| | 1259 - King Christopher I of Denmark (b. 1219) |
| | 1379 - King Henry II of Castile (b. 1334) |
| | 1405 - Philippe de Mézières, advisor to Charles V of France |
| | 1425 - Hongxi Emperor of China (b. 1378) |
| | 1453 - Constantine XI Palaeologus, last Byzantine Emperor (b. 1404) |
| | 1500 - Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer |
| | 1546 - David Beaton, Scottish Catholic cardinal |
| | 1593 - John Penry, Welsh Protestant leader (b. 1559) |
| | 1660 - Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician (b. 1615) |
| | 1691 - Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1629) |
| | 1790 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (b. 1718) |
| | 1796 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (b. 1720) |
| | 1814 - Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (b. 1763) |
| | 1829 – Humphry Davy, English chemist (b. 1778) |
| | 1847 - Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (b. 1766) |
| | 1866 - Winfield Scott, American general (b. 1786) |
| | 1868 - Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia (b. 1823) |
| | 1882 - Vasily Perov, Russian painter (b. 1833) |
| | 1892 - Bahá'u'lláh, Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817) |
| | 1896 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (b. 1814) |
| | 1903 - Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (b. 1864) |
| | 1903 - Bruce Price, American architect (b. 1845) |
| | 1910 - Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b. 1837) |
| | 1911 - William S. Gilbert, English dramatist (b. 1836) |
| | 1919 - Robert Bacon, American politician (b. 1860) |
| | 1935 - Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (b. 1874) |
| | 1939 - Ursula Julia Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic saint (b. 1865) |
| | 1942 - John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882) |
| | 1948 - Dame May Whitty, English actress (b. 1865) |
| | 1951 - Fanny Brice, American singer/comedian (b. 1891) |
| | 1953 - Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b. 1891) |
| | 1958 - Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881) |
| | 1970 - John Gunther, American writer (b. 1901) |
| | 1972 - Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (b. 1878) |
| | 1977 - Ba Maw, Burmese politician (b. 1893) |
| | 1979 - Mary Pickford, Canadian-born American actress and studio founder (b. 1892) |
| | 1979 - John H. Wood, Jr., American federal judge (b. 1916) |
| | 1982 - Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (b. 1938) |
| | 1989 - John Cipollina, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b. 1943) |
| | 1993 - Billy Conn, American boxer (b. 1917) |
| | 1994 - Erich Honecker, leader of East Germany (b. 1912) |
| | 1996 - Tamara Toumanova, Ballet star and actress (b. 1919) |
| | 1997 - Jeff Buckley, American musician (drowned) (b. 1966) |
| | 1998 - Barry M. Goldwater, U.S. Senator from Arizona and presidential candidate (b. 1909) |
| | 2003 - David Jefferies, British motorcycle racer (b. 1972) |
| | 2004 - Archibald Cox, Watergate special prosecutor (b. 1912) |
| | 2004 - Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (b. 1925) |
| | 2005 - George Rochberg, American composer (b. 1918) |
| | 2006 - Steve Mizerak, American pool player (b. 1944) |