| | 1170 - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (assassinated) (b. 1118) |
| | 1563 - Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515) |
| | 1634 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (b. 1612) |
| | 1661 - Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594) |
| | 1689 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (b. 1624) |
| | 1731 - Brook Taylor, English mathematician (b. 1685) |
| | 1737 - Joseph Saurin, French mathematician (b. 1659) |
| | 1785 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (b. 1742) |
| | 1825 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (b. 1748) |
| | 1891 - Leopold Kronecker, mathematician (b. 1823) |
| | 1894 - Christina Rossetti, English poet (b. 1830) |
| | 1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869) |
| | 1924 - Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845) |
| | 1926 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian writer (b. 1875) |
| | 1929 - Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (b. 1846) |
| | 1937 - Don Marquis, American author (b. 1878) |
| | 1960 - Eden Phillpotts, British writer (b. 1862) |
| | 1967 - Paul Whiteman, American musician and conductor (b. 1890) |
| | 1980 - Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941) |
| | 1980 - Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer (b. 1899) |
| | 1986 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894) |
| | 1993 - Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet Armenian actor (b. 1930) |
| | 2003 - Earl Hindman, American actor (lung cancer) (b. 1942) |
| | 2003 - Dinsdale Landen, English actor (cancer) (b. 1932) |
| | 2003 - Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (b. 1928) |
| | 2004 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912) |
| | 2004 - Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (b. 1947) |
| | 2004 - Ken Burkhart, Baseball player (b. 1915) |
| | 2005 - Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (b. 1922) |