1359 – Ivan II, great ruler of Moscow and Vladimir, dies
1893 – Arnaud-Michel d’Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), dies at 78
1902 – Evander McNair, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 82
1939 – George Nicholls Jr, actor (Finishing School), dies at 42
1939 – Lois Weber, American film director who became the first American woman to direct a full feature-length film (The Merchant of Venice) and the first to own her own studio, dies of a stomach ulcer at 60
1963 – Margaret Murray, English anthropologist and Egyptologist (b. 1863)
1984 – Dorothy Arnold, actress (House of Fear, Phantom Creeps), dies at 66
1989 – Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1938-89), dies at 83
1998 – Valerie Hobson, British actress (Great Expectations), dies at 81
2013 – Hans-Jürgen Heise, German writer, dies at 83