| | 1152 - Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England (b. 1105) |
| | 1160 - Peter Lombard, Italian scholar and bishop (b. c.1100) |
| | 1270 - King Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206) |
| | 1294 - John I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1252/1253) |
| | 1481 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1432) |
| | 1598 - Anna Guarini, Italian singer (b. 1563) |
| | 1606 - Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (executed) (b. 1555) |
| | 1622 - Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1564) |
| | 1679 - James Sharp, English archbishop (assassinated) (b. 1613) |
| | 1693 - Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607) |
| | 1704 - Heinrich Ignaz Biber, Bohemian composer (b. 1644) |
| | 1724 - John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (b. 1662) |
| | 1750 - John Willison, Scottish minister and writer (b. 1680) |
| | 1752 - Samuel Ogle, British provincial Governor of Maryland (b. c. 1692) |
| | 1758 - Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675) |
| | 1763 - George Psalmanazar, British imposter (b. 1679) |
| | 1764 - Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (b. 1712) |
| | 1779 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (b. 1714) |
| | 1793 - Martin Gerbert, German theologian and historian (b. 1720) |
| | 1839 - Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (b. 1771) |
| | 1856 - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (b. 1803) |
| | 1942 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873) |
| | 1958 - Frank Foster, English cricketer (b. 1889) |
| | 1987 - Dalida, French singer (b. 1933) |
| | 1988 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908) |
| | 1988 - Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon) (b. 1907) |
| | 1989 - Christine Jorgenson, American transexual (b. 1926) |
| | 1989 - Edward Ochab, Polish Communist politician (b. 1906) |
| | 1991 - Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-born writer (b. 1933) |
| | 1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899) |
| | 1996 - Jack Weston, American actor (b.1924) |
| | 1996 - Alex Kellner, baseball player (b. 1924) |
| | 2002 - Barbara Castle, British politician (b. 1910) |
| | 2003 - Suzy Parker, American actress (b. 1932) |
| | 2004 - Anthony Ainley, British actor (b. 1932) |
| | 2004 - Darrell Johnson, baseball player (b. 1928) |
| | 2006 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921) |
| | 2006 - Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (b. 1949) |