| | 867 - Pope Nicholas I |
| | 1004 - Abbon of Fleury |
| | 1093 - King Malcolm III of Scotland (b. 1031) |
| | 1143 - King Fulk of Jerusalem |
| | 1170 - Albert I of Brandenburg |
| | 1314 - Albert the Degenerate |
| | 1345 - Constance of Penafiel, wife of Pedro I of Portugal (b. 1323) |
| | 1359 - Ivan II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1326) |
| | 1460 - Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (b. 1394) |
| | 1606 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530) |
| | 1619 - Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1555) |
| | 1770 - George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1712) |
| | 1771 - Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor (b. 1712) |
| | 1862 - Ludwig Uhland, German poet (b. 1787) |
| | 1867 - Adolphe Napoleon Didron, French archaeologist (b. 1806) |
| | 1868 - Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer (b. 1792) |
| | 1903 - Camille Pissarro, French painter (b. 1830) |
| | 1952 - Margaret Wise Brown, American children's author (b. 1910) |
| | 1954 - Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (b. 1881) |
| | 1967 - Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b. 1895) |
| | 1968 - Andre Prudhommeaux, French anarchist, bookseller (b. 1902) |
| | 1973 - Lila Lee, American actress (b. 1901) |
| | 1974 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian film director (b. 1901) |
| | 1974 - Karen Silkwood, American activist (b. 1946) |
| | 1975 - Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (b. 1910) |
| | 1982 - Hugues Lapointe, French Canadian politician, lieutenant governor of Quebec (b. 1911) |
| | 1986 - Thierry Le Luron, French humorist (b. 1952) |
| | 1988 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (b. 1906) |
| | 1988 - Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (b. 1902) |
| | 1989 - Victor Davis, Canadian olympic swimmer (b. 1964) |
| | 1991 - Paul-Émile Cardinal Léger, archbishop of Montreal (b. 1904) |
| | 1994 - Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924) |
| | 1996 - Swami Rama, Himalayan yoga master (b. 1925) |
| | 1996 - Bill Doggett, American pianist and organist (b. 1916) |
| | 1997 - André Boucourechliev, French composer (b. 1925) |
| | 1997 - Dawud M. Mu'Min, American convicted murderer (b. 1953) |
| | 1998 - Michel Trudeau, Canadian outdoorsman, son of Pierre Trudeau (b. 1975) |
| | 1998 - Edwige Feuillère, French film actress (b. 1907) |
| | 2003 - Kellie Waymire, American actress (b. 1967) |
| | 2004 - John Balance, English musician and artist (b. 1962) |
| | 2004 - Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (b. 1968) |
| | 2005 - Eddie Guerrero, professional wrestler (b. 1967) |
| | 2005 - Vine Deloria, Jr., Native American author, theologian, historian, and activist. (b. 1933) |