| | 804 - Alcuin, English monk (b. c. 735) |
| | 988 - Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 909) |
| | 1102 - Stephen, Count of Blois (b. c. 1045) |
| | 1125 - Vladimir Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053) |
| | 1296 - Pope Celestine V (b. 1215) |
| | 1319 - Louis d'Évreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276) |
| | 1389 - Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350) |
| | 1526 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464) |
| | 1531 - Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456) |
| | 1536 - Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England |
| | 1601 - Costanzo Porta, Italian composer |
| | 1610 - Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550) |
| | 1637 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588) |
| | 1715 - Charles Montagu, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661) |
| | 1786 - John Stanley, English composer (b. 1712) |
| | 1795 - Josiah Bartlett, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1729) |
| | 1795 - James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740) |
| | 1798 - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler (b. 1722) |
| | 1821 - Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771) |
| | 1825 - Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French political philosopher (b. 1760) |
| | 1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (b. 1804) |
| | 1876 - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (b. 1801) |
| | 1885 - Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (b. 1809) |
| | 1895 - José Martí, Cuban independence leader (b. 1853) |
| | 1898 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809) |
| | 1904 - Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851) |
| | 1907 - Benjamin Baker, English engineer (b. 1840) |
| | 1912 - Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (b. 1847) |
| | 1918 - Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace (b. 1885) |
| | 1935 - T. E. Lawrence, English soldier (b. 1888) |
| | 1943 - Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865) |
| | 1946 - Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869) |
| | 1954 - Charles Ives, American composer (b. 1874) |
| | 1958 - Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891) |
| | 1965 - Tui Malila, world's oldest tortoise (b. 1773 or 1777) |
| | 1969 - Coleman Hawkins, American musician (b. 1901) |
| | 1971 - Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902) |
| | 1983 - Jean Rey, President of the European Commission (b. 1902) |
| | 1984 - John Betjeman, English poet and Poet Laureate (b. 1906) |
| | 1986 - Jimmy Lyons, American musician (b. 1931) |
| | 1987 - James Tiptree, Jr, American author (b. 1915) |
| | 1989 - CLR James, West Indian writer and journalist (b. 1901) |
| | 1994 - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, First Lady of the United States (b. 1929) |
| | 1994 - Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (b. 1945) |
| | 1998 - Uno Sosuke, Japanese prime minister (b. 1922) |
| | 2000 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (b. 1933) |
| | 2002 - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911) |
| | 2002 - Walter Lord, American writer (b. 1917) |
| | 2004 - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (b. 1907) |
| | 2005 - Henry Corden, American actor and voice artist (b. 1921) |
| | 2006 - Alexandrina van Donkelaar-Vink, oldest Dutch citizen (b. 1895) |
| | 2006 - Freddie Garrity, English lead singer from the band Freddie and the Dreamers (b. 1940) |