| | 1039 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor |
| | 1135 - Emperor Huizong of China (b. 1082) |
| | 1206 - Adèle of Champagne, wife of Louis VII of France |
| | 1257 - Duke Przemysl I of Poland |
| | 1394 - Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV of England |
| | 1463 - Flavio Biondo, Italian humanist (b. 1392) |
| | 1585 - Muretus, French humanist (b. 1526) |
| | 1663 - William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1582) |
| | 1798 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian lover and writer (b. 1725) |
| | 1801 - Frederick Muhlenberg, first Speaker of the House (b. 1750) |
| | 1830 - Antonio José de Sucre, Great Marshall of Ayacucho |
| | 1872 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (b. 1798) |
| | 1875 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804) |
| | 1922 - William Halse Rivers Rivers, English doctor |
| | 1926 - Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (b. 1853) |
| | 1928 - Chang Tso-lin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873) |
| | 1929 - Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923 (b. 1881) |
| | 1939 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (b. 1900) |
| | 1941 - Kaiser Wilhelm II, last German emperor (b. 1859) |
| | 1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (b. 1904) |
| | 1951 - Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (b. 1874) |
| | 1956 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress (b. 1881) |
| | 1964 - Samuil Marshak, Russian poet (b. 1887) |
| | 1968 - Dorothy Gish, American actress (b. 1898) |
| | 1970 - Sonny Tufts, American actor (b. 1911) |
| | 1971 - Georg Lukács, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1885) |
| | 1973 - Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician (b. 1878) |
| | 1973 - Murry Wilson, father of Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Carl Wilson (b. 1917) |
| | 1989 - Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917 or 1918) |
| | 1994 - Derek Leckenby, British guitarist (Herman's Hermits) (b. 1943) |
| | 1994 - Massimo Troisi, Italian actor (b. 1953) |
| | 1997 - Ronnie Lane, British bass player (b. 1946) |
| | 2001 - Ali Hassan Kuban, Egyptian musician (b. 1933) |
| | 2001 - Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971) |
| | 2001 - John Hartford, American musician (b. 1937) |
| | 2002 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (b. 1912) |
| | 2004 - Steve Lacy, American saxophonist (b. 1934) |
| | 2004 - Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (b. 1921) |