258 – Saint Lawrence, Christian martyr, burned to death
1250 – Erik IV Plovpenning, king of Denmark, murdered
1806 – Michael Haydn, Austrian composer, dies at 68
1886 – Eduard Grell, German composer, dies at 85
1920 – Ádám Politzer, Hungarian-Austrian physician, dies at 84
1948 – Montague Summers, English clergyman and writer (Malleus Maleficarum), dies at 68
1948 – E Ball-Hennings, writer, dies at 63
1973 – Douglas Kennedy, American actor (Dark Passage, The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold), dies of cancer at 57
1991 – Josef Lipski, Polish politician, dies
2007 – Tony Wilson, British music personality and broadcaster (b. 1950)