| | 910 - Naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar |
| | 913 - Conrad of Franconia |
| | 1230 - Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England |
| | 1556 - Nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504) |
| | 1568 - Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England |
| | 1575 - Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (b. 1531) |
| | 1588 - Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader (b. 1550) |
| | 1631 - Michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563) |
| | 1646 - François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582) |
| | 1652 - John Cotton, founder of Boston, Massachusetts (b. 1585) |
| | 1675 - Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602) |
| | 1722 - Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654) |
| | 1771 - Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701) |
| | 1761 - Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy |
| | 1779 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724) |
| | 1789 - Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist and developer of signed French (b. 1712) |
| | 1793 - Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699) |
| | 1795 - Henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730) |
| | 1805 - Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723) |
| | 1834 - Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766) |
| | 1846 - Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780) |
| | 1902 - Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821) |
| | 1912 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (b. 1850) |
| | 1931 - Wilson Bentley, Discovered that no two snowflake are the same |
| | 1939 - Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer (b. 1890) |
| | 1948 - Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan (hanged) (b. 1884) |
| | 1948 - Akira Muto, Japanese army commander (hanged) (b. 1883) |
| | 1953 - Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader (b. 1899) |
| | 1954 - René Iché, French sculptor (b. 1897) |
| | 1970 - Charles Ruggles, American actor (b. 1886) |
| | 1972 - Andrei Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer (b. 1888) |
| | 1973 - Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (b. 1892) |
| | 1973 - Irna Phillips, American television writer, director, and producer (b. 1901) |
| | 1979 - Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (b. 1898) |
| | 1982 - Jack Webb, American actor, producer, and director (b. 1920) |
| | 1983 - Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910) |
| | 1992 - Vincent Fourcade, French American interior designer and socialite (b. 1934) |
| | 1992 - Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (Funkadelic) (b. 1950) |
| | 1994 - Sebastian Shaw, English actor (b. 1905) |
| | 2000 - Billy Barty, American actor (b. 1924) |
| | 2000 - Victor Borge, Danish-born comedian and pianist (b. 1909) |
| | 2002 - Joe Strummer, Punk guitarist (b. 1952) |
| | 2004 - P. V. Narasimha Rao, ninth Prime Minister of India (b. 1921) |
| | 2005 - Norman D. Vaughan, polar explorer and dogsled driver (b. 1905) |
| | 2005 - Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer and coach (b. 1914) |