| | 1199 - Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1147) |
| | 1450 - Agnès Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII of France (b. 1421) |
| | 1555 - Rowland Taylor, English pastor (executed) (b. 1510) |
| | 1619 - Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (b. 1585) |
| | 1640 - Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1612) |
| | 1675 - Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (b. 1613) |
| | 1709 - François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (b. 1664) |
| | 1751 - Henri François d'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (b. 1668) |
| | 1752 - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (b. 1722) |
| | 1777 - Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (b. 1706) |
| | 1782 - Joseph Aloysius Assemani, Syrian orientalist (b. 1710) |
| | 1803 - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (b. 1716) |
| | 1881 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (b. 1821) |
| | 1891 - Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (b. 1819) |
| | 1906 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet (b. 1872) |
| | 1940 - Eugene Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1857) |
| | 1951 - Eddy Duchin, American musician (b. 1910) |
| | 1957 - Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral (b. 1868) |
| | 1960 - Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (b. 1870) |
| | 1966 - Sophie Tucker, Russian-born actress (b. 1884) |
| | 1969 - Gabby Hayes, American actor (b. 1885) |
| | 1976 - Percy Faith, Canadian musician (b. 1908) |
| | 1978 - Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (b. 1893) |
| | 1979 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900) |
| | 1981 - Bill Haley, American musician (Bill Haley and the Comets) (b. 1925) |
| | 1984 - Yuri Andropov, Soviet politician (b. 1914) |
| | 1989 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (b. 1928) |
| | 1994 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1934) |
| | 1995 - J. William Fulbright, American politician (b. 1905) |
| | 1997 - Brian Connolly, English singer (Sweet (band) (b. 1945) |
| | 1999 - Bryan Mosley, British actor (b. 1931) |
| | 2001 - Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916) |
| | 2002 - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930) |
| | 2006 - Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922) |