1547 – Pier Luigi Farnese, Italian Duke of Parma and Piacenza (1545-47) and illegitimate son of Pope Paul III, murdered at 43 by a group of his nobles tired of his oppressive and tyrannical rule
1604 – Hamida Banu Begum, Persian Mughal Empress, chief consort of the Emperor Humayun and mother of Akbar, dies at 77
1770 – José de Escandón, Spanish colonizer and the first governor of the Nuevo Santander province, dies at 70
1828 – Antoine-Francçois Andreossy, French General and diplomat under Napoleon, dies at 67
1845 – Karl August von Lichtenstein, German composer, dies at 78
1942 – Nachman N “Neddy” Bamberg, actor, dies in Auschwitz at 63
1982 – Max Winders, Belgian architect (WWII), responsible for bringing the Belgian gold stock, dies at 100
1983 – Felix Bloch, Swiss-American nuclear physicist (1st Director of CERN, Nobel Prize for Physics 1952), dies at 77
1996 – Joanne Dru [LaCock], American actress (Red River, All the King’s Men), dies of lymphedema at 74
2010 – Edwin Charles Tubb, British sci-fi writer (Earth is Heaven, Earthfall), dies at 90