| | 1295 - Marguerite Berenger of Provence, wife of Louis IX of France (bc. 1221) |
| | 1308 - Henry I of Hesse (b. 1244) |
| | 1375 - Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (b. 1313) |
| | 1504 - Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442) |
| | 1549 - Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492) |
| | 1579 - Vicente Masip, Spanish painter |
| | 1597 - Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit (b. 1521) |
| | 1807 - John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (b. 1725) |
| | 1824 - James Parkinson, English physician, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist (b. 1755) |
| | 1873 - Francis Garnier, French explorer (b. 1839) |
| | 1889 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (b. 1809) |
| | 1935 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist (b. 1890) |
| | 1937 - Frank B. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1856) |
| | 1940 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1896) |
| | 1945 - George S. Patton, U.S. general (b. 1885) |
| | 1957 - Eric Coates, English composer (b. 1886) |
| | 1958 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German writer (b. 1884) |
| | 1959 - Rosanjin, Japanese calligrapher, restaurateur and ceramicist (b. 1883) |
| | 1964 - Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (b. 1880) |
| | 1965 - Claude Champagne, Quebec composer (b. 1891) |
| | 1967 - Stuart Erwin, American actor (b. 1903) |
| | 1974 - James Henry Govier, British artist (b. 1910) |
| | 1974 - Richard Long, American actor (b. 1927) |
| | 1981 - Allan Dwan, Canadian-born American director and screenwriter (b. 1885) |
| | 1983 - Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (b. 1919) |
| | 1988 - Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1907) |
| | 1992 - Albert King, American musician (b. 1924) |
| | 1992 - Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1903) |
| | 2001 - Dick Schaap, American sports journalist (b. 1931) |
| | 2004 - Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (b. 1925) |