| | 884 - Carloman, King of the West Franks |
| | 1212 - Geoffrey, Archbishop of York |
| | 1569 - Metropolitan Philip of Moscow (b. 1507) |
| | 1574 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524) |
| | 1586 - Stefan Batory, King of Poland (b. 1533) |
| | 1685 - John Pell, English mathematician (b. 1610) |
| | 1751 - Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (b. 1678) |
| | 1754 - Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (b. 1701) |
| | 1766 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700) |
| | 1789 - John Ponsonby, Irish politician (b. 1713) |
| | 1790 - Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1733) |
| | 1843 - King William I of the Netherlands, (b. 1772) |
| | 1858 - Jacques Viger, antiquarian and archeologist, first mayor of Montreal (b. 1787) |
| | 1889 - Robert Browning, British poet (b. 1812) |
| | 1889 - Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1804) |
| | 1894 - Sir John Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845) |
| | 1913 - Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (b. 1844) |
| | 1923 - Raymond Radiguet, French author (b. 1903) |
| | 1926 - Jean Richepin, French poet (b. 1849) |
| | 1929 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle baron (b. 1836) |
| | 1939 - Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (b. 1883) |
| | 1952 - Bedrich Hrozný, Austro-Hungarian-born Czechoslovak orientalist and linguist (b. 1879) |
| | 1963 - Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (b. 1903) |
| | 1968 - Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (b. 1902) |
| | 1970 - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (b. 1889) |
| | 1971 - David Sarnoff, Russian-born American General Manager of RCA (b. 1891) |
| | 1976 - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (b. 1890) |
| | 1977 - Lady Spencer Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (b. 1885) |
| | 1980 - Jean Lesage, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1912) |
| | 1985 - Anne Baxter, American actress (b. 1923) |
| | 1985 - Ian Stewart, Scottish musician (b. 1938) |
| | 1993 - József Antall, Hungarian politician (b. 1932) |
| | 1994 - Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (b. 1933) |
| | 1996 - Vance Packard, American author (b. 1914) |
| | 1997 - Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (b. 1921) |
| | 1998 - Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator from Florida and Governor of Florida (b. 1930) |
| | 1999 - Joseph Heller, American author (b. 1923) |
| | 2000 - George Montgomery, American actor (b. 1916) |
| | 2001 - Jean Richard, French actor (b. 1921) |
| | 2002 - Dee Brown, American author (b. 1908) |
| | 2002 - Jay Wesley Neill, American convicted murderer (b. 1965) |
| | 2002 - Brad Dexter, American actor (b. 1917) |
| | 2003 - Heydar Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan |
| | 2003 - Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate (b. 1926) |
| | 2003 - Keiko, orca who played Willy in Free Willy |
| | 2005 - Annette Vadim, Danish actress (b. 1936) |
| | 2006 - Paul Arizin, American basketball player (b. 1928) |
| | 2006 - Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935) |