| | 1191 - Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (b. 1167) |
| | 1239 - Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (c. 1179) |
| | 1413 - King Henry IV of England (b. 1367) |
| | 1568 - Duke Albert of Prussia (b. 1490) |
| | 1586 - Richard Maitland, Scottish statesman and historian (b. 1496) |
| | 1619 - Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1557) |
| | 1673 - Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (b. 1603) |
| | 1727 O.S. - Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist (b. 1642) |
| | 1730 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692) |
| | 1732 - Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b. 1681) |
| | 1746 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (b. 1656) |
| | 1793 - William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (b. 1705) |
| | 1835 - Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (b. 1794) |
| | 1855 - Joseph Aspdin, English mason and inventor (b. 1788) |
| | 1865 - Keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai (b. 1833) |
| | 1874 - Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (b. 1810) |
| | 1878 - Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814) |
| | 1890 - Alexander F. Mozhaiski, aviation pioneer (b. 1825) |
| | 1897 - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (b. 1821) |
| | 1899 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (b. 1822) |
| | 1918 - Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (b. 1828) |
| | 1925 - George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman (b. 1859) |
| | 1929 - Ferdinand Foch, French commander of allied forces in World War I (b. 1851) |
| | 1931 - Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876) |
| | 1934 - Queen Emma of the Netherlands (b. 1858) |
| | 1940 - Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860) |
| | 1974 - Chet Huntley, American television journalist (b. 1911) |
| | 1983 - Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891) |
| | 1990 - Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (b. 1929) |
| | 1991 - Conor Clapton, son of Eric Clapton (b. 1986) |
| | 1993 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) |
| | 1994 - Lewis Grizzard, American journalist, comedian, and actor (b. 1946) |
| | 1995 - Big John Studd, American professional wrestler (b. 1948) |
| | 1997 - Tony Zale, American boxer (b. 1913) |
| | 1998 - George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician |
| | 2000 - Gene Eugene, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1961) |
| | 2001 - Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1949) |
| | 2003 - Sailor Art Thomas, American professional wrestler (b. 1924) |
| | 2004 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909) |
| | 2005 - Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (b. 1912) |