| | 1093 - Saint Margaret of Scotland, wife of Malcolm III of Scotland |
| | 1240 - Edmund Rich, St. Edmund of Canterbury |
| | 1272 - King Henry III of England (b. 1207) |
| | 1328 - Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1276) |
| | 1613 - Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirist (b. 1556) |
| | 1628 - Paolo Quagliati, Italian composer |
| | 1632 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (killed in battle) (b. 1594) |
| | 1695 - Pierre Nicole, French philosopher (b. 1625) |
| | 1724 - Jack Sheppard, English burglar (hanged) (b. 1702) |
| | 1745 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (b. 1665) |
| | 1773 - John Hawkesworth, English writer |
| | 1779 - Pehr Kalm, Finnish explorer and naturalist (b. 1716) |
| | 1790 - Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723) |
| | 1797 - Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744) |
| | 1802 - André Michaux, French botanist (b. 1746) |
| | 1806 - Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1754) |
| | 1836 - Christian Hendrik Persoon, Dutch mycologist (b. 1761) |
| | 1884 - František Chvostek, Moravian physician (b. 1835) |
| | 1885 - Louis Riel, Canadian politician (b. 1844) |
| | 1907 - Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848) |
| | 1908 - Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French-born Canadian politician (b. 1829) |
| | 1911 - Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (b. 1842) |
| | 1922 - Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875) |
| | 1939 - Pierce Butler, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1866) |
| | 1950 - Bob Smith, American doctor, co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1879) |
| | 1960 - Clark Gable, American actor (b. 1901) |
| | 1961 - Sam Rayburn, U.S. Speaker of the House (b. 1882) |
| | 1973 - Alan Watts, English writer (b. 1915) |
| | 1981 - William Holden, American actor (b. 1918) |
| | 1982 - Arthur Askey, British comedian (b. 1900) |
| | 1982 - Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1896) |
| | 1984 - Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (b. 1906) |
| | 1986 - Siobhán McKenna, Irish stage and screen actress (b. 1923) |
| | 1987 - Jim Brewer, Major League Baseball relief pitcher (b. 1937) |
| | 1993 - Achille Zavatta, French clown (b. 1915) |
| | 1994 - Doris Speed, British actress (b. 1899) |
| | 1994 - Dino Valente, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b.1943) |
| | 1995 - Jack Finney, American author (b. 1911) |
| | 1999 - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1928) |
| | 2000 - DJ Screw, American hiphop DJ (b. 1971) |
| | 2001 - Tommy Flanagan, American jazz pianist (b. 1930) |
| | 2003 - Bettina Goislard, French relief worker (b. 1974) |
| | 2005 - Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) |
| | 2005 - Robert Tisch, American football team owner (b. 1926) |
| | 2005 - Donald Watson, English founder of the Vegan Society (b. 1910) |
| | 2006 - Art Donovan, American footballer (b. 1925) |
| | 2006 - Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912) |