| | 1132 - Mstislav of Kiev (b. 1076) |
| | 1279 - Boleslaus of Greater Poland |
| | 1322 - Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere, English soldier (b. 1275) |
| | 1345 - Richard Aungerville, English bishop and writer (b. 1287) |
| | 1471 - Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English kingmaker (b. 1428) |
| | 1574 - Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (killed in battle) (b. 1538) |
| | 1578 - James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary I of Scotland |
| | 1599 - Henry Wallop, English statesman |
| | 1612 - Sasaki Kojiro, Japanese samurai (killed by Musashi Miyamoto) |
| | 1662 - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (b. 1582) |
| | 1682 - Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (b. 1621) |
| | 1716 - Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral |
| | 1721 - Michel Chamillart, French statesman (b. 1652) |
| | 1759 - George Frideric Handel, German composer (b. 1685) |
| | 1785 - William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715) |
| | 1792 - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (b. 1720) |
| | 1910 - Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856) |
| | 1912 - Henri Brisson, French statesman (b. 1835) |
| | 1914 - Hubert Bland, English co-founder of the Fabian Society (b. 1855) |
| | 1917 - Ludovich Lazarus Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto (b. 1859) |
| | 1925 - John Singer Sargent, English artist (b. 1856) |
| | 1930 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer (b. 1893) |
| | 1935 - Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882) |
| | 1941 - Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo (b. 1871) |
| | 1964 - Rachel Carson, American environmentalist (b. 1907) |
| | 1964 - Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian mathematician (b. 1876) |
| | 1968 - Al Benton, baseball player (b. 1911) |
| | 1975 - Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897) |
| | 1986 - Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (b. 1908) |
| | 1994 - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (b. 1897) |
| | 1995 - Burl Ives, American singer and actor (b. 1909) |
| | 1999 - Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911) |
| | 1999 - Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (b. 1931) |
| | 2000 - Phil Katz, American computer programmer (b. 1962) |
| | 2000 - Frenchy Bordagaray, baseball player (b. 1910) |
| | 2001 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (b. 1927) |
| | 2006 - Mahmut Bakalli, Kosova politician (b. 1936) |