| | 312 - Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c. 278) |
| | 1225 - Jien, Japanese poet and historian (b. 1155) |
| | 1412 - Margaret I of Denmark, wife of Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1353) |
| | 1485 - Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist (b. 1443) |
| | 1520 - Pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian pirate and freedom fighter |
| | 1568 - Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539) |
| | 1627 - Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1569) |
| | 1639 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587) |
| | 1646 - William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610) |
| | 1661 - Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (b. 1518) |
| | 1676 - Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595) |
| | 1703 - John Wallis, English mathematician (b. 1616) |
| | 1704 - John Locke, English philosopher (b. 1632) |
| | 1708 - Prince George of Denmark, consort of Queen Anne of England (b. 1653) |
| | 1716 - Stephen Fox, English politician (b. 1627) |
| | 1740 - Empress Anna of Russia (b. 1693) |
| | 1754 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708) |
| | 1755 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (b. 1689) |
| | 1763 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (b. 1700) |
| | 1768 - Michel Blavet, French flutist (b. 1700) |
| | 1792 - Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710) |
| | 1792 - John Smeaton, English civil engineer (b. 1724) |
| | 1800 - Artemas Ward, American politician and soldier (b. 1727) |
| | 1806 - Charlotte Turner Smith, English poet and novelist (b. 1749) |
| | 1818 - Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (b. 1744) |
| | 1841 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792) |
| | 1857 - Louis Eugène Cavaignac, French soldier and politician (b. 1802) |
| | 1877 - Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835) |
| | 1879 - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer (b. 1799) |
| | 1897 - Hercules Robinson, British colonial administrator (b. 1824) |
| | 1899 - Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born inventor (tuberculosis) (b. 1854) |
| | 1900 - Max Müller, German-born orientalist (b. 1823) |
| | 1916 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838) |
| | 1916 - Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891) |
| | 1917 - Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1831) |
| | 1918 - Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845) |
| | 1929 - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849) |
| | 1952 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862) |
| | 1957 - Ernst Gräfenberg, German physican and scientist (b. 1881) |
| | 1959 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932) |
| | 1965 - Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913) |
| | 1969 - Constance Dowling, American actress (b. 1920) |
| | 1973 - Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889) |
| | 1973 - Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883) |
| | 1975 - Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894) |
| | 1975 - Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (b. 1932) |
| | 1986 - John Braine, English novelist (b. 1922) |
| | 1987 - André Masson, French artist (b. 1896) |
| | 1998 - Ted Hughes, English poet (b. 1930) |
| | 2000 - Lída Baarová, Czech actress (b. 1914) |
| | 2000 - Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (b. 1912) |
| | 2001 - Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer (b. 1910) |
| | 2002 - Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898) |
| | 2002 - Erling Persson, Swedish entrepreneur (b. 1917) |
| | 2004 - Jimmy McLarnin, Northern Irish-born boxer (b. 1907) |
| | 2005 - Eugene K. Bird, German prison director (b. 1926) |
| | 2005 - Bob Broeg, American sports writer (b. 1918) |
| | 2005 - Raymond Hains, French artist (b. 1926) |
| | 2005 - Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942) |
| | 2005 - Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean singer and musician (b. 1922) |
| | 2005 - Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943) |
| | 2005 - Ljuba Tadic, Serbian actor (b. 1929) |
| | 2006 - Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1917) |
| | 2006 - Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955) |
| | 2006 - Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter |