| | 8 BC - Horace, Roman poet (b. 65 BC) |
| | 511 - Clovis I, King of the Franks |
| | 835 - Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam (b. 811) |
| | 1198 - Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1154) |
| | 1474 - Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer |
| | 1570 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486) |
| | 1592 - Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1568) |
| | 1592 - King John III of Sweden (b. 1537) |
| | 1632 - John Eliot, English statesman (b. 1592) |
| | 1680 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b. 1601) |
| | 1754 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667) |
| | 1811 - Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719) |
| | 1852 - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815) |
| | 1895 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (b. 1824) |
| | 1901 - Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1831) |
| | 1908 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b. 1827) |
| | 1931 - Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899) |
| | 1932 - Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (b. 1896) |
| | 1934 - Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (b. 1908) |
| | 1940 - Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer and politician (executed) |
| | 1944 - Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879) |
| | 1953 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer and Nobel Prize laureate |
| | 1955 - Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1892) |
| | 1958 - Artur Rodzinski, Polish conductor (b. 1892) |
| | 1973 - Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1887) |
| | 1975 - Ross McWhirter, British co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925) |
| | 1978 - Harvey Milk, American politician (assassinated) (b. 1930) |
| | 1978 - George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (assassinated) (b. 1929) |
| | 1980 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect {b. 1882) |
| | 1981 - Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b. 1898) |
| | 1988 - John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906) |
| | 1990 - David White, American actor (b. 1916) |
| | 1992 - Ivan Generalic, Croatian painter (b. 1914) |
| | 1994 - Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (b. 1906) |
| | 1998 - Barbara Acklin, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943) |
| | 1999 - Yasuhiro Kojima, wrestler (b. 1937) |
| | 1999 - Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and author (b. 1925) |
| | 2005 - Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919) |
| | 2005 - Joe Jones, American R&B singer (b. 1926) |
| | 2006 - Don Butterfield, American tuba player (b. 1923) |
| | 2006 - Bebe Moore Campbell, American author (b. (1950) |
| | 2006 - Alan Freeman, British disc jockey known by his nickname 'Fluff' (b. 1927) |