| | 680 - Muawiyah I, caliph (b. 602) |
| | 1502 - James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed) |
| | 1596 - Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535) |
| | 1620 - Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543) |
| | 1631 - Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician |
| | 1638 - Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer (b. 1585) |
| | 1708 - François de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623) |
| | 1757 - Maximilian Ulysses Reichsgraf von Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705) |
| | 1757 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (b. 1683) |
| | 1757 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b. 1684) |
| | 1859 - Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (b. 1769) |
| | 1862 - Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b. 1817) |
| | 1877 - Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804) |
| | 1902 - Bret Harte, American author (b. 1836) |
| | 1910 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841) |
| | 1919 - L. Frank Baum, American writer (b. 1856) |
| | 1939 - Konstantin Somov, Russian writer (b. 1869) |
| | 1949 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862) |
| | 1951 - Élie Cartan, French mathematician (b. 1869) |
| | 1952 - Maria Montessori, Italian educator (b. 1870) |
| | 1961 - Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895) |
| | 1963 - Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1881) |
| | 1967 - Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885) |
| | 1970 - Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (b. 1879) |
| | 1984 - Bonner Pink, Conservative Party politician |
| | 1987 - William Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director (b. 1913) |
| | 1989 - Earl Blaik, Former American football coach. (b. 1897) |
| | 1990 - Charles Farrell, American actor (b. 1901) |
| | 1992 - Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901) |
| | 1995 - Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1956) |
| | 1995 - Hilda Toledano (b. 1907) |
| | 2002 - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (b. 1948) |
| | 2003 - Art Houtteman, baseball player (b. 1927) |
| | 2004 - Philip Kapleau, American Zen teacher (b. 1912) |
| | 2006 - Lillian Asplund, last American RMS Titanic survivor. (b. 1906) |
| | 2006 - Lorne Saxberg, Canadian television journalist (b. 1958) |
| | 2006 - Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist. (b. 1926) |
| | 2006 - Grant McLennan, co-founder of Australian band The Go-Betweens (b. 1958) |