| | 323 BC - Alexander the Great , King of Macedon (b. 356 BC) |
| | 1183 - Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (b. 1155) |
| | 1216 - Henry of Flanders, Emperor of the Latin Empire |
| | 1488 - King James III of Scotland |
| | 1557 - King John III of Portugal (b. 1502) |
| | 1695 - André Félibien, French architect (b. 1619) |
| | 1712 - Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme, Marshal of France (b. 1654) |
| | 1727 - King George I of Great Britain (b. 1668) |
| | 1796 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician (b. 1720) |
| | 1847 - John Franklin, English sea captain and explorer (b. 1786) |
| | 1852 - Karl Briullov, Russian painter (b. 1799) |
| | 1858 - Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (b. 1773) |
| | 1879 - Prince Willem of the Netherlands, disgraced heir apparent to the Dutch throne (b. 1840) |
| | 1882 - Louis Maigret, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1804) |
| | 1903 - Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837) |
| | 1903 - Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia (b. 1876) |
| | 1911 - James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (b. 1815) |
| | 1924 - Théodore Dubois, French composer and teacher (b. 1837) |
| | 1927 - William Attewell, English cricketer (b. 1861) |
| | 1934 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (b. 1896) |
| | 1936 - Robert E. Howard, American author (b. 1906) |
| | 1937 - R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer (b. 1895) |
| | 1941 - Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850) |
| | 1963 - Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese monk, self-immolation (b. 1897) |
| | 1970 - Frank Laubach, Christian missionary (b. 1884) |
| | 1974 - Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (b. 1898) |
| | 1974 - Eurico Gaspar Dutra, President of Brazil (b. 1883) |
| | 1976 - Jim Konstanty, baseball player (b. 1917) |
| | 1979 - John Wayne (born Marion Morrison), American actor (b. 1907) |
| | 1984 - Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (b. 1922) |
| | 1985 - Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (b. 1954) |
| | 1986 - Chesley Bonestell, American-born engineer, architect, and artist (b. 1888) |
| | 1993 - Ray Sharkey, American actor (b. 1952) |
| | 1996 - Brigitte Helm, German actress (b. 1908) |
| | 1998 - Catherine Cookson, British novelist (b. 1906) |
| | 1999 - DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920) |
| | 2001 - Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (executed) (b. 1968) |
| | 2003 - David Brinkley, American television reporter (b. 1920) |
| | 2004 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (b. 1946) |
| | 2004 - Xenophon Zolotas, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1904) |
| | 2005 - Vasco Gonçalves, Portuguese general (b. 1922) |
| | 2006 - Major Bruce Shand, Father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (b. 1917) |
| | 2006 - Michael Bartosh, computer expert and author (b. 1977) |