| | 1204 - Alexius IV Angelus, deposed Eastern Roman Emperor (b. circa 1182) |
| | 1250 - Robert I of Artois, French crusader (b. 1216). |
| | 1250 - William II Longespee |
| | 1265 - Hulagu Khan, Mongol ruler (b. 1217) |
| | 1296 - King Przemysl II of Poland (b. 1257) |
| | 1529 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer and diplomat (b. 1478) |
| | 1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1542) |
| | 1599 - Robert Rollock, Scottish educator |
| | 1623 - Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (b. 1546) |
| | 1696 - Tsar Ivan V of Russia (b. 1666) |
| | 1709 - Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (b. 1658) |
| | 1725 - Tsar Peter I of Russia (b. 1672) |
| | 1749 - Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (b. 1682) |
| | 1750 - Aaron Hill, English writer (b. 1685) |
| | 1768 - George Dance the Elder, English architect (b. 1695) |
| | 1772 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (b. 1719) |
| | 1849 - France Prešeren, Slovenian poet (b. 1800) |
| | 1849 - François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (b. 1781) |
| | 1856 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (b. 1773) |
| | 1907 - Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (b. 1854) |
| | 1910 - Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (b. 1854) |
| | 1921 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (b. 1842) |
| | 1929 - Maria Christina, Queen Regent of Spain (b. 1858) |
| | 1956 - Connie Mack, baseball manager and executive (b. 1862) |
| | 1957 - Walther Bothe, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891) |
| | 1957 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist (b. 1903) |
| | 1960 - Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect (b. 1880) |
| | 1963 - George Dolenz, American actor; father of Mickey Dolenz (b. 1908) |
| | 1964 - Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (b. 1888) |
| | 1973 - Max Yasgur, American Woodstock Festival host (b. 1919) |
| | 1975 - Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886) |
| | 1977 - Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and ethnomusicologist (b. 1901) |
| | 1982 - John Hay Whitney, American financier (b. 1904) |
| | 1984 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (b. 1903) |
| | 1985 - William Lyons, British automobile manufacturer (b. 1901) |
| | 1987 - Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (b. 1905) |
| | 1990 - Del Shannon, American entertainer (suicide) (b. 1934) |
| | 1992 - Denny Wright, British jazz guitarist (b. 1924) |
| | 1993 - N. Shanmugathasan, Sri Lankan communist leader |
| | 1994 - Raymond Scott, American composer (b. 1908) |
| | 1996 - Del Ennis, baseball player (b. 1925) |
| | 1998 - Halldór Laxness, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) |
| | 1998 - Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932) |
| | 1999 - Iris Murdoch, Irish author (b. 1919) |
| | 2000 - Sid Abel, Canadian hockey player (b. 1918) |
| | 2000 - Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967) |
| | 2001 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian animated film director (b. 1920) |
| | 2002 - Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (b. 1930) |
| | 2002 - Ong Teng Cheong, President of Singapore (b. 1936) |
| | 2004 - Julius Schwartz, American comic book and science fiction editor (b. 1915) |
| | 2005 - Jimmy Smith, American jazz musician |
| | 2006 - Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914) |