| | 654 - Emperor Kotoku of Japan |
| | 1468 - Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402) |
| | 1531 - Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (b. 1482) |
| | 1541 - Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (b. 1489) |
| | 1572 - John Knox, Scottish reformer |
| | 1583 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b. 1506) |
| | 1615 - Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (b. 1556) |
| | 1650 - Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer (b. 1566) |
| | 1722 - Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (b. 1623) |
| | 1741 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (b. 1688) |
| | 1770 - Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (b. 1685) |
| | 1775 - Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (b. 1703) |
| | 1781 - James Caldwell, American revolutionary (b. 1734) |
| | 1793 - Clément Charles François de Laverdy, French statesman (b. 1723) |
| | 1801 - Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725) |
| | 1807 - Joseph Brant, Mohawk leader (b. 1742) |
| | 1848 - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779) |
| | 1870 - Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (b. 1846) |
| | 1890 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (b. 1816) |
| | 1916 - Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born gunsmith (b. 1840) |
| | 1922 - Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist (executed) (b. 1870) |
| | 1929 - Georges Clemenceau, Premier of France (b. 1841) |
| | 1943 - Doris Miller, American navy cook (b. 1919) |
| | 1956 - Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (b. 1920) |
| | 1957 - Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886) |
| | 1958 - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British politician, Nobel laureate (b. 1864) |
| | 1959 - Dally Messenger, Australian rugby league player (b. 1883) |
| | 1960 - Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882) |
| | 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939) |
| | 1965 - Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895) |
| | 1973 - John Neihardt, American writer (b. 1881) |
| | 1980 - George Raft, American actor (b. 1895) |
| | 1985 - Big Joe Turner, American singer (b. 1911) |
| | 1987 - Jehane Benoît, French Canadian culinary author and commentator (b. 1904) |
| | 1990 - Fred Shero, National Hockey League player and coach (b. 1925) |
| | 1991 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen) (b. 1946) |
| | 1991 - Eric Carr, American drummer (KISS) (b. 1950) |
| | 1996 - Sorley MacLean, British poet (b. 1911) |
| | 2002 - John Rawls, Political philosopher (b. 1921) |
| | 2003 - Floquet de Neu, Ecuato Guinean albino gorilla (b. 1964) |
| | 2003 - Warren Spahn, Major League Baseball player (b. 1921) |
| | 2004 - Wong Jim, Hong Kong songwriter (b. 1940) |
| | 2004 - Arthur Hailey, British-born author (b. 1920) |
| | 2005 - Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932) |
| | 2006 - Juice Leskinen, Finnish rock singer and writer (b. 1950) |
| | 2006 - George W. S. Trow, American writer (b. 1943) |
| | 2006 - Zdenek Veselovský, Czech zoologist (b. 1928) |