| | 685 - King Ecgfrith of Northumbria (b. 645) |
| | 1277 - Pope John XXI (b. 1215) |
| | 1285 - John II of Jerusalem, King of Cyprus (b. 1259) |
| | 1444 - Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (b. 1380) |
| | 1503 - Lorenzo de Medici, Italian patron (b. 1463) |
| | 1506 - Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (b. 1451) |
| | 1550 - Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (b. 1510) |
| | 1622 - Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1604) |
| | 1648 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (b. 1595) |
| | 1677 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (b. 1612) |
| | 1713 - Thomas Sprat, English writer (b. 1635) |
| | 1717 - John Trevor, British statesman (b. 1637) |
| | 1722 - Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (b. 1669) |
| | 1732 - Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (b. 1676) |
| | 1782 - William Emerson, British mathematician (b. 1701) |
| | 1793 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist (b. 1720) |
| | 1834 - Gilbert du Motier, French statesman (b. 1757) |
| | 1841 - Joseph Blanco White, British theologian (b. 1775) |
| | 1873 - Sir George-Étienne Cartier, French-Canadian statesman (b. 1814) |
| | 1896 - Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (b. 1819) |
| | 1917 - Philipp von Ferrary, Italian philatelist (b. 1850) |
| | 1940 - Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1859) |
| | 1946 - Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (b. 1871) |
| | 1947 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862) |
| | 1956 - Max Beerbohm, English theater critic (b. 1872) |
| | 1971 - Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (b. 1904) |
| | 1975 - Barbara Hepworth, British sculptor (b. 1903) |
| | 1978 - Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian composer (b. 1895) |
| | 1989 - John Hicks, English economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1904) |
| | 1989 - Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress (b. 1946) |
| | 1996 - Jon Pertwee, British actor (b. 1919) |
| | 2000 - Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922) |
| | 2000 - Malik Sealy, American Basketball player |
| | 2001 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician (b. 1920) |
| | 2002 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (b. 1941) |
| | 2005 - Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (b. 1913) |
| | 2005 - William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (b. 1918) |
| | 2006 - Cherd Songsri, Thai film director |