| | 300 - Theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria |
| | 1367 - Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (b. 1330) |
| | 1446 - Antipope Clement VIII |
| | 1503 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1471) |
| | 1558 - Hermann Finck, German composer (b. 1527) |
| | 1622 - Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (b. 1567) |
| | 1663 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618) |
| | 1671 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (b. 1611) |
| | 1694 - Queen Mary II of England (b. 1662) |
| | 1703 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1664) |
| | 1706 - Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (b. 1647) |
| | 1708 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (b. 1656) |
| | 1715 - William Carstares, Scottish minister (b. 1649) |
| | 1734 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (b. 1671) |
| | 1736 - Antonio Caldara, Italian composer (b. 1670) |
| | 1795 - Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (b. 1747) |
| | 1829 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (b. 1744) |
| | 1859 - Thomas Macaulay, British poet, historian, and politician (b. 1800) |
| | 1872 - James Van Ness, Mayor of San Francisco (1855-1856) (b. 1808) |
| | 1877 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821) |
| | 1900 - Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese explorer (b. 1846) |
| | 1916 - Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (b. 1835) |
| | 1918 - Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (b. 1865) |
| | 1919 - Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854) |
| | 1924 - Léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866) |
| | 1937 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (b. 1875) |
| | 1938 - Florence Lawrence, American actress (b. 1886) |
| | 1943 - Steve Evans, baseball player (b. 1885) |
| | 1945 - Theodore Dreiser, American author (b. 1871) |
| | 1947 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (b. 1869) |
| | 1949 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (b. 1910) |
| | 1952 - Fletcher Henderson, American musician (b. 1897) |
| | 1963 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (b. 1895) |
| | 1967 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (b. 1875) |
| | 1976 - Katharine Byron, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1903) |
| | 1981 - Allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (b. 1885) |
| | 1983 - William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892) |
| | 1983 - Jimmy Demaret, American golfer (b. 1910) |
| | 1983 - Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1944) |
| | 1984 - Sam Peckinpah, American film director (b. 1925) |
| | 1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director (b. 1932) |
| | 1989 - Hermann Oberth, German physicist (b. 1894) |
| | 1991 - Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (b. 1952) |
| | 1992 - Sal Maglie, baseball player (b. 1917) |
| | 1998 - Claudia Benton, Peruvian child psychologist (b. 1959) |
| | 1999 - Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914) |
| | 2001 - William X. Kienzle, American novelist (b. 1928) |
| | 2003 - Benjamin Hacker, U.S. admiral (b. 1935) |
| | 2004 - Jerry Orbach, American actor (b. 1935) |
| | 2004 - Susan Sontag, American writer and activist (b. 1933) |