794 – Fastrada, 3rd wife of French King Charles the Great, dies at 30
1655 – Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter, dies at 50
1717 – Nicolaas Witsen, Dutch statesman and mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 76
1843 – Jakob F. Fries, German philosopher, dies at 69
1896 – Otto Lilenthal, German aviation pioneer, killed from injuries sustained during a glider test at 48
1915 – Henry Moseley, English physicist (relationship between atomic number and charge of the atomic nucleus), shot and killed at Gallipoli during WWI, at 27
1979 – Walther Gerlach, German physicist who, with Otto Stern, co-discovered spin quantization in a magnetic field (Stern–Gerlach effect), dies at 90
2002 – Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic), dies of pancreatic cancer at 40
2002 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist, dies at 75
2022 – Vesa-Matti Loiri, Finnish actor (Jake in “Pojat”) and musician (Eino Leino), dies at 77