| | 251 - Pope Lucius I |
| | 480 - Saint Landry, Bishop of Seez |
| | 561 - Pope Pelagius I |
| | 1172 - Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147) |
| | 1193 - Saladin, Turkish sultan (b. 1137) |
| | 1238 - Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II (b. 1210) |
| | 1238 - Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1189) |
| | 1484 - Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458) |
| | 1496 - Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427) |
| | 1583 - Bernard Gilpin, English clergyman, "Apostle of the North" (b. 1517) |
| | 1604 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b. 1539) |
| | 1615 - Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552) |
| | 1619 - Anne of Denmark, wife of James I (b. 1574) |
| | 1710 - Louis III, Prince of Condé (b. 1668) |
| | 1733 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b. 1656) |
| | 1793 - Louis de Bourbon, French admiral (b. 1725) |
| | 1795 - John Collins, American politician (b. 1717) |
| | 1805 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725) |
| | 1807 - Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754) |
| | 1832 - Jean-François Champollion, French scholar (b. 1790) |
| | 1851 - James Richardson (explorer of the Sahara), British explorer (b. 1809) |
| | 1852 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809) |
| | 1853 - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (b. 1774) |
| | 1858 - Matthew Perry, U.S. naval officer (b. 1794) |
| | 1864 - Thomas Starr King, influential Californian Unitarian minister during the American Civil War (b. 1824) |
| | 1866 - Alexander Campbell (Restoration movement), Irish founder of the Disciples of Christ (b. 1788) |
| | 1868 - Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805) |
| | 1872 - Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790) |
| | 1883 - Alexander Hamilton Stephens, former Vice President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1812) |
| | 1888 - Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher (b. 1799) |
| | 1903 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (b. 1834) |
| | 1906 - John McAllister Schofield, former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army (b. 1831) |
| | 1910 - Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857) |
| | 1915 - William Willett, Inventor of Daylight Saving Time (b. 1856) |
| | 1916 - Franz Marc, German artist (b. 1880) |
| | 1922 - Bert Williams, American entertainer (b. 1874) |
| | 1925 - Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (b. 1854) |
| | 1925 - James Ward (psychologist), English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843) |
| | 1925 - Monte Ward, baseball player (b. 1860) |
| | 1927 - Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846) |
| | 1938 - George Foster Peabody, American politician (b. 1852) |
| | 1938 - Jack Taylor (20th century baseball player), American Major League Baseball player (b. 1874) |
| | 1940 - Hamlin Garland, American novelist (b. 1860) |
| | 1941 - Ludwig Quidde, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1858) |
| | 1944 - Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (b.1897) |
| | 1944 - Louis Capone, New York organised crime figure (b. 1896) |
| | 1944 - Emanuel Weiss, prolific US professional hitman (b. 1906) |
| | 1944 - Fannie Barrier Williams, African American educator and political activist (b. 1855) |
| | 1945 - Lucille La Verne, American actress (d. 1972) |
| | 1945 - Mark Sandrich, American film director, writer and producer (b. 1900) |
| | 1946 - Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886) |
| | 1948 - Antonin Artaud, French actor/director (b. 1896) |
| | 1950 - Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant (b. 1899) |
| | 1952 - Charles Scott Sherrington, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857) |
| | 1954 - Noel Gay, English composer, (b. 1898) |
| | 1959 - Maxey Long, American athlete, (b. 1878) |
| | 1960 - Herbert O'Conor, 51st Governor of the US State of Maryland (b. 1896) |
| | 1960 - Leonard Warren, American baritone (b. 1911) |
| | 1963 - William Carlos Williams, American poet (b. 1883) |
| | 1967 - Vladan Desnica, Croatian and Serbian writer (b. 1905) |
| | 1967 - Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1885) |
| | 1967 - José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish poet and writer (b. 1873) |
| | 1969 - Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881) |
| | 1974 - Adolph Gottlieb, American painter (b. 1903) |
| | 1976 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886) |
| | 1977 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951) |
| | 1977 - Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor (b. 1925) |
| | 1977 - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician and former Chancellor of Germany (b. 1887 |
| | 1978 - Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona (b. 1909) |
| | 1979 - Willi Unsoeld, American mountain climber (b. 1926) |
| | 1981 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896) |
| | 1981 - Torin Thatcher, Indian actor (b. 1905) |
| | 1984 - Ernest Buckler, Canadian novelist (b. 1908) |
| | 1984 - Jewel Carmen, American actress (b. 1897) |
| | 1984 - Geoffrey Lumsden, British actor (b. 1914) |
| | 1986 - Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936) |
| | 1986 - Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (b. 1943) |
| | 1990 - Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b. 1967) |
| | 1992 - Art Babbitt, animator (b. 1907) |
| | 1994 - John Candy, Canadian comedian (b. 1950) |
| | 1995 - Eden Ahbez, American composer (b. 1908) |
| | 1996 - Minnie Pearl, American comedian (b. 1912) |
| | 1997 - Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (b. 1916) |
| | 1997 - Carey Loftin, American actor/stuntman (b. 1914) |
| | 1999 - Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1908) |
| | 1999 - Del Close, American actor (b. 1934) |
| | 1999 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1921) |
| | 2001 - Glenn Hughes, American musician |
| | 2001 - Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b. 1916) |
| | 2001 - James Rhodes, twice former Governor of Ohio (b. 1909) |
| | 2001 - Harold Stassen, American politician (b. 1907) |
| | 2002 - Claire Davenport, British actress (b. 1933) |
| | 2002 - Eric Flynn, British actor/singer (b. 1939) |
| | 2002 - Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (b. 1913) |
| | 2003 - Jaba Ioseliani, Georgian bank robber (b. 1926) |
| | 2003 - Sébastien Japrisot, French author, screenwriter and film director (b. 1931) |
| | 2004 - John McGeoch, Scottish musician (b. 1955) |
| | 2004 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929) |
| | 2004 - George Pake, American physicist (b. 1924) |
| | 2004 - Stephen Sprouse, fashion designer (b. 1953) |
| | 2005 - Nicola Calipari, Italian secret service agent (b. 1953) |
| | 2005 - Robert Consoli, American actor and musician (b. 1964) |
| | 2005 - Una Hale, Australian soprano (b. 1922) |
| | 2005 - Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian statesman (b. 1951) |
| | 2005 - Carlos Sherman, Uruguayan-born writer (b. 1934) |
| | 2006 - Roman Ogaza, Polish football player (b. 1952) |
| | 2006 - John Reynolds Gardiner, American engineer (b. 1944) |
| | 2006 - Dave Rose, American artist (b. 1910) |
| | 2006 - Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator/cartoonist (b. 1929) |