| | 1135 - Henry I of England |
| | 1241 - Isabella of England, wife of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1214) |
| | 1377 - King Magnus II of Sweden (b. 1316) |
| | 1433 - Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (b. 1377) |
| | 1455 - Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian artist and metal smith (b. 1378) |
| | 1521 - Pope Leo X (b. 1475) |
| | 1530 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (b. 1480) |
| | 1580 - Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509) |
| | 1581 - Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (martyred) (b. 1540) |
| | 1581 - Ralph Sherwin, English Catholic saint (b. 1550) |
| | 1602 - Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1582) |
| | 1633 - Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (b. 1566) |
| | 1660 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1592) |
| | 1707 - Jeremiah Clarke, English composer (b. 1674) |
| | 1709 - Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian preacher (b. 1644) |
| | 1723 - Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist and actress |
| | 1729 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (b. 1665) |
| | 1750 - Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671) |
| | 1755 - Maurice Greene, English composer (b. 1696) |
| | 1767 - Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (b. 1710) |
| | 1825 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777) |
| | 1830 - Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761) |
| | 1923 - Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (b. 1836) |
| | 1928 - José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888) |
| | 1934 - Sergei Kirov, Russian revolutionary (b. 1886) |
| | 1943 - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (b. 1862) |
| | 1947 - Aleister Crowley, English occultist (b. 1875) |
| | 1950 - E. J. Moeran, English composer (b. 1894) |
| | 1954 - Fred Rose, American songwriter and music publishing executive (b. 1897) |
| | 1964 - J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (b. 1892) |
| | 1968 - Dario Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer (b. 1921) |
| | 1969 - Magic Sam, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1937) |
| | 1973 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886) |
| | 1975 - Nellie Fox, baseball player (b. 1927) |
| | 1975 - Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality (b. 1906) |
| | 1986 - Lee Dorsey, American R&B singer (b. 1924) |
| | 1987 - James Baldwin, American writer (b. 1924) |
| | 1987 - Punch Imlach, National Hockey Leaguecoach and general manager (b. 1918) |
| | 1989 - Alvin Ailey, American dancer, choreographer (b. 1931) |
| | 1991 - George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1911) |
| | 1996 - Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1928) |
| | 1997 - Audree Wilson, mother of three founding members of The Beach Boys (b. 1917) |
| | 1997 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (b. 1908) |
| | 1997 - Michel Bélanger, French Canadian businessman and banker (b. 1929) |
| | 2002 - Dave McNally, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1942) |
| | 2003 - Clark Kerr, first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (b. 1911) |
| | 2004 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911) |
| | 2006 - Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948) |
| | 2006 - Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist, McGill University (b. 1937) |