| | 899 - Alfred the Great |
| | 1235 - King Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1175) |
| | 1440 - Gilles de Rais, French serial killer (b. 1404) |
| | 1633 - Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596) |
| | 1671 - Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1593) |
| | 1679 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (b. 1621) |
| | 1686 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (b. 1623) |
| | 1717 - Catherine Sedley, English mistress of James II of England |
| | 1751 - Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (b. 1702) |
| | 1764 - William Hogarth, British painter (b. 1697) |
| | 1803 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (b. 1721) |
| | 1806 - John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752) |
| | 1817 - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (b. 1727) |
| | 1866 - John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (Labatt Brewing Company) (b. 1803) |
| | 1890 - Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (b. 1826) |
| | 1896 - Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827) |
| | 1902 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist and suffragette (b. 1815) |
| | 1909 - Hirobumi Ito, Japanese Prime Minister, de facto Resident-General of Korea (b. 1841) |
| | 1930 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1872) |
| | 1931 - Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (b. 1859) |
| | 1937 - Józef Dowbór-Musnicki, Polish general (b.1867) |
| | 1941 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (b. 1904) |
| | 1943 - Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born archaeologist (b. 1862) |
| | 1944 - Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1857) |
| | 1944 - William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881) |
| | 1945 - Paul Pelliot, French explorer (b. 1878) |
| | 1945 - Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (b. 1863) |
| | 1947 - Canon Edwin Sidney Savage, English rector (b. 1862) |
| | 1952 - Hattie McDaniel, American singer and actress (b. 1895) |
| | 1956 - Walter Gieseking, French pianist (b. 1895) |
| | 1957 - Gerty Cori, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1896) |
| | 1957 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (b. 1883) |
| | 1966 - Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932) |
| | 1971 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901) |
| | 1972 - Igor Sikorsky, Ukrainian-born inventor (b. 1889) |
| | 1979 - Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea (b. 1917) |
| | 1984 - Gus Mancuso, baseball player (b. 1905) |
| | 1986 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897) |
| | 1989 - Charles J. Pedersen, American Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904) |
| | 1994 - Wilbert Harrison, American singer (b. 1929) |
| | 1995 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (b. 1913) |
| | 1999 - Hoyt Axton, American musician (b. 1938) |
| | 2002 - Jacques Massu, French general (b. 1908) |
| | 2002 - Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant |
| | 2004 - Bobby Avila, Major League Baseball player (b. 1924) |
| | 2005 - Keith Parkinson Fantasy Artist (b. 1958) |
| | 2006 - Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and pioneering museum director (b. 1924) |
| | 2006 - Rogério Duprat, Brazilian composer (b. 1932) |