| | 922 - Al-Hallaj, Persian Sufi teacher and writer |
| | 1130 - King Sigurd I of Norway (b. ca. 1090) |
| | 1212 - King Sancho I of Portugal (b. 1154) |
| | 1517 - Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer |
| | 1535 - Georg Tannstetter, Austrian scientist (b. 1482) |
| | 1546 - Thomas Elyot, English diplomat |
| | 1566 - Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer (b. 1510) |
| | 1649 – John Winthrop, second governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| | 1679 - Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621) |
| | 1697 - Godfrey McCulloch, Scottish politician and murderer (executed) (b. 1640) |
| | 1726 - Sir John Vanbrugh, English dramatist (b. 1664) |
| | 1772 - Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (b. 1704) |
| | 1776 - Samuel Ward, American politician (b. 1725) |
| | 1780 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1713) |
| | 1793 - John Mudge, English physician (b. 1721) |
| | 1797 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist (b. 1726) |
| | 1814 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, inventor of the guillotine (b. 1738) |
| | 1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770) |
| | 1858 - John Addison Thomas, American soldier (b. 1811) |
| | 1881 - Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat (b. 1800) |
| | 1892 - Walt Whitman, American poet (b. 1819) |
| | 1902 - Cecil Rhodes, English explorer (b. 1853) |
| | 1905 - Maurice Barrymore, actor; patriarch of the Barrymore family (b. 1849) |
| | 1910 - Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864) |
| | 1910 - An Jung-geun, Japanese assassin of Ito Hirobumi (executed) (b. 1879) |
| | 1920 - William Chester Minor, American surgeon and contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary (b. 1834) |
| | 1923 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (b. 1844) |
| | 1926 - Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1852) |
| | 1929 - Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (b. 1859) |
| | 1933 - Eddie Lang, American musician (b. 1902) |
| | 1940 - Spiridon Louis, Greek runner (b. 1873) |
| | 1942 - Jimmy Burke, Baseball player (b. 1874) |
| | 1945 - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1863) |
| | 1958 - Phil Mead, English cricketer (b. 1887) |
| | 1959 - Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (b. 1888) |
| | 1969 - John Kennedy Toole, American author (b. 1937) |
| | 1973 - Noel Coward, English composer and playwright (b. 1899) |
| | 1976 - Josef Albers, German artist (b. 1888) |
| | 1976 - Lin Yutang, Chinese writer (b. 1895) |
| | 1983 - Anthony Blunt, British spy (b. 1907) |
| | 1984 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (b. 1922) |
| | 1987 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902) |
| | 1990 - Halston, American fashion designer (b. 1932) |
| | 1992 - Barbara Frum, Canadian journalist (b. 1937) |
| | 1995 - Eazy-E, American rapper (b. 1963) |
| | 1996 - Edmund Muskie, American politician (b. 1914) |
| | 1996 - David Packard, American engineer and businessman (b. 1912) |
| | 2000 - Alex Comfort, American author (b. 1920 |
| | 2002 - Randy Castillo, Drummer for Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue (b. 1950) |
| | 2003 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator (b. 1927) |
| | 2004 - Jan Berry, American musician (Jan and Dean) (b. 1941) |
| | 2004 - Jan Sterling, American actress (b. 1921) |
| | 2005 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912) |
| | 2005 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Split Enz and Crowded House) (b. 1959) |
| | 2005 - Marius Russo, baseball player (b. 1914) |
| | 2006 - Anil Biswas, Indian politician (b. 1944) |
| | 2006 - Paul Dana, American race car driver (b. 1975) |
| | 2006 - Nikki Sudden, British singer/songwriter (b. 1956) |