775 – Constantine V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 718)
1495 – Elizabeth Tudor, English princess, the second daughter and fourth child of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, dies at 3
1759 – Louis Joseph Montcalm, French general (Plains of Abraham), dies at 47
1851 – James Fenimore Cooper, American author (Last of Mohicans), dies of dropsy at 61
1887 – Friedrich Theodor Vischer, German philosopher and writer (Auch einer), dies at 80
1901 – US President William McKinley, dies in Buffalo, after being shot 8 days earlier by anarchist, Leon Czolgosz
1974 – Vera Vague [Barbara Jo Allen], American actress (Sleeping Beauty, Follow the Leader), dies at 66
1981 – [Walter] Furry Lewis, father of blues, dies at 88 of a heart attack
1982 – John Gardner, American writer (Life and Times of Chaucer High), dies in a motorcycle accident at 49
2009 – Henry Gibson, American actor and comedian (Nashville, Laugh-In’s poet), dies at 73