| | 1124 - Borivoj II of Bohemia |
| | 1218 - Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (b. 1186) |
| | 1250 - Eric XI of Sweden (b. 1216) |
| | 1461 - Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty of England |
| | 1529 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer (b. 1478) |
| | 1580 - Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese retainer (b. 1558) |
| | 1594 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (b. 1525) |
| | 1648 - George Abbot, English writer |
| | 1660 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (b. 1615) |
| | 1660 - Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (b. 1608) |
| | 1661 - Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (b. 1596) |
| | 1688 - Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (b. 1610) |
| | 1704 - Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, French mathematician (b. 1661) |
| | 1712 - Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician |
| | 1714 - John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (b. 1643) |
| | 1768 - Robert Smith, English mathematician (b. 1689) |
| | 1769 - Pope Clement XIII (b. 1693) |
| | 1802 - Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (b. 1713) |
| | 1895 - Archduke Albert, Austrian general (b. 1817) |
| | 1904 - William C. Whitney, American financier (b. 1841) |
| | 1907 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834) |
| | 1922 - William Desmond Taylor, Irish film director (b. 1872) |
| | 1925 - Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (b. 1873) |
| | 1926 - Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (b. 1848) |
| | 1932 - Agha Petros, Assyrian nationalist leader |
| | 1942 - Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (b. 1906) |
| | 1945 - Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician (b. 1884) |
| | 1948 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894) |
| | 1948 - Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father or Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (b. 1870) |
| | 1950 - Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician (b. 1873) |
| | 1956 - Charles Grapewin, American actor (b. 1869) |
| | 1956 - Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876) |
| | 1957 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (b. 1890) |
| | 1969 - Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887) |
| | 1970 - Bertrand Russell, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1872) |
| | 1973 - Hendrik Elias, Belgain politician (b. 1902) |
| | 1979 - Sid Vicious, English musician (Sex Pistols) (b. 1957) |
| | 1980 - William Howard Stein, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911) |
| | 1987 - Castilho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1927) |
| | 1987 - Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (b. 1922) |
| | 1992 - Bert Parks, American television host (b. 1914) |
| | 1995 - Donald Pleasence, English actor (b. 1919) |
| | 1996 - Gene Kelly, American dancer, actor, and director (b. 1912) |
| | 1997 - Sanford Meisner, American actor (b. 1904) |
| | 1997 - Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (b. 1913) |
| | 2002 - Paul Baloff, American vocalist (b. 1960) |
| | 2003 - Lou Harrison, American composer (b. 1917) |
| | 2004 - Bernard McEveety, American film director (b. 1924) |
| | 2005 - Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905) |