| | 973 - Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 912) |
| | 1092 - Remigius de Fécamp, first bishop of Lincoln (b. unknown) |
| | 1427 - Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman |
| | 1523 - Franz von Sickingen, German soldier (b. 1481) |
| | 1539 - Guru Nanak Dev, Pakistani founder of Sikhism (b. 1469) |
| | 1539 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (b. 1466) |
| | 1615 - Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567) |
| | 1617 - David Fabricius, German astronomer (b. 1564) |
| | 1667 - Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (b. 1616) |
| | 1682 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (b. 1661) |
| | 1718 - Mary of Modena, wife of James II of England (b. 1658) |
| | 1793 - Pietro Nardini, Italian composer (b. 1722) |
| | 1800 - Niccola Piccinni, Italian composer (b. 1728) |
| | 1805 - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1737) |
| | 1825 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (b. 1750) |
| | 1840 - Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (b. 1774) |
| | 1868 - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778) |
| | 1896 - H. H. Holmes, American serial killer (b. 1861) |
| | 1925 - William Hesketh Lever, First Viscount Leverhulme (b. 1851) |
| | 1941 - Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (b. 1854) |
| | 1942 - Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (b. 1863) |
| | 1951 - Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889) |
| | 1998 - Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1924) |
| | 1998 - Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941) |
| | 2000 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (b. 1909) |
| | 2004 - Waldemar Milewicz, Polish reporter (b. 1956) |
| | 2005 - Tristan Egolf, American writer (b. 1971) |
| | 2005 - Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian football (soccer) player (b. 1980) |
| | 2006 - Richard Carleton, Australian news reporter (b.1943) |
| | 2006 - Lillian Gertrud Asplund, RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1907) |
| | 2006 - Joan C. Edwards, American philanthropist (b. 1918) |
| | 2006 - Machiko Soga, Japanese actress, singer, and tokusatsu legend (b. 1943) |