| | 535 - Pope John II |
| | 1278 - Emperor Duanzong of China (b. 1268) |
| | 1319 - King Haakon V of Norway (b. 1270) |
| | 1473 - John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 1420) |
| | 1538 - Edward Fox, English bishop |
| | 1766 - Samuel Chandler, English non-conformist minister (b. 1693) |
| | 1773 - Ali Bey Al-Kabir, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (b. 1728) |
| | 1781 - Richard Jago, English poet (b. 1715) |
| | 1785 - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719) |
| | 1785 - Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (b. 1701) |
| | 1788 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist (b. 1723) |
| | 1794 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (executed) (b. 1743) |
| | 1819 - Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii |
| | 1828 - Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (b. 1781) |
| | 1837 - Alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1770) |
| | 1842 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (b. 1790) |
| | 1873 - John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (b. 1806) |
| | 1880 - Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821) |
| | 1891 - Helena Blavatsky, Russian-born author (b. 1831) |
| | 1936 - Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (b. 1880) |
| | 1943 - Mordechaj Anielewicz, Polish Resistance Fighter (b. 1919) |
| | 1947 - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-born department store founder (b. 1858) |
| | 1948 - U Saw, Burmese politician (b. 1900) |
| | 1950 - Vital Brazil, Brazilian physician (b. 1865) |
| | 1952 - William Fox, Austrian-born film producer (b. 1879) |
| | 1960 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (b. 1904) |
| | 1975 - Avery Brundage, President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1887) |
| | 1982 - Neil Bogart, American record executive (b. 1943) |
| | 1982 - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (b. 1950) |
| | 1984 - Lila Bell Wallace, American magazine publisher (Reader's Digest) (b. 1890) |
| | 1985 - Theodore Sturgeon, American science fiction writer (b. 1918) |
| | 1985 - Dolph Sweet, American actor (b. 1920) |
| | 1987 - Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (b. 1920) |
| | 1988 - Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (b. 1907) |
| | 1990 - Luigi Nono, Italian composer (b. 1924) |
| | 1990 - Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich, Northern Irish clergyman (b. 1923) |
| | 1991 - Jean Langlais, French composer and pianist (b. 1907) |
| | 1991 - Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (b. 1903) |
| | 1993 - Avram Davidson, writer (b. 1923) |
| | 1994 - George Peppard, American actor (b. 1928) |
| | 1995 - Teresa Teng, Asian superstar (b. 1953) |
| | 1996 - Beryl Burton, English cyclist (b. 1937) |
| | 1996 - Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1926) |
| | 1996 - Garth Williams, American illustrator (b. 1912) |
| | 1998 - Bebe Rebozo, American banker and Watergate figure (b. 1912) |
| | 1999 - Dirk Bogarde, British actor (b. 1921) |
| | 1999 - Dana Plato, American actress (b. 1964) |
| | 2000 - Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (b. 1918) |
| | 2006 - George Lutz, (b. 1947) |
| | 2006 - Iain MacMillan, Abbey Road photographer (b. 1938) |