actor (b. 1886) |
| | 1978 - Maybelle Carter, American guitarist and musical innovator (b. 1909) |
| | 1983 - Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947) |
| | 1984 - James Petrillo, leader of the U.S. musicians union (b. 1892) |
| | 1984 - Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (b. 1922) |
| | 1986 - Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893) |
| | 1990 - Louis Althusser, French philosopher (b. 1918) |
| | 1996 - Bob Grim, baseball player (b. 1930) |
| | 1997 - Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1916) |
| | 1998 - Barnett Slepian, American physician (b. 1946) |
| | 2001 - Ronald William Kirby, British artist (b. 1928) |
| | 2002 - Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright (b. 1915) |
| | 2003 - Tony Capstick, English actor, comedian, and musician (b. 1944) |
| | 2003 - Bill Nicholson, English footballer and manager (b. 1919) |
| | 2003 - Soong May-Ling, wife of Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1898) |
| | 2004 - Robert Merrill, American baritone (b. 1919) |
| | 2005 - Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian first lady (b. 1945) |
| | 2005 - John Muth, American economist (b. 1930) |
| | 2006 - Lebo Mathosa, South African entertainer (b. 1977) |