| | 1357 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291) |
| | 1672 - John Trevor, English politician (b. 1626) |
| | 1747 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (b. 1715) |
| | 1750 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720) |
| | 1787 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719) |
| | 1805 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (b. 1743) |
| | 1808 - Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (b. 1720) |
| | 1811 - Henry Dundas, British minister (b. 1742) |
| | 1843 - Noah Webster, American author, politician, and lexicographer (b. 1758) |
| | 1849 - Anne Brontë, English author (b. 1820) |
| | 1878 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792) |
| | 1916 - Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856) |
| | 1927 - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878) |
| | 1937 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (b. 1870) |
| | 1940 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen (b. 1868) |
| | 1947 - August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (b. 1907) |
| | 1948 - Unity Mitford, English fascist sympathizer (b. 1914) |
| | 1971 - Audie Murphy, American actor and war hero (b. 1924) |
| | 1971 - Jean Vilar, French actor (b. 1912) |
| | 1972 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894) |
| | 1975 - Ezzard Charles, Heavyweight champion (b. 1921) |
| | 1976 - Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (b. 1922) |
| | 1978 - Arthur Brough, English actor (b. 1905) |
| | 1980 - Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895) |
| | 1981 - Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, Archbishop of Warsaw (b. 1901) |
| | 1984 - Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise) (b. 1926) |
| | 1988 - Sy Oliver, Jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader (b. 1910) |
| | 1993 - Billy Conn, American boxer and actor (b. 1917) |
| | 1994 - Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920) |
| | 1994 - Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (b. 1916) |
| | 1998 - Phil Hartman, Canadian actor, comedian (b. 1948) |
| | 2001 - Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946) |
| | 2002 - Jean Berger, German-born composer (b. 1909) |
| | 2003 - Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (b. 1933) |
| | 2003 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917) |
| | 2003 - Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912) |
| | 2004 - Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (b. 1934) |
| | 2006 - Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (b. 1920) |