| | 1053 - Godwin, Earl of Wessex |
| | 1220 - Adolf of Altena, Archbishop of Cologne |
| | 1415 - Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist |
| | 1446 - Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (b. 1377) |
| | 1610 - Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (b. 1546) |
| | 1621 - John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony |
| | 1641 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (b. 1581) |
| | 1652 - Patriarch Joseph, head of the Russian Orthodox Church |
| | 1659 - Simon Dach, German poet (b. 1605) |
| | 1704 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (b. 1628) |
| | 1719 - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635) |
| | 1754 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676) |
| | 1761 - Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682) |
| | 1761 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (b. 1696) |
| | 1764 - Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XIV of France (b. 1721) |
| | 1764 - Peder Horrebow, Danish atronomer (b. 1679) |
| | 1765 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist and writer (b. 1711) |
| | 1788 - Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (b. 1711) |
| | 1793 - Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (b. 1718) |
| | 1804 - Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761) |
| | 1854 - Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and scientific writer (b. 1773) |
| | 1865 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (b. 1809) |
| | 1868 - Gaston Leroux, French writer (d. 1927) |
| | 1888 - Matthew Arnold, English poet (b. 1822) |
| | 1889 - Father Damien, Belgian missionary (b. 1840) |
| | 1898 - Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader |
| | 1912 - Victims of the RMS Titanic |
| | Edward Smith, Captain of the Titanic (b. 1850) |
| | John Jacob Astor IV, American businessman (b. 1864) |
| | Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (b. 1865) |
| | 1938 - César Vallejo, Peruvian poet (b. 1892) |
| | 1942 - Robert Musil, German novelist (b. 1880) |
| | 1943 - Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (d. 1882) |
| | 1948 - Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician (d. 1892) |
| | 1949 - Wallace Beery, American actor (b. 1885) |
| | 1962 - Clara Blandick, American actress (b. 1881) |
| | 1969 - Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen of Spain (b. 1887) |
| | 1970 - Ripper Collins, baseball player (b. 1904) |
| | 1971 - Dan Reeves - Owner of the Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams (b. 1912) |
| | 1974 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b.1906) |
| | 1975 - Richard Conte, American actor (b. 1910) |
| | 1980 - Raymond Bailey, American actor (b. 1904) |
| | 1980 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (b. 1905) |
| | 1982 - Arthur Lowe, British actor (b. 1915) |
| | 1983 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (b. 1892) |
| | 1984 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (b. 1921) |
| | 1986 - Jean Genet, French author (b. 1910) |
| | 1988 - Kenneth Williams, English actor and comedian (b. 1926) |
| | 1989 - Nesuhi Ertegun, Co-founder of Atlantic Records (b. 1917) |
| | 1989 - Hu Yaobang, leader of China (b. 1915) |
| | 1990 - Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (b. 1905) |
| | 1993 - John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (b. 1908) |
| | 1993 - Leslie Charteris, Singapore-born author (b. 1907) |
| | 1994 - John Curry, English figure skater (b. 1949) |
| | 1995 - Harry Shoulberg, American painter, serigrapher (b. 1903) |
| | 1998 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (b. 1925) |
| | 1999 - Harvey Postlethwaite, British engineer and racing car designer (b. 1944) |
| | 2000 - Edward Gorey, American illustrator (b. 1925) |
| | 2001 - Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (The Ramones) (b. 1951) |
| | 2002 - Damon Knight, American author (b. 1922) |
| | 2002 - Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1917) |
| | 2003 - Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (b. 1941) |
| | 2004 - Ray Condo, Canadian rockabilly musician (b. 1950) |