| | 1085 - Emperor Shenzong of China (b. 1048) |
| | 1204 - Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Henry II of England |
| | 1205 - King Amalric II of Jerusalem (b. 1145) |
| | 1528 - Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer |
| | 1580 - Alonso Mudarra, Spanish composer |
| | 1621 - Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (b. 1577) |
| | 1637 - Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (b. 1571) |
| | 1682 - Franz Egon of Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1625) |
| | 1684 - Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603) |
| | 1787 - Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar (b. 1710) |
| | 1791 - Richard Butler American soldier (b. 1743) |
| | 1839 - Benjamin Pierce, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1757) |
| | 1872 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (b. 1805) |
| | 1878 - John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (b. 1796) |
| | 1914 - Rube Waddell, baseball player (b. 1876) |
| | 1917 - Scott Joplin, American musician and composer (b. 1868) |
| | 1922 - Emperor Karl I of Austria (b. 1887) |
| | 1946 - Noah Beery, American actor (b. 1882) |
| | 1947 - King George II of Greece (b. 1890) |
| | 1950 - Charles R. Drew, American physician (b. 1904) |
| | 1965 - Helena Rubinstein, cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1870) |
| | 1966 - Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (b. 1911) |
| | 1968 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908) |
| | 1976 - Max Ernst, German artist (b. 1891) |
| | 1984 - Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939) |
| | 1986 - Erik Bruhn, Danish ballet dancer, choreographer (b. 1928) |
| | 1988 - Jim Jordan, American actor (Fibber McGee) (b. 1896) |
| | 1991 - Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1894) |
| | 1993 - Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (b. 1954) |
| | 1996 - Florence Buchsbaum, theater director and musician (b. 1926) |
| | 1998 - Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (b. 1963) |
| | 1998 - Gene Evans, American actor (b. 1922) |
| | 2000 - Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, president of the European Court of Justice (b. 1924) |
| | 2001 - Olivia Barclay, British astrologer (b. 1919) |
| | 2001 - Trinh Cong Son, Vietnamese composer (b. 1939) |
| | 2001 - Jo-Jo Moore, baseball player (b. 1908) |
| | 2002 - Simo Hayha, Finnish marksman (b. 1905) |
| | 2003 - Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer (b. 1956) |
| | 2004 - Carrie Snodgress, American actress (b. 1946) |
| | 2005 - Harald Juhnke, German entertainer (b. 1929) |
| | 2005 - Jack Keller, songwriter (leukemia) (b. 1936) |
| | 2005 - Robert Coldwell Wood, American university president and political appointee (b. 1923) |
| | 2006 - In Tam, Cambodian politician (b. 1916) |