| | 911 - Louis the Child, last Carolingian ruler of the East Franks (b. 893) |
| | 955 - Pope Agapetus II |
| | 1171 - Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108) |
| | 1226 - King Louis VIII of France (b. 1187) |
| | 1246 - Berenguela of Castile, wife of Alfonso IX of Castile (b. 1180) |
| | 1308 - Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher |
| | 1517 - Francisco Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish statesman (b. 1436) |
| | 1527 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477) |
| | 1599 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528) |
| | 1600 - Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562) |
| | 1605 - Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573) |
| | 1658 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (b. 1599) |
| | 1674 - John Milton, English poet (b. 1608) |
| | 1719 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652) |
| | 1817 - Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (b. 1754) |
| | 1830 - King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777) |
| | 1887 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851) |
| | 1890 - César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1822) |
| | 1905 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870) |
| | 1917 - Colin Blythe, English cricketer (b. 1879) |
| | 1934 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879) |
| | 1945 - August von Mackensen, German field marshal (b. 1849) |
| | 1949 - Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian clergyman (b. 1874) |
| | 1953 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870) |
| | 1953 - John van Melle, South African author (b. 1887) |
| | 1959 - Frank Sherman Land, founder of DeMolay International (b. 1890) |
| | 1968 - Wendell Corey, American actor (b. 1914) |
| | 1974 - Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer, pianist and songwriter (b. 1914) |
| | 1977 - Bucky Harris, baseball player (b. 1896) |
| | 1978 - Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (b. 1894) |
| | 1983 - Mordecai Kaplan, Rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (b. 1881) |
| | 1985 - Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1899) |
| | 1986 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (b. 1890) |
| | 1993 - Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician (b. 1906) |
| | 1998 - Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913) |
| | 1999 - Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898) |
| | 1999 - Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1941) |
| | 2002 - Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (b. 1931) |
| | 2003 - C. Z. Guest, American socialite (b. 1920) |
| | 2005 - David Westheimer, American novelist (b. 1917) |
| | 2006 - Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (b. 1945) |
| | 2006 - Robin Eaglestone, British bassist (b. 1976) |