| | 870 - King Edmund of East Anglia |
| | 1316 - King John I of France (d. 1316) |
| | 1437 - Thomas Langley, bishop of Durham, cardinal and lord chancellor (b. 1363) |
| | 1518 - Marmaduke Constable, English soldier |
| | 1518 - Pierre de La Rue, Flemish composer |
| | 1529 - Karl von Miltitz, papal nuncio |
| | 1591 - Christopher Hatton, English politician (b. 1540) |
| | 1612 - John Harington, English writer (b. 1561) |
| | 1651 - Mikolaj Potocki, Polish soldier (b. 1595) |
| | 1662 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1614) |
| | 1695 - Zumbi, Brazilian runaway slave |
| | 1737 - Caroline of Ansbach, Queen of George II of Great Britain (b. 1683) |
| | 1742 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (b. 1661) |
| | 1758 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b. 1694) |
| | 1764 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (b. 1690) |
| | 1778 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (b. 1726) |
| | 1856 - Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1775) |
| | 1894 - Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1829) |
| | 1908 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (b. 1868) |
| | 1910 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (b. 1828) |
| | 1925 - Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (b. 1844) |
| | 1934 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist (b. 1872) |
| | 1936 - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (b. 1896) |
| | 1936 - Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Founder of the Falange. Executed by firing squad. (b. 1903) |
| | 1945 - Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1877) |
| | 1950 - Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (b. 1866) |
| | 1954 - Clyde Vernon Cessna, aviation pioneer (Cessna) (b. 1879) |
| | 1957 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian artist (d. 1875) |
| | 1973 - Allan Sherman, American comedian (b. 1924) |
| | 1975 - Francisco Franco, Head of State of Spain (1936-1975) (b. 1892) |
| | 1976 - Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist (b. 1898) |
| | 1978 - Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet (b. 1890) |
| | 1980 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900) |
| | 1983 - Marcel Dalio, French actor (b. 1900) |
| | 1994 - John Lucarotti, TV writer (b. 1926) |
| | 1995 - Sergei Grinkov, Russian Olympic and World Figure Skating Champion, (b. 1967) |
| | 1997 - Dick Littlefield, baseball player (b. 1926) |
| | 1998 - Galina Starovoitova, Russian politician (b. 1946) |
| | 1999 - Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician and prime minister (b. 1908) |
| | 2000 - Mike Muuss, American computer programmer (b. 1958) |
| | 2000 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish writer (b. 1919) |
| | 2003 - Robert Addie, British actor (cancer) (b. 1960) |
| | 2003 - David Dacko, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930) |
| | 2003 - Eugene Kleiner, American entrepreneur (b. 1923) |
| | 2003 - Roger Short, British Consulate General (b. 1944) |
| | 2003 - Jim Siedow, American actor (b. 1920) |
| | 2003 - Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (b. 1945) |
| | 2003 - Loris Azzaro, French fashion designer (b. 1933) |
| | 2004 - David Grierson, Canadian radio host (b. 1955) |
| | 2004 - Jenny Ross, English musician (Section 25) (b. 1962) |
| | 2005 - Sheldon Gardner, American psychologist (b. 1934) |
| | 2005 - James King, American singer (b. 1925) |
| | 2005 - Chris Whitley, American musician (b. 1960) |
| | 2006 - Robert Altman, American film director (b. 1925) |
| | 2006 - Andre Waters, American football player (b. 1962) |
| | 2006 - Zoia Ceausescu, Romanian mathematician (b. 1950) |