1559 – Henry II, King of France (1547-59), dies
1621 – Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (b. 1571)
1776 – Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (b. 1704)
1851 – Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (daguerreotype), dies at 63
1909 – Flooi Du Toit, South African cricket leg-spinner (Test for South Africa 1892), dies at 40
1920 – Eugénie de Montijo, Emperor of France (1853-71), dies at 94
1963 – Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (b. 1893)
1965 – Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Le cavalier seul), dies at 66
1985 – Fernando Pereira, military activist, murdered
2003 – Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)