| | 373 - Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria (b. 298) |
| | 756 - Emperor Shomu, Emperor of Japan (b. 701) |
| | 907 - Boris I of Bulgaria |
| | 1230 - William de Braose, Lord of Abergavenny (b. 1197) |
| | 1300 - Blanche of Artois, regent of Navarre (b. 1248) |
| | 1450 - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English military leader (b. 1396) |
| | 1519 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and painter (b. 1452) |
| | 1564 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (b. 1500) |
| | 1627 - Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (b. 1560) |
| | 1667 - George Wither, English writer (b. 1588) |
| | 1683 - Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (b. 1613) |
| | 1711 - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English statesman (b. 1641) |
| | 1802 - Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch statesman (b. 1762) |
| | 1819 - Mary Moser, English painter (b. 1744) |
| | 1857 - Alfred de Musset, French writer (b. 1810) |
| | 1864 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (b. 1791) |
| | 1927 - Ernest Starling, British physiologist (b. 1866) |
| | 1945 - Martin Bormann, Nazi official (b. 1900) |
| | 1945 - Ludwig Stumpfegger, German SS doctor (b. 1910) |
| | 1945 - Joe Corbett, baseball player (b. 1875) |
| | 1957 - Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator (b. 1908) |
| | 1960 - Caryl Chessman, American robber and rapist (b. 1921) |
| | 1964 - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-born politician (b. 1879) |
| | 1969 - Franz von Papen, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1879) |
| | 1972 - J. Edgar Hoover, American director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (b. 1895) |
| | 1979 - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903) |
| | 1980 - George Pál, Hungarian-born film director (b. 1908) |
| | 1980 - Clarrie Grimmett, Australian cricketer (b. 1891) |
| | 1983 - Norm Van Brocklin, American football star (b. 1926) |
| | 1984 - Jack Barry, television game show producer and host (b. 1918) |
| | 1985 - Attilio Bettega, Italian rallydriver (b.1951) |
| | 1986 - Henri Toivonen, Finish rallydriver (b.1956) |
| | 1989 - Giuseppe Siri, Italian Catholic Cardinal (b. 1906) |
| | 1989 - Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (b. 1902) |
| | 1990 - David Rappaport, English actor (b. 1951) |
| | 1992 - Wilbur Mills, American politician (b. 1909) |
| | 1995 - Michael Hordern, English actor (b. 1911) |
| | 1997 - John Carew Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903) |
| | 1997 - Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator (b. 1921) |
| | 1998 - Hideto "hide" Matsumoto, Japanese musician (b. 1964) |
| | 1998 - Kevin Lloyd, British actor (b. 1949) |
| | 1998 - Justin Fashanu, English footballer (b. 1961) |
| | 1999 - Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938) |
| | 2001 - Ted Rogers, British comedian (b. 1935) |
| | 2001 - Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress (b. 1961) |
| | 2002 - John Nathan-Turner, English television producer (b. 1947) |
| | 2002 - W. T. Tutte, English-born codebreaker (b. 1917) |
| | 2005 - Kenneth B. Clark, American psychologist (b. 1914) |
| | 2005 - Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915) |
| | 2006 - Louis Rukeyser, American columnist (b. 1933) |