| | 1471 - Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (b. 1453) |
| | 1471 - Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English military commander (executed) |
| | 1506 - Husayn Bayqarah, ruler of Herat (b. 1438) |
| | 1519 - Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492) |
| | 1566 - Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490) |
| | 1615 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561) |
| | 1626 - Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, English bishop and Bible translator (b. 1569) |
| | 1677 - Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (b. 1630) |
| | 1684 - John Nevison, English highwayman (b. 1639) |
| | 1729 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (b. 1651) |
| | 1734 - James Thornhill, English painter |
| | 1737 - Eustace Budgell, English writer (b. 1686) |
| | 1774 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1714) |
| | 1776 - Jacques Saly, French sculptor (b. 1717) |
| | 1790 - Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1718) |
| | 1799 - Tipu Sultan, Indian military leader |
| | 1811 - Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776) |
| | 1824 - Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (b. 1754) |
| | 1849 - Hokusai, Japanese artist (b. 1760) |
| | 1859 - Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician (b. 1771) |
| | 1880 - Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (b. 1815) |
| | 1903 - Gotse Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1872) |
| | 1922 - Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (b. 1888) |
| | 1937 - Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (b. 1910) |
| | 1938 - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1889) |
| | 1945 - Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1880) |
| | 1955 - Georges Enescu, Romanian composer (b. 1881) |
| | 1961 - Anita Stewart, American film actress (b. 1895) |
| | 1969 - Osbert Sitwell, English writer (b. 1892) |
| | 1970 - Kent State victims: |
| | Allison Krause (b. 1951) |
| | Jeffrey Miller (b. 1950) |
| | Sandra Scheuer (b. 1949) |
| | William Schroeder (b. 1950) |
| | 1972 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886) |
| | 1975 - Moe Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1897) |
| | 1980 - Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892) |
| | 1984 - Bob Clampett, American cartoonist (b. 1913) |
| | 1984 - Diana Dors, British actress (b. 1931) |
| | 1985 - Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907) |
| | 1987 - Paul Butterfield, American blues harmonica player (b. 1942) |
| | 1992 - Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (b. 1927) |
| | 2005 - David Hackworth, U.S. Army officer and military journalist (b. 1930) |