| | 1100 - Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia |
| | 1603 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (b. 1566) |
| | 1646 - Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596) |
| | 1660 - André Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (b. 1612) |
| | 1681 - Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611) |
| | 1708 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681) |
| | 1738 - Constantia Jones, British prostitute (executed) |
| | 1767 - John Newbery, English publisher (b. 1713) |
| | 1788 - Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714) |
| | 1806 - William Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719) |
| | 1867 - Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (b. 1788) |
| | 1870 - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet and writer (b. 1836) |
| | 1828 - William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (b. 1766) |
| | 1880 - George Eliot, English writer (b. 1819) |
| | 1899 - Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (b. 1837) |
| | 1902 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychiatrist (b. 1840) |
| | 1917 - Mother Cabrini, first American citizen canonized by the Catholic Church (b. 1850) |
| | 1936 - Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist (b. 1856) |
| | 1939 - Ma Rainey, American singer (b. 1886) |
| | 1940 - Nathanael West, American writer (b. 1903) |
| | 1942 - Franz Boas, German anthropologist (b. 1858) |
| | 1943 - Beatrix Potter, English writer (b. 1866) |
| | 1944 - Harry Langdon, American silent film actor (b. 1884) |
| | 1947 - Hans Aumeier, German Nazi official and concentration camp commandant (b. 1906) |
| | 1959 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American dancer and actress (b. 1901) |
| | 1965 - Richard Dimbleby, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1913) |
| | 1971 - Godfried Bomans, Dutch author and television personality (b. 1913) |
| | 1979 - Darryl F. Zanuck, American producer (b. 1902) |
| | 1980 - Karl Dönitz, German politician and U-boat commander (b. 1891) |
| | 1985 - D. Boon, American singer and guitarist (The Minutemen) (b. 1958) |
| | 1988 - Chico Mendes, Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist, and environmental activist (assassinated) (b. 1944) |
| | 1989 - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) |
| | 1993 - Don DeFore, American actor (b. 1913) |
| | 1995 - Butterfly McQueen, American actress (b. 1911) |
| | 1995 - James Meade, English economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1907) |
| | 1998 - Michelle Thomas, American actress (b. 1969) |
| | 2002 - Desmond Hoyte, President of Guyana (b. 1929) |
| | 2002 - Joe Strummer, British musician (The Clash) (b. 1952) |
| | 2003 - Dave Dudley, American singer (b. 1928) |
| | 2004 - Doug Ault, baseball player (b. 1950) |