| | 1380 - Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (b. 1347) |
| | 1594 - Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer |
| | 1630 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet (b. 1552) |
| | 1658 - John Cleveland, English poet (b. 1613) |
| | 1676 - Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (b. 1607) |
| | 1688 - Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1620) |
| | 1698 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655) |
| | 1707 - George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678) |
| | 1743 - Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658) |
| | 1768 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (b. 1694) |
| | 1776 - Edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713) |
| | 1782 - Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral (b. 1718) |
| | 1793 - Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi (b. 1713) |
| | 1793 - John Michell, English scientist (b. 1724) |
| | 1798 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723) |
| | 1854 - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (b. 1768) |
| | 1920 - William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839) |
| | 1933 - Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863) |
| | 1937 - William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853) |
| | 1944 - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (b. 1851) |
| | 1951 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (b. 1889) |
| | 1956 - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876) |
| | 1966 - William Eccles, English physicist and radio pioneer (b. 1875) |
| | 1979 - Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (b. 1907) |
| | 1980 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (b. 1899) |
| | 1988 - James McCracken, American tenor (b. 1926) |
| | 1993 - Mick Ronson, British musician (b. 1946) |
| | 1997 - Mike Royko, American columnist (b. 1932) |
| | 2005 - William J. Bell, television writer and producer (b. 1927) |
| | 2005 - Mariana Levy, Mexican actress, singer, and television show host (b. 1966) |
| | 2006 - John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908) |