| | 947 - Berthold, Duke of Bavaria |
| | 955 - Edred, King of England (b. c. 923) |
| | 1407 - Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France (murdered) (b. 1372) |
| | 1457 - King Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1440) |
| | 1499 - Perkin Warbeck, Flemish imposter (b. 1474) |
| | 1503 - Margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1446) |
| | 1572 - Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet (b. 1503) |
| | 1585 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (b. 1505) |
| | 1616 - Richard Hakluyt, English writer (b. 1552) |
| | 1682 - Claude Lorrain, French painter (b. 1604) |
| | 1763 - Friedrich Graf von Seckendorf, German soldier (b. 1673) |
| | 1769 - Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (b. 1711) |
| | 1783 - Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (b. 1714) |
| | 1803 - Roger Newdigate, British politician (b. 1719) |
| | 1804 - Richard Graves, British writer (b. 1715) |
| | 1807 - Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (b. 1747) |
| | 1814 - Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States of America (b. 1744) |
| | 1833 - Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (b. 1762) |
| | 1890 - King William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817) |
| | 1902 - Walter Reed, American bacteriologist (b. 1851) |
| | 1923 - Urmuz, Romanian writer (b. 1883) |
| | 1934 - Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895) |
| | 1937 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858) |
| | 1937 - George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b. 1858) |
| | 1948 - Hack Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1900) |
| | 1966 - Sean O'Kelly, President of Ireland (b. 1882) |
| | 1972 - Marie Wilson, American actress (b. 1916) |
| | 1973 - Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (b. 1889) |
| | 1974 - Cornelius Ryan, Irish-born author (b. 1920) |
| | 1976 - André Malraux, French author (b. 1901) |
| | 1979 - Merle Oberon, British actress (b. 1911) |
| | 1979 - Judee Sill, American musician and songwriter (b. 1944) |
| | 1983 - Tom Evans, British guitarist (Badfinger) (b. 1947) |
| | 1990 - Roald Dahl, British author (b. 1916) |
| | 1990 - Bo Diaz, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1953) |
| | 1991 - Klaus Kinski, German actor (b. 1926) |
| | 1992 - Roy Acuff, American musician (b. 1903) |
| | 1992 - Jean-François Thiriart, Belgian politician (b. 1922) |
| | 1994 - Art Barr, American professional wrestler (b. 1966) |
| | 1994 - Tommy Boyce, American songwriter (b. 1939) |
| | 1995 - Louis Malle, French film director (b. 1932) |
| | 1995 - Jr. Walker, American musician (b. 1931) |
| | 1996 - Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photojournalist (b. 1943) |
| | 1996 - Art Porter, Jr., American jazz musician (b. 1961) |
| | 1997 - Jorge Más Canosa, anti-Castro activist (b. 1939) |
| | 2001 - Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (b. 1936) |
| | 2001 - O.C. Smith, American singer (b. 1932) |
| | 2002 - Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b. 1911) |
| | 2004 - Pete Franklin, American talk radio host (b. 1928) |
| | 2005 - Frank Gatski, American football player (center) (b. 1919) |
| | 2005 - Constance Cummings, American-born British actress (b. 1910) |
| | 2006 - Nick Clarke, English radio presenter (b. 1948) |
| | 2006 - Betty Comden, American lyricist (b. 1917) |
| | 2006 - Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (b. 1962) |
| | 2006 - Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930) |
| | 2006 - Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919) |
| | 2006 - Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922) |