| | 1393 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359) |
| | 1480 - Vecchietta, Italian artist and architect |
| | 1548 - Juan de Castro, Portuguese explorer (b. 1500) |
| | 1563 - Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519) |
| | 1583 - Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556) |
| | 1740 - Alexander Spotswood, British governor of Virginia Colony |
| | 1784 - Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (b. 1741) |
| | 1799 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary (b. 1736) |
| | 1813 - Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect |
| | 1832 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748) |
| | 1840 - Marcellin Champagnat, French priest, Saint (b. 1789) |
| | 1843 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist (b. 1770) |
| | 1861 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810) |
| | 1865 - William Quantrill, American Confederate raider (b. 1837) |
| | 1878 - Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (b. 1790) |
| | 1881 - Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (b. 1820) |
| | 1891 - Sir John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815) |
| | 1916 - Yuan Shikai, Chinese military official and politician (b. 1859) |
| | 1922 - Lillian Russell, American actress (b. 1860) |
| | 1934 - Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (b. 1864) |
| | 1935 - Julian Byng, British army officer (b. 1862) |
| | 1941 - Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer and race car driver (b. 1878) |
| | 1946 - Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862) |
| | 1948 - Louis Lumière, French movie pioneer (b. 1864) |
| | 1961 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875) |
| | 1962 - Yves Klein, French artist (b. 1928) |
| | 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy, United States Attorney General and Senator from New York (b. 1925) |
| | 1968 - Randolph Churchill, only son of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (b. 1911) |
| | 1975 - Larry Blyden, American actor (b. 1925) |
| | 1976 - J. Paul Getty, American industrialist (b. 1892) |
| | 1976 - Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor (b. 1891) |
| | 1979 - Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1898) |
| | 1981 - Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist (b. 1904) |
| | 1982 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905) |
| | 1984 - A. Bertram Chandler, Australian author (b. 1912) |
| | 1991 - Stan Getz, American musician and composer (b. 1927) |
| | 1991 - Mike Diamond, wrestler (b. 1950) |
| | 1992 - Larry Riley, American actor (b. 1952) |
| | 1996 - George Davis Snell, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903) |
| | 1999 - Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930) |
| | 2002 - Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (b. 1959) |
| | 2003 - Ken Grimwood, American writer (b. 1944) |
| | 2005 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931) |
| | 2005 - Dana Elcar, American actor (b. 1927) |
| | 2006 - Billy Preston, American songwriter, musician, and singer (b. 1946) |
| | 2006 - Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican-American jazz pianist (b. 1952) |
| | 2006 - Arnold Newman, American photographer (b. 1918) |