| | 1216 - Pope Innocent III |
| | 1397 - Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358) |
| | 1464 - Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1399) |
| | 1468 - Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca. 1395) |
| | 1622 - Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555) |
| | 1623 - Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599) |
| | 1666 - Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator, and diplomat (b. 1608) |
| | 1671 - Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (executed) |
| | 1707 - Marie d'Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625) |
| | 1722 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (b. 1650) |
| | 1749 - Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672) |
| | 1752 - Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664) |
| | 1752 - Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692) |
| | 1777 - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709) |
| | 1778 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720) |
| | 1779 - Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712) |
| | 1804 - Johann Hiller, German composer (b. 1728) |
| | 1824 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (b. 1739) |
| | 1849 - Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian (b. 1780) |
| | 1850 - William Lawson explorer of New South Wales, Australia (b. 1774) |
| | 1855 - John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803) |
| | 1858 - John Snow, English obstetrician (b. 1813) |
| | 1866 - Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798) |
| | 1869 - Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795) |
| | 1872 - Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812) |
| | 1878 - Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815) |
| | 1881 - Sir Josiah Mason, English manufacturer (b. 1795) |
| | 1885 - Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818) |
| | 1902 - Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841) |
| | 1925 - Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870) |
| | 1925 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (b. 1903) |
| | 1928 - Dr. Mark Keppel, County Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools from 1902-1928 (b. 1867) |
| | 1929 - Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856) |
| | 1930 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor (b. 1860) |
| | 1939 - Chick Webb, Jazz drummer and big band leader (b. 1905) |
| | 1940 - DuBose Heyward, American writer (b. 1885) |
| | 1944 - Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886) |
| | 1953 - Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873) |
| | 1955 - Ozias Leduc, Quebec painter (b. 1864) |
| | 1958 - Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1895) |
| | 1959 - George Reeves, American actor (b. 1914) |
| | 1961 - Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904) |
| | 1969 - Harold Alexander, British military commander (b. 1891) |
| | 1970 - Heino Eller, Estonian composer (b. 1887) |
| | 1970 - Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943) |
| | 1971 - Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (b. 1889) |
| | 1977 - Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist (b. 1912) |
| | 1979 - Nicholas Ray, American film director (b. 1911) |
| | 1979 - Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Ghanian dictator (b. 1931) |
| | 1981 - Jule Gregory Charney, meteorologist (b. 1917) |
| | 1982 - James Honeyman-Scott, British guitarist and songwriter (The Pretenders) (b. 1956) |
| | 1984 - Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (b. 1895) |
| | 1986 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902) |
| | 1988 - Kim Milford, American actor (b. 1951) |
| | 1993 - Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913) |
| | 1994 - Kristen Pfaff, American bass guitarist (with Hole) (b. 1967) |
| | 1996 - Mel Allen, baseball announcer (b. 1913) |
| | 1996 - Curt Swan, American comic book artist (b. 1920) |
| | 1999 - David Edward Sutch, British musician (b. 1940) |
| | 2000 - Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903) |
| | 2003 - Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916) |
| | 2003 - Pierre Bourgault, French Canadian politician (b. 1934) |
| | 2004 - Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1912) |
| | 2005 - Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906) |