| | 1192 - Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem (b. mid 1140s) |
| | 1498 - Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician |
| | 1533 - Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461) |
| | 1695 - Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (b. 1621) |
| | 1710 - Thomas Betterton, English actor |
| | 1726 - Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (b. 1653) |
| | 1741 - Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish General and statesman (b. 1668) |
| | 1772 - Johann Friedrich Struensee, physician of Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1737) |
| | 1781 - Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723) |
| | 1813 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b. 1745) |
| | 1816 - Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (b. 1862) |
| | 1841 - Peter Chanel, French saint (b. 1803) |
| | 1853 - Ludwig Tieck, German writer (b. 1773) |
| | 1858 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (b. 1801) |
| | 1905 - Fitzhugh Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1835) |
| | 1926 - Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857) |
| | 1936 - King Fuad I of Egypt (b. 1868) |
| | 1944 - Frank Knox, U.S. Vice-Presidential candidate (b. 1874) |
| | 1945 - Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator (b. 1882) |
| | 1945 - Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (shot) (b. 1912) |
| | 1945 - Roberto Farinacci, Italian fascist (b. 1892) |
| | 1946 - Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (b. 1870) |
| | 1954 - Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879) |
| | 1964 - Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (b. 1888) |
| | 1973 - Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b. 1893) |
| | 1975 - Tom Donahue, American FM disc jockey |
| | 1978 - Sardar Mohammed Daoud, President of Afghanistan (b. 1909) |
| | 1991 - Steve Broidy, American motion picture executive (b. 1905) |
| | 1992 - Francis Bacon, Anglo-Irish painter (b. 1909) |
| | 1992 - Iceberg Slim, American writer (b. 1918) |
| | 1993 - Jim Valvano, American basketball coach (b. 1946) |
| | 1999 - Rory Calhoun, American actor (b. 1922) |
| | 1999 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921) |
| | 1999 - Alf Ramsey, English football manager (b. 1920) |
| | 2000 - Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (b. 1916) |
| | 2002 - Alexander Lebed, Russian general (b. 1950) |
| | 2002 - Lou Thesz, American wrestler (b. 1916) |
| | 2005 - Chris Candito, American wrestler (b. 1972) |