Deaths
- 664 – Deusdedit of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (birth year unknown)
- 937 – Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria (birth year unknown)
- 1223 – King Philip II of France (b. 1165)
- 1575 – Richard Taverner, English translator of the Bible (b. c. 1505)
- 1614 – Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint (b. 1550)
- 1671 – Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (b. 1599)
- 1723 – Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640)
- 1742 – Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (b. 1662)
- 1766 – František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (b. 1674)
- 1774 – James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine, British field marshal (b. 1682)
- 1780 – Charles Batteux, French philosopher (b. 1713)
- 1789 – Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (b. 1721)
- 1789 – Bernard-René de Launay, French Governor of the Bastille (b. 1740)
- 1790 – Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (b. 1717)
- 1816 – Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary (b. 1750)
- 1817 – Madame de Staël, Swiss writer (b. 1766)
- 1827 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (b. 1788)
- 1834 – Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b. 1763)
- 1850 – August Neander, German theologian (b. 1789)
- 1876 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (b. 1816)
- 1881 – Billy the Kid, American outlaw (b. 1859)
- 1904 – Paul Kruger, South African Boer resistance leader, 5th President of the South African Republic (b. 1824)
- 1907 – William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (b. 1838)
- 1910 – Marius Petipa, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1818)
- 1917 – Octave Lapize, French cyclist (b. 1887)
- 1918 – Quentin Roosevelt, American aviator, son of Theodore Roosevelt (b. 1897)
- 1924 – Isabella Ford, English socialist, feminist, trade unionist and writer (b. 1855)
- 1925 – Pancho Villa, Filipino boxer (b. 1901)
- 1939 – Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter and decorative artist (b. 1860)
- 1954 – Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
- 1954 – Jackie Saunders, American silent screen actress (b. 1892)
- 1965 – Adlai Stevenson, United States politician and Presidential candidate (b. 1900)
- 1966 – Julie Manet, French painter (b. 1878)
- 1967 – Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880)
- 1968 – Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (b. 1892)
- 1968 – Ilias Tsirimokos, Greek politician, 164th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1907)
- 1970 – Preston Foster, American stage and film actor (b. 1900)
- 1974 – Carl Spaatz, American Air Force general (b. 1891)
- 1975 – Madan Mohan, Indian film music director (b. 1924)
- 1984 – Ernest Tidyman, American writer (b. 1928)
- 1989 – Frank Bell, British educator (b. 1916)
- 1990 – Walter Sedlmayr, German actor (b. 1926)
- 1993 – Léo Ferré, French singer and songwriter (b. 1916)
- 1994 – César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1940)
- 1996 – Jeff Krosnoff, American racing driver (b. 1964)
- 1998 – Richard McDonald, American fast food pioneer (b. 1909)
- 2000 – William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (b. 1920)
- 2000 – René Ríos Boettiger, Chilean cartoonist (b. 1911)
- 2000 – Meredith MacRae, American actress (b. 1944)
- 2002 – Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican politician, 41st, 45th and 49th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
- 2003 – Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novelist (b. 1926)
- 2003 – François-Albert Angers, French-Canadian economist (b. 1909)
- 2005 – Joe Harnell, American musician, composer and arranger (b. 1924)
- 2005 – Cicely Saunders, English nurse, physician and writer (b. 1918)
- 2007 – John Ferguson, Sr., Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
- 2008 – Henki Kolstad, Norwegian actor (b. 1915)
- 2009 – Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Polish actor (b. 1934)
- 2010 – Mădălina Manole, Romanian pop recording artist (b. 1967)
- 2010 – Gene Ludwig, American jazz organist (b. 1937)
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