| | 195 BC - Gaozu of Han of China |
| | 193 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (b.133) |
| | 1434 - Wladislaus II of Poland |
| | 1571 - John Story, English Catholic |
| | 1616 - Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543) |
| | 1625 - Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568) |
| | 1639 - Melchior Franck, German composer |
| | 1660 - Mary Dyer, English Quaker (martyred) |
| | 1710 - David Mitchell, British admiral (b. 1642) |
| | 1740 - Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657) |
| | 1769 - Edward Holyoke, President of Harvard University (b. 1689) |
| | 1795 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist (b. 1744) |
| | 1815 - Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (b. 1853) |
| | 1823 - Louis Nicolas Davout, French marshal (b. 1770) |
| | 1826 - Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor (b. 1740) |
| | 1841 - David Wilkie, Scottish artist (b. 1785) |
| | 1846 - Pope Gregory XVI (b. 1765) |
| | 1864 - Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b. 1812) |
| | 1868 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (b. 1791) |
| | 1872 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1795) |
| | 1873 - Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (b. 1804) |
| | 1876 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848) |
| | 1879 - Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial son of Emperor Napoleon III (b. 1856) |
| | 1927 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (b. 1861) |
| | 1941 - Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (b. 1873) |
| | 1943 - Leslie Howard, English actor (b. 1893) |
| | 1943 - Wilfrid B. Israel, Jewish activist |
| | 1946 - Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1882) |
| | 1948 - Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (b. 1914) |
| | 1954 - Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (b. 1869) |
| | 1959 - Sax Rohmer, English author (b. 1883) |
| | 1960 - Lester Patrick, Canadian hockey player (b. 1883) |
| | 1962 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (b. 1906) |
| | 1965 - Earl "Curly" Lambeau, American football coach (b. 1898) |
| | 1966 - Papa Jack Laine, American musician (b. 1873) |
| | 1968 - Helen Keller, American humanitarian (b. 1880) |
| | 1969 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian ice skater (b. 1904) |
| | 1971 - Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (b. 1892) |
| | 1973 - Mary Kornman, American actress (b. 1915) |
| | 1979 - Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1904) |
| | 1980 - Rube Marquard, baseball player (b. 1886) |
| | 1981 - Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (b. 1883) |
| | 1981 - Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (b. 1897) |
| | 1983 - Prince Charles of Belgium (b. 1903) |
| | 1985 - Richard Greene, British actor (b. 1918) |
| | 1987 - Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman (b. 1921) |
| | 1991 - David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1941) |
| | 1994 - Frances Heflin, American actress (b. 1923) |
| | 1996 - Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Fifth President of India (b. 1913) |
| | 1998 - Darwin Joston, American actor (b. 1937) |
| | 1999 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (b. 1910) |
| | 2001 - Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (b. 1949) |
| | 2001 - King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945) |
| | 2001 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (b. 1920) |
| | 2002 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969) |
| | 2003 - Johnny Hopp, baseball player (b. 1916) |
| | 2004 - William Manchester, American writer (b. 1922) |
| | 2005 - George Mikan, American basketball player (b. 1924) |
| | 2006 - Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944) |