347 – Pachomius, Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (Coenobieten), dies
1688 – Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)
1818 – Matthew Lewis, English novelist (The Monk), dies at 42
1918 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (thought to have inspired the phrase “Gordon Bennett”), dies at 77
1940 – Edgar du Perron, Dutch author and poet (Land of Origin), dies at 40
1985 – Mohammed Munir, Indonesian worker’s union leader, executed
1991 – Aladár Gerevich, Hungarian fencer (7 Olympic gold 1932, 36, 48, 52, 56, 60), dies at 81
2007 – Jean Saubert, American alpine ski racer (Olympic giant slalom silver, slalom bronze 1964), dies of breast cancer at 65
2014 – Stephen Sutton, English cancer blogger (Stephen’s Story), dies at 19
2021 – Torkild Brakstad, Norwegian soccer defender (3 caps; Molde) and coach (Molde, Tromsø, Rosenborg), dies at 75