| | 1126 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, poet (b. 1071) |
| | 1162 - King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130) |
| | 1242 - Emperor Shijo of Japan (b. 1231) |
| | 1278 - Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202) |
| | 1576 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532) |
| | 1686 - William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605) |
| | 1722 - Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682) |
| | 1755 - Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689) |
| | 1758 - Thomas Ripley, English architect |
| | 1782 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702) |
| | 1829 - Pope Leo XII (b. 1760) |
| | 1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799) |
| | 1857 - David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770) |
| | 1865 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804) |
| | 1891 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850) |
| | 1904 - John A. Roche, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844) |
| | 1912 - Joseph Lister, British surgeon (b. 1827) |
| | 1917 - John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849) |
| | 1918 - Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842) |
| | 1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1833) |
| | 1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845) |
| | 1932 - Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875) |
| | 1939 - Pope Pius XI (b. 1857) |
| | 1950 - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872) |
| | 1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867) |
| | 1960 - Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898) |
| | 1964 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905) |
| | 1966 - Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899) |
| | 1984 - David Von Erich, professional wrestler (b. 1958) |
| | 1985 - Johnny Mokan, baseball player (b. 1895) |
| | 1987 - Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Pakistani painter, calligrapher and artist (b. 1930) |
| | 1992 - Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921) |
| | 1993 - Fred Hollows, Australian ophthalmologist (b. 1929) |
| | 2000 - Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949) |
| | 2001 - Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City (b. 1906) |
| | 2002 - Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary (b. 1920) |
| | 2003 - Edgar de Evia, American photographer (b. 1910) |
| | 2003 - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1958) |
| | 2003 - Clark MacGregor, United States Congressman from Minnesota (b. 1922) |
| | 2003 - Al Ruffo, Mayor of San Jose, California (b. 1908) |
| | 2003 - Ron Ziegler, American press secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939) |
| | 2005 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915) |
| | 2006 - J Dilla, Rapper/Producer, former member of Slum Village (b. 1974) |