655 – Penda of Mercia, Pagan Anglo-Saxon King of Mercia, killed at the Battle of Winwaed and his head cut off at about 49 [b. 606. exact date uncertain]
1907 – Horatio Richmond Palmer, American composer and choir director, dies at 73
1934 – Anton Dreesmann, German-Dutch manufacturer (Vroom and Dreesman), dies at 80
1993 – Luciano Liggio [Leggio], Italian mafia leader and painter, dies while serving a life sentence in prison of a heart attack at 68
1998 – Stokely Carmichael, American civil rights activist (b. 1941)
2009 – Patriarch Pavle of Serbia, 44th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (b. 1914)
2017 – Keith Barron, English actor (At Earth’s Core, Baby Love), dies at 83
2020 – Campbell Forsyth, Scottish soccer goalkeeper (4 caps; St Mirren, Kilmarnock, Southampton), dies at 86
2023 – Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese Buddhist leader (Soka Gakkai), dies at 95
2023 – George Chigova, Zimbabwean soccer goalkeeper (32 caps; Polokwane City FC, SuperSport United FC), dies from heart disease at 32