| | 1486 - Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| | 1526 - Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471) |
| | 1540 - Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1469) |
| | 1559 - Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492) |
| | 1587 - Ralph Sadler, English statesman (b. 1507) |
| | 1662 - François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (b. 1592) |
| | 1707 - Vauban, French architect (b. 1633) |
| | 1764 - Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (b. 1695) |
| | 1783 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718) |
| | 1804 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (b. 1718) |
| | 1840 - Beau Brummell, English celebrity and dandy (b. 1778) |
| | 1842 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter (b. 1755) |
| | 1879 - Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher (b. 1815) |
| | 1912 - Karl May, German author (b. 1842) |
| | 1936 - Conchita Supervía, Spanish oper singer (b. 1895) |
| | 1943 - Jan Bytnar, Polish activist |
| | 1943 - Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist (b. 1920) |
| | 1949 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884) |
| | 1950 - Léon Blum, French prime minister (b. 1872) |
| | 1959 - Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic (b. 1906) |
| | 1965 - Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896) |
| | 1966 - Maxfield Parrish, American artist (b. 1870) |
| | 1967 - Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894) |
| | 1968 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (b. 1937) |
| | 1970 - Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885) |
| | 1972 - Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (b. 1890) |
| | 1977 - Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929). |
| | 1981 - DeWitt Wallace, American publisher (b. 1889) |
| | 1984 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (b. 1904) |
| | 1985 - Harold Peary, American actor and singer (heart attack) (b. 1908) |
| | 1986 - James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899 |
| | 1999 - Gary Morton, American film and television producer (b. 1924) |
| | 2002 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (b. 1900) |
| | 2003 - Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952) |
| | 2003 - Valentin Pavlov, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (b. 1937) |
| | 2004 - Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist (b. 1908) |
| | 2004 - Hubert Gregg, British broadcaster (b. 1914) |
| | 2004 - Michael King, New Zealand historian (b. 1945) |
| | 2004 - Timi Yuro, American singer (b. 1940) |
| | 2005 - Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926) |
| | 2005 - Milton Green, American athlete (b. 1913) |
| | 2005 - Fred Korematsu, American civil rights activist (b. 1919) |
| | 2005 - O. V. Vijayan, Indian author and cartoonist (b. 1930) |
| | 2005 - Derrick Plourde, American drummer (b. 1971) |
| | 2006 - Red Hickey, American football coach (b. 1917) |