| | 1162 - Géza II of Hungary |
| | 1176 - Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119) |
| | 1312 - Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263) |
| | 1573 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521) |
| | 1619 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b. 1547) |
| | 1704 - Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (b. 1632) |
| | 1742 - Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719) |
| | 1807 - Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b. 1721) |
| | 1832 - Georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b. 1769) |
| | 1835 - John Nash, English architect (b. 1752) |
| | 1866 - Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (b. 1796) |
| | 1871 - Daniel Auber, French composer (b. 1782) |
| | 1884 - Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (b. 1809) |
| | 1885 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809) |
| | 1916 - Sholom Aleichem, Russian author (b. 1859) |
| | 1925 - Boris Savinkov, Russian writer and terrorist (b. 1879) |
| | 1926 - Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (b. 1857) |
| | 1930 - Fridtjof Nansen, Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1861) |
| | 1937 - Ekaterina Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858) |
| | 1938 - Charles Edouard Guillaume, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861) |
| | 1945 - Tubby Hall, American musician (b. 1895) |
| | 1961 - Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901) |
| | 1962 - Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (b. 1893) |
| | 1974 - Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican writer (b. 1902) |
| | 1975 - Bob Wills, American musician (b. 1905) |
| | 1985 - Leatrice Joy, American actress (b. 1893) |
| | 1988 - Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1929) |
| | 1992 - F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (b. 1909) |
| | 1999 - Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902) |
| | 2000 - Paul Bartel, American actor (b. 1938) |
| | 2001 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906) |
| | 2001 - Jason Miller, American playwright (b. 1939) |
| | 2005 - George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914) |
| | 2005 - Michael Ross, American serial killer (b. 1959) |
| | 2006 - Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923) |
| | 2006 - Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (b. 1949) |
| | 2006 - Katherine McCarron, American autistic (b. 2003) |