| 701 - Pope Sergius I |
| 1000 - Olaf I of Norway |
| 1680 - Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602) |
| 1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842) |
| 1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850) |
| 1978 - Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892) |
| 1985 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) |
| 1994 - Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927) |
| 1999 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946) |
| 2000 - Julian Critchley, British politician (b. 1930) |