840 – Eginhard, French nobleman/biographer (Vita Karoli Magni), dies at 69
1559 – Jacques d’Auchy, Walloon baptist merchant, executed
1823 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general during the Revolutionary Wars, dies at 84
1954 – Fred Herd, Scottish golfer (US Open 1898), dies at 80
1957 – Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot freedom fighter (b. 1938)
1967 – Paul Faucher, French author and pioneering children’s publisher (Père Castor), dies at 68
1986 – Benno Ammann, Swiss composer (Missa Defensor Pacis) and conductor, dies at 81
2007 – Lucie Aubrac, French history teacher and member of the French Resistance (b. 1912)
2010 – Peter Graves [Aurness], American actor (Mission Impossible, Airplane!, Stalag 17), dies from a heart attack at 83
2018 – Jim Bowen, British TV game show host (Bullseye) and comedian, dies at 80