1086 – Knut IV, the Saint, king of Denmark (1080-86), murdered
1460 – Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402)
1909 – Flooi Du Toit, South African cricket leg-spinner (Test for South Africa 1892), dies at 40
1910 – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer, discoverer of Neptune by telescope, dies at 98
1937 – Attilio Brugnoli, Italian pianist and composer, dies at 56
1963 – John Sutton, British actor (The Three Musketeers, Tower of London, Return of Fly), dies of a heart attack at 54
1971 – Bhikari Thakur, Indian poet, playwright, and folklorist, known as the “Shakespeare of Bhojpuri”, dies at 83
1991 – Gerome Ragni, American playwright and songwriter (Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical), dies of cancer at 55
2010 – John Coates, British naval architect best known for reconstructing an Ancient Greek trireme, dies from cancer at 88
2015 – Roger Rees, Welsh Tony winning stage and screen actor (Cheers – “Robin Colcord”), dies of brain cancer at 71