| | 912 - Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (b. 866) |
| | 1304 - Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271) |
| | 1610 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (b. 1552) |
| | 1672 - Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615) |
| | 1708 - Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646) |
| | 1723 - Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656) |
| | 1777 - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b. 1719) |
| | 1778 - William Pitt, the Elder, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708) |
| | 1812 - Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762) |
| | 1871 - John Herschel, British mathematician and astronomer (b. 1792) |
| | 1848 - Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781) |
| | 1849 - Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier, French socialite (b. 1777) |
| | 1887 - Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b. 1802) |
| | 1891 - A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820) |
| | 1916 - Max Reger, German composer (b. 1873) |
| | 1916 - Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873) |
| | 1920 - William Dean Howells, American writer (b. 1837) |
| | 1934 - Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852) |
| | 1938 - Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867) |
| | 1955 - Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874) |
| | 1960 - John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American philanthropist (b. 1874) |
| | 1963 - Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) |
| | 1970 - Johnny Hodges, American musician (b. 1906) |
| | 1973 - Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919) |
| | 1976 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (b. 1898) |
| | 1981 - Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) |
| | 1981 - Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1945) |
| | 1985 - Chester Gould, American cartoonist (b. 1900) |
| | 1986 - Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (b. 1910) |
| | 1986 - Fritz Pollard, American football player (b. 1894) |
| | 1988 - Kim Philby, British spy (b. 1912) |
| | 1996 - Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian football player (b. 1922) |
| | 2001 - Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952) |
| | 2002 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (b. 1905) |
| | 2003 - Noel Redding, English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (b. 1945) |
| | 2004 - John Whitehead, American singer (McFadden & Whitehead) (b. 1949) |
| | 2006 - Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935) |
| | 2006 - Frankie Thomas, American actor (b. 1921) |