| | 30- Jesus according to the Bible |
| | 858 - Pope Benedict III |
| | 1307 - Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I of England (b. 1271) |
| | 1498 - King Charles VIII of France (b. 1470) |
| | 1614 - El Greco, Greek-born artist (b. 1541) |
| | 1638 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (b. 1576) |
| | 1651 - Lennart Torstenson, Swedish soldier and engineer (b. 1603) |
| | 1658 - Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic (b. 1595) |
| | 1661 - Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician (b. 1604) |
| | 1663 - Francis Cooke, Mayflower pilgrim (b. c. 1583) |
| | 1668 - William Davenant, English poet (b. 1606) |
| | 1719 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French saint (b. 1651) |
| | 1739 - Dick Turpin, English highwayman (hanged) (b. 1706) |
| | 1747 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshall (b. 1676) |
| | 1761 - Thomas Bayes, English mathematician (b. 1702) |
| | 1766 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic (b. 1685) |
| | 1767 - Franz Sparry, composer (b. 1715) |
| | 1782 - Taksin, King of Thailand (b. 1734) |
| | 1789 - Abd-ul-Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1725) |
| | 1789 - Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (b. 1722) |
| | 1801 - Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (b. 1724) |
| | 1804 - Toussaint Louverture, Haitian Revolutionary (b. 1743) |
| | 1811 - Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (b. 1757) |
| | 1823 - Jacques Charles, French chemist (b. 1746) |
| | 1833 - Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician (b. 1775) |
| | 1836 - William Godwin, English political writer (b. 1756) |
| | 1850 - William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic (b. 1762) |
| | 1858 - Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor, and composer (b. 1781) |
| | 1871 - Alexander Lloyd, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805) |
| | 1885 - Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (b. 1804) |
| | 1891 - P. T. Barnum, American circus impresario (b. 1810) |
| | 1928 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (b. 1873) |
| | 1939 - Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1879) |
| | 1943 - Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet |
| | 1943 - Alexandre Millerand, President of France (b. 1859) |
| | 1947 - Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist (b. 1863) |
| | 1950 - Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (b. 1884) |
| | 1955 - Theda Bara, American film actress (b. 1885) |
| | 1968 - Jimmy Clark, Scottish race car driver (b. 1936) |
| | 1981 - Norman Taurog, American film director (b. 1899) |
| | 1984 - Frank Church, U.S. Senator from Idaho (b. 1924) |
| | 1986 - Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1912) |
| | 1990 - Ronald Evans, astronaut (b. 1933) |
| | 1992 - Ace Bailey, Canadian hockey player (b. 1903) |
| | 1994 - Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic professional football player and politician (b. 1923) |
| | 1994 - Golo Mann, German historian (b. 1909) |
| | 1994 - Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (b. 1953) |
| | 1997 - Witto Aloma, baseball player (b. 1923) |
| | 1997 - Georgi Shonin, cosmonaut (b. 1935) |
| | 1997 - Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer (Godzilla) (b. 1910) |
| | 1998 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and environmentalist (b. 1890) |
| | 2001 - David Graf, American actor (b. 1950) |
| | 2001 - Beatrice Straight, American actress (b. 1914) |
| | 2002 - John Agar, American actor (b. 1921) |
| | 2003 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (b. 1903) |
| | 2005 - Bob Kennedy, baseball player and manager (b. 1920) |