| | 995 - William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 937) |
| | 1520 - Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden (b. 1493) |
| | 1578 - Giambattista Moroni, Italian painter |
| | 1705 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1635) |
| | 1766 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705) |
| | 1775 - Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (b. 1692) |
| | 1790 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710) |
| | 1807 - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (b. 1725) |
| | 1881 - Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (b. 1795) |
| | 1915 - Ross Barnes, baseball player (b. 1850) |
| | 1917 - Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860 ) |
| | 1922 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871) |
| | 1922 - Christiaan De Wet, South African general |
| | 1937 - Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born writer (b. 1861) |
| | 1941 - Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of "Walzing Matilda" (b. 1864) |
| | 1946 - George Arliss, English actor (b. 1868)) |
| | 1948 - Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883) |
| | 1962 - Jacques Ibert, French composer (b. 1890) |
| | 1967 - Leon Leonwood Bean, American department store founder (b. 1872) |
| | 1970 - Rudy York, baseball player (b. 1913) |
| | 1972 - Marianne Moore, American poet (b. 1887) |
| | 1976 - Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley and His Comets) (b. 1926) |
| | 1977 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (b. 1894) |
| | 1981 - Ella Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919) |
| | 1991 - Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903) |
| | 1992 - Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (b. 1913) |
| | 1993 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American writer, producer, and director (b. 1909) |
| | 1995 - Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935) |
| | 1997 - Pamela Harriman, English-born American diplomat (b. 1920) |
| | 1999 - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1906) |
| | 2003 - Helge Boes, American Central Intelligence Agency officer |
| | 2005 - Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (b. 1937) |
| | 2006 - Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress and comedienne (b. 1930) |
| | 2006 - Franklin Cover, American actor (b. 1928) |