| | 816 - Pope Leo III |
| | 918 - Ethelfleda, Lady of the Mercians |
| | 1020 - Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| | 1418 - Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France (b. 1360) |
| | 1435 - John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408) |
| | 1565 - Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (b. 1512) |
| | 1567 - Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490) |
| | 1647 - Thomas Farnaby, English grammarian |
| | 1675 - Duke Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (b. 1634) |
| | 1734 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military commander (b. 1670) |
| | 1758 - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722) |
| | 1778 - Philip Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1716) |
| | 1816 - Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (b. 1757) |
| | 1904 - Camille de Renesse, Belgian Count (b. 1836) |
| | 1912 - Frédéric Passy, French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1822) |
| | 1917 - Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan pianist (b. 1853) |
| | 1937 - Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893) |
| | 1957 - Jimmy Dorsey, American musician (b. 1904) |
| | 1962 - John Ireland, English composer (b. 1879) |
| | 1963 - Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (b. 1925) |
| | 1966 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (b. 1891) |
| | 1969 - Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (b. 1899) |
| | 1978 - Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (b. 1892) |
| | 1980 - Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904) |
| | 1980 - Masayoshi Ohira, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1910) |
| | 1982 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886) |
| | 1983 - Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (b. 1902) |
| | 1989 - Lou Monte, American singer (b. 1917) |
| | 1994 - Ronald Goldman, American actor and model (murdered) (b. 1969) |
| | 1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson, American ex-wife of O.J. Simpson (murdered) (b. 1959) |
| | 1994 - Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher Rebbe (b. 1902) |
| | 1995 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920) |
| | 1997 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (b. 1924) |
| | 2000 - P.L.Deshpande, Marathi Writer (b. 1919) |
| | 2002 - Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b. 1922) |
| | 2003 - Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916) |
| | 2006 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923) |
| | 2006 - Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923) |