| | 427 - Archbishop Sisinnius I of Constantinople |
| | 820 - Leo V, Byzantine Emperor (assassinated) (b. 775) |
| | 1257 - John I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1218) |
| | 1453 - John Dunstable, English composer (bc. 1390) |
| | 1524 - Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (bc. 1469) |
| | 1660 - Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1631) |
| | 1707 - Noël Coypel, French painter (b. 1628) |
| | 1813 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan, (b.1740) |
| | 1863 - William Makepeace Thackeray, English writer (b. 1811) |
| | 1865 - Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and writer (b. 1793) |
| | 1868 - Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802) |
| | 1873 - Johns Hopkins, Baltimore philanthropist and businessman (b. 1795) |
| | 1889 - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (b. 1819) |
| | 1898 - Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI (b. 1828) |
| | 1914 - John Muir, Scottish-born naturalist (b. 1838) |
| | 1935 - Alban Berg, Austrian composer (b. 1885) |
| | 1938 - Bruno Taut, German architect (b. 1880) |
| | 1941 - Siegfried Alkan, German composer (b. 1858) |
| | 1942 - François Darlan, vice-premier of Vichy France (b. 1881) |
| | 1957 - Norma Talmadge, American actress (b. 1893) |
| | 1972 - Gisela Richter, English art historian (b. 1882) |
| | 1975 - Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (b. 1911) |
| | 1977 - Samael Aun Weor, Columbian writer (b. 1917) |
| | 1980 - Karl Dönitz, President of Germany (b. 1891) |
| | 1980 - Siggie Nordstrom, model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer of The Nordstrom Sisters (b. 1893) |
| | 1982 - Louis Aragon, French writer (b. 1897) |
| | 1984 - Peter Lawford, English actor (b. 1923) |
| | 1986 - Gardner Fox, American writer (b. 1911) |
| | 1987 - Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1919) |
| | 1992 - Peyo, Belgian comics artist, and creator of The Smurfs (b. 1928) |
| | 1992 - Bobby LaKind, American musician and singer (The Doobie Brothers) (b. 1945) |
| | 1993 - Norman Vincent Peale, American writer (b. 1898) |
| | 1994 - John Boswell, American historian (b. 1947) |
| | 1994 - Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor and singer (b. 1916) |
| | 1997 - Toshirô Mifune, Japanese actor (b. 1920) |
| | 1997 - Pierre Péladeau, Quebec businessman, founder of Quebecor (b. 1925) |
| | 1999 - João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, President of Brazil (b. 1918) |
| | 1999 - Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician, Prime minister of France (b. 1907) |
| | 2000 - Nick Massi, American singer (The Four Seasons) (b. 1935) |
| | 2002 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (b. 1920) |
| | 2004 - Johnny Oates, baseball player and manager (b. 1946) |
| | 2005 - Michael Vale, American commercial actor (b. 1922) |