| | 217 - Pope Zephyrinus |
| | 860 - King Ethelbald of Wessex |
| | 910 - Alfonso III of Leon |
| | 1022 - Elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (b. 996) |
| | 1355 - Stefan Dušan, Serb king and tsar (b. circa 1308) |
| | 1494 - Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet |
| | 1524 - Thomas Linacre, English scholar and physician |
| | 1539 - Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer |
| | 1590 - Ambroise Paré, French physician (b. 1510) |
| | 1722 - Kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654) |
| | 1723 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (b. 1652) |
| | 1740 - Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English military officer and statesman (b. 1675) |
| | 1768 - Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692) |
| | 1783 - Antonio Soler, Spanish composer (b. 1729) |
| | 1812 - Sacagawea, Shoshone guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition |
| | 1917 - Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (b. 1882) |
| | 1921 - Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (b. 1850) |
| | 1929 - Émile Loubet, 7th President of France (b.1838) |
| | 1935 - Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (b. 1882) |
| | 1937 - Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865) |
| | 1941 - Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (b. 1887) |
| | 1954 - James Hilton, American author (b. 1900) |
| | 1956 - Ramon Carrillo, Argentine neuroscientist and Public Health minister (b. 1906) |
| | 1961 - Moss Hart, American dramatist (b. 1904) |
| | 1961 - Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880) |
| | 1968 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) |
| | 1973 - Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain (assassinated) (b. 1903) |
| | 1973 - Bobby Darin, American singer (b. 1936) |
| | 1974 - André Jolivet, French composer (b. 1905) |
| | 1976 - Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1902) |
| | 1982 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist (b. 1887) |
| | 1984 - Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1946) |
| | 1986 - Joe DeSa, baseball player (b. 1959) |
| | 1988 - Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian television pioneer, president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (b. 1908) |
| | 1989 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (b. 1908) |
| | 1991 - Simone Beck, French chef (b. 1904) |
| | 1994 - Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (b. 1909) |
| | 1996 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (b. 1934) |
| | 1997 - Denise Levertov, English-born poet (b. 1923) |
| | 1997 - Juzo Itami, Japanese actor and director (b. 1933) |
| | 1998 - Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1910) |
| | 1998 - Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916) |
| | 1999 - Hank Snow, Canadian singer (b. 1914) |
| | 1999 - Riccardo Freda, Italian film director (b. 1909) |
| | 2000 - Mirza Ghulam Hafiz, Indian statesman, politician, and philanthropist (b. 1920) |
| | 2001 - Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (b. 1912) |
| | 2001 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, first President of Senegal (b. 1906) |