1359 – Gregorius Palamas, Byzantine mystic/archbishop/saint, dies
1746 – Georg Steller, German naturalist (b. 1709)
1866 – Miguel I, King of Portugal (1828-34), dies at 64
1955 – Robert E Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois), dies at 59
1964 – Hendrik Gerrit Cannegieter, meteorology/director KNMI, dies at 85
1987 – Pieter Menten, Dutch war criminal, dies at 88
1992 – Earnest FH Happel, East German soccer/trainer/coach, dies
1994 – Jake Dengel, US actor (Ragtime, Ironweed), dies at 61
1995 – John Lee Admiral-Barber, dies at 90
1996 – Havelock Henry Trevor Hudson, lloyd’s underwriter, dies at 77