| | 1515 - Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b. 1474) |
| | 1559 - Kano Motonobu, Japanese painter (b. 1476) |
| | 1660 - Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (b. 1599) |
| | 1660 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1591) |
| | 1701 - Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician (c. 1659) |
| | 1714 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (b. 1633) |
| | 1752 - Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (b. 1670) |
| | 1758 - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686) |
| | 1828 - Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (b. 1759) |
| | 1836 - Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b. 1810) |
| | 1879 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831) |
| | 1930 - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1858) |
| | 1933 - Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress, and musician (b. 1884) |
| | 1941 - Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist (b. 1905) |
| | 1942 - George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer, and composer (b. 1878) |
| | 1944 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873) |
| | 1951 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete (b. 1889) |
| | 1955 - Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1883) |
| | 1956 - Art Tatum, American musician (b. 1909) |
| | 1960 - Ward Bond, American actor (b. 1903) |
| | 1960 - Johnny Horton, Country music singer, (b.1925) |
| | 1960 - Mack Sennett, Canadian producer and director (b. 1880) |
| | 1964 - Lansdale Sasscer, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District. |
| | 1964 - Buddy Cole, American jazz pianist and orchestra leader (b. 1916) |
| | 1971 - Sam Jones, baseball player (b. 1925) |
| | 1974 - Stafford Repp, American actor (b. 1918) |
| | 1975 - Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1909) |
| | 1975 - Lionel Trilling, American critic and writer (b. 1905) |
| | 1977 - René Goscinny, French comic book writer (b. 1926) |
| | 1977 - Guy Lombardo, Canadian conductor (b. 1902) |
| | 1979 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909) |
| | 1982 - Jacques Tati, French actor and director (b. 1908) |
| | 1985 - Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895) |
| | 1985 - Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (b. 1898) |
| | 1986 - Claude Jutra, Québécois actor and film director (b. 1930) |
| | 1989 - Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist (b. 1903) |
| | 1990 - Meir Kahane, Israeli rabbi and activist (b. 1932) |
| | 1991 - Fred MacMurray, American actor (b. 1908) |
| | 1991 - Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (b. 1923) |
| | 1992 - Arpad Elo, American physicist and chess player (b. 1903) |
| | 1996 - Eddie Harris, American saxophonist (b. 1934) |
| | 1997 - James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter (b. 1946) |
| | 1997 - Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-born historian of ideas (b. 1909) |
| | 2000 - Victor Grinich, American businessman (b. 1924) |
| | 2000 - Jimmie Davis, singer and politician (b. 1899) |
| | 2001 - Roy Boulting, English film director and producer (b. 1913) |
| | 2003 - Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940) |
| | 2005 - Rod Donald, New Zealand environmentalist (b. 1957) |
| | 2005 - John Fowles, English writer (b. 1926) |
| | 2006 - Bülent Ecevit, Four term Turkish Prime Minister. (b. 1925) |