1309 – Jan I van Nassau, bishop of Utrecht, dies
1755 – Edward Braddock, British general, dies in battle at Pittsburgh
1761 – Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (b. 1712)
1789 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist, dies at 73
1807 – Henry Benedict Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the throne of England (b. 1725)
1859 – Rufus Choate, American lawyer (Hall of Fame), dies at 59
1860 – John Ackersdijk, Dutch state house builder, dies at 69
1960 – Joy Davidman, American poet, writer and wife of C. S. Lewis, dies at 45
1982 – Edith Heerdegen, German actress (Serpent’s Egg, Monpti), dies at 69
2004 – Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)