| | 1218 - Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1162) |
| | 1460 - Richard, Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (killed in battle) (b. 1411) |
| | 1525 - Jacob Fugger, German banker (b. 1459) |
| | 1572 - Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (b. 1512) |
| | 1573 - Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer (b. 1504) |
| | 1591 - Pope Innocent IX (b. 1519) |
| | 1640 - John Regis, French saint (b. 1597) |
| | 1644 - Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (b. 1577) |
| | 1662 - Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria (b. 1628) |
| | 1691 - Robert Boyle, Irish scientist (b. 1627) |
| | 1769 - Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier (b. 1685) |
| | 1803 - Francis Lewis, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (b. 1713) |
| | 1896 - José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines (b. 1861) (executed) |
| | 1941 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (b. 1890) |
| | 1944 - Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866) |
| | 1954 - Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1863) |
| | 1967 - Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1887) |
| | 1968 - Trygve Lie, first United Nations Secretary General (b. 1896) |
| | 1970 - Sonny Liston, American boxer (b. 1932) |
| | 1971 - Melba Rae, American actress (b. 1922) |
| | 1979 - Richard Rodgers, American composer (b. 1902) |
| | 1986 - Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (b. 1905) |
| | 1988 - Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (b. 1925) |
| | 1993 - Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (b. 1907) |
| | 1993 - Mack David, American lyricist and songwriter (b. 1912) |
| | 1994 - Dmitri Ivanenko, Russian physicist (b. 1904) |
| | 1994 - Maureen Starkey, wife of Ringo Starr (b. 1946) |
| | 1995 - Doris Grau, American actress (b. 1924) |
| | 1996 - Lew Ayres, American actor (b. 1908) |
| | 1997 - Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese novelist (b. 1926) |
| | 1998 - George Webb, English actor (b. 1911) |
| | 1998 - Johnny Moore, American singer (The Drifters) (b. 1934) |
| | 1999 - Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer (b. 1909) |
| | 2002 - Mary Wesley, English novelist (b. 1912) |
| | 2003 - David Bale, South African-born activist (cancer) (b. 1941) |
| | 2003 - John Gregory Dunne, American writer (b. 1932) |
| | 2003 - Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer and actress (b. 1963) |
| | 2004 - Artie Shaw, American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1910) |
| | 2006 - Saddam Hussein, Iraqi dictator (b. 1937) (by execution) |