| | 959 - Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 905) |
| | 1187 - Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107) |
| | 1208 - Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155) |
| | 1504 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452) |
| | 1623 - William Camden, English historian (b. 1551) |
| | 1641 - Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo |
| | 1766 - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692) |
| | 1770 - John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician |
| | 1778 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (b. 1720) |
| | 1809 - Paul Sandby, English cartographer (b. 1725) |
| | 1848 - Robert Blum, German politician (b. 1810) |
| | 1911 - Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853) |
| | 1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880) |
| | 1919 - Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848) |
| | 1937 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866) |
| | 1938 - Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b.1889) |
| | 1940 - Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876) |
| | 1940 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869) |
| | 1942 - Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883) |
| | 1944 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877) |
| | 1951 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (b. 1887) |
| | 1952 - Chaim Weizmann, 1st President of Israel (b. 1874) |
| | 1953 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914) |
| | 1953 - Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, firs King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1880) |
| | 1957 - Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (b. 1872) |
| | 1970 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (b. 1890) |
| | 1971 - Maude Fealy, American actor (b. 1881) |
| | 1977 - Fred Haney, American baseball player (b. 1898) |
| | 1980 - Victor Sen Yung, American actor (b. 1915) |
| | 1988 - Father David Bauer, Canadian professional ice hockey player and builder (b. 1924) |
| | 1988 - John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General (b. 1913) |
| | 1991 - Yves Montand, French actor (b. 1921) |
| | 1997 - Helenio Herrera, French football player and coach |
| | 1998 - Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914) |
| | 2000 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915) |
| | 2002 - William Schutz, American psychologist |
| | 2003 - Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918) |
| | 2003 - Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter (b. 1912) |
| | 2003 - Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili literateur (b.1937) |
| | 2004 - Iris Chang, American author (b. 1968) |
| | 2005 - K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1921) |
| | 2006 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941) |
| | 2006 - Markus Wolf, East German Intelligence Director (b. 1923) |