| | 891 - Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople |
| | 1378 - Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338) |
| | 1497 - Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer (b. c. 1410) |
| | 1515 - Aldus Manutius, Italian printer |
| | 1585 - Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518) |
| | 1593 - Jacques Amyot, French writer (b. 1513) |
| | 1593 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517) |
| | 1617 - Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (b. 1553) |
| | 1685 - King Charles II of England (b. 1630) |
| | 1740 - Pope Clement XII (b. 1652) |
| | 1775 - William Dowdeswell, English politician (b. 1721) |
| | 1783 - Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (b. 1716) |
| | 1793 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (b. 1707) |
| | 1816 - Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744) |
| | 1833 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (b. 1762) |
| | 1834 - Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (b. 1804) |
| | 1855 - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791) |
| | 1899 - Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831) |
| | 1899 - Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (b. 1874) |
| | 1916 - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867) |
| | 1918 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862) |
| | 1927 - Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. 1879) |
| | 1938 - Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860) |
| | 1950 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884) |
| | 1952 - George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895) |
| | 1963 - Abd el-Krim, Moroccan politician |
| | 1964 - Emilio Aguinaldo, First President of the 1st Philippines Republic (b. 1869) |
| | 1976 - Vince Guaraldi, American musician (b. 1928) |
| | 1985 - James Hadley Chase, English writer (b. 1906) |
| | 1986 - Frederick Coutts, Salvation Army general (b. 1899) |
| | 1986 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b. 1912) |
| | 1989 - Chris Gueffroy, last person killed escaping over the Berlin wall (b. 1968) |
| | 1989 - Barbara Tuchman, American historian (b. 1912) |
| | 1991 - Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1912) |
| | 1991 - Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1914) |
| | 1993 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943) |
| | 1993 - Joseph Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and writer (b. 1909) |
| | 1994 - Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905) |
| | 1994 - Jack Kirby, American comic book writer (b. 1917) |
| | 1995 - James Merrill, American poet (b. 1926) |
| | 1996 - Guy Madison, American actor (b. 1922) |
| | 1998 - Falco, Austrian singer (b. 1957) |
| | 1998 - Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946) |
| | 2001 - Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. 1953) |
| | 2002 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1914) |
| | 2005 - Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (b. 1930) |
| | 2005 - Karl Haas, American radio presenter (b. 1913) |