| | 1163 - Ladislaus II of Hungary. |
| | 1331 - Odoric, Italian explorer |
| | 1640 - Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge (b. 1578) |
| | 1676 - Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (b. 1602) |
| | 1679 - Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (b. 1602) |
| | 1701 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (b. 1628) |
| | 1742 - Edmond Halley, English scientist (b. 1656) |
| | 1753 - George Berkeley, Irish theologian (b. 1685) |
| | 1786 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713) |
| | 1788 - François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722) |
| | 1825 - George Dance the Younger, English architect (b. 1741) |
| | 1867 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780) |
| | 1889 - Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (b. 1834) |
| | 1898 - Lewis Carroll, English writer and mathematician (b. 1832) |
| | 1901 - Charles Hermite, French mathematician |
| | 1905 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840) |
| | 1915 - Richard Meux Benson, founder of Anglican religious order (b. 1824) |
| | 1937 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (b. 1889) |
| | 1942 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer (b. 1883) |
| | 1949 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882) |
| | 1952 - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (b. 1878) |
| | 1957 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899) |
| | 1965 - Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (b. 1903) |
| | 1966 - Bill Carr, American athlete (b. 1909) |
| | 1966 - Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888) |
| | 1966 - Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1906) |
| | 1970 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (b. 1906) |
| | 1972 - King Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1899) |
| | 1977 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897) |
| | 1977 - Peter Finch, English-born actor (b. 1916) |
| | 1977 - Anaïs Nin, French author (b. 1903) |
| | 1978 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (b. 1899) |
| | 1978 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1906) |
| | 1978 - Blossom Rock, American actress (b. 1895) |
| | 1980 - Robert Ardrey, American author (b. 1908) |
| | 1984 - Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1902) |
| | 1986 - Daniel Balavoine, French singer (b. 1952) |
| | 1986 - Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921) |
| | 1988 - Georgi Malenkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (b. 1902) |
| | 1990 - Mani Madhava Chakyar, Legendary Koodiyattam artist and Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899) |
| | 1999 - Bryn Jones, British musician (b. 1961) |
| | 2001 - Burkhard Heim, German physicist (b. 1925) |
| | 2004 - Uta Hagen, American actress (b. 1919) |
| | 2004 - Ron O'Neal, American actor (b. 1937) |
| | 2004 - Valfar, Norwegian musician (Windir) |
| | 2005 - Charlotte MacLeod, American writer (b. 1922) |
| | 2005 - Conroy Maddox, English painter (b. 1912) |
| | 2005 - Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b. 1940) |
| | 2005 - Jesús-Rafael Soto, Venezuelan kinetic artist (b. 1923) |
| | 2006 - Jim Gary, American sculptor (b. 1939) |
| | 2006 - Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920) |
| | 2006 - Mark Philo, English footballer (b. 1984) |