| | 1238 - Duke Henry I of Poland (b. 1163) |
| | 1263 - Hugh of St Cher, French cardinal |
| | 1279 - Emperor Bing of Song China (b. 1271) |
| | 1286 - King Alexander III of Scotland (b. 1241) |
| | 1330 - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (executed) (b. 1301) |
| | 1406 - Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (b. 1332) |
| | 1623 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556) |
| | 1637 - Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (b. 1570) |
| | 1649 - Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577) |
| | 1683 - Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1612) |
| | 1687 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (b. 1643) |
| | 1697 - Nicolaus Bruhns, German organist and composer (b. 1665) |
| | 1711 - Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637) |
| | 1717 - John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist |
| | 1721 - Pope Clement XI (b. 1649) |
| | 1796 - Hugh Palliser, British naval officer and administrator (b. 1722) |
| | 1871 - Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (b. 1795) |
| | 1900 - John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (b. 1815) |
| | 1914 - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850) |
| | 1916 - Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848) |
| | 1930 - Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848) |
| | 1939 - Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist |
| | 1942 - Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist (b. 1855) |
| | 1943 - Frank Nitti, American gangster (b. 1883) |
| | 1944 - William Hale Thompson, American mayor of Chicago (b. 1869) |
| | 1945 - Friedrich Fromm, German Nazi official (b. 1888) |
| | 1950 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (b. 1875) |
| | 1950 - Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883) |
| | 1974 - Edward Platt, American actor (b. 1916) |
| | 1976 - Albert Dieudonné, French actor, screenwriter and novelist (b. 1889) |
| | 1976 - Paul Kossoff, British guitarist (Free) (b. 1950) |
| | 1978 - Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b. 1893) |
| | 1979 - Richard Beckinsale, British actor (b. 1947) |
| | 1982 - Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (Quiet Riot, Ozzy) (b. 1956) |
| | 1987 - Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) |
| | 1989 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (b. 1929) |
| | 1990 - Andrew Wood, American musician (Mother Love Bone) (b. 1966) |
| | 1995 - Yasuo Yamada, Japanese Voice Actor (b. 1932) |
| | 1997 - Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (b. 1904) |
| | 1999 - Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (b. 1926) |
| | 2003 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (b. 1926) |
| | 2004 - Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (b. 1911) |
| | 2005 - John De Lorean, American automobile engineer (b. 1925) |