| | 1058 - Pope Stephen IX |
| | 1368 - Emperor Go-Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 1328) |
| | 1461 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1421) |
| | 1578 - Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (b. 1524) |
| | 1578 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (b. 1527) |
| | 1625 - Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549) |
| | 1628 - Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (b. 1546) |
| | 1751 - Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist |
| | 1772 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688) |
| | 1788 - Charles Wesley, English Methodist hymnist (b. 1707) |
| | 1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden (shot) (b. 1746) |
| | 1800 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (b. 1714) |
| | 1826 - Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (b. 1751) |
| | 1855 - Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1799) |
| | 1873 - Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist (b. 1797) |
| | 1888 - Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (b. 1813) |
| | 1906 - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878) |
| | 1912 - Members of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole: |
| | Henry Robinson Bowers (b. 1883) |
| | Edgar Evans, Welsh naval officer (b. 1876) |
| | Lawrence Oates, English army officer (b. 1880) |
| | Sir Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (b. 1868) |
| | Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist (b. 1872) |
| | 1934 - Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire and benefactor (b. 1867) |
| | 1937 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (b. 1882) |
| | 1957 - Joyce Cary, Irish author (b. 1888) |
| | 1959 - Barthelemy Boganda, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1910) |
| | 1970 - Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist |
| | 1971 - Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1886) |
| | 1972 - Lord J. Arthur Rank, movie theater owner (b. 1888) |
| | 1980 - Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (b. 1905) |
| | 1982 - Carl Orff, German composer (b. 1895) |
| | 1982 - Nathan Twining, USAF general (b. 1897) |
| | 1991 - Lee Atwater, American politicial consultant (b. 1951) |
| | 1992 - Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (b. 1908) |
| | 1994 - Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright (b. 1912) |
| | 1994 - Bill Travers, British actor (b. 1922) |
| | 1995 - Terry Moore, baseball player (b. 1912) |
| | 1996 - Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director, producer, teacher (b. 1926) |
| | 1999 - Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918) |
| | 2001 - Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (b. 1899) |
| | 2001 - John Lewis, American jazz pianist (b. 1920) |
| | 2003 - Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (SARS) (b. 1956) |
| | 2005 - Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b. 1937) |
| | 2005 - Grant Johannesen, American pianist (b. 1921) |
| | 2005 - Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b. 1968) |