1579 – Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian religious reformer (b. 1510)
1658 – Jacobus Revius, [Reefsen], theologist/writer/poet, dies at about 72
1831 – Vincenc Mašek, Bohemian composer, dies at 76
1853 – Queen Maria II of Portugal, Daughter of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil, dies at 34
1918 – Georges Antoine, composer, dies at 26
1938 – George Glover, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies
1993 – Mouin Shabaita, Palestinian al-Fatah commandant, murdered
1995 – Kristian Lundin, record producer, dies at 22
1997 – William Perrie, prison governor, dies at 79
2006 – David K. Wyatt, American historian (b. 1937)