| | 217 - Caracalla, Roman Emperor (b. 186) |
| | 956 - Gilbert of Chalon, Duke of Burgundy |
| | 1143 - John II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1087) |
| | 1364 - King John II of France (b. 1319) |
| | 1461 - Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1423) |
| | 1492 - Lorenzo de Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1449) |
| | 1586 - Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer and theologian (b. 1522) |
| | 1587 - John Foxe, English writer (b. 1516) |
| | 1691 - Carlo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1611) |
| | 1697 - Niels Juel, Danish admiral (b. 1629) |
| | 1704 - Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (b. 1624) |
| | 1704 - Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (b. 1641) |
| | 1725 - John Wise, English clergyman (b. 1652) |
| | 1735 - Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (b. March 27, 1676) |
| | 1848 - Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797) |
| | 1857 - Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier |
| | 1861 - Elisha Otis, US elevator builder (b. 1811) |
| | 1870 - Charles de Bériot, Belgian composer (b. 1802) |
| | 1919 - Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (b. 1848) |
| | 1920 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (b. 1884) |
| | 1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864) |
| | 1936 - Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1876) |
| | 1938 - Joe "King" Oliver, American musician (b. 1885) |
| | 1950 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish-born ballet dancer (b. 1890) |
| | 1965 - Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (b. 1886) |
| | 1973 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (b. 1881) |
| | 1978 - Ford Frick, baseball commissioner (b. 1894) |
| | 1981 - Omar Bradley, U.S. general (b. 1893) |
| | 1984 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894) |
| | 1985 - J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (b. 1897) |
| | 1986 - Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (b. 1967) |
| | 1990 - Ryan White, American activist (AIDS) (b. 1971) |
| | 1991 - Per Yngve "Dead" Ohlin, Norwegian musician (black metal) |
| | 1992 - Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1907) |
| | 1993 - Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897) |
| | 1996 - Ben Johnson, American actor (b. 1918) |
| | 1997 - Laura Nyro, American singer and composer (b. 1947) |
| | 2000 - Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910) |
| | 2002 - Maria Felix, Mexican actress (b. 1914) |
| | 2004 - Bruce Edwards, golf caddy (b. 1954) |
| | 2005 - Eddie Miksis, baseball player (b. 1926) |
| | 2006 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1923) |