1495 – William Stanley, English soldier and lord chamberlain, beheaded for treason against the king at about 59 [birth date undocumented]
1710 – Esprit Fléchier, French writer and Bishop of Nîmes, dies at 77
1858 – Georg F. Creuzer, German philological and historian, dies at 86
1919 – Vera Kholodnaya, Russian film star (b. 1893)
1963 – László Lajtha, Hungarian composer, ethno-musicologist and conductor, dies at 70
1996 – Charles McCorquodale, art historian, dies at 47
2000 – Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-born engineer and inventor (b. 1911)
2012 – Elyse Knox, American actress and model (Hit the Ice, Black Gold), dies at 94
2019 – Don Bragg, American pole vaulter (Olympic gold 1960), dies of a stroke at 83
2019 – Ken Nordine, American voice-over and recording artist (World Jazz), dies at 98