| | 420 - Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible |
| | 653 - Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| | 1101 - Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan |
| | 1246 - Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1191) |
| | 1440 - Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician |
| | 1487 - John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400) |
| | 1551 - Ouchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507) |
| | 1560 - Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525) |
| | 1572 - St. Francis Borgia, Jesuit priest (b. 1510) |
| | 1581 - Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518) |
| | 1626 - Nurhaci, Manchurian chief (b. 1559) |
| | 1628 - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (b. 1554) |
| | 1770 - Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat |
| | 1770 - George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714) |
| | 1772 - James Brindley, English engineer (b. 1716) |
| | 1865 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (b. 1800) |
| | 1888 - Elizabeth Stride, widely believed to be the third victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843) |
| | 1888 - Catherine Eddowes, widely believed to be the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1842) |
| | 1891 - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837) |
| | 1897 - St Therese of Lisieux, Roman Catholic saint and mystic (b. 1873) |
| | 1910 - Maurice Lévy, French enegineer (b. 1838) |
| | 1913 - Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (b. 1858) |
| | 1943 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864) |
| | 1955 - James Dean, American actor (automobile accident) (b. 1931) |
| | 1961 - Onésime Gagnon, French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Québec (b. 1888) |
| | 1973 - Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902) |
| | 1977 - Mary Ford, American singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford) (b. 1924) |
| | 1978 - Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903) |
| | 1985 - Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921) |
| | 1985 - Charles Richter, American seismologist (b. 1900) |
| | 1989 - Virgil Thompson, American composer (b. 1896) |
| | 1990 - Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1912) |
| | 1994 - Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902) |
| | 1998 - Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player (b. 1953) |
| | 2002 - Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1913) |
| | 2003 - Yusuf Bey, Black Muslim leader (b. 1935) |
| | 2004 - Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor (b. 1936) |
| | 2004 - Michael Relph, British film producer and director (b. 1915) |