| | 795 - Pope Adrian I |
| | 1156 - Peter the Venerable, Benedictine abbot of Cluny (b. c. 1092) |
| | 1635 - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec City (b. 1567) |
| | 1676 - Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1609) |
| | 1676 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier (b. 1592) |
| | 1683 - Kara Mustafa, Ottoman general (b. 1634) |
| | 1758 - James Hervey, English clergyman (b. 1714) |
| | 1784 - Yosa Buson, Japanese painter (b. 1716) |
| | 1824 - Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener, Russian writer (b. 1764) |
| | 1880 - Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1828) |
| | 1916 - St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic Saint (b. 1845) |
| | 1921 - Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (b. 1853) |
| | 1925 - Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877) |
| | 1926 - Taisho Emperor, Japanese emperor (b. 1879) |
| | 1933 - Francesc Macià, Catalonian statesman (b. 1859) |
| | 1938 - Karel Capek, Czech author (b. 1890) |
| | 1940 - Agnes Ayres, American actress (b. 1898) |
| | 1946 - W. C. Fields, American comedian (b. 1880) |
| | 1950 - Neil Francis Hawkins, British fascist (b. 1903) |
| | 1953 - Patsy Donovan, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1865) |
| | 1961 - Otto Loewi, Nobel laureate (b. 1873) |
| | 1961 - Owen Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maine (b. 1888) |
| | 1963 - Tristan Tzara, Romanian-born writer (b. 1896) |
| | 1971 - Maria Koepcke, ornithologist (b. 1924) |
| | 1973 - Ismet Inonu, Turkish statesman (b. 1884) |
| | 1973 - Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (b. 1880) |
| | 1977 - Charlie Chaplin, English actor (b. 1889) |
| | 1979 - Joan Blondell, American actress (b. 1906) |
| | 1983 - Joan Miró, Catalan painter (b. 1893) |
| | 1988 - Ooka Shohei, Japanese novelist (b. 1909) |
| | 1989 - Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian dictator (b. 1918) |
| | 1989 - Billy Martin, American baseball manager (b. 1928) |
| | 1993 - Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899) |
| | 1994 - Zail Singh, President of India (b. 1916) |
| | 1995 - Dean Martin, American singer (b. 1917) |
| | 1997 - Denver Pyle, American actor (b. 1920) |
| | 1998 - John Pulman, English snooker player (b. 1926) |
| | 1999 - Peter Jeffrey, English actor (b. 1929) |
| | 2000 - Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (b. 1908) |
| | 2003 - Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (b. 1929) |
| | 2005 - Birgit Nilsson, Swedish singer (b. 1918) |
| | 2005 - Robert Barbers, Philippine senator (b. 1944) |