1374 – Emperor Go-Kōgon, 4th Northern Emperor of Japan, dies at 37
1681 – Frans van Mieris the Elder, Dutch painter, dies at 45
1699 – Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman, dies at 63
1888 – Henry Bergh, Founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), dies at 76
1902 – John Peter Altgeld, German/US governor of Illinois, dies at 54
1905 – Rudolf von Alt, Austrian painter, dies at 92
1913 – Joseph Bayer, composer, dies at 61
1945 – Anne Frank, Dutch diarist and Jewish victim of the Nazi Holocaust (Diary of Anne Frank), dies of typhus in the Belsen concentration camp at 15
1992 – Barbara Morrison, actress (Proj Moonbase), dies of heart failure at 84
1999 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-British violinist, conductor and teacher (Bartok’s Sonata), dies at 82