1185 – Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (1183-85), lynched
1647 – Joos Banckert, Swiss admiral (Spanish silver fleet), dies at 48
1691 – Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony (1680-91), dies at 44
1927 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer, dies at 80
1936 – Hermann Hirt, German linguist (Indo-European Grammar), dies at 70
1961 – Carl Hermann, German physicist, dies at 63
1994 – Douglas MacKenzie Davey, psychometrist, dies at 72
1995 – Lawrence Bernard “Larry” Gales, bassist, dies at 59
1996 – Ernesto Geisel, 29th President of Brazil (1974-79), dies at 89
1996 – Geoffrey Bryan Bentley, Canon of Windsor and moral theologian, dies at 87