1676 – King Philip [Metacomet], leader Wampanoag-indians, shot to death
1830 – Franz de Paula Roser, composer, dies at 50
1864 – Sakuma ShÅzan, Japanese reformer (b. 1811)
1900 – Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian World Chess Champion (1866-94), dies at 64
1911 – Jozef Israels, painter, dies
1994 – Gene Cherico, American jazz bassist, dies at 59
1999 – John Rigby Hale, British linguist and historian, dies at 75
2004 – Peter Woodthorpe, British actor (b. 1931)
2004 – Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1919)
2010 – Isaac Bonewits, founder of U.S. Druid organization Ar Ndraiocht Fein (b. 1949)