| | 1048 - Al-Biruni, Persian mathematician (b. 973) |
| | 1124 - Pope Callixtus II |
| | 1204 - Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (b. 1135) |
| | 1250 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1194) |
| | 1404 - Albert, Count of Holland (b. 1336) |
| | 1466 - Donatello, Florentine artist and sculptor (b. 1386) |
| | 1516 - Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (b. 1462) |
| | 1521 - Manuel I of Portugal (b. 1469) |
| | 1557 - Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician |
| | 1565 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (b. 1516) |
| | 1603 - François Viète, French mathematician (b. 1540) |
| | 1621 - Katarina Stenbock, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1535) |
| | 1716 - Charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640) |
| | 1721 - Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor and castaway (b. 1676) |
| | 1729 - Anthony Collins, English philosopher (b. 1676) |
| | 1754 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1696) |
| | 1769 - Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (b. 1715) |
| | 1783 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (b. 1717) |
| | 1784 - Samuel Johnson, British writer and lexicographer (b. 1709) |
| | 1814 - Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, Belgian-born Austrian field marshal (b. 1735) |
| | 1837 - Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit (b. 1756) |
| | 1863 - Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German writer (b. 1813) |
| | 1868 - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (b. 1794) |
| | 1881 - August Senoa, Croatian writer (b. 1838) |
| | 1883 - Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (b. 1812) |
| | 1895 - Anyos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (b. 1800) |
| | 1919 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (b. 1850) |
| | 1922 - Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic politician and poet (b. 1861) |
| | 1924 - Samuel Gompers, American labor and political leader, founder of American Federation of Labor (b. 1850) |
| | 1930 - Fritz Pregl, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869) |
| | 1931 - Gustave le Bon, French psychologist (b. 1840) |
| | 1935 - Victor Grignard, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871) |
| | 1940 - Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (b. 1851) |
| | 1942 - Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (b. 1866) |
| | 1944 - Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French artist (b. 1866) |
| | 1947 - Nicholas Roerich, Russian-born painter (b. 1874) |
| | 1954 - John Raymond Hubbell, American writer (b. 1879) |
| | 1955 - Egas Moniz, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874) |
| | 1958 - Tim Moore, American actor (b. 1887) |
| | 1961 - Grandma Moses, American painter (b. 1860) |
| | 1969 - Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral (b. 1886) |
| | 1969 - Spencer Williams, Jr., American actor (b. 1893) |
| | 1973 - Henry Green, English author (b. 1905) |
| | 1979 - Jon Hall, American actor (b. 1915) |
| | 1981 - Pigmeat Markham, American entertainer (b. 1904) |
| | 1983 - Alexander Schmemann, Orthodox Christian priest and theologian (b. 1921) |
| | 1983 - Nichita Stanescu, Romanian poet (b.1933) |
| | 1992 - Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and heir (b. 1899) |
| | 1992 - K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (b. 1899) |
| | 1993 - Vanessa Duriès, French novelist (b. 1972) |
| | 2001 - Chuck Schuldiner, American musician (Death) (b. 1967) |
| | 2002 - Zal Yanovsky, American musician (The Lovin' Spoonful) (b. 1945) |
| | 2003 - William V. Roth, Jr., U.S. Senator (b. 1921) |
| | 2004 - Andre Rodgers, Bahamian baseball player (b. 1934) |
| | 2004 - David Wheeler, British computer scientist (b. 1927) |
| | 2005 - Stanley Tookie Williams, co-founder of the Crips (b. 1953) |
| | 2006 - Lamar Hunt, American sports promoter |