| | 1459 - Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (b. 1380) |
| | 1522 - Jean Mouton, French composer |
| | 1553 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489) |
| | 1602 - Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528) |
| | 1611 - King Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550) |
| | 1626 - Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1580) |
| | 1632 - Henri II de Montmorency, French naval officer and Governor of Languedoc (b. 1595) |
| | 1654 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (b. 1633) |
| | 1680 - Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (b. 1616) |
| | 1685 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman (b. 1603) |
| | 1809 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738) |
| | 1816 - Frederick I of Württemberg (b. 1754) |
| | 1842 - Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author (b. 1784) |
| | 1853 - Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (b. 1786) |
| | 1883 - Robert Volkmann, German composer (b. 1815) |
| | 1893 - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821) |
| | 1894 - Honoré Mercier, politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1840) |
| | 1899 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816) |
| | 1910 - Henry Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828) |
| | 1912 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855) |
| | 1915 - Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821) |
| | 1923 - Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858) |
| | 1957 - Fred Beebe, baseball player (b. 1880) |
| | 1968 - Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (b. 1886) |
| | 1968 - Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (b. 1899) |
| | 1968 - Conrad Richter, American writer (b. 1890) |
| | 1969 - Pops Foster, American musician (b. 1892) |
| | 1975 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887) |
| | 1978 - Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist (b. 1903) |
| | 1979 - Barnes Wallis, British aeronautical engineer (b. 1887) |
| | 1979 - Donna Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890) |
| | 1985 - Kirby Grant, American actor (b. 1911) |
| | 1993 - Paul Grégoire, Archbishop of Montreal (b. 1911) |
| | 1997 - Samuel Fuller, American film director (b. 1912) |
| | 2000 - Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921) |
| | 2002 - Jam Master Jay, American rapper and musician (Run DMC) (murdered) (b. 1965) |
| | 2002 - Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922) |
| | 2004 - Peggy Ryan, American actress (b. 1924) |
| | 2005 - Al Lopez, baseball player and manager (b. 1908) |
| | 2005 - Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader (b. 1942) |
| | 2006 - Junji Kinoshita, 92, Japanese playwright (b. 1914) |