| | 1395 - Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria |
| | 1397 - William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1328) |
| | 1411 - Duke Leopold IV of Austria (b. 1371) |
| | 1548 - Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468) |
| | 1594 - John Aylmer, English political theorist (b. 1521) |
| | 1640 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584) |
| | 1657 - William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578) |
| | 1649 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590) |
| | 1659 - Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. 1619) |
| | 1780 - Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711) |
| | 1818 - Egwale Seyon, Emperor of Ethiopia. |
| | 1826 - Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766) |
| | 1858 - Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834) |
| | 1861 - Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (b. 1813) |
| | 1875 - Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838) |
| | 1877 - Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1800 |
| | 1882 - Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839) |
| | 1894 - Karl Eduard Zachariae, German expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812) |
| | 1899 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825) |
| | 1924 - Franz Kafka, Czech novelist (b. 1883) |
| | 1928 - Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864) |
| | 1933 - William Muldoon, wrestler (b. 1852) |
| | 1955 - Barbara Graham, American murderer (b. 1923) |
| | 1963 - Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902) |
| | 1963 - Pope John XXIII (b. 1881) |
| | 1964 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) |
| | 1970 - Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi official (b. 1877) |
| | 1971 - Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894) |
| | 1973 - Dory Funk, Professional wrestler |
| | 1975 - Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (b. 1906) |
| | 1975 - Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901) |
| | 1977 - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886) |
| | 1977 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (b. 1906) |
| | 1983 - Nanna, Rafi Khawar, Lollywood actor, Lahore |
| | 1989 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader (b. 1900) |
| | 1989 - John McCauley, NHL official |
| | 1990 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (b. 1949) |
| | 1990 - Robert Noyce, American inventor (b. 1927) |
| | 1991 - Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (eruption) (b. 1942) |
| | 1991 - Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (eruption) (b. 1946) |
| | 1992 - Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908) |
| | 1997 - Dennis James, American television personality (b. 1917) |
| | 1998 - Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922) |
| | 2001 - Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (b. 1915) |
| | 2003 - Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907) |
| | 2005 - Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (b. 1945) |
| | 2006 - Johnny Grande, Original accordion/piano/keyboard player for Bill Haley's Comets (b. 1932) |