| | 1400 - John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (executed) |
| | 1545 - George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484) |
| | 1547 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477) |
| | 1554 - Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist |
| | 1585 - Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512) |
| | 1659 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580) |
| | 1710 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675) |
| | 1711 - Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (b. 1651) |
| | 1747 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680) |
| | 1748 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684) |
| | 1750 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshall (b. 1667) |
| | 1752 - Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705) |
| | 1794 - Edward Gibbon, English historian (b. 1737) |
| | 1806 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759) |
| | 1809 - John Moore, British general (b. 1761) |
| | 1815 - Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Horatio Nelson (b. 1765) |
| | 1817 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman (b. 1759) |
| | 1834 - Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769) |
| | 1856 - Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795) |
| | 1865 - Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828) |
| | 1891 - Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836) |
| | 1898 - Charles Pelham Villiers (b. 1802), longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons |
| | 1917 - George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837) |
| | 1919 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of Brazil (b. 1848) |
| | 1924 - Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, philanthropist (b. 1859) |
| | 1936 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (b. 1870) |
| | 1942 - Carole Lombard, American actress (b. 1908) |
| | 1957 - Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867) |
| | 1962 - Ivan Meštrovic, Croatian sculptor (b. 1883) |
| | 1967 - Robert J. Van de Graaff, American nuclear physicist (b. 1901) |
| | 1969 - Jan Palach, Czech Freedom Fighter (b. 1948) |
| | 1971 - Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (b. 1890) |
| | 1972 - Ross Bagdasarian, American actor (b. 1919) |
| | 1979 - Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932) |
| | 1979 - August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (b. 1897) |
| | 1981 - Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908) |
| | 1982 - Red Smith, American sports columnist (b. 1905) |
| | 1986 - Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892) |
| | 1988 - Ballard Berkeley, English actor (b. 1904) |
| | 1988 - Andrija Artukovic, Croatian war criminal (b. 1899) |
| | 1995 - Eric Mottram, English poet, teacher, critic, and editor (b. 1924) |
| | 1997 - Ennis Cosby, son of entertainer Bill Cosby (murdered) |
| | 2000 - John Rankin, musical entertainer (b. 1959) |
| | 2001 - Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939) |
| | 2002 - Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1923) |
| | 2002 - Eddie Meduza, Swedish composer (b. 1948) |
| | 2002 - Bobo Olson, American boxer (b. 1928) |
| | 2002 - Ron Taylor, American actor (b. 1952) |
| | 2004 - Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930) |
| | 2005 - Marjorie Williams, American journalist (b. 1958) |