| | 388 - Magnus Maximus, Roman usurper against Valentinian III |
| | 430 - Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (b. 354) |
| | 1341 - King Leo V of Armenia (murdered) (b. 1309) |
| | 1481 - King Afonso V of Portugal (b. 1432) |
| | 1645 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583) |
| | 1654 - Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583) |
| | 1678 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602) |
| | 1757 - David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705) |
| | 1784 - Junípero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary (b. 1713) |
| | 1785 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714) |
| | 1793 - Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (executed) (b. 1740) |
| | 1805 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722) |
| | 1818 - Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, founder of Chicago |
| | 1820 - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754) |
| | 1839 - William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769) |
| | 1900 - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (b. 1838) |
| | 1903 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822) |
| | 1919 - Louis Botha, Boer leader (b. 1862) |
| | 1933 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863) |
| | 1943 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894) |
| | 1955 - Emmett Till, American civil rights movement icon (b. 1941) |
| | 1959 - Bohuslav Martinu, Czech composer (b. 1890) |
| | 1965 - Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909) |
| | 1975 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907) |
| | 1981 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900) |
| | 1985 - Ruth Gordon, American actress (b. 1896) |
| | 1987 - John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906) |
| | 1990 - Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1913) |
| | 1990 - Larry Jackson, baseball player (b. 1931) |
| | 1993 - William Stafford, American writer (b. 1914) |
| | 1995 - Earl Bascom, rodeo pioneer, artist, inventor (b. 1906) |
| | 1995 - Michael Ende, German writer (b. 1929) |
| | 2005 - Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910) |
| | 2005 - George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911) |
| | 2006 - Jesse Pintado, Terrorizer, ex-Napalm Death guitarist (b. 1969) |
| | 2006 - Melvin Schwartz, American particle physicist and 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics winner (b. 1932) |