| | 939 - King Athelstan I of England |
| | 1271 - Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213) |
| | 1312 - John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275) |
| | 1327 - Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert I of Scotland |
| | 1331 - Abu al-Fida, Arab historian and geographer (b. 1273) |
| | 1430 - Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania |
| | 1439 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1397) |
| | 1449 - Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (b. 1394) |
| | 1505 - Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440) |
| | 1553 - Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian and doctor (burned at the stake) (b. 1511) |
| | 1561 - Lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador |
| | 1573 - Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499) |
| | 1605 - Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (born 1542) |
| | 1617 - Ralph Winwood, English politician |
| | 1670 - Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617) |
| | 1674 - Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614) |
| | 1675 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602) |
| | 1789 - John Cook, American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730) |
| | 1917 - Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897) |
| | 1949 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916) |
| | 1949 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919) |
| | 1953 - Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873) |
| | 1962 - Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (b. 1906) |
| | 1968 - Lise Meitner, German physicist (b. 1878) |
| | 1975 - Rex Stout, American novelist (b. 1886) |
| | 1977 - James M. Cain, American novelist (b. 1892) |
| | 1980 - Steve Peregrin Took, English singer and songwriter (b. 1949) |
| | 1980 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) |
| | 1980 - Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924) |
| | 1990 - Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician (b. 1900) |
| | 1990 - Elliott Roosevelt, American war hero, author, and advertising executive (b. 1910) |
| | 1990 - Jacques Demy, French film director (b. 1931) |
| | 1990 - Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (b. 1922) |
| | 1992 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917) |
| | 1996 - Morey Amsterdam, American actor (b. 1908) |
| | 1996 - Arthur Tremblay, French Canadian politician (b. 1917) |
| | 1999 - Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927) |
| | 1999 - Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903) |
| | 2000 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929) |
| | 2003 - Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937) |
| | 2004 - Serginho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974) |
| | 2006 - Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944) |