1290 – Duke Rudolph II of Austria (b. 1271)
1569 – Juan the Avila, Spanish minister/writer
1760 – Johann Christoph Graupner, German harpsichordist and Baroque composer, dies at 77
1807 – Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French military leader (commander of the French Expeditionary Force that assisted the Thirteen Colonies), dies at 81
1938 – Percy McAlister, Australian cricket batsman (8 Tests; Big Six cricket dispute 1912), dies at 68
1945 – Richard Glücks, German SS officer and concentration camp administrator, committed suicide at 56
1964 – Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (b. 1881)
1968 – Maurie Sievers, cricket medium-pacer (Austral v England 1936-37), dies
1973 – Jack E. Leonard, American comedian (Disorderly Orderly), dies at 62
2001 – Deborah Walley, American actress (b. 1943)