| | 1191 - Pope Clement III |
| | 1350 - King Alfonso XI of Castile (b. 1312) |
| | 1378 - Pope Gregory XI |
| | 1462 - Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415) |
| | 1482 - Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold; wife of Maximilian I (b. 1457) |
| | 1555 - William Hunter, protestant martyr |
| | 1572 - Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man (b. abt. 1523) |
| | 1625 - King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland (b. 1566) |
| | 1635 - Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563) |
| | 1697 - Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (b. 1603) |
| | 1757 - Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (b. 1717) |
| | 1770 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian artist (b. 1696) |
| | 1809 - Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (b. 1716) |
| | 1827 - François Alexandre Frédéric, French social reformer (b. 1747) |
| | 1836 - James Fannin, Texas revolutionary (b. 1804) |
| | 1843 - Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769) |
| | 1849 - Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford (b. 1776) |
| | 1850 - Wilhelm Beer, German astronomer (b. 1797) |
| | 1864 - Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b. 1800) |
| | 1865 - Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b. 1786) |
| | 1873 - Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797) |
| | 1875 - Edgar Quinet, French historian (b. 1803) |
| | 1878 - Sir George Gilbert Scott, English architect (b. 1811) |
| | 1889 - John Bright, English statesman (b. 1811) |
| | 1898 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual (b. 1817) |
| | 1910 - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz (b. 1835) |
| | 1918 - Henry Adams, American historian (b. 1838) |
| | 1923 - Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b. 1842) |
| | 1924 - Walter Parratt, English composer (b. 1841) |
| | 1926 - Georges Vézina, Canadian hockey player (b. 1887) |
| | 1927 - Joe Start, baseball player (b. 1842) |
| | 1931 - Arnold Bennett, British novelist (b. 1867) |
| | 1940 - Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872) |
| | 1967 - Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890) |
| | 1967 - Jim Thompson, American designer (disappeared) (b. 1906) |
| | 1968 - Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut (b. 1934) |
| | 1969 - B. Traven, German writer |
| | 1972 - Sharkey Bonano, American musician (b. 1904) |
| | 1972 - M.C. Escher, Dutch artist (b. 1898) |
| | 1977 - A. P. Hamann, American politician |
| | 1977 - Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936) |
| | 1981 - Mao Dun, Chinese writer (b. 1895) |
| | 1989 - May Allison, American actress (b. 1890) |
| | 1989 - Jack Starrett, American actor and director (b. 1936) |
| | 1991 - Ralph Bates, British actor (b. 1940) |
| | 1991 - Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926) |
| | 1992 - Easley Blackwood, American bridge player (b. 1903) |
| | 1993 - Paul László, Hungarian interior designer and architect (b. 1900) |
| | 1998 - David McClelland, American psychologist (b. 1917) |
| | 1998 - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer (b. 1909) |
| | 2000 - Ian Dury, English musician (b. 1942) |
| | 2002 - Milton Berle, American actor and comedian (b. 1908) |
| | 2002 - Dudley Moore, British actor (b. 1935) |
| | 2002 - Billy Wilder, American director (b. 1906) |
| | 2003 - Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (b. 1927) |
| | 2003 - Ricardo Munguia, Salvadoran aid worker |
| | 2003 - Paul Zindel, American writer (b. 1936) |
| | 2004 - Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer (b. 1984) |
| | 2005 - Bob Casey, baseball announcer (b. 1925) |
| | 2006 - Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921) |
| | 2006 - Dan Curtis, American television producer and director (b. 1928) |
| | 2006 - Ruari McLean, British typographer (b. 1917) |
| | 2006 - Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan (b. 1924) |