| | 1147 - Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (bc. 1090) |
| | 1214 - Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1162) |
| | 1448 - John VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1390) |
| | 1517 - Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (b. 1472) |
| | 1641 - Cornelis Jol, Dutch admiral and privateer (b. 1597) |
| | 1659 - John Bradshaw, English judge (b. 1602) |
| | 1723 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642) |
| | 1732 - Victor Amadeus II of Savoy (b. 1666) |
| | 1733 - Eberhard IV Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1676) |
| | 1744 - Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (b. 1694) |
| | 1765 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (b. 1721) |
| | 1768 - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (b. 1690) |
| | 1860 - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (b. 1775) |
| | 1879 - Jacob Abbott, American author (b. 1803) |
| | 1884 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (b. 1858) |
| | 1913 - William Evans-Gordon, British politician (b. 1857) |
| | 1916 - Charles Taze Russell, American founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1852) |
| | 1918 - Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (b. 1890) |
| | 1920 - Alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (b. 1854) |
| | 1925 - Max Linder, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1883) |
| | 1926 - Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (b. 1874) |
| | 1939 - Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (b. 1884) |
| | 1943 - Max Reinhardt, German film director (b. 1873) |
| | 1952 - U Chit Hlaing, Burmese politician (b. 1879) |
| | 1959 - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (b. 1885) |
| | 1972 - Bill Durnan, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1916) |
| | 1983 - George Halas, American football player, coach, and team owner (b. 1895) |
| | 1984 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1917) |
| | 1984 - Eduardo de Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (b. 1900) |
| | 1985 - Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (b. 1913) |
| | 1986 - Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1896) |
| | 1987 - Joseph Campbell, American author and expert on mythology (b. 1904) |
| | 1988 - John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and director (b. 1902) |
| | 1988 - Alfred Pellan, Québécois painter (b. 1906) |
| | 1991 - Joseph Papp, American theatrical producer (b. 1921) |
| | 1991 - Gene Anderson, American professional wrestler (b. 1933) |
| | 1993 - Federico Fellini, Italian director (b. 1920) |
| | 1993 - River Phoenix, American actor (drug overdose) (b. 1970) |
| | 1995 - Rosalind Cash, American actress (b. 1938) |
| | 1996 - Marcel Carné, French film director (b. 1906) |
| | 1998 - Elmer Vasko, National Hockey League defenceman (b. 1935) |
| | 1999 - Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (b. 1975) |
| | 2000 - Watanabe Kazuki Japanese musician (Raphael) (b. 1981) |
| | 2000 - Ring Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter (b. 1915) |
| | 2001 - Régine Cavagnoud, French skier (b. 1970) |
| | 2002 - Lionel Poilâne, French baker and entrepreneur (b. 1945) |
| | 2003 - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian singer (b. 1908) |
| | 2003 - Dharmsamrat Paramhans Swami Madhavananda, Indian guru (b. 1923) |
| | 2003 - Richard Neustadt, American political historian (b. 1919) |
| | 2005 - Mary Wimbush, English actress (b. 1924) |
| | 2005 - John "Beatz" Holohan, American drummer (Bayside) (b. 1974) |
| | 2005 - Teresa Halbach, American photographer (b. 1980) |
| | 2005 - Hal Anger, American biophysicist (b. 1920) |
| | 2006 - Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa (b. 1916) |