384 – Pope Saint Damasus I, Pope of the Catholic Church, dies
1226 – Robert de Ros, northern English Nobleman (one of the Twenty-five barons appoints under the Magna Carta) (b. 1177)
1282 – Michael VIII, Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1259-82), dies
1686 – Louis II Condé, Duke of Bourbon (Rocroy), dies at 65
1797 – Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
1942 – Jochen Klepper, German writer, commits suicide at 39
1955 – Johan C. Altorf, Dutch sculptor (October 3 Monument), dies at 79
1967 – Victor De Sabata, Italian conductor and composer (II Macigno), dies at 75
2006 – Elizabeth Bolden, American Supercentenarian (oldest verified person in the world at the time of her death), dies at 116
2007 – Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian child actress (Now and Then), dies of a drug overdose at 26