| | 384 - Pope Damasus I |
| | 1121 - Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Caliph of Egypt (b. 1066) |
| | 1226 - Robert de Ros, English politician (b. 1177) |
| | 1282 - Llywelyn the Last, King of Gwynedd |
| | 1282 - Michael VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1225) |
| | 1532 - Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455) |
| | 1694 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630) |
| | 1737 - John Strype, English historian (b. 1643) |
| | 1757 - Edmund Curll, English bookseller (b. 1675) |
| | 1797 - Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722) |
| | 1840 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (b. 1771) |
| | 1880 - Oliver Fisher Winchester, American businessman and politician (b. 1810) |
| | 1892 - William Milligan, Scottish theologian (b. 1821) |
| | 1909 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (b. 1855) |
| | 1918 - Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (b. 1876) |
| | 1920 - Olive Schreiner, South African writer (b. 1855) |
| | 1938 - Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist and recipient of Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869) |
| | 1941 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (b. 1922) |
| | 1941 - Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (b. 1856) |
| | 1945 - Charles Fabry, French physicist (b. 1867) |
| | 1950 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1893) |
| | 1957 - Musidora (Jeanne Roques), French actress (b. 1889) |
| | 1959 - Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (b. 1900) |
| | 1964 - Sam Cooke, American singer (b. 1931) |
| | 1964 - Percy Kilbride, American actor (b. 1888) |
| | 1978 - Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901) |
| | 1983 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British General (b. 1897) |
| | 1984 - Oskar Seidlin, German-born American scholar (b. 1911) |
| | 1989 - Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895) |
| | 1991 - Robert Q. Lewis, American game show host and actor (b. 1921) |
| | 1991 - Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author and critic (b. 1906) |
| | 1994 - Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (b. 1900) |
| | 1996 - Willie Rushton, English cartoonist (b. 1937) |
| | 1998 - André Lichnerowicz, Polish-French physicist (b. 1915) |
| | 1998 - Lynn Strait, American singer (b. 1968) |
| | 2000 - Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author (b. 1915) |
| | 2000 - David Lewis, American actor (b. 1916) |
| | 2003 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Côte d'Ivoire writer (b. 1927) |
| | 2004 - M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (b. 1916) |
| | 2004 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach (b. 1917) |
| | 2006 - Elizabeth Bolden, American, oldest verified person in the world at the time of her death (b. 1890) |