| | 193 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 126) |
| | 1239 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180) |
| | 1285 - Pope Martin IV |
| | 1563 - Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488) |
| | 1566 - Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (b. 1486) |
| | 1677 - Václav Hollar, Czech-born actor (b. 1607) |
| | 1687 - Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596) |
| | 1794 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist (b. 1743) |
| | 1866 - Solomon Foot, American politician (b. 1802 |
| | 1868 - James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military leader (b. 1797) |
| | 1870 - George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816) |
| | 1874 - Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (b. 1795) |
| | 1881 - Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (b. 1839) |
| | 1910 - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837) |
| | 1910 - Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (b. 1838) |
| | 1939 - Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903) |
| | 1941 - Virginia Woolf, English feminist writer (b. 1882) |
| | 1942 - Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet, death in prison (b. 1910) |
| | 1943 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1873) |
| | 1946 - Chick Fullis, baseball player (b. 1904) |
| | 1947 - Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897) |
| | 1949 - Grigoraş Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (b. 1889) |
| | 1953 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887) |
| | 1958 - W.C. Handy, American composer (b. 1873) |
| | 1965 - Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer (b. 1885) |
| | 1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890) |
| | 1978 - Dino Ciani, Italian pianist (d. 1941) |
| | 1979 - Emmett Kelly, American clown (b. 1898) |
| | 1980 - Dick Haymes, Argentine-born singer (b. 1918) |
| | 1982 - William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895) |
| | 1985 - Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887) |
| | 1987 - Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (b. 1905) |
| | 1987 - Patrick Troughton, British actor (b. 1920) |
| | 1995 - Hugh O'Connor, American actor (b. 1962) |
| | 1999 - Freaky Tah, American Rapper, member of the group Lost Boyz |
| | 2000 - Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905) |
| | 2001 - Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (b. 1928) |
| | 2004 - Art James, American game show host (b. 1929) |
| | 2004 - Peter Ustinov, British actor (b. 1921) |
| | 2006 - Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917) |
| | 2006 - Charles Schepens, American ophthalmologist and member of the French Resistance (b. 1912) |