1341 – Andronicus III Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1328-41), dies
1397 – Count of Eu, French knight, dies in Turkish captivity
1467 – Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 70
1772 – Louis-Claude Daquin [d’Acquin], French organist and composer (La Rose), dies at 77
1849 – James Knox Polk, 11th US President (1845-1849), dies in Nashville Tenn at 53
1941 – Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist, dies at 67
1958 – François de Vries, Dutch economist, dies at 74
1989 – Ray McAnally, Irish actor (The Mission, My Left Foot, Empire State, Sicilian), dies of a heart attack at 63
1989 – Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (b. 1912)
2013 – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist (Nobel 1982), dies from lymphoma at 77