1380 – Bertrand du Guesclin, French King of Granada, dies at about 60
1844 – Johann Baptist Gansbacher, Austrian composer, dies at 66
1894 – Juventino Rosas, composer, dies at 26
1896 – August Kekule von Stradonitz, German chemist who discovered structure of benzene ring, dies at 66
1923 – Asger Hamerik [Hammerich], Danish composer, dies at 80
1956 – Vladimir Grigor’yevich Zakharov, composer, dies at 54
1976 – Joachim Peiper, German military leader (SS, by assassination; b. 1915)
1994 – Eddie Boyd, blues vocal/pianist, dies at 79
1997 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1968)
2011 – Allan Jeans, Australian football player and coach (b. 1933)