| | 624 - Mellitus, third Archbishop of Canterbury |
| | 709 - Wilfrid, English archbishop and saint |
| | 1338 - Marquis Theodore I of Montferrat (b. 1291) |
| | 1342 - Pope Benedict XII (b. 1285) |
| | 1622 - Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint (b. 1577) |
| | 1656 - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561) |
| | 1731 - Daniel Defoe, English writer (b. 1660) |
| | 1736 - Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (b. 1663) |
| | 1779 - Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (b. 1711) |
| | 1852 - Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (b. 1783) |
| | 1891 - Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (b. 1800) |
| | 1924 - G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (b. 1844) |
| | 1938 - George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863) |
| | 1939 - Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (b. 1881) |
| | 1942 - Karin Boye, Swedish author (b. 1900) |
| | 1942 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874) |
| | 1944 - William Stephens, U.S. political figure (b. 1859) |
| | 1947 - Willa Cather, American writer (b. 1873) |
| | 1947 - Hans Biebow, German war criminal (b. 1902) |
| | 1960 - Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879) |
| | 1964 - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (b. 1895) |
| | 1965 - Louise Dresser, American actress (b. 1878) |
| | 1967 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (b. 1927) |
| | 1974 - Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian (b. 1895) |
| | 1980 - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904) |
| | 1982 - Ville Ritola, Finnish athlete (b. 1896) |
| | 1986 - Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward, Duke of Windsor (b. 1896) |
| | 1993 - Oliver Tambo, South African activist and politician (b. 1917) |
| | 1997 - Pat Paulsen, American comedian and politician (b. 1927) |
| | 1997 - Eugene Stoner, American engineer and weapons designer (b. 1922) |
| | 2001 - Al Hibbler, American singer (b. 1915) |
| | 2004 - Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1906) |
| | 2005 - Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (b. 1924) |
| | 2005 - Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist (b. 1910) |
| | 2006 - Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1927) |
| | 2006 - Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (b. 1914) |
| | 2006 - Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940) |