| | 79 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (b. 9) |
| | 1018 - Henry I of Austria |
| | 1516 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452) |
| | 1555 - Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (b. 1470) |
| | 1582 - Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military leader (b. 1537) |
| | 1615 - Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (b. 1545) |
| | 1677 - Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1647) |
| | 1686 - William Coventry, English statesman |
| | 1707 - John Mill, English theologian |
| | 1733 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (b. 1672) |
| | 1770 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b. 1721) |
| | 1775 - Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (b. 1692) |
| | 1806 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (b. 1723) |
| | 1856 - Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (b. 1806) |
| | 1832 - James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761) |
| | 1891 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (b. 1804) |
| | 1893 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (b. 1817) |
| | 1926 - Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848) |
| | 1956 - Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (b. 1875) |
| | 1959 - Boris Vian, French writer and musician (b. 1920) |
| | 1969 - Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (b. 1907) |
| | 1970 - Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (b. 1895) |
| | 1980 - Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904) |
| | 1980 - Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (b. 1894) |
| | 1991 - Eric Andolsek, African American football player (b. 1966) |
| | 1995 - Jonas Salk, American medical researcher (b. 1914) |
| | 1995 - Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (b. 1918) |
| | 1996 - Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919) |
| | 1998 - Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (b. 1911) |
| | 1999 - Buster Merryfield, British actor (b. 1920) |
| | 2001 - Yvonne Dionne, one of the Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934) |
| | 2002 - Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar, Panamanian boxer (b. 1975) |
| | 2003 - Maynard Jackson, Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia (b. 1938) |
| | 2005 - Shana Alexander, American columnist (b. 1926) |
| | 2006 - Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b. 1923) |
| | 2006 - Luke Graham, wrestler, and 1-half of first-ever Tag Team Champions (b. 1940) |