711 – Childebert III, king of the Franks, dies (b. 678/9)
1322 – Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere, English soldier (b. 1275)
1888 – William Fiske Sherwin, American composer, dies at 62
1925 – Pieter D. van Essen, Dutch artillery officer, dies at 54
1943 – Geoffrey Turton Shaw, English organist, composer, and educator, dies at 63
1949 – Joseph Augustine Cushman, American paleontologist, dies at 68
1983 – Elisabeth Lutyens, English composer, dies at 76
1985 – Reginald Beane, American pianist (Starlit Time: Once Upon a Tune), dies at 63
1990 – Thurston Harris, American pop vocalist (The Sharps, Little Bitty Pretty One), dies of a heart attack at 58
2004 – Micheline Charest, French Canadian television producer (b. 1953)