1214 – Albert Avogadro, Italian patriarch of Jerusalem (b. 1149)
1321 – Dante Alighieri, Italian poet and author (Dante’s Inferno, Divina Commedia), dies at 56
1404 – Albert IV of Austria (b. 1377)
1435 – John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (b. 1389)
1872 – Yury Nikolayevich Golitsin, composer, dies at 48
1898 – William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (b. 1857)
1960 – M. Karagatsis, Greek author (b. 1908)
1972 – Kornelis Posthumus, chemist, dies at 70
1975 – Walter Herbert, German conductor and impresario (b. 1902)
1988 – Louis Quinn, actor (Unholy Rollers), dies at 73 of cancer