| 1513 - John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander (b. 1443) |
| 1549 - Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English politician and diplomat |
| 1584 - Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532) |
| 1669 - John Denham, English poet (b. 1615) |
| 1670 - Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (b. 1604) |
| 1776 - Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (b. 1701) |
| 1913 - Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (b. 1820) |
| 1948 - Zelda Fitzgerald, American artist, wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1900) |
| 1977 - E. Power Biggs, English-born American organist (b. 1906) |
| 1986 - Ray Milland, British actor (b. 1905) |