| | 1025 - Basil II, Byzantine Emperor (b. 958) |
| | 1072 - Alp Arslan, Turkish sultan in Persia (b. 1029) |
| | 1230 - King Otakar I of Bohemia |
| | 1263 - King Haakon IV of Norway (b. 1204) |
| | 1598 - Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, Dutch writer and statesman (b. 1538) |
| | 1621 - Charles de Luynes, Constable of France (b. 1578) |
| | 1673 - Margaret Cavendish, English writer (b. 1623) |
| | 1675 - Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (b. 1632) |
| | 1683 - Izaak Walton, English writer (b. 1593) |
| | 1688 - Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (b. 1634) |
| | 1715 - George Hickes, English minister and scholar (b. 1642) |
| | 1753 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (b. 1694) |
| | 1792 - Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish composer (b. 1756) |
| | 1855 - Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (b. 1803) |
| | 1890 - Sitting Bull, Sioux nation leader (b. circa 1831) |
| | 1943 - Fats Waller, American musician (b. 1904) |
| | 1944 - Glenn Miller, American musician (later declared dead on this date, true date unknown) (b. 1904) |
| | 1947 - Arthur Machen, British author (b. 1863) |
| | 1950 - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian political leader, Iron Man of India (b.1875) |
| | 1958 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1900) |
| | 1962 - Charles Laughton, English actor (b. 1899) |
| | 1966 - Walt Disney, American animator (b. 1901) |
| | 1968 - Jess Willard, American boxer (b. 1881) |
| | 1968 - Antonio Barrette, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1899]]) |
| | 1971 - Paul Pierre Lévy, French mathematician (b. 1886) |
| | 1974 - Anatole Litvak, Russian-born filmmaker (b. 1902) |
| | 1977 - Wilfred Kitching, the 7th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1893) |
| | 1984 - Jan Peerce, American tenor (b. 1904) |
| | 1984 - Lennard Pearce, British actor (b. 1915) |
| | 1989 - Arnold Moss, American character actor (b. 1910) |
| | 1991 - Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev, Russian-born Soviet sniper (b. 1915) |
| | 2001 - Russ Haas, American professional wrestler (b. 1974) |
| | 2001 - Rufus Thomas, American musician (b. 1917) |
| | 2003 - George Fisher, American political cartoonist (b. 1923) |
| | 2003 - Keith Magnuson, National Hockey League defenceman (b. 1947) |
| | 2004 - Pauline Gore, mother of American Vice President Al Gore (b. 1912) |
| | 2005 - William Proxmire, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (b. 1911) |
| | 2005 - Darrell Russell, American football player (b. 1976) |
| | 2005 - Heinrich Gross, Austrian physician (b. 1914) |
| | 2005 - Stan Leonard, Canadian professional golfer (b. 1915) |
| | 2006 - Clay Regazzoni, Swiss Formula 1 driver (b. 1939) |