| | 397 - Martin of Tours, French saint |
| | 405 - Arsacius, intruding archbishop of Constantinople |
| | 537 - Pope Silverius, saint |
| | 1623 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (b. 1549) |
| | 1638 - Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem, Dutch painter (b. 1562) |
| | 1686 - Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (b. 1621) |
| | 1686 - Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor, and politician (b. 1602) |
| | 1812 - Platon Levshin, Metropoitan of Moscow (b. 1737) |
| | 1831 - Nat Turner, American slave rebel (b. 1800) |
| | 1855 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813) |
| | 1862 - James Madison Porter, American politician (b. 1793) |
| | 1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (hanged) |
| | 1880 - Lucretia Mott, American feminist and abolitionist (b. 1793) |
| | 1884 - Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827) |
| | 1887 - Haymarket defendants: |
| | - George Engel (b. 1836) |
| | - Adolph Fischer (b. 1858) |
| | - Albert Parsons (b. 1848) |
| | - August Spies (b. 1855) |
| | 1917 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of Hawaii (b. 1838) |
| | 1918 - George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last person to be killed in W.W.I. (b. 1892) |
| | 1931 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840) |
| | 1938 - Typhoid Mary, carrier of the typhoid disease (b. 1869) |
| | 1939 - Jan Opletal, czech student, victim of nazi violence in Prague |
| | 1945 - Jerome Kern, American composer (b. 1885) |
| | 1972 - Berry Oakley, Bass Player and founder, Allman Brothers Band (b. 1948) |
| | 1973 - David "Stringbean" Akeman, American banjo player (b. 1915) |
| | 1973 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895) |
| | 1974 - Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (b. 1894) |
| | 1976 - Alexander Calder, American artist (b. 1898) |
| | 1977 - Greta Keller, Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (b. 1903) |
| | 1979 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (b. 1894) |
| | 1988 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh Conductor & Organist (b. 1900) |
| | 1993 - Erskine Hawkins, American trumpet player and big band leader (b. 1914) |
| | 1997 - Rodney Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950) |
| | 1999 - Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961) |
| | 1999 - Jacobo Timmerman, Argentine writer and journalist (b. 1923) |
| | 2004 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929) |
| | 2004 - Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (b. 1948) |
| | 2005 - Lord Lichfield, British photographer (b. 1939) |
| | 2005 - Peter Drucker, American management theorist (b. 1909) |
| | 2005 - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer and director. (b. 1930) |
| | 2006 - Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (b. 1974) |
| | 2006 - Harry Lehotsky, Pastor and activist (b. 1957) |