| | 350 - Nepotianus, Roman usurper |
| | 1181 - Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147) |
| | 1364 - Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297) |
| | 1538 - Charles of Egmond, Duke of Guelders (b. 1467) |
| | 1579 - Mehmed Pasha Sokolović, Turkish Janissary |
| | 1597 - Willem Barents, Dutch explorer |
| | 1607 - Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538) |
| | 1660 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575) |
| | 1666 - Alexander Brome, English poet (b. 1620) |
| | 1670 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1644) |
| | 1709 - Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660) |
| | 1785 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696) |
| | 1796 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724) |
| | 1857 - Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802) |
| | 1882 - Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of President James A. Garfield (b. 1841) |
| | 1890 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (b. 1819) |
| | 1919 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1842) |
| | 1934 - Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882) |
| | 1953 - Charles William Miller, father of football in Brazil (b. 1874) |
| | 1959 - José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882) |
| | 1961 - Lee DeForest, American inventor (b. 1873) |
| | 1966 - Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (b. 1906) |
| | 1971 - Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900) |
| | 1971 - Crew of Soyuz 11 |
| | Viktor Patsayev (b. 1933) |
| | Georgi Dobrovolski (b. 1928) |
| | Vladislav Volkov (b. 1935) |
| | 1974 - Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890) |
| | 1976 - Firpo Marberry, baseball player (b. 1898) |
| | 1984 - Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905) |
| | 1993 - George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (b. 1928) |
| | 1993 - Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer (b. 1962) |
| | 1995 - Gale Gordon, American actor (b. 1906) |
| | 1995 - Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1921) |
| | 1995 - Phyllis Hyman, American jazz vocalist (b. 1949) |
| | 1997 - Larry O'Day, wrestler (b. 1944) |
| | 2001 - Chet Atkins, American guitarist (b. 1924) |
| | 2003 - Buddy Hackett, American comic (b. 1924) |
| | 2003 - Robert McCloskey, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1915) |
| | 2006 - Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937) |