| | 743 - Muhammad al-Baqir, Shia Imam (b. 676) |
| | 1398 - Emperor Suko of Japan (b. 1334) |
| | 1435 - Xuande, Emperor of China (b. 1398) |
| | 1561 - Bairam Khan, Great Mughal General, regent for Akbar |
| | 1561 - Menno Simons, Dutch Mennonite leader (b. 1496) |
| | 1580 - Henry of Portugal (b. 1512) |
| | 1606 - Guy Fawkes, Gunpowder Plot conspirators (b. 1570) |
| | 1606 - Ambrose Rokewood, Gunpowder Plot conspirators (c. 1578) |
| | 1606 - Thomas Wintour, Gunpowder Plot conspirators (b. 1571) |
| | 1615 - Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (b. 1543) |
| | 1632 - Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552) |
| | 1665 - Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1622) |
| | 1686 - Jean Mairet, French dramatist (b. 1604) |
| | 1720 - Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councilor (c. 1654) |
| | 1729 - Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659) |
| | 1736 - Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (b. 1678) |
| | 1788 - Charles Edward Stuart, pretender to the British throne (b. 1720) |
| | 1790 - Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (b. 1718) |
| | 1794 - Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711) |
| | 1815 - José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan independentist leader (b. 1775) |
| | 1844 - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (b. 1773) |
| | 1851 - David Spangler Kaufman, American politician (b. 1813) |
| | 1888 - John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society (b. 1815) |
| | 1892 - Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and evangelist (b. 1834) |
| | 1907 - Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834) |
| | 1923 - Eligiusz Niewiadomski, assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (b. 1869) |
| | 1933 - John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1867) |
| | 1944 - Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882) |
| | 1945 - Eddie Slovik, American soldier (b. 1920) |
| | 1955 - John Mott, American YMCA leader, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1865) |
| | 1956 - A. A. Milne, English author (b. 1882) |
| | 1966 - GeneralArthur Ernest Percival, British Army Officer(b. 1887) |
| | 1967 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908) |
| | 1970 - Slim Harpo, American singer (b. 1924) |
| | 1973 - Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1895) |
| | 1974 - Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born film studio executive (b. 1882) |
| | 1976 - Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (b. 1941) |
| | 1981 - Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (b. 1909) |
| | 1990 - Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-born imam (stabbed) (b. 1935) |
| | 1992 - Willie Dixon, American musician (b. 1915) |
| | 1995 - George Abbott, American stage director and producer (b. 1887) |
| | 1997 - John Joseph Scanlan, Irish Catholic prelate (b. 1930) |
| | 1999 - Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929) |
| | 2000 - Gil Kane, Latvian-born comic book writer (b. 1926) |
| | 2001 - Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian writer (b. 1923) |
| | 2004 - Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (b. 1913) |
| | 2006 - Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (The Red Shoes) and ballerina (b. 1926) |