| | 451 - Theodorid, King of the Visigoths |
| | 840 - Louis the Pious, King of the Franks, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 778) |
| | 1597 - Willem Barentsz, Dutch navigator |
| | 1668 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (b. 1620) |
| | 1776 - Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (b. 1704) |
| | 1787 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer (b. 1723) |
| | 1800 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (b. 1719) |
| | 1820 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1770) |
| | 1837 - William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765) |
| | 1866 - Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (b. 1826) |
| | 1869 - Toshizou Hijikata, Shinsengumi vice-commander (b. 1835) |
| | 1870 - Jules de Goncourt, French writer (b. 1830) |
| | 1906 - John Clayton Adams, British Landscape Artist (b. 1840) |
| | 1925 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (b. 1842) |
| | 1945 - Bruno Frank, German author (b. 1878) |
| | 1947 - Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (whacked) (b. 1906) |
| | 1952 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898) |
| | 1958 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902) |
| | 1963 - Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (b. 1898) |
| | 1972 - Howard Deering Johnson, American entrepreneur (b. 1897) |
| | 1976 - Lou Klein, American baseball player (b. 1918) |
| | 1978 - Mark Robson, Canadian film director and producer (b. 1913) |
| | 1993 - Vince Foster, Deputy White House Counsel (b. 1945) |
| | 1995 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher (b. 1911) |
| | 1997 - Lawrence Payton, American singer (The Four Tops) (b. 1938) |
| | 1998 - Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (b. 1942) |
| | 1999 - Clifton Fadiman, American author (b. 1902) |
| | 2002 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (b. 1905) |
| | 2002 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (b. 1916) |
| | 2003 - Bob Stump, American politician (b. 1927) |
| | 2005 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate (b. 1923) |
| | 2005 - Larry Collins, American writer (b. 1929) |
| | 2006 - Billy Johnson, baseball player (b. 1918) |