| | 69 - Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32) |
| | 744 - al-Walid II, Umayyad caliph |
| | 924 - Berengar of Friuli, King of Italy |
| | 1113 - Sviatopolk II of Kiev, Russian prince (b. 1050) |
| | 1118 - Adelaide del Vasto, wife of Roger II of Sicily |
| | 1198 - Duke Frederick I of Austria |
| | 1645 - Tobias Hume, English composer |
| | 1687 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1628) |
| | 1689 - Aphra Behn, English dramatist |
| | 1783 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719) |
| | 1788 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (b. 1707) |
| | 1828 - Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746) |
| | 1846 - Domenico Dragonetti, Italian composer (b. 1763) |
| | 1859 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805) |
| | 1888 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (b. 1845) |
| | 1904 - Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (b. 1888) |
| | 1904 - Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812) |
| | 1914 - George William Hill, American astronomer (b. 1838) |
| | 1915 - Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (b. 1841) |
| | 1930 - José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, political philosopher and activist (b. 1894) |
| | 1938 - Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874) |
| | 1946 - Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile designer (b. 1884) |
| | 1947 - Rudolf Hoess, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1900) |
| | 1958 - Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920) |
| | 1968 - Edna Ferber, American author (b. 1885) |
| | 1972 - Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) |
| | 1978 - Lucius Clay, American general (b. 1897) |
| | 1985 - Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924) |
| | 1991 - David Lean, British film director (b. 1908) |
| | 1992 - Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920) |
| | 1994 - Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1913) |
| | 1995 - Iqbal Masih, Pakistani child slave labourer, activist (b. 1982) |
| | 1997 - Doris Angleton, American socialite (b. 1951) |
| | 1997 - Roland Topor, French illustrator (b. 1938) |
| | 1998 - Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913) |
| | 1998 - Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (b. 1920) |
| | 2001 - Michael Ritchie, American film director (b. 1920) |
| | 2001 - Alec Stock, English football manager (b. 1917) |
| | 2002 - Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur (b. 1927) |
| | 2002 - Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946) |
| | 2003 - Graham Stuart Thomas, English author and garden designer (b. 1909) |
| | 2005 - Kay Walsh, British actress (b. 1911) |
| | 2005 - Marla Ruzicka, American humanitarian worker and peace activist (b. 1976) |