| | 996 - King Hugh Capet of France (b. 938) |
| | 1260 - Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt |
| | 1375 - King Valdemar IV of Denmark (bc. 1320) |
| | 1537 - Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII of England |
| | 1572 - Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (bc. 1508) |
| | 1601 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546) |
| | 1655 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (b. 1592) |
| | 1669 - William Prynne, English Puritan leader (b. 1600) |
| | 1672 - John Webb, English architect (b. 1611) |
| | 1708 - Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician |
| | 1725 - Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1660) |
| | 1799 - Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (b. 1739) |
| | 1821 - Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740) |
| | 1852 - Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician (b. 1782) |
| | 1898 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824) |
| | 1912 - Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (b. 1842) |
| | 1915 - Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (b. 1828) |
| | 1922 - George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (b. 1839) |
| | 1935 - Dutch Schultz, American gangster (b. 1902) |
| | 1938 - Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (b. 1870) |
| | 1943 - Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (b. 1912) |
| | 1944 - Louis Renault, French automobile manufacturer (b. 1877) |
| | 1945 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian traitor (executed) (b. 1887) |
| | 1948 - Franz Lehár, Austrian composer (b. 1870) |
| | 1957 - Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905) |
| | 1966 - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896) |
| | 1971 - Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876) |
| | 1972 - Jackie Robinson, baseball player (b. 1919) |
| | 1972 - Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1897) |
| | 1974 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908) |
| | 1985 - Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, (b. 1905) |
| | 1991 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (b. 1921) |
| | 1997 - Don Messick, American voice actor (b. 1926) |
| | 2001 - Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German neo-Nazi (b. 1937) |
| | 2002 - Winton M. Blount, United States Postmaster General (b. 1921) |
| | 2002 - Harry Hay, American activist (b. 1912) |
| | 2004 - Randy Dorton, American race car crew member (b. 1954) |
| | 2004 - Ricky Hendrick, American race car team owner (b. 1980) |
| | 2004 - James Cardinal Hickey, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1920) |
| | 2005 - José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (b. 1926) |
| | 2005 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913) |
| | 2006 - Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist (b. 1904) |