| | 749 - Saint John of Damascus, theologian |
| | 1082 - Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona |
| | 1355 - John III, Duke of Brabant (b. 1300) |
| | 1560 - King Francis II of France (b. 1544) |
| | 1624 - Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1560) |
| | 1654 - Jean François Sarrazin, French writer |
| | 1663 - Severo Bonini, Italian composer (b. 1582) |
| | 1749 - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye, New French explorer and trader (b. 1685) |
| | 1758 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (b. 1688) |
| | 1770 - James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (b. 1692) |
| | 1784 - Phillis Wheatley, British poet (b. 1753) |
| | 1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1756) |
| | 1819 - Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (b. 1750) |
| | 1870 - Alexandre Dumas père, French writer (b. 1802) |
| | 1887 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804) |
| | 1891 - Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825) |
| | 1925 - Wladyslaw Reymont, Polish writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867) |
| | 1926 - Claude Monet, French impressionist painter (b. 1840) |
| | 1931 - Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879) |
| | 1940 - Jan Kubelík, Austro-Hungarian-born Czechoslovak violinist (b. 1880) |
| | 1950 - Shri Aurobindo, Indian guru (b. 1872) |
| | 1951 - Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (b. 1889) |
| | 1951 - Abanindranath Tagore, Indian writer (b. 1871) |
| | 1963 - Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Prime Minister Pakistan (b. 1892) |
| | 1963 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (b. 1905) |
| | 1963 - Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji, Indian Hindu mystic |
| | 1965 - Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874) |
| | 1966 - Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1909) |
| | 1968 - Fred Clark, American actor (b. 1914) |
| | 1984 - Adam Malik, Third Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917) |
| | 1986 - Sir Edward Youde, Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1924) |
| | 1989 - Sir John Pritchard, British conductor (b. 1921) |
| | 1991 - Richard Speck, American mass murderer (b. 1941) |
| | 1993 - Doug Hopkins, American guitarist and songwriter (Gin Blossoms) (b. 1961) |
| | 2001 - Franco Rasetti, Italian physicist (b. 1901) |
| | 2002 - Roone Arledge, American sports broadcasting pioneer (b. 1931) |
| | 2002 - Ne Win, Burmese leader (b. 1911) |
| | 2005 - Frits Philips, Dutch industrialist and businessman from multinational Philips Electronics (b. 1905) |
| | 2005 - Kevin "Big Kev" Mc Quay, Australian businessman (b. 1949) |