| | 1165 - King Malcolm IV of Scotland |
| | 1292 - Sheikh Saadi, Persian sufi poet |
| | 1437 - Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368) |
| | 1544 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491) |
| | 1565 - Pope Pius IV (b. 1499) |
| | 1603 - William Watson, English conspirator (b. 1559) |
| | 1625 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547) |
| | 1636 - Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (b. 1566) |
| | 1641 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (b. 1599) |
| | 1669 - Pope Clement IX (b. 1600) |
| | 1674 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (b. 1609) |
| | 1692 - William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist |
| | 1706 - King Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648) |
| | 1718 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopaedist (b. 1650) |
| | 1793 - Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (b. 1749) |
| | 1798 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. 1729) |
| | 1830 - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy (b. 1757) |
| | 1854 - Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (b. 1799) |
| | 1858 - Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (b. 1804) |
| | 1887 - Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and military leader |
| | 1894 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821) |
| | 1916 - Natsume Soseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867) |
| | 1930 - Andrew "Rube" Foster, American baseball player and founder of the Negro National League (b. 1879) |
| | 1937 - Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869) |
| | 1941 - Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian writer and philosopher (b. 1865) |
| | 1955 - Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (b. 1885) |
| | 1964 - Dame Edith Sitwell, British poet and critic (b. 1887) |
| | 1965 - Branch Rickey, American baseball commissioner (b. 1884) |
| | 1970 - Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Prime Minister of Pakistan |
| | 1971 - Ralph Bunche, American diplomat and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904) |
| | 1971 - Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (b. 1874) |
| | 1972 - Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (b. 1881) |
| | 1975 - William A. Wellman, American movie director (b. 1896) |
| | 1979 - Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop and television preacher (Life is Worth Living) (b. 1895) |
| | 1981 - Daniel Faulkner, Philadelphia police officer (b. 1955) |
| | 1982 - Leon Jaworski, Watergate scandal special prosecutor (b. 1905) |
| | 1984 - Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley, British drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. 1960) |
| | 1990 - Mike Mazurki, Ukrainian-born professional wrestler and actor (b. 1907) |
| | 1992 - Vincent Gardenia, American stage, film and television actor (b. 1922) |
| | 1993 - Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and football manager (b. 1926) |
| | 1995 - Toni Cade Bambara, American author (b. 1939) |
| | 1996 - Mary Leakey, British archeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913) |
| | 1998 - Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian politician (b. 1948) |
| | 1998 - Archie Moore, American boxer and World Light-Heavyweight Champion (b. 1913) |
| | 2002 - Stan Rice, American painter, educator, and poet (b. 1942) |
| | 2003 - Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (b. 1928) |
| | 2004 - David Brudnoy, American radio personality (b. 1940) |
| | 2004 - Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. 1976) |
| | 2005 - György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (b. 1912) |
| | 2005 - Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928) |