| | 582 - Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople |
| | 1168 - Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (b. 1104) |
| | 1419 - Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1350) |
| | 1605 - Adam Loftus, English Protestant archbishop in Ireland |
| | 1617 - Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer |
| | 1676 - John Winthrop, the Younger, American politican (b. 1606) |
| | 1693 - Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer (b. 1627) |
| | 1695 - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer (b. 1633) |
| | 1697 - King Charles XI of Sweden (b. 1655) |
| | 1717 - Jean Jouvenet, French painter (b. 1647) |
| | 1735 - William Derham, English minister and writer (b. 1657) |
| | 1735 - Samuel Wesley, English poet (b. 1662) |
| | 1765 - Edward Young, English poet (b. 1683) |
| | 1794 - Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1759) |
| | 1923 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier (b. 1866) |
| | 1928 - Roy Kilner, English cricketer (b. 1890) |
| | 1964 - General Douglas MacArthur, American general (b. 1880) |
| | 1966 - General Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army officer (b. 1887) |
| | 1967 - Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1890) |
| | 1967 - Mischa Elman, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1891) |
| | 1969 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (b. 1903) |
| | 1969 - Shelby Storck, American television producer (b. 1917) |
| | 1970 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist (b. 1891) |
| | 1972 - Brian Donlevy, American actor (b. 1901) |
| | 1974 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b. 1882) |
| | 1975 - Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese nationalist leader (b. 1887) |
| | 1976 - Howard Hughes, American aviator (b. 1905) |
| | 1976 - Wilder Penfield, Canadian surgeon (b. 1891) |
| | 1979 - Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (b. 1893) |
| | 1982 - Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1910) |
| | 1983 - Danny Rapp, American musician (Danny & the Juniors) (b. 1941) |
| | 1991 - John Tower, American politican(b. 1925) |
| | 1991 - Sonny Carter, astronaut (b. 1947) |
| | 1992 - Molly Picon, French actress (b. 1898) |
| | 1992 - Sam Walton, American retailer (b. 1918) |
| | 1994 - Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (b. 1967) |
| | 1997 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926) |
| | 1998 - Cozy Powell, British musician (b. 1947) |
| | 2000 - Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914) |
| | 2001 - Brother Theodore, German comedian (b. 1906) |
| | 2002 - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (b. 1967) |
| | 2004 - Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician (b. 1936) |
| | 2004 - Sławomir Rawicz, (b. 1915) |
| | 2005 - Saul Bellow, Canadian-born writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1915) |
| | 2005 - Dale Messick, American comic strip artist (b. 1906) |
| | 2005 - Debralee Scott, American actress (b. 1953) |
| | 2006 - Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941) |