| | 964 - Pope John XII |
| | 1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409 |
| | 1608 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543) |
| | 1610 - Henry IV of France (b. 1553) |
| | 1643 - Louis XIII of France (b. 1601) |
| | 1649 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (b. 1600) |
| | 1669 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601) |
| | 1688 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619) |
| | 1754 - Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692) |
| | 1761 - Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (b. 1710) |
| | 1818 - Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775) |
| | 1847 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (b. 1805) |
| | 1860 - Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801) |
| | 1873 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797) |
| | 1887 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808) |
| | 1889 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809) |
| | 1893 - Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (b. 1810) |
| | 1906 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829) |
| | 1912 - Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843) |
| | 1912 - August Strindberg, Swedish author (b. 1849) |
| | 1918 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841) |
| | 1919 - Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company (b. 1844) |
| | 1923 - Charles de Freycinet, French prime minister (b. 1828) |
| | 1925 - H. Rider Haggard, English author (b. 1856) |
| | 1931 - David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853) |
| | 1931 - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (b. 1887) |
| | 1934 - Lou Criger, baseball player (b. 1872) |
| | 1936 - Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (b. 1861) |
| | 1940 - Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869) |
| | 1943 - Henri La Fontaine, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1854) |
| | 1945 - Heber J. Grant, president of the LDS (b. 1856) |
| | 1954 - Heinz Guderian, German General (b. 1888) |
| | 1957 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884) |
| | 1959 - Sidney Bechet, American musician (b. 1897) |
| | 1968 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882) |
| | 1969 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888) |
| | 1970 - Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1884) |
| | 1973 - Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905) |
| | 1976 - Keith Relf, British singer and musician (The Yardbirds) (b. 1943) |
| | 1978 - Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894) |
| | 1982 - Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909) |
| | 1983 - Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900) |
| | 1987 - Rita Hayworth, American actress (b. 1918) |
| | 1988 - Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1886) |
| | 1991 - Jiang Qing, Madame Mao (b. 1914) |
| | 1992 - Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b. 1899) |
| | 1992 - Lyle Alzado, NFL defensive tackle (b. 1949) |
| | 1993 - Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal (b. 1953) |
| | 1993 - William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper magnate (b. 1908) |
| | 1995 - Christian B. Anfinsen, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) |
| | 1997 - Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (b. 1934) |
| | 1998 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915) |
| | 1998 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist (b. 1890) |
| | 2000 - Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937) |
| | 2003 - Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (b. 1940) |
| | 2003 - Wendy Hiller, British actress (b. 1912) |
| | 2003 - Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919) |
| | 2004 - Anna Lee, British actress (b. 1913) |
| | 2006 - Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1922) |
| | 2006 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905) |