| | 607 - Pope Boniface III |
| | 1035 - Canute the Great |
| | 1094 - King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060) |
| | 1434 - King Louis III of Naples |
| | 1555 - Stephen Gardiner, English stateman |
| | 1595 - John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (b. 1532) |
| | 1667 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (b. 1598) |
| | 1671 - Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general (b. 1612) |
| | 1742 - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660) |
| | 1757 - Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671) |
| | 1836 - Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773) |
| | 1865 - Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (b. 1810) |
| | 1916 - Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona (b. 1855) |
| | 1939 - Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (b. 1890) |
| | 1941 - Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, American mobster (b. 1907) |
| | 1948 - Umberto Giordano, Italain composer (b. 1867) |
| | 1955 - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878) |
| | 1972 - Rudolf Friml, composer of operettas (b. 1879) |
| | 1976 - Walter Piston, American composer (b. 1894) |
| | 1981 - William Holden, American actor (b. 1918) |
| | 1984 - Chester Himes, American author (b. 1909) |
| | 1990 - Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908) |
| | 1993 - H. R. Haldeman, White House Chief of Staff (b. 1926) |
| | 1994 - Wilma Rudolph, American runner (b. 1940) |
| | 1997 - Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915) |
| | 2000 - Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, (b. 1928) |
| | 2000 - Franck Pourcel, French popular orchestra leader (b. 1913) |
| | 2001 - Tony Miles, English chess player (b. 1955) |
| | 2003 - Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976) |
| | 2003 - Penny Singleton, American actress (b. 1908) |
| | 2003 - Tony Thompson, American drummer (CHIC, Power Station) (b. 1954) |
| | 2003 - Kay E. Kuter, American actor (b. 1925) |
| | 2004 - Tito Francona, baseball player (b. 1933) |
| | 2005 - William G. Adams, former mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. (b. 1923) |
| | 2006 - General Jacob E. Smart, US Air Force leader World War II (b. 1909) |