| | 379 - Saint Basil of Caesarea (b. 330) |
| | 404 - Saint Telemachus |
| | 874 - Hasan al-Askari, eleventh Shia Imam (b. 846) |
| | 898 - Odo, Count of Paris (b. 860) |
| | 1204 - King Haakon III of Norway |
| | 1384 - King Charles II of Navarre (b. 1332) |
| | 1515 - King Louis XII of France (b. 1462) |
| | 1554 - Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (bc. 1500) |
| | 1559 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (b. 1503) |
| | 1560 - Joachim Du Bellay, French poet (bc. 1522) |
| | 1617 - Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (b. 1558) |
| | 1679 - Jan Steen, Dutch painter |
| | 1716 - William Wycherley, English dramatist (bc. 1640) |
| | 1730 - Samuel Sewall, English-born judge (b. 1652) |
| | 1742 - Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1686) |
| | 1748 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667) |
| | 1759 - Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie, French adventurer (b. 1705) |
| | 1766 - James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (b. 1688) |
| | 1782 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer (b. 1735) |
| | 1789 - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (b. 1716) |
| | 1793 - Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter (b. 1712) |
| | 1796 - Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, French mathematician (b. 1735) |
| | 1800 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (b. 1716) |
| | 1817 - Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (b. 1743) |
| | 1862 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801) |
| | 1869 - Martin W. Bates, U.S. Senator from Delaware (b. 1786) |
| | 1892 - Roswell B. Mason, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805) |
| | 1894 - Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857) |
| | 1912 - Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian phsyicist (b. 1866) |
| | 1919 - Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (b. 1881) |
| | 1921 - Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856) |
| | 1931 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851) |
| | 1933 - Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (b. 1876) |
| | 1944 - Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (b. 1862) |
| | 1953 - Hank Williams, American singer (b. 1923) |
| | 1958 - Edward Weston, American photographer (b. 1886) |
| | 1960 - Margaret Sullavan, American actress (b. 1911) |
| | 1964 - Bechara El Khoury, President of Lebanon (b. 1890) |
| | 1971 - Saint Amphilochios, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian Saint (b. 1894) |
| | 1972 - Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer (b. 1888) |
| | 1981 - Beulah Bondi, American actress (b. 1888) |
| | 1982 - Victor Buono, American actor (b. 1938) |
| | 1984 - Alexis Korner, British blues musician (b. 1928) |
| | 1985 - Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (b. 1905) |
| | 1986 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902) |
| | 1992 - Grace Hopper, American computer pioneer (b. 1906) |
| | 1994 - Lord Arthur Espie Porritt, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1900) |
| | 1994 - Cesar Romero, American actor (b. 1907) |
| | 1995 - Fred West, British serial killer (suicide) (b. 1941) |
| | 1995 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902) |
| | 1996 - Arleigh Burke, American admiral (b. 1901) |
| | 1997 - Townes Van Zandt, American musician (b. 1944) |
| | 1998 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (b. 1905) |
| | 2000 - Colin Vaughan, Australian-born political journalist |
| | 2001 - Ray Walston, American actor (b. 1914) |
| | 2002 - Julia Phillips, American film producer (b. 1944) |
| | 2003 - Joe Foss, American politician and fighter pilot (b. 1915) |
| | 2005 - Shirley Chisholm, American politician (b. 1924) |
| | 2005 - Hugh John Frederick Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, British newspaperman (b. 1931) |
| | 2005 - Bob Matsui, American politician (b. 1941) |
| | 2005 - Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist (b. 1938) |
| | 2006 - Harry Magdoff, American magazine editor (b. 1913) |
| | 2006 - Bryan Harvey, American musician (b. 1956) |