574 – John III, Italian Pope (561-74), dies
1785 – Stephen Hopkins, American politician who signed the US Declaration of Independence, dies at 78
1789 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist, dies at 73
1863 – John S. Bowen, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 32
1923 – Asger Hamerik [Hammerich], Danish composer, and educator (Peabody Institute, 1878-91), dies at 80
1937 – Emmett Dalton, American outlaw of the Old West (The Dalton Gang in the American Old West, dies at 66
1955 – Ruth Ellis, last English woman (murderess), executed by hanging
1978 – Antonio Veretti, composer, dies at 78
1994 – Eddie Boyd, American blues piano player, singer, and songwriter (“Five Long Years”), dies at 79
2007 – Ilja Zeljenka, Slovak composer (Oświęcim), dies at 74