| | 1038 - Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| | 1138 - Boleslaw III Krzywousty, Duke of Poland (b. 1086) |
| | 1268 - Conradin, Duke of Swabia (executed) (b. 1252) |
| | 1268 - Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (beheaded) (b. 1249) |
| | 1590 - Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch politician (b. 1522) |
| | 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer (executed) (b. 1554) |
| | 1650 - David Calderwood, Scottish historian (b. 1575) |
| | 1666 - Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (b. 1600) |
| | 1666 - James Shirley, English dramatist (b. 1596) |
| | 1783 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717) |
| | 1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general (b. 1821) |
| | 1901 - Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (b. 1873) |
| | 1905 - Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873) |
| | 1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born newspaper publisher (b. 1847) |
| | 1919 - A. B. Simpson, Canadian preacher (b. 1843) |
| | 1932 - Joseph Babinski, Polish-French neurologist (b. 1857) |
| | 1933 - Albert Calmette, French physician (b. 1863) |
| | 1933 - Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician (d. 1853) |
| | 1949 - G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (b. 1872) |
| | 1950 - King Gustaf V of Sweden (b. 1858) |
| | 1953 - William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922) |
| | 1957 - Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (b. 1885) |
| | 1957 - Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (b. 1933) |
| | 1958 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (b. 1886) |
| | 1963 - Adolphe Menjou, American actor (b. 1890) |
| | 1971 - Duane Allman, American musician (b. 1946) |
| | 1971 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902) |
| | 1981 - Georges Brassens, French singer (b. 1921) |
| | 1987 - Woody Herman, American musician (b. 1913) |
| | 1997 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930) |
| | 1998 - Paul Misraki, French songwriter (b. 1908) |
| | 1999 - Michel Regnier (Greg), Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon) (b. 1931) |
| | 2003 - Hal Clement, American writer (b. 1922) |
| | 2003 - Franco Corelli, tenor (b. 1921) |
| | 2004 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (b. 1923) |
| | 2004 - Vaughn Meader, American comedian (b. 1936) |
| | 2004 - Peter Twinn, English mathematician (b. 1916) |
| | 2006 - Mohammadu Maccido, 18th Sultan of Sokoto (b. 1928) |