| | 1030 - William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969) |
| | 1181 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161) |
| | 1384 - Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330) |
| | 1574 - Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502) |
| | 1606 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (b. 1578) |
| | 1649 - King Charles I of England (executed) (b. 1600) |
| | 1836 - Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752) |
| | 1858 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (b. 1778) |
| | 1867 - Emperor Komei of Japan (b. 1831) |
| | 1869 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794) |
| | 1889 - Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria (b. 1858) |
| | 1926 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896) |
| | 1928 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1867) |
| | 1948 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1869) |
| | 1948 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1871) |
| | 1951 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (b. 1875) |
| | 1958 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878) |
| | 1958 - Ernst Heinkel, German aviation engineer (b.1888) |
| | 1962 - Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894) |
| | 1963 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899) |
| | 1969 - Georges Pire, Belgian monk, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1910) |
| | 1980 - Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918) |
| | 1982 - Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912) |
| | 1991 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1908) |
| | 1991 - John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907) |
| | 1994 - Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912) |
| | 1995 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (b. 1925) |
| | 1999 - Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919) |
| | 1999 - Ed Herlihy, American broadcaster (b. 1909) |
| | 2001 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911) |
| | 2001 - Joseph Ransohoff, The father of modern neurosurgery (b. 1915) |
| | 2005 - Martyn Bennet, Canadian musician (b. 1971) |
| | 2005 - Wes Wehmiller, American musician (b. 1971) |
| | 2006 - Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927) |