| | 1305 - King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271) |
| | 1377 - King Edward III of England (b. 1312) |
| | 1527 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (b. 1469) |
| | 1529 - John Skelton, English poet |
| | 1547 - Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485) |
| | 1582 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534) |
| | 1591 - Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (b. 1568) |
| | 1621 - Kryštof Harant, Polish soldier, writer, and composer (b. 1564) |
| | 1652 - Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573) |
| | 1738 - Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English statesman (b. 1674) |
| | 1796 - Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1710) |
| | 1824 - Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773) |
| | 1865 - Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824) |
| | 1874 - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814) |
| | 1893 - Leland Stanford, American Business Tycoon and founder of Stanford University |
| | 1908 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b. 1844) |
| | 1914 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843) |
| | 1934 - Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892) |
| | 1951 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867) |
| | 1952 - Wilfrid 'Wop' May, Canadian aviation pioneer (b. 1896) |
| | 1957 - Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874) |
| | 1964 - James Chaney, American civil rights activist (b. 1943) |
| | 1964 - Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (b. 1943) |
| | 1964 - Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (b. 1939) |
| | 1969 - Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b. 1934) |
| | 1970 - Sukarno, President of Indonesia (b. 1901) |
| | 1976 - Margaret Herrick, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences director (b. 1902) |
| | 1979 - Angus Maclise, American mystic, shaman, musician, and composer (b. 1938) |
| | 1980 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923) |
| | 1985 - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901) |
| | 1986 - Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author |
| | 1997 - Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labor leader (b. 1900) |
| | 1997 - Shintaro Katsu Japanese entertainer (b. 1931) |
| | 2000 - Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911) |
| | 2001 - John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1916) |
| | 2001 - Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924) |
| | 2003 - Roger Neilson, Canadian hockey coach (b. 1934) |
| | 2003 - Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924) |
| | 2004 - Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (b. 1922) |
| | 2005 - Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Catholic Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928) |