| | 375 - Valentinian I, Roman Emperor (b. 321) |
| | 594 - Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (b. c.539) |
| | 641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593) |
| | 680 - Hilda of Whitby (b. 614) |
| | 1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1207) |
| | 1326 - Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285) |
| | 1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463) |
| | 1558 - Mary I of England (b. 1516) |
| | 1558 - Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1500) |
| | 1562 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518) |
| | 1592 - John III of Sweden (b. 1537) |
| | 1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542) |
| | 1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594) |
| | 1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France (b. 1602) |
| | 1648 - Thomas Ford, English composer |
| | 1665 - John Earle, English bishop |
| | 1668 - Joseph Alleine, English preacher (b. 1634) |
| | 1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (b. 1610) |
| | 1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631) |
| | 1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653) |
| | 1720 - Calico Jack, English pirate |
| | 1747 - Alain-René Lesage, French writer (b. 1668) |
| | 1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1693) |
| | 1776 - James Ferguson, British astronomer (b. 1710) |
| | 1780 - Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720) |
| | 1794 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738) |
| | 1796 - Catherine II of Russia, Empress of Russia (b. 1729) |
| | 1808 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721) |
| | 1835 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1758) |
| | 1858 - Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771) |
| | 1902 - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist Social Reformer (b. 1847) |
| | 1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817) |
| | 1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840) |
| | 1922 - Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1847) |
| | 1929 - Herman Hollerith, American statistician (b. 1860) |
| | 1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861) |
| | 1937 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer (b. 1860) |
| | 1938 - Ante Trumbic, Croatian politician (b. 1864) |
| | 1940 - Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882) |
| | 1940 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879) |
| | 1942 - Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (b. 1879) |
| | 1947 - Victor Serge, French anarchist, novelist, and historian (b. 1890) |
| | 1955 - James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (b. 1894) |
| | 1958 - Mort Cooper, baseball player (b. 1913) |
| | 1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887) |
| | 1968 - Mervyn Peake, British writer (b. 1911) |
| | 1979 - John Glascock, British bassist (Jethro Tull) |
| | 1980 - Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st Sufi master of Oveyssi order (b. 1916) |
| | 1982 - Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905) |
| | 1982 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan, Russian violinist (b. 1924) |
| | 1986 - Georges Besse, French automobile executive (b. 1927) |
| | 1987 - Paul Derringer, baseball player (b. 1906) |
| | 1989 - Gus Farace, American gangster (b. 1960) |
| | 1990 - Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) |
| | 1993 - Gérard D. Lévesque, Canadian politician (b. 1926) |
| | 1998 - Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920) |
| | 2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904) |
| | 2001 - Michael Karoli, German guitarist (b. 1948) |
| | 2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (b. 1915) |
| | 2003 - Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946) |
| | 2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928) |
| | 2004 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970) |
| | 2004 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941) |
| | 2005 - Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942) |
| | 2006 - Ruth Brown, American blues singer (b. 1928) |
| | 2006 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927) |
| | 2006 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929) |
| | 2006 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924) |