| | 1348 - Emperor Hanazono of Japan (b. 1297) |
| | 1381 - John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic |
| | 1463 - Archduke Albert VI of Austria (b. 1418) |
| | 1469 - Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1416) |
| | 1515 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (b. 1453) |
| | 1547 - Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer and conqueror (b. 1485) |
| | 1552 - Francis Xavier, Spanish Catholic missionary (b. 1506) |
| | 1594 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (b. 1512) |
| | 1615 - Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon, French general |
| | 1665 - Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, French socialite (b. 1588) |
| | 1694 - Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (b. 1622) |
| | 1719 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (b. 1634) |
| | 1723 - Philip II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (b. 1674) |
| | 1726 - Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (b. 1665) |
| | 1747 - Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (b. 1695) |
| | 1748 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (b. 1662) |
| | 1774 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer and organist (b. 1720) |
| | 1814 - Marquis de Sade, French writer (b. 1740) |
| | 1844 - Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (b. 1768) |
| | 1849 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, wife of William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1792) |
| | 1859 - John Brown, American abolitionist (hanged) (b. 1800) |
| | 1860 - Alfred Bunn, British theatrical manager (b. 1796) |
| | 1892 - Jay Gould, American entrepreneur (b. 1836) |
| | 1918 - Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist (b. 1868) |
| | 1924 - Kazimieras Buga, Lithuanian philologist (b. 1879) |
| | 1931 - Vincent d'Indy, French composer (b. 1851) |
| | 1936 - John Ringling, American circus owner (b. 1866) |
| | 1943 - Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian author and journalist (b. 1902) |
| | 1944 - Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist (b. 1874) |
| | 1944 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian writer (b. 1876) |
| | 1950 - Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (b. 1917) |
| | 1957 - Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (b. 1902) |
| | 1963 - Thomas J. Hicks, British-born runner (b. 1875) |
| | 1963 - Sabu Dastagir, Indian-born American actor (b. 1924) |
| | 1968 - Adamson-Eric (Eric Adamson), Estonian painter (b. 1902) |
| | 1969 - Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, Russian politician (b. 1881) |
| | 1974 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897) |
| | 1976 - Danny Murtaugh, baseball player and manager (b. 1917) |
| | 1980 - Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1905) |
| | 1980 - Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French writer (b. 1914) |
| | 1982 - Marty Feldman, British comedian, writer and actor (b. 1933) |
| | 1983 - Fifi d'Orsay, Canadian actress (b. 1904) |
| | 1985 - Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (b. 1914) |
| | 1985 - Philip Larkin, English writer and jazz critic (b. 1922) |
| | 1986 - Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor, musician, band leader, and composer (b. 1917) |
| | 1987 - Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) |
| | 1987 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (b. 1914) |
| | 1988 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) |
| | 1990 - Aaron Copland, American composer (b. 1900) |
| | 1990 - Robert Cummings, American film and television actor (b. 1908) |
| | 1993 - Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug dealer (b. 1949) |
| | 1995 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (b. 1913) |
| | 1997 - Shirley Crabtree, British professional wrestler (b. 1930) |
| | 1997 - Michael Hedges, American guitarist known for originality (b. 1953) |
| | 2002 - Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (b. 1926) |
| | 2002 - Arno Peters, German historian (b. 1916) |
| | 2003 - Alan Davidson, British author (b. 1924) |
| | 2004 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921) |
| | 2004 - Alicia Markova, British ballerina (b. 1910) |
| | 2005 - Van Tuong Nguyen, Australian drug smuggler (hanged) (b. 1980) |
| | 2005 - Kenneth Lee Boyd, American convicted murderer (executed) (b. 1948) |
| | 2006 - Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (b. 1947) |