| | 635 - Emperor Gaozu, first emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (b. 566) |
| | 1134 - King Niels of Denmark |
| | 1218 - Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (b. 1160) |
| | 1483 - Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer |
| | 1522 - Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (b. 1451) |
| | 1533 - Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France (b. 1496) |
| | 1579 - Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1541) |
| | 1593 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (b. 1541) |
| | 1634 - John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576) |
| | 1638 - Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602) |
| | 1665 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (b. 1630) |
| | 1669 - François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (b. 1616) |
| | 1673 - Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan, Captain of the Musketeers under Louis XIV of France (b. 1611) |
| | 1671 - Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598) |
| | 1686 - Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626) |
| | 1767 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681) |
| | 1792 - Thomas Peters, Early Sierra Leonean founder (b. 1738) |
| | 1798 - Thomas Sandby, English architect (b. 1721) |
| | 1822 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer (b. 1776) |
| | 1838 - François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (b. 1774) |
| | 1861 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823) |
| | 1868 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811) |
| | 1875 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor of gooches (b. 1796) |
| | 1876 - George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army officer (b. 1839) |
| | 1876 - Thomas Custer, Brother of George A. Custer & 2-time Medal of Honor winner (b. 1845) |
| | 1876 - Boston Custer, Brother of George A. Custer (b. 1848) |
| | 1876 - James C. Calhoun, Brother-in-Law of George Armstrong Custer & U.S. Soldier (b. 1845) |
| | 1876 - Myles Keogh, U.S. Soldier & Irish Soldier of Fortune (b. 1840) |
| | 1882 - François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806) |
| | 1884 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer (b. 1858) |
| | 1916 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844) |
| | 1918 - Jake Beckley, baseball player (b. 1867) |
| | 1937 - Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900) |
| | 1948 - William C. Lee, U.S. general (b. 1895) |
| | 1949 - Buck Freeman, baseball player (b. 1871) |
| | 1959 - Charles Starkweather, spree killer (b. 1938) |
| | 1960 - Tommy Corcoran, baseball player (b. 1869) |
| | 1971 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1880) |
| | 1974 - Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893) |
| | 1976 - Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909) |
| | 1979 - Philippe Halsman, American photographer (b. 1906) |
| | 1982 - Igor Gouzenko, Soviet spy (b. 1919) |
| | 1983 - Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916) |
| | 1984 - Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926) |
| | 1985 - Morris Mason, American murderer (b. 1954) |
| | 1987 - Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1920) |
| | 1988 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born musician (Anthym/What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers (b. 1962) |
| | 1990 - Ronald Gene Simmons, American mass murderer |
| | 1992 - Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965) |
| | 1995 - Warren Burger, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1907) |
| | 1995 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903) |
| | 1997 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer (b. 1910) |
| | 2002 - Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934) |
| | 2003 - Lester Maddox, American politician (b. 1915) |
| | 2006 - Jaap Penraat, Dutch architect (b. 1918) |