| | 1246 - Isabella of Angouleme, queen of John of England |
| | 1349 - Thomas Wake, English politician (b. 1297) |
| | 1408 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1358) |
| | 1410 - King Martin I of Aragon (b. 1356) |
| | 1495 - Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England, (b. 1415) |
| | 1558 - Philip Hoby, English politician (b. 1505) |
| | 1594 - Tintoretto, Italian painter (b. 1518) |
| | 1680 - Joachim Neander, German clergyman (b. 1650) |
| | 1740 - King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (b. 1688) |
| | 1747 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686) |
| | 1799 - Pierre Lemonnier, French astronomer (b. 1715) |
| | 1809 - Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1732) |
| | 1809 - Jean Lannes, French marshal (b. 1769) |
| | 1831 - Samuel Bentham, British mechanical engineer (b. 1757) |
| | 1832 - Évariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811) |
| | 1837 - Joseph Grimaldi, British clown (b. 1779) |
| | 1846 - Philip Marheineke, German clergyman (b. 1780) |
| | 1847 - Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor (b. 1780) |
| | 1848 - Eugénie de Guérin, French writer (b. 1805) |
| | 1908 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (b. 1839) |
| | 1910 - Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician (b. 1821) |
| | 1957 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878) |
| | 1960 - Walther Funk, Nazi leader (b. 1890) |
| | 1960 - Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer (b. 1882) |
| | 1961 - Walter Little, Canadian politician (b. 1877) |
| | 1970 - Terry Sawchuk, hockey player (b. 1929) |
| | 1976 - Jacques Monod, French biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910) |
| | 1977 - William Castle, American director (b. 1914) |
| | 1978 - József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925) |
| | 1983 - Jack Dempsey, American boxer (b. 1895) |
| | 1986 - Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal Frank), American artist (b. 1918) |
| | 1986 - James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917) |
| | 1987 - John Abraham (Director), Indian film director |
| | 1996 - Timothy Leary, American professor (b. 1920) |
| | 1997 - James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (b. 1905) |
| | 2000 - Tito Puente, American musician (b. 1923) |
| | 2000 - Johnnie Taylor, American singer (b. 1938) |
| | 2004 - Robert Quine, American guitarist (b. 1941) |
| | 2006 - Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| | 2006 - Ryan Bennett, broadcast commentator (b. 1970) |