| | 942 - William Longsword |
| | 1187 - Pope Gregory VIII |
| | 1195 - Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150) |
| | 1663 - Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583) |
| | 1721 - Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1640) |
| | 1830 - Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan-born libertator, six nations (b. 1783) |
| | 1833 - Kaspar Hauser, German foundling (b. 1812) |
| | 1897 - Alphonse Daudet, French writer (b. 1840) |
| | 1907 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist (b. 1824) |
| | 1909 - Léopold II of Belgium (b. 1835) |
| | 1917 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, British physician (b. 1836) |
| | 1917 - Frank Gotch, wrestler (b. 1878) |
| | 1933 - Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876) |
| | 1940 - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860) |
| | 1962 - Thomas Mitchell, American actor (b. 1892) |
| | 1987 - Linda Wong, Adult film actress (b. 1951) |
| | 1957 - Dorothy L. Sayers, British writer (b. 1893) |
| | 1964 - Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883) |
| | 1967 - Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister (b. 1908) |
| | 1978 - Ron Ellis, American jazz trumpeter, composer and big band leader (b. 1934) |
| | 1982 - Homer S. Ferguson, United States Senator (b. 1889) |
| | 1987 - Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (b. 1903) |
| | 1992 - Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909) |
| | 1998 - Claudia Benton, Peruvian child psychologist (b. 1959) |
| | 1999 - Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943) |
| | 1999 - Rex Allen, American actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1920) |
| | 2002 - James Hazeldine, British actor, well kown for his role on series London's Burning (b. 1947) |
| | 2003 - Ed Devereaux, Australian actor (b. 1925) |
| | 2003 - Otto Graham, American football player (b. 1921) |
| | 2005 - Jack Anderson, American journalist (b. 1922) |
| | 2005 - Marc Favreau, Quebec humorist and actor (Sol) b. 1929) |