| | 765 - Jafar Sadiq, Shia Imam (b. 702) |
| | 771 - Carloman, King of the Franks (b. 751) |
| | 1075 - Archbishop Anno II of Cologne |
| | 1123 - Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048) |
| | 1214 - William I of Scotland |
| | 1270 - Theobald V of Champagne, King of Navarre |
| | 1334 - Pope John XXII (b. 1249) |
| | 1340 - Henry Burghersh, English bishop and chancellor (b. 1292) |
| | 1459 - Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401) |
| | 1576 - Rheticus, Austrian mathematician (b. 1514) |
| | 1585 - John Willock, Scottish reformer |
| | 1609 - Alexander Hume, Scottish poet |
| | 1642 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (b. 1585) |
| | 1649 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (b. 1585) |
| | 1679 - Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588) |
| | 1680 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616) |
| | 1696 - Empress Meisho of Japan (b. 1624) |
| | 1732 - John Gay, British playwright (b. 1685) |
| | 1798 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist (b. 1737) |
| | 1828 - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770) |
| | 1845 - Gregor MacGregor, British con-man |
| | 1902 - Charles Dow, American journalist (Dow Jones & Company - Wall Street Journal) (b. 1851) |
| | 1926 - Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian-born painter (b. 1861) |
| | 1933 - Stefan George, German poet (b. 1868) |
| | 1935 - Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (b. 1864) |
| | 1935 - Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850) |
| | 1944 - Roger Bresnahan, Baseball player (b. 1879) |
| | 1945 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1866) |
| | 1956 - Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (b. 1891) |
| | 1967 - Bert Lahr, American actor (b. 1895) |
| | 1969 - Fred Hampton, American activist (b. 1948) |
| | 1975 - Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (b. 1906) |
| | 1976 - Tommy Bolin, American guitarist (b. 1951) |
| | 1976 - Benjamin Britten, British composer (b. 1913) |
| | 1976 - W. F. McCoy, Northern Irish politician (b. 1886) |
| | 1980 - Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934) |
| | 1980 - Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-born athlete (b. 1911) |
| | 1993 - Frank Zappa, American musician and composer (b. 1940) |
| | 1995 - Lionel Giroux, Canadian midget wrestler (b. 1935) |
| | 1997 - Richard Vernon, British actor (b. 1925) |
| | 2003 - Iggy Katona, American race car driver (b. 1916) |
| | 2005 - Gregg Hoffman, American film producer (b. 1963) |
| | 2005 - Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (b. 1922) |
| | 2006 - Logan Whitehurst, Song writer/singer (b. 1977) |
| | 2006 - James Kim, Technology reporter (b. 1971) |