| | 1083 - Matilda of Flanders, Queen consort (b. 1031) |
| | 1285 - King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239) |
| | 1327 - King James II of Aragon (b. 1267) |
| | 1483 - Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1454) |
| | 1610 - Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1544) |
| | 1618 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1568) |
| | 1716 - Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (b. 1651) |
| | 1807 - Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (b. 1730) |
| | 1852 - Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782) |
| | 1863 - Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (b. 1826) |
| | 1877 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784) |
| | 1887 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820) |
| | 1898 - George Goyder, English-born surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826) |
| | 1905 - Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817) |
| | 1935 - Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905) |
| | 1944 - Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889) |
| | 1945 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1880) |
| | 1950 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856) |
| | 1960 - Dimitris Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896) |
| | 1961 - James Thurber, American humorist (b. 1894) |
| | 1963 - Ngô Ðình Di?m, President of South Vietnam (b. 1901) |
| | 1966 - Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884) |
| | 1966 - Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer (b. 1892) |
| | 1970 - Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston (b. 1895) |
| | 1975 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922) |
| | 1979 - Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (b. 1936) |
| | 1984 - Velma Barfield, American murderer (b. 1932) |
| | 1986 - Paul Frees, American voice actor (b. 1920) |
| | 1991 - Mort Shuman, American singer and songwriter (b. 1936) |
| | 1991 - Irwin Allen, American film producer (b. 1916) |
| | 1992 - Hal Roach, American director and producer (b. 1892) |
| | 1996 - Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963) |
| | 2002 - Tonio Selwart, German actor (b. 1896) |
| | 2002 - Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (b. 1935) |
| | 2003 - Frank McCloskey, American politician (b. 1939) |
| | 2004 - Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan, President of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1918) |
| | 2004 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1957) |
| | 2004 - Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (b. 1951) |
| | 2006 - Wally Foreman, Australian media icon (b. 1948) |