| | 62 - Claudia Octavia, wife of Nero (b. 40) |
| | 68 - Nero, Roman Emperor (b. 37) |
| | 373 - Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist |
| | 597 - St. Columba, Christian missionary, patron saint of Ireland (b. 521) |
| | 630 - King Shahrbaraz of Persia |
| | 1361 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b. 1291) |
| | 1563 - William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506) |
| | 1572 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (b. 1528) |
| | 1583 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland |
| | 1656 - Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572) |
| | 1716 - Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (executed) |
| | 1717 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (b. 1648) |
| | 1870 - Charles Dickens, English author (b. 1812) |
| | 1875 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795) |
| | 1892 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863) |
| | 1946 - Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII, king of Thailand (b. 1925) |
| | 1952 - Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891) |
| | 1958 - Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905) |
| | 1959 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876) |
| | 1961 - Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872) |
| | 1964 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born business tycoon and politician (b. 1879) |
| | 1974 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) |
| | 1981 - Allen Ludden, TV game show host |
| | 1989 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903) |
| | 1991 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903) |
| | 1993 - Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921) |
| | 1994 - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903) |
| | 1997 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b. 1908) |
| | 2000 - Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917) |
| | 2004 - Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932) |
| | 2006 - Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946) |