| | 709 - Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne |
| | 735 - Bede, English historian and monk |
| | 967 - Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 926) |
| | 992 - Mieszko I first lord and knight of Poland |
| | 1085 - Pope Gregory VII |
| | 1261 - Pope Alexander IV |
| | 1452 - John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| | 1555 - Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (b. 1508) |
| | 1555 - Henry II of Navarre (b. 1503) |
| | 1595 - Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (b. 1567) |
| | 1632 - Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572) |
| | 1667 - Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (b. 1620) |
| | 1681 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (b. 1600) |
| | 1693 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634) |
| | 1741 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (b. 1660) |
| | 1786 - Peter III of Portugal, consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal (b. 1717) |
| | 1789 - Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751) |
| | 1797 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (b. 1719) |
| | 1805 - William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743) |
| | 1848 - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (b. 1797) |
| | 1849 - Benjamin d'Urban, British general and colonial administrator (b. 1777) |
| | 1899 - Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (d. 1822) |
| | 1912 - Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (b. 1860) |
| | 1917 - Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (b. 1891) |
| | 1919 - Madame C.J. Walker, African American philanthropist and tycoon (b. 1867) |
| | 1924 - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (b. 1889) |
| | 1926 - Symon Petlura, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1879) |
| | 1927 - Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1876) |
| | 1930 - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848) |
| | 1934 - Gustav Holst, English composer (b. 1874) |
| | 1935 - Sir Frank Watson Dyson, English Astronomer (b. 1868) |
| | 1940 - Joe De Grasse, American film director (b. 1873) |
| | 1943 - Nils von Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter (b. 1888) |
| | 1951 - Paula von Preradović, Croatian-born writer (b. 1887) |
| | 1954 - Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913) |
| | 1965 - Sonny Boy Williamson, American singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1899) |
| | 1968 - Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (b. 1881) |
| | 1977 - Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (b. 1904) |
| | 1979 - John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (b. 1949) |
| | 1981 - Fredric Warburg, British publisher and author (b. 1898) |
| | 1983 - Jean Rougeau, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1925) |
| | 1986 - Chester Bowles, American politician (b. 1901) |
| | 1988 - Ernst Ruska, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) |
| | 1993 - David Peterson, American professional wrestler (b. 1959) |
| | 1994 - Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (b. 1940) |
| | 1995 - Dany Robin, French actress (b. 1927) |
| | 1996 - Bradley Nowell, American singer and guitarist (Sublime) (b. 1968) |
| | 2003 - Jeremy Michael Ward, American musician (The Mars Volta) (b. 1976) |
| | 2004 - Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (b. 1917) |
| | 2005 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (b. 1929) |
| | 2005 - Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (b. 1938) |
| | 2005 - Graham Kennedy, Australian television personality (b. 1934) |
| | 2005 - Ruth Laredo, American pianist (b. 1937) |
| | 2005 - Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer (b. 1965) |
| | 2006 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska musician (b. 1941) |