| | 741 - St. Gregory III |
| | 1170 - Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd |
| | 1262 - Shinran, Japanese religious leader (b. 1173) |
| | 1290 - Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I of England (b. 1241) |
| | 1574 - Georg Major, German protestant theologian (b. 1502) |
| | 1585 - Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (b. 1532) |
| | 1667 - Jean de Thévenot, French traveller and scientist (b. 1633) |
| | 1675 - Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier |
| | 1675 - Leonard Hoar, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630) |
| | 1680 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian baroque sculptor (b. 1598) |
| | 1680 - Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1606) |
| | 1694 - Matsuo Basho, Japanese poet (b. 1644) |
| | 1695 - Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Italian composer |
| | 1695 - Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (b. 1632) |
| | 1698 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622) |
| | 1794 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (b. 1730) |
| | 1801 - Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (b. 1750) |
| | 1815 - Johann Peter Salomon, German violinist, impresario, and composer (d. 1745) |
| | 1852 - Ludger Duvernay, French printer and newspaper publisher (b. 1799) |
| | 1859 - Washington Irving, American writer (b. 1783) |
| | 1870 - Frédéric Bazille, French painter (b. 1841) |
| | 1872 - Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780) |
| | 1878 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805) |
| | 1907 - Stanislaw Wyspianski, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (b. 1869) |
| | 1912 - Walter Benona Sharp, American oil tycoon (b. 1870) |
| | 1915 - Mubarak Al-Sabah "The Great", Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896) |
| | 1921 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1844) |
| | 1935 - Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1877) |
| | 1939 - James Naismith, Canadian creator of basketball (b. 1861) |
| | 1945 - Dwight F. Davis, U.S. Secretary of War and donor of the Davis cup (b. 1879) |
| | 1947 - Philippe Leclerc, French general (b. 1902) |
| | 1954 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901) |
| | 1960 - Richard Wright, American author (b. 1908) |
| | 1962 - Queen Mother Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (b. 1880) |
| | 1963 - Karyn Kupcinet, American actress (b. 1941) |
| | 1968 - Enid Blyton, British children's author (b. 1897) |
| | 1972 - Havergal Brian, British composer (b. 1875) |
| | 1973 - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (b. 1886) |
| | 1976 - Rosalind Russell, American actress (b. 1907) |
| | 1977 - Trevor Bardette, American actor (b. 1902) |
| | 1983 - Christopher George, American actor (b. 1929) |
| | 1986 - Herb Vigran, American actor (b. 1910) |
| | 1987 - Choh Hao Li, Chinese biochemist (b. 1913) |
| | 1992 - Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (b. 1917) |
| | 1993 - Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf) (b. 1946) |
| | 1994 - Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960) |
| | 1994 - Jerry Rubin, American activist (b. 1938) |
| | 2000 - Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895) |
| | 2001 - William Kienzle, American author (b. 1928) |
| | 2001 - Kal Mann, American lyricist (b. 1917) |
| | 2002 - Dave "Snaker" Ray, American blues musician (b. 1943) |
| | 2003 - Antonia Forest, British children's author (b. 1915) |
| | 2006 - Lyubov Polishchuk, Russian actress (b. 1949) |