| | 535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople |
| | 1017 - Emperor Sanjo of Japan (b. 976) |
| | 1118 - Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester |
| | 1296 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245) |
| | 1316 - King Louis X of France (b. 1289) |
| | 1383 - Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324) |
| | 1568 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (b. 1522) |
| | 1625 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer (b. 1583) |
| | 1667 - Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1607) |
| | 1688 - Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1667) |
| | 1716 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682) |
| | 1738 - Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (b. 1659) |
| | 1791 - Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. 1718) |
| | 1816 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (b. 1741) |
| | 1826 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786) |
| | 1900 - Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871) |
| | 1902 - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trail of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842) |
| | 1910 - O. Henry, American author (b. 1862) |
| | 1913 - Chris von der Ahe, baseball pioneer (b. 1851) |
| | 1916 - Horatio Kitchener, Lord Kitchener, British field marshal (b. 1850) |
| | 1920 - Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840) |
| | 1921 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (b. 1862) |
| | 1930 - Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b. 1885) |
| | 1942 - Samuel Adams, American naval officer (b. 1912) |
| | 1975 - Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916) |
| | 1991 - Sylvia Field Porter, American economist and journalist |
| | 1993 - Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933) |
| | 1998 - Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911) |
| | 1998 - Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (b.1909) |
| | 1999 - Mel Tormé, American singer ("The Velvet Fog"), composer, and actor (b. 1925) |
| | 2000 - Don Liddle, baseball player (b. 1925) |
| | 2002 - Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912) |
| | 2002 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1952) |
| | 2003 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945) |
| | 2003 - Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904) |
| | 2004 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911) |
| | 2004 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields) (b. 1941) |
| | 2006 - Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b. 1909) |