| | 829 - Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 758) |
| | 1418 - Katherine of Lancaster, wife of Henry III of Castile |
| | 1567 - Shane O'Neill, Irish chieftain |
| | 1581 - James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland |
| | 1693 - John Wildman, English soldier and politician |
| | 1701 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607) |
| | 1716 - Ogata Korin, Japanese painter |
| | 1754 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680) |
| | 1761 - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685) |
| | 1785 - Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713) |
| | 1833 - Simon Byrne, Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter (b. 1806) |
| | 1865 - Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (b. 1783) |
| | 1875 - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (b. 1806) |
| | 1876 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848) |
| | 1881 - Émile Littré, French lexicographer (b. 1801) |
| | 1882 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian revolutionarist (b. 1807) |
| | 1901 - George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844) |
| | 1933 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878) |
| | 1941 - Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903) |
| | 1948 - Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (b. 1897) |
| | 1948 - Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler (b. 1904) |
| | 1956 - Jean Hersholt, Danish actor and humanitarian (b. 1886) |
| | 1961 - George S. Kaufman, American playwright (b. 1889) |
| | 1962 - Vita Sackville-West, English writer, and gardener (b. 1892) |
| | 1969 - Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917) |
| | 1970 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer, designer, and manufacturer (b. 1937) |
| | 1970 - Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888) |
| | 1977 - Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (b. 1931) |
| | 1979 - Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1934) |
| | 1982 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (b. 1904) |
| | 1986 - Aurel Joliat, Canadian hockey player (b. 1901) |
| | 1987 - Sammy Kaye, American bandleader (b. 1910) |
| | 1987 - Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893) |
| | 1989 - Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (b. 1907) |
| | 1990 - Jack Gilford, American actor (b. 1908) |
| | 1990 - Rex Harrison, English actor (b. 1908) |
| | 1992 - Phillip Dunne, American film director (b. 1908) |
| | 1993 - Johnny Mize, American baseball player (b. 1913) |
| | 1996 - Ray Combs, American game show host and comedian (b. 1956) |
| | 1996 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (b. 1921) |
| | 1996 - Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (b. 1937) |
| | 1997 - Doc Cheatham, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1905) |
| | 1998 - Sylvester Ritter, American professional wrestler (b. 1952) |
| | 1999 - Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (b. 1949) |
| | 2000 - Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist (b. 1927) |
| | 2000 - Gerald Whitrow, British mathematician (b. 1912) |
| | 2001 - Imogene Coca, American actress (b. 1908) |
| | 2001 - Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922) |
| | 2003 - Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (b. 1918) |
| | 2005 - Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and teacher (b. 1950) |
| | 2005 - Melita Norwood, British spy (b. 1912) |
| | 2006 - Vince Welnick, musician, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead) (b. 1951) |