| | 1225 - Engelbert II of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne |
| | 1581 - Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar |
| | 1599 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546) |
| | 1633 - Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, Dutch inventor (b. 1572) |
| | 1639 - Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician |
| | 1642 - Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician |
| | 1713 - Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658) |
| | 1837 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809) |
| | 1872 - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833) |
| | 1906 - Heinrich Seidel, German engineer, poet and writer (b. 1842) |
| | 1910 (O.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (b. 1828) |
| | 1913 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823) |
| | 1922 - Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860) |
| | 1943 - Dwight Frye, American actor (b. 1899) |
| | 1944 - Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895) |
| | 1959 - Victor McLaglen, British-born actor (b. 1883) |
| | 1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1884) |
| | 1966 - Rube Bressler, Baseball player (b. 1894) |
| | 1967 - John Nance Garner, U.S. Congressman and Vice President (b. 1868) |
| | 1968 - Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906) |
| | 1974 - Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899) |
| | 1978 - Gene Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion (b. 1897) |
| | 1980 - Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930) |
| | 1983 - Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892) |
| | 1991 - Carter Cornelius, American R&B musician (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) (b. 1948) |
| | 1992 - Alexander Dubcek, Slovakian politician (b. 1921) |
| | 1992 - Jack Kelly, American actor (b. 1927) |
| | 1994 - Shorty Rogers, American jazz musician (b. 1924) |
| | 1996 - Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian Lawyer and First Foreign Affairs Minister (b. 1918) |
| | 2000 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910) |
| | 2001 - Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (b. 1936) |
| | 2002 - Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (b. 1923) |
| | 2004 - Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919) |
| | 2005 - Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian-born Nazi war criminal (b. 1921) |
| | 2006 - Bryan Pata, American football defensive tackle (University of Miami) (murdered) (b. 1981) |
| | 2006 - Johnny Sain, American baseball pitcher (b. 1917) |
| | 2006 - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924) |