786 – Al-Hadi, 4th Abbasid caliph (785-86), dies at 22
1164 – Emperor Sutoku of Japan (b. 1119)
1898 – William Seward Burroughs, American inventor of the adding machine, dies at 43
1942 – E.S. Gosney, American eugenicist (b. 1855)
1952 – Alexander Xaver Gwerder, Swiss writer, commits suicide at 29
1966 – Nikolai Cherkasov, Russian actor (Ivan the Terrible), dies at 63
1970 – Rudolph Carnap, German philosopher/mathematician, dies at 79
1971 – Bill Copson, cricketer (England pace bowler before and after WW2), dies
1982 – Grace Kelly, princess of Monaco, dies in a car crash at 52
2009 – Henry Gibson, American actor and comedian (Nashville, Laugh-In’s poet), dies at 73