| | 85 BC - Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician |
| | 703 - Empress Jito of Japan (b. 645) |
| | 858 - King Ethelwulf of Wessex |
| | 888 - Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor |
| | 1138 - Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076) |
| | 1151 - Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian |
| | 1177 - Henry II of Austria (b. 1107) |
| | 1330 - Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286) |
| | 1363 - Meinhard III of Gorizia-Tyrol |
| | 1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (b. 1517) |
| | 1599 - Edmund Spenser, English poet (b. 1552) |
| | 1630 - Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese military commander |
| | 1658 - Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616) |
| | 1691 - George Fox, English founder of the Quakers (b. 1624) |
| | 1766 - King Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723) |
| | 1775 - Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (b. 1693) |
| | 1790 - Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (b. 1712) |
| | 1796 - John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726) |
| | 1797 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1715) |
| | 1852 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (b. 1778) |
| | 1864 - Stephen Foster, American composer (b. 1826) |
| | 1906 - Alexander Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859) |
| | 1923 - Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (b. 1842) |
| | 1929 - Wyatt Earp, Western lawman (b. 1848) |
| | 1932 - Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (b. 1870) |
| | 1934 - Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist (b. 1860) |
| | 1941 - James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882) |
| | 1943 - Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist (b. 1889) |
| | 1962 - Ernie Kovacs, American actor and comedian (b. 1919) |
| | 1974 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet (b. 1904) |
| | 1978 - Hubert H. Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (b. 1911) |
| | 1978 - Joe McCarthy, baseball manager (b. 1908) |
| | 1979 - Donny Hathaway, American musician (b. 1945) |
| | 1988 - Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910) |
| | 1993 - Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907) |
| | 2001 - Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1985) |
| | 2002 - Ted Demme, American film director (b. 1963) |
| | 2002 - Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (b. 1916) |
| | 2003 - Norman Panama, American screenwriter and director (b. 1914) |
| | 2004 - Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber (b. 1937) |
| | 2004 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer (b. 1946) |
| | 2005 - Earl Cameron, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1915) |
| | 2005 - Nell Rankin, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1924) |
| | 2006 - Frank Fixaris, Sportscaster (b. 1934) |
| | 2006 - Marc Potvin, Former NHL player (b. 1967) |