| | 858 - Kenneth I of Scotland |
| | 1130 - Pope Honorius II |
| | 1141 - Béla II of Hungary (b. 1110) |
| | 1219 - Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1192) |
| | 1322 - Andronicus II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1260) |
| | 1539 - Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474) |
| | 1542 - Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (executed) (b. 1525) |
| | 1571 - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (b. 1500) |
| | 1585 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (b. 1515) |
| | 1592 - Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter |
| | 1600 - Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538) |
| | 1602 - Alexander Nowell, English clergyman |
| | 1608 - Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (b. 1526) |
| | 1624 - Stephen Gosson, English satirist (b. 1554) |
| | 1657 - Miles Sindercombe, attempted assassin of Oliver Cromwell |
| | 1660 - King Charles X of Sweden (b. 1622) |
| | 1662 - Elizabeth of Bohemia (b. 1596) |
| | 1727 - William Wotton, English scholar (b. 1666) |
| | 1728 - Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister (b. 1663) |
| | 1732 - Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1640) |
| | 1787 - Ruder Boškovic, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711) |
| | 1787 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1717) |
| | 1813 - Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (b. 1725) |
| | 1818 - George Rogers Clark, American military leader (b. 1752) |
| | 1826 - Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (b. 1845) |
| | 1845 - Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher (b. 1773) |
| | 1883 - Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813) |
| | 1888 - Jean Baptiste Lamy, 1st Archbishop of Santa Fe |
| | 1905 - Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844) |
| | 1950 - Rafael Sabatini, Italian author (b. 1875) |
| | 1951 - Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (b. 1877) |
| | 1952 - Josephine Tey, English author (b. 1896) |
| | 1964 - Gerald Gardner, British writer (b. 1884) |
| | 1968 - Mae Marsh, American actress (b. 1895) |
| | 1975 - André Beaufre, (b. 1902) |
| | 1976 - Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian military leader (b. 1938) |
| | 1976 - Lily Pons, French-born soprano (b. 1904) |
| | 1989 - Wayne Hays, American politician (b. 1911) |
| | 1980 - David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931) |
| | 1992 - Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (b. 1909) |
| | 1996 - Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919) |
| | 1997 - Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (b. 1920) |
| | 2000 - James Cooke Brown, American author and inventor (b. 1921) |
| | 2002 - Waylon Jennings, American musician (b. 1937) |
| | 2003 - Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (b. 1926) |
| | 2003 - Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (b. 1932) |
| | 2003 - Walt Rostow, U.S. government official (b. 1916) |
| | 2004 - Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen leader (b. 1952) |
| | 2005 - Nelson Briles, baseball player (b. 1943) |
| | 2005 - Lúcia Santos, Carmelite nun (b. 1907) |
| | 2005 - Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (b. 1917) |
| | 2006 - Andreas Katsulas, American actor (b. 1946) |
| | 2006 - Wang Xuan, Chinese scientist, the "Father of Chinese Language Laser Typesetting" |