| | 52 BC - Publius Clodius Pulcher (murdered) |
| | 474 - Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401) |
| | 1367 - King Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320) |
| | 1425 - Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391) |
| | 1471 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419) |
| | 1547 - Pietro Bembo, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1470) |
| | 1583 - Margaret of Austria, regent of The Netherlands (b. 1522) |
| | 1677 - Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch merchant (b. 1619) |
| | 1803 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743) |
| | 1862 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790) |
| | 1873 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803) |
| | 1878 - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788) |
| | 1892 - Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819) |
| | 1896 - Charles Floquet, French statesman (b. 1828) |
| | 1927 - Empress Carlotta of Mexico (b. 1840) |
| | 1936 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865) |
| | 1940 - Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer (b. 1865) |
| | 1952 - Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903) |
| | 1954 - Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879) |
| | 1963 - Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the British Labour Party (b. 1906) |
| | 1966 - Kathleen Norris, American writer (b. 1880) |
| | 1967 - Goose Tatum, American basketball player (b. 1921) |
| | 1969 - Hans Freyer, German sociologist (b. 1887) |
| | 1970 - David O. McKay, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873) |
| | 1978 - Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer (b. 1919) |
| | 1980 - Sir Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (b. 1904) |
| | 1984 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1915) |
| | 1985 - Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (b. 1912) |
| | 1995 - Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903) |
| | 1995 - Ron Luciano, baseball umpire (b. 1937) |
| | 1997 - Paul Tsongas, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (b. 1941) |
| | 2000 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897) |
| | 2001 - Al Waxman, Canadian actor (b. 1935) |
| | 2003 - Edward Farhat, American professional wrestler (b. 1924) |
| | 2005 - Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973) |
| | 2006 - Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915) |