| | 296 - Pope Caius |
| | 455 - Petronius Maximus, Roman Emperor |
| | 536 - Pope Agapetus I |
| | 1592 - Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect (b. 1511) |
| | 1672 - Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (b. 1598) |
| | 1699 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman (b. 1646) |
| | 1758 - Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (b. 1686) |
| | 1778 - James Hargreaves, English inventor (b. 1720) |
| | 1806 - Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (stabbed) (b. 1763) |
| | 1833 - Richard Trevithick, English inventor (b. 1771) |
| | 1839 - Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (b. 1784) |
| | 1892 - Edouard Lalo, French composer (b. 1823) |
| | 1896 - Thomas Meik, British civil engineer (b. 1812) |
| | 1908 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1836) |
| | 1925 - André Caplet, French composer (b. 1878) |
| | 1930 - Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish poet (b. 1866) |
| | 1945 - Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (b. 1867) |
| | 1945 - Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (b. 1900) |
| | 1946 - Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1872) |
| | 1951 - Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (b. 1870) |
| | 1968 - Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (b. 1911) |
| | 1978 - Will Geer, American actor (b. 1902) |
| | 1980 - Jane Froman, American actor (b. 1907) |
| | 1980 - Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (b. 1902) |
| | 1983 - Earl "Fatha" Hines, British jazz pianist (b. 1903) |
| | 1983 - John Louis Evans, convicted murderer (executed) (b. 1950) |
| | 1984 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (b. 1902) |
| | 1985 - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (b. 1900) |
| | 1986 - Mircea Eliade, Romanian writer (b. 1907) |
| | 1994 - Richard Nixon, President of the United States (b. 1913) |
| | 1995 - Maggie Kuhn, American activist (b. 1905) |
| | 1996 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist (b. 1927) |
| | 2002 - Linda Lovelace, American adult actress (b. 1949) |
| | 2003 - Martha Griffiths, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1912) |
| | 2003 - Michael Larrabee, American athlete (b. 1933) |
| | 2004 - Pat Tillman, American football player and U.S. Army Ranger (killed in action) (b. 1976) |
| | 2004 - Jason L. Dunham, American Medal of Honor winner (b. 1981) |
| | 2005 - Philip Morrison, American physicist (b. 1915) |
| | 2005 - Erika Fuchs, German translator (b. 1906) |
| | 2005 - Norman Bird, UK character actor (b. 1920) |
| | 2006 - Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921) |