| | 1329 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274) |
| | 1358 - Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305) |
| | 1394 - Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II of England (plague) (b. 1367) |
| | 1618 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577) |
| | 1676 - Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606) |
| | 1711 - Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b. 1641) |
| | 1779 - William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698) |
| | 1810 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765) |
| | 1821 - Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion-leader (b. cca. 1780) |
| | 1826 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787) |
| | 1840 - King Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770) |
| | 1854 - Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792) |
| | 1859 - David Cox, English artist (b. 1783) |
| | 1866 - Chief Seattle, Native American leader |
| | 1911 - Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842) |
| | 1927 - Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (b. 1847) |
| | 1936 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875) |
| | 1937 - Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911) |
| | 1942 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903) |
| | 1951 - Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (b. 1892) |
| | 1954 - Alan Turing, British mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912) |
| | 1963 - Zasu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894) |
| | 1965 - Judy Holliday, American actress (b. 1921) |
| | 1966 - Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886) |
| | 1967 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893) |
| | 1967 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909) |
| | 1968 - Dan Duryea, American actor (b. 1907) |
| | 1970 - E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879) |
| | 1978 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) |
| | 1979 - Forrest Carter, American author (b. 1925) |
| | 1980 - Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891) |
| | 1988 - Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927) |
| | 1993 - Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964) |
| | 1995 - Hsuan Hua, influential Buddhist master in the United States (b. 1918) |
| | 2001 - Carole Fredericks, American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (b. 1952) |
| | 2002 - Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b. 1916) |
| | 2003 - Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962) |
| | 2004 - Quorthon, Swedish musician (b. 1966) |
| | 2006 - John Tenta, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1963) |
| | 2006 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian-born terrorist (b. 1966) |