| | 1074 - Regency Yorimichi Fujiwara of Japan (b. 992) |
| | 1204 - Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and England (b. 1121) |
| | 1340 - Ivan I of Russia, Prince of Moscow (b. 1288) |
| | 1567 - Philipp I of Hesse (b. 1504) |
| | 1621 - Philip III of Spain (b. 1578) |
| | 1631 - John Donne, English writer and prelate (b. 1572) |
| | 1671 - Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (b. 1637) |
| | 1703 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (b. 1642) |
| | 1723 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British-born American statesman (b. 1661) |
| | 1727 - Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1643) |
| | 1741 - Pieter Burmann the Elder, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1668) |
| | 1783 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (b. 1718) |
| | 1837 - John Constable, English painter (b. 1776) |
| | 1855 - Charlotte Brontë, English author (b. 1816) |
| | 1877 - Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (b. 1801) |
| | 1880 - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (b. 1835) |
| | 1885 - Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer (b. 1819) |
| | 1913 - John Pierpont Morgan, American financier (b. 1837) |
| | 1917 - Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1854) |
| | 1915 - Wyndham Halswelle, British runner (b. 1882) |
| | 1931 - Knute Rockne, American football coach (b. 1888) |
| | 1945 - Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881) |
| | 1945 - Anne Frank, German-born diarist (b. 1929) |
| | 1952 - Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (b. 1877) |
| | 1954 - Edwin Armstrong, American electrical engineer (b. 1890) |
| | 1956 - Ralph DePalma, Italian-born race car driver (b. 1884) |
| | 1968 - Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885) |
| | 1976 - Paul Strand, American photographer (b. 1890) |
| | 1978 - Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (b. 1899) |
| | 1980 - Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905) |
| | 1980 - Jesse Owens, American athlete (b. 1913) |
| | 1981 - Enid Bagnold, British playwright (b. 1889) |
| | 1984 - Ronald Clark O'Bryan, American murderer (b. 1944) |
| | 1985 - Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun (b. 1933) |
| | 1988 - William McMahon, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908) |
| | 1993 - Brandon Lee, American actor (b. 1965) |
| | 1995 - Selena, Mexican-American singer (b. 1971) |
| | 1996 - Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer member of The Gun Club (b. 1958) |
| | 1998 - Bella Abzug, American politician (b. 1920) |
| | 1998 - Tim Flock, American race car driver |
| | 1999 - Yuri Knorosov, Russian linguist (b. 1922) |
| | 2001 - Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1915) |
| | 2002 - Barry Took, British comedian (b. 1928) |
| | 2003 - H.S.M. Coxeter, English-born geometer (b. 1907) |
| | 2003 - Tommy Seebach, Danish singer (b. 1949) |
| | 2005 - Stanley J. Korsmeyer, American oncologist (b. 1951) |
| | 2005 - Frank Perdue, American poultry farmer (b. 1920) |
| | 2005 - Terri Schiavo |
| | 2006 - Jackie McLean, American jazz saxophonist |