| | 1154 - Pope Anastasius IV |
| | 1265 - Odofredus, Italian jurist |
| | 1533 - Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1479) |
| | 1552 - St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to the East (b. 1506) |
| | 1610 - Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (b. 1548) |
| | 1765 - Lord John Philip Sackville, British cricketer (b. 1713) |
| | 1789 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b. 1714) |
| | 1815 - John Carroll (priest), first Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S. (b. 1735) |
| | 1882 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811) |
| | 1888 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (b. 1816) |
| | 1892 - Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (b. 1820) |
| | 1894 - Robert Louis Stevenson, British writer (b. 1850) |
| | 1902 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833) |
| | 1910 - Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science (b. 1821) |
| | 1912 - Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (b. 1841) |
| | 1919 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French impressionist painter (b. 1841) |
| | 1941 - Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer (b. 1856) |
| | 1941 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (b. 1883) |
| | 1949 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born American actress (b. 1876) |
| | 1967 - Harry Wismer, American original owner of the New York Jets (b. 1913) |
| | 1969 - Mathias Wieman, German actor (b. 1902) |
| | 1972 - Bill Johnson, American musician (b. 1872) |
| | 1973 - Emile Christian, American musician (b. 1895) |
| | 1979 - Dhyan Chand, Indian Olympic gold medalist (b. 1905) |
| | 1980 - Oswald Mosley, British politician (b. 1896) |
| | 1981 - Walter Knott, farmer and creator of Knott's Berry Farm (b. 1889) |
| | 1984 - Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (b. 1919) |
| | 1993 - Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (b. 1913) |
| | 1995 - Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (b. 1946) |
| | 1996 - Georges Duby, French historian (b. 1919) |
| | 1999 - Jarl Wahlström, 12th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1918) |
| | 1999 - Madeline Kahn, American actress/comedian (b. 1942) |
| | 1999 - Scatman John, American singer (b. 1942) |
| | 2000 - Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (b. 1917) |
| | 2002 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970) |
| | 2003 - David Hemmings, British actor (b. 1941) |
| | 2004 - Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (b. 1911) |
| | 2005 - Herb Moford, baseball player (b. 1928) |
| | 2006 - Logan Whitehurst, American musician (b. 1977) |