| | 200 - Sun Ce, warlord of the Han Dynasty (b. 175) |
| | 311 - Galerius, Roman Emperor |
| | 1028 - King Alfonso V of Castile, León, and Galicia |
| | 1192 - Duke Ottokar IV of Styria (b. 1163) |
| | 1194 - King Casimir II of Poland (b. 1138) |
| | 1219 - King Leo II of Armenia (b. 1150) |
| | 1309 - King Charles II of Naples |
| | 1525 - Frederick III of Saxony (b. 1463) |
| | 1586 - Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529) |
| | 1604 - Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (b. 1533) |
| | 1671 - Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English politician (b. 1602) |
| | 1672 - Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609) |
| | 1705 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640) |
| | 1760 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (hanged) (b. 1720) |
| | 1766 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684) |
| | 1808 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (b. 1757) |
| | 1811 - Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (b. 1734) |
| | 1821 - Napoleon I of France (b. 1769) |
| | 1827 - Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750) |
| | 1855 - Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (b. 1786) |
| | 1859 - Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (b. 1805) |
| | 1900 - Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817) |
| | 1921 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864) |
| | 1941 - Natalija Obrenović, Queen of Serbia (b. 1859) |
| | 1947 - Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917) |
| | 1959 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878) |
| | 1962 - Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889) |
| | 1971 - Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor (b. 1887) |
| | 1977 - Ludwig Erhard, a German politician (CDU) and Chancellor of Germany from 1963 until 1966 (b. 1897) |
| | 1981 - Bobby Sands, Irish activist (b. 1954) |
| | 1985 - Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b. 1901) |
| | 1988 - Michael Shaara, American author (b. 1928) |
| | 1992 - Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer (b.1927) |
| | 1995 - Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (b. 1911) |
| | 1997 - Walter Gotell, German actor (b. 1924) |
| | 2000 - Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914) |
| | 2001 - Cliff Hillegass, American writer and publisher |
| | 2001 - Raymond Kessler, American midget wrestler |
| | 2003 - Walter Sisulu, South African activist (b. 1912) |
| | 2004 - Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1959) |
| | 2006 - Naushad Ali, Indian composer (b. 1919) |