| | 548 - Theodora, Byzantine empress |
| | 767 - Pope Paul I |
| | 1175 - Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince |
| | 1194 - Emperor Xiaozong of Song China (b. 1127) |
| | 1385 - Andronicus IV Palaeologus, Eastern Roman Emperor (b. 1348) |
| | 1389 - Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia (b. 1329) |
| | 1586 - Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (b. 1508) |
| | 1598 - Abraham Ortelius, Flemish-born cartographer (b. 1527) |
| | 1716 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665) |
| | 1813 - Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (b. 1755) |
| | 1834 - Joseph Bové, Russian architect (b. 1784) |
| | 1836 - James Madison, President of the United States (b. 1751) |
| | 1881 - Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (b. 1798) |
| | 1889 - Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (b. 1818) |
| | 1913 - Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, President of Brazil (b. 1841) |
| | 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1863) |
| | 1914 - Countess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1868) |
| | 1915 - Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b. 1877) |
| | 1916 - Ştefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868) |
| | 1922 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (b. 1885) |
| | 1929 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (b. 1844) |
| | 1960 - Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1898) |
| | 1962 - Mickey Cochrane, baseball player (b. 1903) |
| | 1962 - Cy Morgan, baseball player (b. 1878) |
| | 1965 - Red Nichols, American musician (b. 1905) |
| | 1974 - Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923) |
| | 1975 - Rod Serling, American television scriptwriter (b. 1924) |
| | 1976 - Stanley Baker, British actor and producer (b. 1927) |
| | 1978 - Clifford Dupont, First President of Rhodesia (b. 1905) |
| | 1980 - José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895) |
| | 1981 - Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958) |
| | 1989 - Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1898) |
| | 1992 - Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936) |
| | 1993 - GG Allin, American punk rock singer (b. 1956) |
| | 1997 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (b. 1907) |
| | 2000 - Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (b. 1913) |
| | 2001 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902) |
| | 2001 - Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930) |
| | 2003 - Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (b. 1923) |
| | 2004 - Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912) |
| | 2005 - Brenda Howard, American LGBT activist (b. 1946) |
| | 2006 - George Unwin, British fighter ace WWII (b. 1913) |
| | 2006 - Jim Baen, American science fiction publisher and editor (b. 1943) |
| | 2006 - Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English barrister, politician and author. (b.1919) |