| | 498 - Pope Anastasius II |
| | 1478 - Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (b. 1448) |
| | 1492 - Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414) |
| | 1557 - Bona Sforza, Queen of Sigismund I of Poland (b. 1494) |
| | 1577 - Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510) |
| | 1630 - Johann Schein, German composer (b. 1586) |
| | 1649 - Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b. 1576) |
| | 1665 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (b. 1594) |
| | 1672 - John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614) |
| | 1682 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (b. 1619) |
| | 1692 - Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright |
| | 1723 - Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and soldier (b. 1632) |
| | 1772 - William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711) |
| | 1773 - James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (b. 1722) |
| | 1785 - Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720) |
| | 1798 - Wolfe Tone, Irish republican (b. 1763) |
| | 1804 - Pietro Guglielmi, Italian composer (b. 1728) |
| | 1810 - Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and ballet master (b. 1725) |
| | 1822 - Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763) |
| | 1828 - Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (b. 1797) |
| | 1850 - Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician (b. 1780) |
| | 1868 - Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b. 1798) |
| | 1883 - William Siemens, German engineer (b. 1823) |
| | 1887 - Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1849) |
| | 1897 - William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (b. 1810). |
| | 1915 - Joe Hill, American labor activist (executed) (b. 1879) |
| | 1924 - Thomas Ince, American film director (b. 1882) |
| | 1938 - Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (b. 1866) |
| | 1942 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (shot) (b. 1892) |
| | 1959 - Joseph Charbonneau, archbishop of Montreal (b. 1892) |
| | 1960 - Phyllis Haver, American actress (b. 1899) |
| | 1967 - Charles J. Watters, US Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927) |
| | 1974 - George Brunies, American musician (b. 1902) |
| | 1975 - Roger D. Branigin, American politician (b. 1902) |
| | 1976 - Sir Basil Spence, British architect (b. 1907) |
| | 1985 - Stepin Fetchit, American actor and dancer (b. 1907) |
| | 1988 - Christina Onassis, daughter of billionaire Aristotle Onassis (b. 1950) |
| | 1992 - Bobby Russell, American songwriter (b. 1941) |
| | 1992 - Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938) |
| | 1998 - Ted Fujita, American meteorologist of Japanese birth noted for his studies of severe storms. (b. 1920) |
| | 1998 - Alan J. Pakula, American film director (b. 1928) |
| | 2001 - Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (b. 1924) |
| | 2004 - Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b. 1914) |
| | 2004 - Helmut Griem, German actor (b. 1932) |
| | 2004 - Terry Melcher, American musician and record producer (b. 1942) |
| | 2004 - John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927) |
| | 2005 - Erik Balling, Danish TV and film director (b. 1924) |