| | 337 - Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor (b. 272) |
| | 1068 - Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025) |
| | 1455 - Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (killed in battle) |
| | 1455 - Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (killed in battle) (b. 1406) |
| | 1457 - Saint Rita of Cascia, Italian saint (b. 1381) |
| | 1538 - John Forrest, English Franciscan friar (martyred) (b. 1471) |
| | 1540 - Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian (b. 1483) |
| | 1666 - Gaspar Schott, German scientist (b. 1608) |
| | 1667 - Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599) |
| | 1745 - François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (b. 1671) |
| | 1746 - Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (b. 1660) |
| | 1760 - Israel ben Eliezer, Polish-born mystical rabbi (b. 1700) |
| | 1772 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (b. 1687) |
| | 1795 - Ewald Friedrich, Count von Hertzberg, Prussian statesman (b. 1725) |
| | 1859 - King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810) |
| | 1868 - Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801) |
| | 1885 - Victor Hugo, French author (b. 1802) |
| | 1910 - Jules Renard, French author (b. 1864) |
| | 1932 - Lady Gregory, Irish playwright (b. 1852) |
| | 1939 - Ernst Toller, German author (b. 1893) |
| | 1939 - Jiri Mahen, Czech author (b. 1882) |
| | 1965 - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (b. 1882) |
| | 1966 - Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900) |
| | 1967 - Langston Hughes, American writer (b. 1902) |
| | 1972 - Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (b. 1904) |
| | 1972 - Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892) |
| | 1983 - Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899) |
| | 1988 - Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (b. 1914) |
| | 1990 - Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922) |
| | 1992 - Zellig Harris, American linguist (b. 1909) |
| | 1997 - Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1908) |
| | 1998 - José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (b. 1910) |
| | 2003 - Ousmane Zongo, Burkinabé shooting victim |
| | 2004 - Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960) |
| | 2004 - Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945) |
| | 2005 - Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician (b. 1914) |
| | 2005 - Julia Randall, American poet (b. 1924) |
| | 2005 - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (b. 1914) |
| | 2006 - Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b. 1945) |
| | 2006 - Heather Crowe, Canadian activist (b. 1945) |