| | 1003 - Pope Silvester II |
| | 1012 - Pope Sergius IV |
| | 1382 - Queen Joan I of Naples (b. 1327) |
| | 1399 - Demetrius I Starshiy (killed in battle) (b. 1327) |
| | 1465 - Thomas Palaeologus, Despot of the Despotate of Morea |
| | 1634 - George Chapman, English writer |
| | 1641 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman (b. 1593) |
| | 1684 - Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest |
| | 1699 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (b. 1626) |
| | 1700 - John Dryden, English writer (b. 1631) |
| | 1708 - Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658) |
| | 1748 - Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer (b. 1692) |
| | 1759 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700) |
| | 1784 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710) |
| | 1792 - Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (b. 1710) |
| | 1796 - Johann Peter Uz, German poet (b. 1720) |
| | 1801 - Nicholas Repnin, Russian statesman (b. 1734) |
| | 1845 - János Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (b. 1763) |
| | 1856 - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (b. 1786) |
| | 1859 - Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (b. 1791) |
| | 1860 - Charles Barry, English architect (b. 1795) |
| | 1864 - J. E. B. Stuart, American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate Army general (b. 1833) |
| | 1867 - Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (b. 1795) |
| | 1871 - Anselme Payen, French physicist (b. 1795) |
| | 1876 - Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary, brutally killed by the Turks (b. 1843) |
| | 1884 - Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (b. 1824) |
| | 1889 - John Cadbury, English chocolate entrepreneur (b. 1801) |
| | 1907 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848) |
| | 1925 - Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874) |
| | 1931 - Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist (b. 1858) |
| | 1935 - Józef Piłsudski, Polish statesman (b. 1867) |
| | 1944 - Max Brand, American author (b. 1892) |
| | 1944 - Q, British writer (b. 1863) |
| | 1956 - Louis Calhern, American actor (b. 1895) |
| | 1957 - Erich von Stroheim, film director and actor (b. 1885) |
| | 1963 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (b. 1882) |
| | 1967 - John Masefield, British writer (b. 1878) |
| | 1970 - Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891) |
| | 1971 - Heinie Manush, baseball player (b. 1901) |
| | 1985 - Jean Dubuffet, French painter (b. 1901) |
| | 1986 - Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (b. 1897) |
| | 1990 - Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (b. 1912) |
| | 1992 - Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932) |
| | 1994 - Erik Erikson, German psychoanalyst (b. 1902) |
| | 1994 - John Smith, British politician (b. 1938) |
| | 1995 - Mia Martini, Italian singer (b. 1947) |
| | 1999 - Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (b. 1914) |
| | 2000 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980) |
| | 2001 - Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912) |
| | 2002 - Erich Kulas, ECW Wrestler (Mass Transit) |
| | 2003 - Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1933) |
| | 2005 - Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (b. 1909) |
| | 2005 - Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1937) |
| | 2006 - Gillespie V. Montgomery, former U.S. representative from Mississippi (b. 1920) |