| | 1119 - Pope Gelasius II |
| | 1342 - Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279) |
| | 1597 - Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530) |
| | 1608 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557) |
| | 1647 - Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565) |
| | 1676 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629) |
| | 1678 - Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593) |
| | 1696 - Ivan V, Russian tsar |
| | 1706 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638) |
| | 1730 - Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715) |
| | 1737 - George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b. 1666) |
| | 1743 - André-Hercule de Fleury, chief minister under Louis XV of France (b. 1653) |
| | 1763 - Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692) |
| | 1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738) |
| | 1829 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (b. 1755) |
| | 1870 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797) |
| | 1901 - Milan I, King of Serbia (b. 1855) |
| | 1906 - King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818) |
| | 1918 - Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin, Russian counter revolutionary (b. 1861) |
| | 1928 - Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861) |
| | 1933 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884) |
| | 1934 - Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1868) |
| | 1946 - Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1890) |
| | 1948 - Tomislav II of Croatia, 4th Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (b. 1900) |
| | 1950 - Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1885) |
| | 1951 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880) |
| | 1956 - H. L. Mencken, American journalist (b. 1880) |
| | 1962 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (b. 1875) |
| | 1963 - Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874) |
| | 1964 - Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913) |
| | 1969 - Allen Dulles, American CIA director (b. 1893) |
| | 1970 - Basil Liddell Hart, British historian (b. 1895) |
| | 1977 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (b. 1902) |
| | 1977 - Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954) |
| | 1980 - Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (b. 1893) |
| | 1986 - Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911) |
| | 1989 - Halina Konopacka Polish athlete (b. 1900) |
| | 1991 - Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907) |
| | 1992 - Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915) |
| | 1998 - Joseph Alioto, mayor of San Francisco (b. 1916) |
| | 1999 - Lili St. Cyr, American dancer (b. 1918) |
| | 2002 - Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b. 1928) |
| | 2002 - Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (b. 1914) |
| | 2003 - Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (b. 1911) |
| | 2004 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (b. 1908) |
| | 2004 - Joe Viterelli, American actor (b. 1937) |
| | 2004 - Janet Frame New Zealand writer (b. 1924) |
| | 2005 - Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen) (b. 1940) |
| | 2005 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirst (b. 1924) |