| | 1450 - Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1397) |
| | 1550 - John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (b. 1498) |
| | 1584 - Ikeda Motosuke, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1559) |
| | 1675 - Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (b. 1623) |
| | 1675 - Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (b. 1637) |
| | 1692 - Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (b. 1617) |
| | 1733 - Georg Böhm, German organist (b. 1761) |
| | 1780 - Charles Hardy, British governor of Newfoundland |
| | 1781 - Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian Indian revolutionary, a descendant of the last Inca ruler, Túpac Amaru (b. 1742) |
| | 1799 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (b. 1732) |
| | 1800 - Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (b. 1729) |
| | 1807 - John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (b. 1721) |
| | 1808 - Elijah Craig, American minister and inventor (b. 1738?) |
| | 1889 - Isabella Glyn Dallas, British Shakepearean actress (b. 1823) |
| | 1900 - Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813) |
| | 1909 - George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828) |
| | 1909 - Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860) |
| | 1910 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (b. 1821) |
| | 1911 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (b. 1860) |
| | 1922 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845) |
| | 1941 - Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (b. 1863) |
| | 1955 - Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (b. 1875) |
| | 1956 - Maurice Tate, English cricketer (b. 1895) |
| | 1967 - Andy Clyde, American actor (b. 1892) |
| | 1971 - Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (b. 1908) |
| | 1973 - Jeannette Rankin, first U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1880) |
| | 1975 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (b. 1908) |
| | 1980 - Ian Curtis, British musician, singer and lyricist (Joy Division) (b. 1956) |
| | 1981 - William Saroyan, American author (b. 1908) |
| | 1988 - Daws Butler, American voice actor (b. 1916) |
| | 1990 - Jill Ireland, British actress (b. 1936) |
| | 1992 - Marshall Thompson, American actor (b. 1925) |
| | 1995 - Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (b. 1903) |
| | 1995 - Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949) |
| | 1995 - Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b. 1933) |
| | 1999 - Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer (b. 1954) |
| | 1999 - Betty Robinson, American runner (b. 1911) |
| | 2000 - Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician and arranger (b. 1946) |
| | 2002 - Davey Boy Smith, Wrestler |
| | 2003 - Anna Santisteban, Puerto Rican beauty contest organizer (b. 1914) |
| | 2003 - Barb Tarbox, Canadian anti-smoking crusader (b. 1961) |
| | 2004 - Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (b. 1927) |
| | 2006 - Andrew Martinez, U.C. Berkeley's "Naked Guy" (b. 1973?) |