| | 33 - Jesus, central figure of Christianity (traditional dating) (b. 1 BC, traditionally) |
| | 963 - William III, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 915) |
| | 1287 - Pope Honorius IV |
| | 1350 - Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1295) |
| | 1606 - Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, English politician (b. 1563) |
| | 1680 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (b. 1630) |
| | 1682 - Bartolomé Estéban Murillo, Spanish painter (b. 1618) |
| | 1691 - Jean Petitot, Swiss enamel painter (b. 1608) |
| | 1695 - Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter |
| | 1717 - Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician (b. 1640) |
| | 1728 - James Anderson, Scottish lawyer (b. 1662) |
| | 1792 - George Pocock, British admiral (b. 1706) |
| | 1792 - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (b. 1718) |
| | 1827 - Ernst Chladni, German physicist (b. 1856) |
| | 1849 - Juliusz Słowacki, Polish poet (b. 1809) |
| | 1868 - Franz Berwald, Swedish composer and inventor (b. 1796) |
| | 1882 - Jesse James, American outlaw (b. 1847) |
| | 1897 - Johannes Brahms, German composer (b. 1833) |
| | 1901 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, British impresario (b. 1844) |
| | 1931 - Andre Michelin, French tire manufacturer (b. 1853) |
| | 1932 - Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853) |
| | 1936 - Bruno Hauptmann, German killer of Charles Lindbergh III (b. 1899) |
| | 1950 - Kurt Weill, German composer (b. 1900) |
| | 1952 - Miina Sillanpää, Finnish politician, first female Finnish minister (b. 1866) |
| | 1965 - Ernst Kirchweger, Austrian communist and resistance fighter |
| | 1971 - Joseph Valachi, American gangster (b. 1904) |
| | 1972 - Ferde Grofé, American composer (b. 1882) |
| | 1982 - Warren Oates, American character actor (b. 1928) |
| | 1986 - Peter Pears, English tenor (b. 1910) |
| | 1987 - Tom Sestak, American football player (b. 1936) |
| | 1990 - Sarah Vaughan, American singer (b. 1924) |
| | 1991 - Graham Greene, English writer (b. 1904) |
| | 1991 - Charles Goren, American bridge player, writer, and columnist (b. 1901) |
| | 1993 - Pinky Lee, American children's television host (b. 1907) |
| | 1996 - Ron Brown, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (b. 1941) |
| | 1996 - Carl Stokes, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1927) |
| | 1998 - Rob Pilatus, American entertainer and criminal (Milli Vanilli) (b. 1965) |
| | 1998 - Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (b. 1900) |
| | 2000 - Terence McKenna, American writer and philosopher (b. 1946) |
| | 2002 - Frank Tovey (aka Fad Gadget), British singer and musician (b. 1956) |
| | 2005 - Tony Croatto, Italian-born singer (b. 1940) |