668 – Constantius II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at 37
1406 – Duke William of Austria (b. c.1370)
1885 – Rosalia de Castro, Spanish writer and poet in the Galician language (‘Séculos Escuros’) (b. 1837)
1916 – Ilya Mechnikov, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist known as the “father of natural immunity” (Nobel 1908), dies of heart failure at 71
1919 – [Hermann] Emil Fischer, German chemist, discovered Fischer esterification (Nobel Prize 1902), commits suicide at 66
1930 – Leopold von Auer, Hungarian-American violinist, dies at 85
1961 – John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
1969 – Peter Van Eyck [Götz von Eick], German actor (The Longest Day; The Wages of Fear), dies after long illness at 56
1996 – Dana Hill, actress (Vacation), dies at 32
2015 – Alan Curtis, American harpsichordist, musicologist and conductor, dies at 80