| | 1034 - Mieszko II of Poland (b. 990) |
| | 1290 - Duke Rudolph II of Austria (b. 1271) |
| | 1424 - Go-Kameyama, Emperor of Japan |
| | 1482 - Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1397) |
| | 1493 - Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician |
| | 1521 - Sebastian Brant, Alsatian humanist (b. 1457) |
| | 1566 - Leonhart Fuchs, German botanist (b. 1501) |
| | 1641 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (b. 1596) |
| | 1657 - Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (b. 1592) |
| | 1691 - Colonel John Birch, English soldier (b. 1615) |
| | 1696 - Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (b. 1645) |
| | 1717 - John Hathorne, American magistrate (b. 1641) |
| | 1726 - Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (b. 1670) |
| | 1733 - Barton Booth, English actor (b. 1681) |
| | 1737 - Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (b. 1702) |
| | 1774 - King Louis XV of France (b. 1710) |
| | 1787 - William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715) |
| | 1792 - John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress |
| | 1807 - Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (b. 1725) |
| | 1818 - Paul Revere, American patriot (b. 1735) |
| | 1829 - Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773) |
| | 1850 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778) |
| | 1863 - Stonewall Jackson, American Confederate general (b. 1824) |
| | 1889 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (b. 1826) |
| | 1897 - Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino revolutionary leader (b. 1863) |
| | 1904 - Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (b. 1861) |
| | 1945 - Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889) |
| | 1950 - Belle da Costa Greene, librarian, bibliographer, archivist (b. 1883) |
| | 1955 - Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (b. 1881) |
| | 1960 - Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (b. 1899) |
| | 1963 - Gene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb, American football player (b. 1931) |
| | 1964 - Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (b. 1881) |
| | 1977 - Joan Crawford, American actress (b. 1905) |
| | 1982 - Peter Weiss, German writer and artist (b. 1916) |
| | 1988 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902) |
| | 1989 - Woody Shaw, American jazz musician (b. 1944) |
| | 1990 - Walker Percy, American author (b. 1916) |
| | 1994 - John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1942) |
| | 1999 - Shel Silverstein, American poet and composer (b. 1930) |
| | 2001 - Deborah Walley, American actress (b. 1943) |
| | 2002 - Lynda Lyon Block, convicted murderer (b. 1948) |
| | 2003 - Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and chess problem composer (b. 1937) |
| | 2005 - David Wayne, American singer (Metal Church) (b. 1958) |
| | 2006 - Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (b. 1917) |
| | 2006 - A.M. Rosenthal, American newspaper editor (b. 1922) |
| | 2006 - Soraya, Colombian-American singer (b. 1969) |
| | 2006 - Val Guest, British film director (b. 1911) |