| | 323 BC - Alexander the Great, conqueror, emperor, commander (b. 356 BC) |
| | 1036 - Ali az-Zahir, caliph (b. 1005) |
| | 1231 - Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195) |
| | 1256 - Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173) |
| | 1636 - George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562) |
| | 1645 - Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman |
| | 1665 - Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604) |
| | 1760 - Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (b. March 27, 1696) |
| | 1784 - Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717) |
| | 1881 - Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805) |
| | 1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845) |
| | 1918 - Tsar Mikhail Alexandrovitch Romanov (b. 1878) |
| | 1931 - Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician (b. 1851) |
| | 1951 - Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885) |
| | 1958 - Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (b. 1887) |
| | 1965 - Martin Buber, Austrian philosopher (b. 1878) |
| | 1972 - Clyde McPhatter, American musician (b. 1932) |
| | 1972 - Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899) |
| | 1972 - Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German World War II spy (b. 1891) |
| | 1972 - Dündar Taser, Turkish nationalist (b. 1925) |
| | 1979 - Darla Hood, American actress (b. 1931) |
| | 1980 - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (b. 1942) |
| | 1982 - King Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912) |
| | 1982 - Peter Maivia, wrestler (b. 1935) |
| | 1986 - Benny Goodman, American musician (b. 1909) |
| | 1987 - Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924) |
| | 1993 - Deke Slayton, Astronaut (b. 1924) |
| | 1998 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911) |
| | 2002 - John Hope, Meteorologist (b. 1919) |
| | 2004 - Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914) |
| | 2004 - Ralph Wiley, American Journalist and Writer (b. 1952) |
| | 2005 - Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931) |
| | 2005 - Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer (b. 1913) |
| | 2005 - David Diamond, American composer (b. 1915) |
| | 2005 - Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936) |
| | 2006 - Charles Haughey, Taoiseach (b. 1925) |