| | 1154 - Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092) |
| | 1305 - John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239) |
| | 1559 - Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474) |
| | 1590 - George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528) |
| | 1724 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685) |
| | 1785 - Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725) |
| | 1797 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719) |
| | 1814 - William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745) |
| | 1886 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829) |
| | 1889 - William Allingham, Irish author |
| | 1922 - Marcel Proust, French novelist (b. 1871) |
| | 1941 - Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864) |
| | 1941 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867) |
| | 1941 - Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (b. 1879) |
| | 1952 - Paul Eluard, French poet (b. 1895) |
| | 1962 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885) |
| | 1965 - Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (b. 1888) |
| | 1967 - Luis Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan president (b. 1922) |
| | 1969 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician (b. 1888) |
| | 1969 - Ted Heath, British musician and bandleader (b. 1902) |
| | 1972 - Danny Whitten, American musician and songwriter (b. 1943) |
| | 1976 - Man Ray, American artist (b. 1890) |
| | 1977 - Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (b. 1897) |
| | 1978 - Jim Jones, American cult leader suicide (b. 1931) |
| | 1978 - Leo Ryan, U.S. Congressman (b. 1925) |
| | 1979 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, baseball player (b. 1901) |
| | 1980 - Conn Smythe, NHL coach 1927-1931 (b. 1895) |
| | 1982 - Duk Koo Kim, Korean boxer (b. 1959) |
| | 1984 - Mary Hamman, American writer and editor, modern living editor LIFE and eidtor in chief Bride & Home (b. 1907) |
| | 1986 - Gia Carangi, American model AIDS (b. 1960) |
| | 1987 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist cancer (b. 1934) |
| | 1991 - Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1913) |
| | 1994 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader (b. 1907) |
| | 1999 - Paul Bowles, American novelist (b. 1910) |
| | 2002 - James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928) |
| | 2003 - Michael Kamen, American composer (b. 1948) |
| | 2004 - Cy Coleman, American composer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1929) |