| | 604 - Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| | 818 - Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766) |
| | 946 - King Edmund I of England (b. 921) |
| | 1055 - Margrave Adalbert of Austria |
| | 1421 - Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1389) |
| | 1512 - Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan |
| | 1536 - Francesco Berni, Italian poet |
| | 1595 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (b. 1515) |
| | 1648 - Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597) |
| | 1653 - Robert Filmer, English writer (b. 1588) |
| | 1679 - Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636) |
| | 1685 - Karl II, Elector Palatine (b. 1651) |
| | 1703 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (b. 1633) |
| | 1762 - Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b. 1714) |
| | 1799 - James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (b. 1714) |
| | 1824 - Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751) |
| | 1831 - Ciro Menotti, Italian patriot (b. 1798) |
| | 1840 - Sidney Smith, British admiral (b. 1764) |
| | 1881 - Jakob Bernays, German philologist (b. 1824) |
| | 1883 - Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b. 1788) |
| | 1883 - Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (b. 1808) |
| | 1902 - Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839) |
| | 1904 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (b. 1857) |
| | 1907 - Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847) |
| | 1908 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Punjabi founder of the Qadianism (b. 1839) |
| | 1924 - Victor Herbert, Irish composer (b. 1859) |
| | 1926 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (b. 1879) |
| | 1933 - Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (b. 1860) |
| | 1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, American singer (b. 1897) |
| | 1939 - Charles Horace Mayo, American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic) (b. 1865) |
| | 1943 - Edsel Ford, American automobile executive (b. 1893) |
| | 1948 - Theodore Morell, Hitler's personal physician (b. 1886) |
| | 1951 - Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist (b. 1880) |
| | 1954 - Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete (b. 1900) |
| | 1955 - Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1918) |
| | 1968 - Little Willie John, American singer (b. 1937) |
| | 1969 - Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (b. 1937) |
| | 1974 - Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (b. 1941) |
| | 1976 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889) |
| | 1979 - George Brent, British actor (b. 1899) |
| | 1995 - Friz Freleng, American animator (b. 1905) |
| | 1999 - Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906) |
| | 1999 - Waldo Semon, American inventor (b. 1898) |
| | 2001 - Vittorio Brambilla, Italian racing driver (b. 1937) |
| | 2002 - Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932) |
| | 2003 - Kathleen Winsor, American writer (b. 1919) |
| | 2004 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931) |
| | 2004 - Dullah Omar, South African lawyer (b. 1934) |
| | 2005 - Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906) |
| | 2005 - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1928) |
| | 2006 - Édouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin (b. 1963) |