| | 43 BC - Cicero, Roman politician and author (b. 106 BC) |
| | 283 - Pope Eutychian |
| | 1254 - Pope Innocent IV |
| | 1279 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (b. 1226) |
| | 1295 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1243) |
| | 1498 - Alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist |
| | 1562 - Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer |
| | 1649 - Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1606) |
| | 1672 - Richard Bellingham, English-born Massachusetts colonial magistrate (b. 1592) |
| | 1683 - John Oldham, English poet (smallpox) (b. 1653) |
| | 1683 - Algernon Sydney, English politician (b. 1623) |
| | 1723 - Jan Santini Aichel, Bohemian architect (b. 1677) |
| | 1725 - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (b. 1661) |
| | 1775 - Charles Saunders, British admiral |
| | 1793 - Joseph Bara, French revolutionary (b. 1780) |
| | 1815 - Michel Ney, French marshall (executed) (b. 1769) |
| | 1817 - William Bligh, British naval officer (b. 1745) |
| | 1874 - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (b. 1815) |
| | 1894 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur (Suez Canal) (b. 1805) |
| | 1902 - Thomas Nast, German-born American cartoonist (b. 1840) |
| | 1906 - Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833) |
| | 1913 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman and last surviving cardinal of Pius IX (b. 1828) |
| | 1941 - Isaac C. Kidd, American rear admiral (b. 1884) |
| | 1947 - Nicholas M. Butler, American university president, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862) |
| | 1947 - Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (b. 1866) |
| | 1956 - Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (b. 1887) |
| | 1960 - Clara Haskil, Swiss pianist (b. 1895) |
| | 1969 - Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (b. 1897) |
| | 1969 - Eric Portman, English actor (b. 1903) |
| | 1970 - Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (b. 1883) |
| | 1975 - Thornton Wilder, American playwright (b. 1897) |
| | 1977 - Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born American engineer (b. 1906) |
| | 1978 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (b. 1886) |
| | 1980 - Darby Crash, American punk-rock lengend (b. 1958) |
| | 1983 - Fanny Cano, Mexican actress (b. 1944) |
| | 1985 - Robert Graves, British author (b. 1895) |
| | 1985 - Potter Stewart, US Supreme Court Justice (b. 1915) |
| | 1989 - William Calhoun, Professional wrestler (b. 1934) |
| | 1990 - Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910) |
| | 1990 - Jean Duceppe, Quebec stage, television and film actor (b. 1923) |
| | 1990 - Jean Paul Lemieux, Quebec painter (b. 1904) |
| | 1993 - Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1905) |
| | 1993 - Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913) |
| | 1994 - J.C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939) |
| | 1998 - Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1925) |
| | 2000 - Vladimir Gotovac, Croatian poet and politician (b. 1930) |
| | 2001 - Charles McClendon, LSU Tigers head football coach (b. 1923) |
| | 2003 - Carl F. H. Henry American theologian and publisher (b. 1913) |
| | 2003 - Azie Taylor Morton, Treasurer of the United States (b. 1936) |
| | 2003 - Raúl Vale, Venezuelan entertainer (b. 1944) |
| | 2004 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (b. 1914) |
| | 2004 - Jerry Scoggins, American singer (b. 1913) |
| | 2005 - Bud Carson, American football player and coach (b. 1931) |
| | 2006 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, American ambassador (b. 1926) |
| | 2006 - Jay McShann, American musician (b. ca. 1910) |