| | 803 - Higbald of Lindisfarne |
| | 1398 - Hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328) |
| | 1439 - Duke Frederick IV of Austria (b. 1382) |
| | 1519 - Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (b. 1480) |
| | 1520 - Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489) |
| | 1604 - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (b. 1550) |
| | 1637 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (b. 1580) |
| | 1643 - John Hampden, English politician (b. 1595) |
| | 1766 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (b. 1678) |
| | 1778 - Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (b. 1714) |
| | 1803 - Matthew Thornton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1714) |
| | 1817 - Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1734) |
| | 1894 - Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (b. 1837) |
| | 1908 - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (heart failure) (b. 1837) |
| | 1909 - Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849) |
| | 1922 - Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (assassinated) (b. 1867) |
| | 1935 - Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer (airplane crash) (b. 1890) |
| | 1947 - Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (b. 1864) |
| | 1968 - Tony Hancock, British comedian (b. 1924) |
| | 1978 - Robert Charroux, French writer (b. 1909) |
| | 1984 - Clarence Campbell, Canadian NHL president (b. 1905) |
| | 1987 - Jackie Gleason, American actor and musician (b. 1916) |
| | 1993 - Archie Williams, American athlete (b. 1915) |
| | 1997 - Don Hutson, American athlete (b. 1913) |
| | 1997 - Brian Keith, American actor (b. 1921) |
| | 2000 - Vera Atkins, Romanian-born British intelligence officer (b. 1908) |
| | 2000 - David Tomlinson, English actor (b. 1917) |
| | 2002 - Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1913) |
| | 2002 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Founder Reliance Industries Limited |
| | 2003 - Maynard Jackson, Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1938) |
| | 2004 - Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter (b. 1957) |
| | 2005 - Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist (b. 1922) |
| | 2006 - Patsy Ramsey, mother of JonBenét Ramsey (b. 1956) |