| | 401 - Pope Anastasius I |
| | 1075 - Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England |
| | 1327 - Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy |
| | 1370 - Pope Urban V (b. 1310) |
| | 1737 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667) |
| | 1741 - Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (b. 1681) |
| | 1745 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b. 1684) |
| | 1749 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672) |
| | 1751 - Louise of Great Britain, wife of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724) |
| | 1807 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723) |
| | 1813 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1744) |
| | 1819 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval officer and politician (b. 1765) |
| | 1848 - Emily Brontë, British author (b. 1818) |
| | 1915 - Alois Alzheimer, German neuroscientist (b. 1864) |
| | 1932 - Yoon Bong-Gil, Protester against Japanese occupation of Korea (executed) (b. 1908) |
| | 1938 - Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (b. 1873) |
| | 1939 - Hans Langsdorff, German naval officer (b. 1894) |
| | 1944 - Khedive Abbas II of Egypt, (b. 1874) |
| | 1944 - Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (b. 1856) |
| | 1946 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (b. 1872) |
| | 1953 - Robert Millikan, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868) |
| | 1967 - Harold Holt, seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908) |
| | 1968 - Norman Thomas, American socialist (b. 1884) |
| | 1989 - Stella Gibbons, British author (b. 1902) |
| | 1991 - Joe Cole (roadie) Actor, author and film-maker (b. 1961) |
| | 1993 - Michael Clarke, American drummer (The Byrds) (b. 1946) |
| | 1996 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924) |
| | 1997 - Masaru Ibuka, Japanese industrialist (Sony) (b. 1908) |
| | 1997 - Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (b. 1924) |
| | 1999 - Desmond Llewelyn, British actor (b. 1914) |
| | 2000 - Milt Hinton, American jazz double bassist (b. 1910) |
| | 2000 - Pops Staples, American singer (The Staple Singers) (b. 1915) |
| | 2001 - Marcel Mule, French saxophonist. (b. 1901) |
| | 2003 - Peter Carter-Ruck, British lawyer (b. 1914) |
| | 2003 - Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1931) |
| | 2004 - Herbert C. Brown, British-born American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912) |
| | 2004 - Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922) |
| | 2005 - Vincent Gigante, American mafioso (b. 1927) |