| | 1161 - Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (b. 1105) |
| | 1185 - Stephanus Hagiochristophorites, Byzantine courtier |
| | 1279 - Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| | 1298 - Philip of Artois, French soldier (b. 1269) |
| | 1349 - Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (b. 1315) |
| | 1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman executed for conspiring to kill her father (b. 1577) |
| | 1677 - James Harrington, English politicial philosopher (b. 1611) |
| | 1680 - Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b. 1621) |
| | 1680 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596) |
| | 1721 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (b. 1665) |
| | 1733 - François Couperin, French composer (b. 1668) |
| | 1760 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704) |
| | 1823 - David Ricardo, economist (b. 1772) |
| | 1843 - Joseph Nicollet, mathematician and explorer |
| | 1851 - Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist |
| | 1865 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (b. 1806) |
| | 1888 - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, President of Argentina |
| | 1911 - Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b. 1847) |
| | 1915 - William Cornelius Van Horne, North American railway executive (b. 1843) |
| | 1917 - Georges Guynemer, French World War I aviator (b. 1894) |
| | 1921 - Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882) |
| | 1931 - Salvatore Maranzano, crime boss (b. 1868) |
| | 1932 - Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura, Polish pilots (plane crash) |
| | 1939 - Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (b. 1861) |
| | 1948 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan |
| | 1950 - Jan Smuts, South African soldier and statesman |
| | 1956 - Billy Bishop, Canadian pilot in World War I |
| | 1958 - Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet |
| | 1958 - Camillien Houde, French Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1889) |
| | 1966 - C. E. Woolman, American airline magnate |
| | 1971 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader (b. 1894) |
| | 1972 - Max Fleischer, American animator (b. 1883) |
| | 1973 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (b. 1908) |
| | 1978 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (assassinated) (b. 1929) |
| | 1978 - Janet Parker, medical photographer, the final victim of smallpox |
| | 1978 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish F1 driver. Crashed on Monza circuit. |
| | 1984 - Jerry Voorhis, American politician (b. 1901) |
| | 1985 - William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905) |
| | 1987 - Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (b. 1915) |
| | 1987 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician and singer (b. 1944) |
| | 1988 - John Sylvester White, American actor (b. 1919) |
| | 1990 - Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist (assassinated) (b. 1949) |
| | 1993 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (b. 1912) |
| | 1993 - Antoine Izméry, Haitian pro-democracy activist (assassinated) |
| | 1994 - Jessica Tandy, American actress (b. 1909) |
| | 1994 - William Obanhein, police officer, mentioned in "Alice's Restaurant" (b. 1924) |
| | 1995 - Anita Harding, neurologist (b. 1952) |
| | 1997 - Camille Henry, National Hockey League player (b. 1933) |
| | 1998 - Dane Clark, American actor (b. 1913) |
| | 1999 - Gonzalo Rodriguez, Uruguayan auto racing driver (b. 1972) |
| | 2001 - Mohammed Atta, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1968) |
| | 2001 - Marwan Al-Shehhi, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1978) |
| | 2001 - Hani Hanjour, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1972) |
| | 2001 - Ziad Jarrah, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1975) |
| | 2001 - David Angell, American sitcom creator, passenger on American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1946) |
| | 2001 - Todd Beamer, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1968) |
| | 2001 - Berry Berenson, former wife of actor Anthony Perkins and a passenger on American Airlines flight 11 (b. 1948) |
| | 2001 - Tom Burnett, businessman and passenger on United Airlines Flight 93, (b. 1963) |
| | 2001 - Mark Bingham, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1970) |
| | 2001 - Peter J. Ganci, Jr., Chief of Department, FDNY |
| | 2001 - Father Mychal F. Judge, Chaplain, FDNY |
| | 2001 - Angel L. Juarbe, Jr., American firefighter, winner of Murder in Small Town X (b. 1966) |
| | 2001 - John P. O'Neill, former FBI agent, and Director of Security at the World Trade Center (b. 1952) |
| | 2001 - John Ogonowski, pilot for American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1951) |
| | 2001 - Barbara Olson, American political commentator, passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 (b. 1955) |
| | 2001 - Betty Ong, flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1956) |
| | 2001 - Madeline Amy Sweeney, flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11 |
| | 2002 - Kim Hunter, American actress (b. 1922) |
| | 2002 - Johnny Unitas, American football player (b. 1933) |
| | 2003 - Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (assassinated) (b. 1957) |
| | 2003 - John Ritter, American actor (b. 1948) |
| | 2004 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (helicopter crash) (b. 1949) |
| | 2004 - Fred Ebb, American lyricist (b. 1933) |
| | 2004 - David Mann, U.S. artist (emphysema) (b. 1939) |
| | 2005 - Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster (b. 1923) |
| | 2006 - William Auld, Scottish poet, writer and supporter of Esperanto (b. 1924) |
| | 2006 - Pat Corley, American actor (b. 1930) |
| | 2006 - Joachim Fest, German journalist and author |
| | 2006 - Johannes Bob van Benthem, Dutch lawyer, first president of the European Patent Office (b. 1921) |