| | 1176 - Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier (b. 1130) |
| | 1314 - Pope Clement V (b. 1264) |
| | 1521 - Zhengde, Emperor of China (b. 1491) |
| | 1534 - Elizabeth Barton, English nun (executed) |
| | 1558 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485) |
| | 1643 - Christoph Demantius, German composer (b. 1567) |
| | 1703 - Lancelot Addison, English royal chaplain (b. 1632) |
| | 1765 - Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b. 1674) |
| | 1769 - Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawa |
| | 1831 - John Abernethy, English surgeon (b. 1764) |
| | 1887 - Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman (b. 1826) |
| | 1873 - William Tite, English architect (b. 1798) |
| | 1899 - Joseph Wolf, German artist (b. 1820) |
| | 1912 - Bram Stoker, Irish author (b. 1847) |
| | 1918 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850) |
| | 1932 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b. 1858) |
| | 1947 - King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870) |
| | 1951 - Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873) |
| | 1964 - Eddie Dyer, baseball player (b. 1899) |
| | 1982 - Archibald MacLeish, American poet and Librarian of Congress (b. 1892) |
| | 1984 - Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (b. 1943) |
| | 1986 - Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist, journalist and writer (b. 1916) |
| | 1989 - Doru Davidovici, Romanian writer and Fighter Pilot (b. 1945) |
| | 1991 - Steve Marriott, British musician and actor (b. 1945) |
| | 1991 - Don Siegel, American film director (b. 1912) |
| | 1992 - Benny Hill, British comedian (b. 1924) |
| | 1993 - Cantinflas, Mexican comedian and actor (b. 1911) |
| | 1994 - Jean Carmet, French actor (b. 1920) |
| | 1996 - Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne (b. 1920) |
| | 1999 - Victims of the Columbine High School massacre |
| | 1999 - Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958) |
| | 1999 - Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist and comedian (b. 1896) |
| | 2001 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946) |
| | 2002 - Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925) |
| | 2003 - Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (b. 1908) |
| | 2003 - Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911) |
| | 2005 - Fumio Niwa, Japanese novelist (b. 1904) |
| | 2005 - Zygfryd Blaut, Polish football player (b. 1943) |