| | 311 - Peter of Alexandria, Christian martyr |
| | 1034 - King Malcolm II of Scotland |
| | 1120 - William Adelin, son of Henry I of England (drowned) (b. 1104) |
| | 1185 - Pope Lucius III (b. 1097) |
| | 1326 - Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1264) |
| | 1374 - Philip II of Taranto, Emperor of Costantinople (b. 1329) |
| | 1456 - Jacques Cœur, French merchant |
| | 1560 - Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (b. 1466) |
| | 1626 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (b. 1566) |
| | 1686 - Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (b. 1638) |
| | 1694 - Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (b. 1605) |
| | 1700 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native Mayor of New York (b. 1643) |
| | 1748 - Isaac Watts, British hymnwriter (b. 1674) |
| | 1755 - Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (b. 1687) |
| | 1785 - Richard Glover, British poet (b. 1712) |
| | 1865 - Heinrich Barth, German explorer (b. 1821) |
| | 1881 - Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (b. 1794) |
| | 1884 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818) |
| | 1885 - King Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857) |
| | 1885 - Thomas Hendricks, Vice President of the United States (b. 1819) |
| | 1920 - Gaston Chevrolet, French-born American race car driver and automobile pioneer (b. 1892) |
| | 1944 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American baseball commissioner (b. 1866) |
| | 1947 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (b. 1876) |
| | 1950 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873) |
| | 1959 - Gérard Philipe, French actor (b. 1922) |
| | 1965 - Dame Myra Hess, British pianist (b. 1890) |
| | 1968 - Upton Sinclair, American journalist, politician, and writer (b. 1878) |
| | 1968 - Paul Siple, American explorer of the Antarctic. (b. 1908) |
| | 1970 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (b. 1925) |
| | 1972 - Henri Coanda, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (b. 1886) |
| | 1973 - Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born actor (b. 1928) |
| | 1974 - Nick Drake, British singer and songwriter (b. 1948) |
| | 1974 - U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary-General (b. 1909) |
| | 1978 - Elaine Esposito, American woman who hold the record for longest coma (b. 1934) |
| | 1981 - Jack Albertson, American actor (b. 1907) |
| | 1985 - Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (b. 1926) |
| | 1987 - Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1922) |
| | 1989 - Alva R. Fitch, American World War II and Korean soldier (b. 1907) |
| | 1997 - Barbara, French singer (b. 1930) |
| | 1998 - Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (b. 1906) |
| | 1998 - Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933) |
| | 2002 - Karel Reisz, Czech theater director (b. 1926) |
| | 2005 - George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946) |
| | 2005 - Richard Burns, English race car driver (b. 1971) |
| | 2006 - Leo Chiosso, Italian poet (b. 1920) |
| | 2006 - Valentin Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979) |
| | 2006 - Sean Bell, American shooting victim (b. 1980) |