| | 923 - Robert I of France (b. c. 865) |
| | 1073 - Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (b. 1034) |
| | 1246 - Duke Frederick II of Austria (b. 1219) |
| | 1341 - Andronicus III Palaeologus, Eastern Roman Emperor (b. 1297). |
| | 1381 - John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England |
| | 1381 - Wat Tyler, English rebel |
| | 1383 - John VI Cantacuzenus, Byzantine Emperor |
| | 1389 - Prince Lazar, Serbian Orthodox saint (b. 1329) |
| | 1467 - Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1396) |
| | 1521 - Tamás Bakócz. Hungarian Catholic cardinal and statesman (b. 1442) |
| | 1614 - Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540) |
| | 1679 - Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628) |
| | 1724 - Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (b. 1674) |
| | 1750 - Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, French writer (b. 1684) |
| | 1768 - James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710) |
| | 1772 - Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (b. 1694) |
| | 1849 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (b. 1795) |
| | 1858 - Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter (b. 1795) |
| | 1888 - Emperor Friedrich III of Germany (b. 1831) |
| | 1889 - Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (b. 1850) |
| | 1917 - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867) |
| | 1934 - Alfred Bruneau, French composer (d. 1857) |
| | 1941 - Evelyn Underhill, British writer (b. 1875) |
| | 1941 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (b. 1873) |
| | 1962 - Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist (b. 1877) |
| | 1965 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (b. 1902) |
| | 1968 - Sam Crawford, baseball player (b. 1880) |
| | 1968 - Wes Montgomery, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925) |
| | 1971 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904) |
| | 1976 - Jimmy Dykes, baseball player and manager (b. 1896) |
| | 1983 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, also known as Sri Sri, Famous Modern Telugu Poet (b. 1910) |
| | 1984 - Meredith Willson, American composer (b. 1902) |
| | 1985 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (b. 1927) |
| | 1989 - Victor French, American actor (b. 1934) |
| | 1991 - Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) |
| | 1993 - John Connally, American politician (b. 1917) |
| | 1993 - James Hunt, English race car driver (b. 1947) |
| | 1994 - Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (b. 1925) |
| | 1995 - John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (b. 1903) |
| | 1996 - Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917) |
| | 1996 - Dick Murdoch, professional wrestler (b. 1946) |
| | 2002 - Choi Hong Hi, Founder of Taekwon-Do (b.1918) |
| | 2003 - Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (b. 1911) |
| | 2006 - Raymond Devos, French humorist (b. 1922) |