| | 496 - Pope Gelasius I |
| | 1361 - Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346) |
| | 1555 - Georg Agricola, German scientist (b. 1490) |
| | 1566 - Annibale Caro, Italian poet (b. 1507 |
| | 1579 - Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier |
| | 1652 - Jan Brozek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585) |
| | 1695 - Henry Purcell, English composer |
| | 1775 - John Hill, British writer |
| | 1811 - Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (b. 1777) |
| | 1844 - Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (b. 1769) |
| | 1881 - Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (b. 1794) |
| | 1899 - Garret Hobart, Vice President of the United States (b. 1844) |
| | 1916 - Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (b. 1830) |
| | 1924 - Florence Harding, American First Lady (b. 1860) |
| | 1941 - Henrietta Vinton Davis American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator, public speaker (b. 1860). |
| | 1942 - Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (b. 1863) |
| | 1945 - Robert Benchley, American writer and actor (b. 1889) |
| | 1953 - Larry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1893) |
| | 1957 - Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (b. 1873) |
| | 1958 - Mel Ott, American baseball player (b. 1909) |
| | 1959 - Max Baer, American boxer (b. 1909) |
| | 1963 - Robert Stroud (The Birdman of Alcatraz), American prisoner (b. 1890) |
| | 1969 - Mutesa II of Buganda, President of Uganda (1924) |
| | 1970 - Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) |
| | 1970 - Newsy Lalonde, National Hockey League player (b. 1887) |
| | 1974 - John B. Gambling, American radio talk show host (b. 1897) |
| | 1974 - Frank Martin, Swiss composer (b. 1890) |
| | 1981 - Harry Von Zell, American announcer (b. 1906) |
| | 1982 - John Hargrave, British Social Credit advocate (b. 1894) |
| | 1986 - Jerry Colonna, American comic (b. 1904) |
| | 1986 - Dar Robinson, American film stuntman (b. 1947) |
| | 1988 - Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (b. 1903) |
| | 1990 - Dean Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1954) |
| | 1991 - Sonny Werblin, former owner of the New York Jets (b. 1907) |
| | 1993 - Bill Bixby, American actor and director (b. 1934) |
| | 1995 - Peter Grant, British rock manager, actor (Led Zeppelin,Bad Company) (b. 1935) |
| | 1995 - Noel Jones, British diplomat (b. 1940) |
| | 1996 - Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926) |
| | 1999 - Quentin Crisp, British writer, raconteur and actor (b. 1908) |
| | 2000 - Emil Zátopek, Czech long distance runner (b. 1922) |
| | 2001 - Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj, King of Malaysia (b. 1926) |
| | 2002 - Hadda Brooks, American jazz singer, pianist, and composer (b. 1916) |
| | 2005 - Alfred Anderson, last Scottish World War I veteran (b. 1896) |
| | 2005 - Hugh Sidey, American journalist (b. 1927) |
| | 2006 - Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese Cabinet minister, assasinated (b. 1972) |
| | 2006 - Robert Lockwood Jr., American blues guitarist. (b. 1915) |