| | 1234 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b. 1218) |
| | 1291 - King Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265) |
| | 1464 - Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter |
| | 1588 - Robert Crowley, English printer and poet |
| | 1629 - Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander and folk hero (b. 1577) |
| | 1650 - Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer |
| | 1673 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (b. 1606) |
| | 1680 - Samuel Butler, English poet (b. 1612) |
| | 1704 - Tom Brown, English satirist (b. 1662) |
| | 1726 - Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (b. 1657) |
| | 1742 - John Aislabie, English politician (b. 1670) |
| | 1749 - Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1674) |
| | 1772 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (b. 1706) |
| | 1772 - Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (b. 1700) |
| | 1788 - Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (b. 1714) |
| | 1794 - François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1760) |
| | 1794 - James Murray, British military officer and administrator (b. 1721) |
| | 1815 - Thomas Picton, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1758) |
| | 1815 - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (b. 1766) |
| | 1835 - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763) |
| | 1902 - Samuel Butler, English writer (b. 1835) |
| | 1922 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851) |
| | 1915 - Eufemio Zapata, brother to Mexican revolutionist Emiliano Zapata, killed by Sidronio Comancho |
| | 1928 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (b. 1872) |
| | 1936 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (b. 1868) |
| | 1937 - Gaston Doumergue, French statesman (b. 1863) |
| | 1959 - Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879) |
| | 1963 - Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (b. 1912) |
| | 1967 - Beat Fehr, Swiss racing driver (b. 1942) |
| | 1971 - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889) |
| | 1973 - Roger Delgado, British actor (b. 1918) |
| | 1974 - Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1896) |
| | 1974 - Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (b. 1896) |
| | 1980 - André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904) |
| | 1982 - John Cheever, American author (b. 1912) |
| | 1982 - Curd Jürgens, German actor (b. 1915) |
| | 1984 - Alan Berg, American radio talk show host (murdered) |
| | 1992 - Mordecai Ardon, one of Israel's greatest painters (b. 1896) |
| | 1992 - Peter Allen, Australian singer and songwriter (b. 1944) |
| | 1997 - Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and dissident (b. 1912) |
| | 2000 - Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928) |
| | 2002 - Jack Buck, baseball announcer (b. 1924) |
| | 2003 - Larry Doby, baseball player (b. 1923) |
| | 2005 - Syed Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914) |
| | 2005 - Manuel Sadosky, Argentine mathematician (b. 1914) |
| | 2006 - Vincent Sherman, American film director (b. 1906) |