| | 408 - Arcadius, Roman emperor |
| | 1118 - Edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080) |
| | 1308 - Albert I of Habsburg (murdered) (b. 1255) |
| | 1555 - Pope Marcellus II (b. 1501) |
| | 1572 - Pope Pius V (b. 1504) |
| | 1731 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (b. 1677) |
| | 1738 - Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English statesman (b. c. 1669) |
| | 1772 - Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (b. 1719) |
| | 1813 - Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (killed in combat) (b. 1768) |
| | 1873 - David Livingstone, Scottish missionary (b. 1813) |
| | 1899 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (b. 1824) |
| | 1904 - Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (b. 1841) |
| | 1935 - Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (b. 1889) |
| | 1937 - Snitz Edwards, American actor (b. 1868) |
| | 1943 - Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith's Friends (b.1871) |
| | 1945 - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (suicide) (b. 1897) |
| | 1965 - Spike Jones, American band leader, musician, and comedian (b. 1911) |
| | 1968 - Harold Nicolson, British diplomat, author and politician (b. 1886) |
| | 1970 - Yi Un, Crown Prince Korea (b. 1897) |
| | 1976 - Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet (b. 1939) |
| | 1976 - T.R.M. Howard, civil rights leader, entrepreneur, surgeon (b. 1908) |
| | 1978 - Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (b. 1903) |
| | 1982 - William Primrose, Scottish violist (b. 1903) |
| | 1989 - Sally Kirkland, fashion editor at LIFE (b. 1912) |
| | 1989 - Douglass Watson, American actor (b. 1921) |
| | 1993 - Pierre Bérégovoy, French Prime Minister (suicide) (b. 1925) |
| | 1993 - Ranasinghe Premadasa, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1924) |
| | 1994 - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian three-time Formula One champion (b. 1960) |
| | 1998 - Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (b. 1935) |
| | 2000 - Steve Reeves, American actor (b. 1926) |
| | 2003 - Miss Elizabeth, American wrestler (b. 1960) |
| | 2006 - Big Hawk, American rapper (b.1969) |