1531 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss church reformer (Zwinglianen), dies
1850 – Louisa Maria, Queen of Belgium (1832-50), Wife of Leopold I, dies at 38
1925 – Karl M Lybeck, Fin/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten), dies at 71
1942 – Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, Russian-Soviet composer, dies at 64
1984 – K. M. Rangnekar, Indian cricketer (33 runs at 5 50 for India), dies at 67
1988 – Morgan Farley, actor (Open Secret), dies of natural causes at 90
1991 – Steven Jesse Bernstein, American underground poet (suicide) (b. 1950)
1996 – Arthur Walter Lucas, first Chief Restorer of the National Gallery, London, dies at 80
2003 – Franklyn Perring, English botanist (co-author of Atlas of the British Flora, 1962), dies of cancer at 76
2005 – Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Linguist, and writer of Pakistan (b. 1917)