| | 197 - Clodius Albinus, Roman governor of Britain |
| | 1133 - Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus (b. 1066) |
| | 1553 - Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1511) |
| | 1605 - Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (b. 1550) |
| | 1602 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (b. 1558) |
| | 1620 - Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (b. 1547) |
| | 1622 - Sir Henry Savile, English educator (b. 1549) |
| | 1653 - Luigi de Rossi, Italian composer (b. 1597) |
| | 1663 - Adam Adami, German bishop and diplomat (b. 1603) |
| | 1670 - King Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609) |
| | 1672 - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (b. 1592) |
| | 1709 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (b. 1646) |
| | 1716 - Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (b. 1634) |
| | 1789 - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (b. 1738) |
| | 1799 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (b. 1733) |
| | 1806 - Elizabeth Carter, English writer (b. 1717) |
| | 1837 - Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813) |
| | 1873 - Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1837) |
| | 1887 - Multatuli, Dutch writer (b. 1820) |
| | 1897 - Karl Weierstraß, German mathematician (b. 1815) |
| | 1916 - Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (b. 1838) |
| | 1927 - Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (b. 1847) |
| | 1936 - Billy Mitchell, American general and military aviation pioneer (b. 1879) |
| | 1936 - Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879) |
| | 1936 - Charles Harding Firth, British historian (b. 1857) |
| | 1942 - Frank Abbandando, American gangster (executed) (b. 1910) |
| | 1951 - André Gide, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869) |
| | 1952 - Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859) |
| | 1957 - Maurice Garin, French cyclist (b. 1871) |
| | 1968 - Georg Hackenschmidt, wrestler (b. 1878) |
| | 1969 - Madge Blake, American actress (b. 1899) |
| | 1972 - John Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker (b. 1898) |
| | 1972 - Tedd Pierce, American animator (b. 1906) |
| | 1973 - Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892) |
| | 1975 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (b. 1904) |
| | 1977 - Mike González, baseball player (b. 1890) |
| | 1977 - Anthony Crosland, (British Politician) {b. 1918) |
| | 1980 - Bon Scott, Australian musician (AC/DC) (b. 1946) |
| | 1983 - Alice White, American film actress (b. 1904) |
| | 1986 - Adolfo Celi, Italian actor (b. 1922) |
| | 1988 - André Frédéric Cournand, French-born physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895) |
| | 1994 - Derek Jarman, British Film Director (b. 1942) |
| | 1996 - Charles O. Finley, American sports entrepreneur (b. 1918) |
| | 1997 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Communist leader and revolutionary (b. 1904) |
| | 1997 - Leo Rosten, American Yiddish writer and humorist (b. 1908) |
| | 1998 - John Acheson, actor |
| | 1998 - Grandpa Jones, American entertainer (b. 1913) |
| | 1999 - Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, Iraqi Shiite leader (assassinated) |
| | 2000 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (b. 1928) |
| | 2001 - Priscilla Davis, American socialite (b. 1942) |
| | 2001 - Stanley Kramer, American director (b. 1913) |
| | 2001 - Charles Trenet, French singer (b. 1913) |
| | 2003 - Johnny Paycheck, American singer (b. 1938) |