| | 366 - Procopius, Roman usurper (executed) |
| | 866 - Ordoño I, King of Asturias |
| | 927 - Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria |
| | 1444 - John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (b. 1404) |
| | 1508 - Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1452) |
| | 1525 - Thomas Muentzer, German rebel leader |
| | 1541 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (executed) (b. 1473) |
| | 1564 - John Calvin, French religious reformer (b. 1509) |
| | 1610 - François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578) |
| | 1615 - Marguerite de Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1553) |
| | 1661 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, Scottish religious dissident (executed) (b. 1607) |
| | 1675 - Gaspard Dughet, French painter (b. 1613) |
| | 1690 - Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (b. 1626) |
| | 1702 - Dominique Bouhours, French critic (b. 1628) |
| | 1707 - Marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1641) |
| | 1781 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (b. 1716) |
| | 1797 - François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary and early socialist (b. 1760) |
| | 1831 - Jedediah Smith, American explorer (b. 1799) |
| | 1840 - Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782) |
| | 1896 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839) |
| | 1910 - Robert Koch, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1843) |
| | 1926 - Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904) |
| | 1947 - Ed Konetchy, baseball player (b. 1885) |
| | 1949 - Robert Ripley, American cartoonist (Ripley's Believe It or Not!) (b. 1890) |
| | 1953 - Jesse Burkett, Baseball player (b. 1868) |
| | 1960 - James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (b. 1877) |
| | 1964 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician (b. 1889) |
| | 1967 - Ernst Niekisch, German politician (b. 1889) |
| | 1969 - Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (b. 1926) |
| | 1986 - Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi, Palestinian-born philosopher and comparative religion scholar (b. 1921) |
| | 1987 - John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891) |
| | 1989 - Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (b. 1907) |
| | 1991 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904) |
| | 1992 - Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890) |
| | 1993 - Mary Philbin, American actress (b. 1903) |
| | 1993 - Werner Stocker, German actor (b. 1955) |
| | 2000 - Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch, British Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1917) |
| | 2000 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921) |
| | 2001 - Ramon Bieri, American actor (b. 1929) |
| | 2003 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925) |
| | 2006 - Craig Heyward, American football player (b. 1966) |
| | 2006 - Paul Gleason, American actor (b. 1939) |
| | 2006 - Alex Toth, American cartoonist (b. 1928) |
| | 2006 - Rob Borsellino, American columnist (b. 1949) |