| | 627 - Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| | 1444 - King Vladislaus III of Varna is killed in battle (b. 1424) |
| | 1549 - Pope Paul III (b. 1468) |
| | 1596 - Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530) |
| | 1605 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (b. 1522) |
| | 1617 - Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer |
| | 1624 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (b. 1573) |
| | 1644 - Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579) |
| | 1673 - Michal Wisniowiecki, King of Poland (b. 1640) |
| | 1727 - Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b. 1659) |
| | 1728 - Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admirals (b. 1661) |
| | 1772 - Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724) |
| | 1777 - Cornstalk, Shawnee chief |
| | 1808 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (b. 1724) |
| | 1891 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, (b. 1854) |
| | 1909 - Renee Vivien, American poet (b. 1877) |
| | 1912 - Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863) |
| | 1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and the first President of Turkey (b. 1881) |
| | 1964 - Jimmie Dodd, American actor (b. 1910) |
| | 1975 - Ernest M. McSorley, American ship captain (b. 1912) |
| | 1982 - Leonid Brezhnev, ruler of the Soviet Union (b. 1906) |
| | 1981 - Abel Gance, French film director, producer, and actor (b. 1889) |
| | 1985 - Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish hockey player (b. 1959) |
| | 1986 - King Clancy, Canadian hockey player, coach, and referee (b. 1903) |
| | 1990 - Aurelio Monteagudo, baseball player (b. 1943) |
| | 1990 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914) |
| | 1991 - William Afflis, American professional wrestler (b. 1929) |
| | 1992 - Chuck Connors, American actor, baseball and basketball player (b. 1921) |
| | 1994 - Carmen McRae, American singer (b. 1920) |
| | 1995 - Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and activist (b. 1941) |
| | 1997 - Tommy Tedesco, American musician (b. 1930) |
| | 2000 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Prime Minister of France (b. 1915) |
| | 2001 - Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935) |
| | 2002 - Michel Boisrond, French film director (b. 1921) |
| | 2003 - Frank Robinson (Xylophone Man) An eccentric street entertainer in Nottingham, England (b.1932) |
| | 2003 - Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936) |
| | 2003 - Irv "Kup" Kupcinet, American columnist and television personality (b. 1912) |
| | 2006 - Diana Coupland, British comedy actress (b. 1932) |
| | 2006 - Gerald Levert, American singer (b. 1966) |
| | 2006 - Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919) |
| | 2006 - Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962) |