| | 821 - Theodulf, Bishop of Orléans |
| | 1133 - Hildebert, French writer |
| | 1290 - King Magnus I of Sweden (b. 1240) |
| | 1442 - Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (b. 1371) |
| | 1495 - King Alphonso II of Naples (b. 1448) |
| | 1692 - Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (b. 1626) |
| | 1737 - Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker (b. 1644) |
| | 1787 - Francis William Drake, British Admiral and Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1724) |
| | 1787 - Soame Jenyns, English writer (b. 1704) |
| | 1799 - Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (b. 1725) |
| | 1803 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (b. 1744) |
| | 1843 - Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British Viceroy of India (b. 1748) |
| | 1848 - Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1781) |
| | 1869 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American composer and pianist (b. 1829) |
| | 1880 - Michel Chasles, French mathematician (b. 1793) |
| | 1936 - Andrija Mohorovicic, Austro-Hungarian-born Yugoslav seismologist (b. 1857) |
| | 1971 - Bobby Jones, American golfer (b. 1902) |
| | 1971 - Diana Lynn, American actress (b. 1926) |
| | 1974 - Harry Hooper, American baseball player (b. 1887) |
| | 1975 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist (b. 1900) |
| | 1980 - Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the USSR (b. 1904) |
| | 1982 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German pilot (b. 1916) |
| | 1985 - Xuân Di?u, Vietnamese poet (b. 1916) |
| | 1990 - Paul Tortelier, French cellist and composer (b. 1914) |
| | 1990 - Anne Revere, American actress (b. 1903) |
| | 1991 - George Abecassis, British Formula 1 driver (b. 1913) |
| | 1992 - Mark Goodson, American game show producer (b. 1915) |
| | 1993 - Sam Wanamaker, American actor (b. 1919) |
| | 1994 - Roger Apéry, French mathematician (b. 1916) |
| | 1995 - Konrad Zuse, German engineer and computing pioneer (b. 1910) |
| | 1996 - Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (b. 1904) |
| | 1997 - Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (b. 1964) |
| | 1998 - Lev Demin, cosmonaut (b. 1926) |
| | 1999 - Robert Bresson, French film director (b. 1907) |
| | 2000 - Kirsty MacColl, British singer and songwriter (b. 1959) |
| | 2001 - Gilbert Bécaud, French singer (b. 1927) |
| | 2002 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1934) |
| | 2004 - Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (b. 1926) |
| | 2005 - Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (b. 1922) |