| | 323 BC - Alexander the Great (b. 356 BC) |
| | 1075 - Ernest of Austria (b. 1027) |
| | 1190 - Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor (drowned) (b. 1122) |
| | 1424 - Duke Ernest of Austria (b. 1377) |
| | 1552 - Alexander Barclay, English poet |
| | 1556 - Martin Agricola, German composer (b. 1486) |
| | 1580 - Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet |
| | 1607 - John Popham, English politician |
| | 1654 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598) |
| | 1680 - Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635) |
| | 1735 - Thomas Hearne, English antiquarian (b. 1678) |
| | 1776 - Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (b. 1722) |
| | 1791 - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720) |
| | 1831 - Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Russian field marshal (b. 1785) |
| | 1836 - André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775) |
| | 1849 - Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (b. 1784) |
| | 1899 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855) |
| | 1901 - Robert Williams Buchanan, British dramatist (b. 1841) |
| | 1902 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845) |
| | 1909 - Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822) |
| | 1912 - Anton Aškerc, Slovenian poet (b. 1856) |
| | 1918 - Arrigo Boito, Italian composer (b. 1842) |
| | 1923 - Pierre Loti, French sailor (b. 1850) |
| | 1926 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (b. 1852) |
| | 1930 - Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851) |
| | 1934 - Frederick Delius, English composer (b. 1862) |
| | 1937 - Robert Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854) |
| | 1940 - Marcus Garvey, American civil rights activist (b. 1887) |
| | 1944 - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910) |
| | 1946 - Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878) |
| | 1947 - Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852) |
| | 1949 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1882) |
| | 1958 - Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist (b. 1880) |
| | 1959 - Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (b. 1883) |
| | 1967 - Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900) |
| | 1971 - Michael Rennie, English actor (b. 1909) |
| | 1973 - William Inge, American playwright (b. 1913) |
| | 1973 - Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887) |
| | 1974 - Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1900) |
| | 1976 - Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-born producer (b. 1873) |
| | 1982 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German author (b. 1945) |
| | 1982 - Addie "Micki" Harris, American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1940) |
| | 1986 - Merle Miller, American biographer (b. 1919) |
| | 1988 - Louis L'Amour, American author (b. 1908) |
| | 1991 - Vercors, French writer (b. 1902) |
| | 1993 - Les Dawson, British comedian (b. 1933 or 34) |
| | 1996 - George Hees, Canadian politician (b. 1910) |
| | 1996 - Jo Van Fleet, American actress (b. 1914) |
| | 1998 - Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914) |
| | 1998 - Jim Hearn, American baseball player (b. 1921) |
| | 2000 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930) |
| | 2000 - Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930) |
| | 2001 - Princess Leila of Iran (b. 1970) |
| | 2001 - Mike Mentzer, American bodybuilder (b. 1951) |
| | 2002 - John Gotti, American gangster (b. 1940) |
| | 2003 - Donald Regan, Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary (b. 1918) |
| | 2003 - Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929) |
| | 2003 - Dr Phil Williams, Welsh politician and scientist (b. 1939) |
| | 2004 - Ray Charles, American musician (b. 1930) |
| | 2005 - Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer (b. 1915) |