| | 418 - Zosimus, Greek pope |
| | 1076 - Prince Svyatoslav II of Kiev (b. 1027) |
| | 1381 - Edmund de Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, English politician |
| | 1548 - Francesco Spiera, Italian Protestant jurist (b. 1502) |
| | 1603 - Thomas Cartwright, English Puritan clergyman |
| | 1707 - Jean Mabillon, French palaeograopher and diplomat (b. 1632) |
| | 1737 - William Bowyer, English printer (b. 1663) |
| | 1743 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (b. 1659) |
| | 1771 - Henri Pitot, French engineer (b. 1695) |
| | 1782 - Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish philosopher (b. 1697) |
| | 1800 - Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (b. 1718) |
| | 1812 - Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Lithuanian rabbi and founder of Chabad Hasidism (b. 1745) |
| | 1836 - Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (b. 1793) |
| | 1858 - Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer (b. 1785) |
| | 1896 - John Brown, British manufacturer (b. 1816) |
| | 1900 - William George Armstrong, English inventor, industrialist, and engineer (b. 1810) |
| | 1914 - Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and inventor (b. 1863) |
| | 1923 - Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect (b. 1832) |
| | 1925 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (b. 1895) |
| | 1938 - Calvin Bridges, American geneticist (b. 1889) |
| | 1938 - Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet (b. 1891) |
| | 1950 - Max Beckmann, German painter (b. 1884) |
| | 1953 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894) |
| | 1955 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (b. 1881) |
| | 1956 - Lambert McKenna, Irish editor and lexicographer. |
| | 1966 - Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (b. 1906) |
| | 1972 - Lester B. Pearson, fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1897) |
| | 1974 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (b. 1898) |
| | 1978 - Bob Luman, American Country and Rockabilly singer (b. 1937) |
| | 1978 - Houari Boumédienne, President of Algeria (b. 1932) |
| | 1981 - Hoagy Carmichael, American composer and singer (b. 1899) |
| | 1988 - Hal Ashby, American film director (b. 1929) |
| | 1992 - Kay Boyle, American writer (b. 1902) |
| | 1997 - Brendan Gill, American columnist and humorist (b. 1914) |
| | 1997 - Billy Wright, Irish Protestant paramilitary leader (b. 1960) |
| | 2002 - George Roy Hill, American film director (b. 1922) |
| | 2003 - Alan Bates, English actor (b. 1934) |
| | 2003 - Ivan Calderon, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player (murdered) (b. 1962) |
| | 2004 - Hank Garland, American musician (b. 1930) |
| | 2005 - William Doody, Canadian politician (b. 1931) |