1349 – Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (b. 1315)
1599 – Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch navigator (1st Dutch trip to Java), murder at 35
1911 – Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b. 1847)
1917 – Georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot, dies at 22
1931 – Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American organized crime figure, dies at 63
1958 – Camillien Houde, French Canadian politician and Mayor of Montreal, dies at 69
1988 – John Sylvester White, American actor (b. 1919)
2001 – Mark Bingham, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1970)
2011 – Christian Bakkerud, Danish racing driver (b. 1984)
2017 – Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace, French mathematician, astronomer and physicist (stability of the solar system), dies at 77