| | 748 - Empress Gensho of Japan (b. 680) |
| | 1073 - Pope Alexander II |
| | 1109 - Anselm of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| | 1142 - Pierre Abélard, French writer (b. 1079) |
| | 1329 - Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282) |
| | 1509 - King Henry VII of England (b. 1457) |
| | 1551 - Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510) |
| | 1557 - Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (b. 1495) |
| | 1574 - Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1519) |
| | 1699 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (b. 1639) |
| | 1701 - Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (b. 1667) |
| | 1719 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian (b. 1640) |
| | 1720 - Antoine Hamilton, French writer (b. 1646) |
| | 1722 - Robert Beverley, Jr., historian of Colonial Virginia (b. 1673) |
| | 1793 - John Michell, English seismologist (b. 1724) |
| | 1815 - Joseph Winston, U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (b. 1746) |
| | 1825 - Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathemattician (b. 1765) |
| | 1852 - Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787) |
| | 1868 - Henry James O'Farrell, Australian would-be assassin of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (hanged) |
| | 1910 - Mark Twain, American author and humorist (b. 1835) |
| | 1918 - Manfred von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1892) |
| | 1924 - Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858) |
| | 1930 - Robert Bridges, English poet (b. 1844) |
| | 1938 - Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet (b. 1877) |
| | 1945 - Walter Model, German field marshal (b. 1891) |
| | 1946 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (b. 1883) |
| | 1956 - Charles MacArthur, American writer (b. 1895) |
| | 1965 - Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) |
| | 1971 - François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, Haitian dictator (b. 1907) |
| | 1973 - Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894) |
| | 1977 - Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1892) |
| | 1978 - Sandy Denny, British vocalist (b. 1947) |
| | 1978 - Thomas Wyatt Turner, American civil rights advocate and agricultural engineer |
| | 1980 - Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist (b. 1894) |
| | 1983 - Walter Slezak, Austrian actor (b. 1902) |
| | 1985 - Rudi Gernreich, Austrian fashion designer (b. 1922) |
| | 1985 - Tancredo de Almeida Neves, Brazil banker and elected president (b. 1910) |
| | 1989 - Princess Dukhye of Korea (b. 1912) |
| | 1990 - Erté, French artist (b. 1892) |
| | 1991 - Willi Boskovsky, Austrian violinist and conductor (b. 1909) |
| | 1996 - Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen leader (b. 1944) |
| | 1996 - Jimmy the Greek, American bookie and sports broadcaster (b. 1919) |
| | 1999 - Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, American actor and musician (b. 1904) |
| | 2000 - Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (b. 1929) |
| | 2003 - Nina Simone, American singer and pianist (b. 1933) |
| | 2004 - Mary McGrory, American journalist (b. 1918) |
| | 2005 - Gerry Marshall, British racing driver (b. 1941) |
| | 2006 - Telê Santana, Brazilian football manager (b. 1931) |