| | 1460 - Guarino da Verona, Italian humanist and translator (b. 1370) |
| | 1510 - Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473) |
| | 1542 - King James V of Scotland (b. 1512) |
| | 1553 - Hanibal Lucic, Croatian writer (b. 1485) |
| | 1591 - Saint John of the Cross, Spanish friar and poet (b. 1542) |
| | 1624 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536) |
| | 1651 - Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582) |
| | 1713 - Thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641) |
| | 1715 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636) |
| | 1735 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674) |
| | 1741 - Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661) |
| | 1788 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (b. 1714) |
| | 1788 - King Charles III of Spain (b. 1716) |
| | 1799 - George Washington, first President of the United States (b. 1732) |
| | 1838 - Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (b. 1806) |
| | 1860 - George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784) |
| | 1861 - Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, consort of Queen Victoria (b. 1819) |
| | 1865 - Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794) |
| | 1873 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born American zoologist and geologist (b. 1807) |
| | 1902 - Julia Grant, wife of President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant (b. 1826) |
| | 1927 - Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (b. 1842) |
| | 1947 - Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867) |
| | 1947 - Edward Higgins, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864) |
| | 1956 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi, president of Finland (b. 1870 (as Johan Gustaf Hellstén)). |
| | 1963 - Dinah Washington, American singer (b. 1924) |
| | 1964 - William Bendix, American actor (b. 1906) |
| | 1970 - Franz Schlegelberger, German Nazi politician (b. 1876) |
| | 1971 - Dick Tiger, African-born boxer (b. 1929) |
| | 1978 - Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist (b. 1886) |
| | 1984 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) |
| | 1985 - Catherine Doherty, social justice activist (b. 1896) |
| | 1985 - Roger Maris, baseball player (b. 1934) |
| | 1989 - Andrei D. Sakharov, Russian physicist, activist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921) |
| | 1990 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (b. 1921) |
| | 1993 - Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905) |
| | 1997 - Kurt Winter, Canadian guitarist (The Guess Who) (b. 1946) |
| | 1997 - Stubby Kaye, American actor (b. 1918) |
| | 1998 - Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924) |
| | 1998 - Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (b. 1924) |
| | 1998 - Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American civil rights activist and author (b. 1928) |
| | 2003 - Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925) |
| | 2003 - Blas Ople, foreign minister of the Philippines (b. 1927) |
| | 2004 - Rod Kanehl, baseball player (b. 1934) |
| | 2004 - Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino actor and presidential candidate (b. 1939) |
| | 2005 - Dr. Rodney William Whitaker, of pen name Trevanian, American author (b. 1931) |
| | 2006 - Anton Balasingham, chief political strategist of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1938) |
| | 2006 - Ahmet Ertegün, co-founder of Atlantic Records (b. 1923) |